Geek Warning: Specialized and Giant have very different takes on what makes the ideal endurance road bike
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Escape Collective
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Specialized announced its latest Roubaix and Giant launched its fifth-generation Defy Advanced this week, but while they’re both “endurance road bikes”, they could hardly be more different.
We’ve also got a new aero all-rounder from Ridley, fancy 3D-printed titanium derailleur hangers, new indoor developments from Wahoo and Zwift, a whole day of hour records, thoughts on the UCI’s minimum weight limit, and a word of caution to maybe not trust that little map on your GPS computer *too* much.
Timestamps:
6:55 - A Specialized Roubaix, but no Cable Cobbler (yet)
21:45 - More endurance road bikes and Giant’s new Defy fills a gap.
32:20 – Silca has derailleur hangers with holes in them
38:45 - News from Wahoo with special guest, GPLama (https://gplama.com/)!
52:22 - A quick mention of Zwift things
54:50 - Ridley replaces the Helium SLX
1:01:30 - A new testing facility at MIPS
1:03:43 - There’s a day of Hour Records and Ronan is very excited
1:05:50 - The UCI weight limit is on Ronan’s mind
1:11:14 - A PSA that James and Dave hadn’t considered.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome back to Geek Warning from the Escape Collective. |
| 0:12.6 | I'm James Huang and joining me here today as usual is Escape Collective technical editor |
| 0:16.7 | Dave Rome in Sydney, Australia. |
| 0:18.5 | Hi Dave. |
| 0:19.2 | Hello. |
| 0:20.3 | And fresh off his very, very relaxing and totally sleep-filled paternity leave is our |
| 0:27.4 | resident ultra geek go fast specialist Ronan mochlan from Ireland. Welcome back Ronin. You kind of got me there |
| 0:35.8 | when you started with Fresh? I was like, what where's he going with this? Who else is |
| 0:42.2 | on this show that I can see? |
| 0:43.6 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:44.8 | We'll also have a special guest that will introduce later. |
| 0:47.8 | We'll save that for a little bit of a surprise. |
| 0:50.1 | Speaking of Ronan being fresh, I like the fact that his camera, not that anyone can see this, but his camera has a bit of like a sepia tone to it. |
| 0:57.8 | It kind of does actually, I was noticing that, so it's not just me. |
| 1:00.6 | No, it's not just you. |
| 1:02.0 | Oh, there he go. Refreshed. Just as much. I think that's from where I fell asleep on it earlier. |
| 1:09.2 | Oh, okay. Yeah, I remember those days. |
| 1:13.0 | Yeah, we've got, my wife's got plenty of pictures of me asleep in very awkward body positions and locations around the house in those early days of our kid being an infant. |
| 1:23.2 | But all good, good to be back in the show. |
| 1:27.2 | I think it's good to have six weeks or something. |
| 1:29.9 | I was sort of keeping notes for stuff that was on my mind that they cropped up in the show over the |
| 1:36.4 | last six weeks that I had opinions on let's say but yeah we're not we're not going that I don't think with time maybe to get dedicated episodes so |
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