Geek Warning: Speed Sniffers, Classified things, and too much choice
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
James, Dave, and builder of dreams Zach are back and cover a broad spectrum of geeky topics. Specialized has a new iteration of the Tarmac. Ridley has a new bike with Fast in its name. Lezyne has even more products and Velocio clothing expands into mountain bike.
We also summarise our thoughts on the Classified two-speed hub system. And so much more geeking.
4:36 – A quick corrections corner, oops
6:36 – A speed sniffing bike from Specialized
23:00 – Ridley’s new TT bike and Ronan isn’t here
28:49 – A torque wrench for News Tools Day
31:04 – Lezyne and a lot of (too much?) choice
36:15 – Velocio goes mountain
39:45 – It’s Classified, but our thoughts are not
55:22 – Too many logos are on Dave’s mind
1:02:20 – Crazy track bikes from everyone
1:03:44 – MVDP, crashing, and Boas
1:08:55 – A PSA on cleats
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome back to Geek Warning from the Escape Collective. I'm joined today by Escape Collective |
| 0:14.9 | technical editor Dave Rome in Sydney Australia. Hi Dave. Good morning, afternoon. |
| 0:19.2 | And sitting right here next to me here at the Boulder Groupetto workshop here in Boulder, |
| 0:25.3 | is Pro Mechanic Zach Edwards. Hi Zach. |
| 0:27.2 | Hello. |
| 0:28.2 | Ronin, still on paternity leave. |
| 0:30.0 | I keep seeing him pop up on our Members Only Discord channel though so Ronan if you're listening to this |
| 0:34.6 | which I'm pretty sure you probably are cut it out and get back to changing diapers |
| 0:39.3 | and like you're off for a few weeks stay off we'll see you in. I think he's a nervous wreck right now having seen the |
| 0:46.3 | worlds on and all the new tech coming like through the track. |
| 0:49.6 | That unfortunately for our listeners, James and I don't really pay a huge amount of attention to. |
| 0:56.0 | And Ronan I think is very stressed about the timing of all of this. |
| 1:02.0 | It's probably eating him alive to not be able to share with everyone all the crazy things that are going through his head right now. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, he keeps hinting it like maybe maybe I'll just do a quick |
| 1:13.6 | piece and Kaley is like Ronin no no no no don't make me block you out of |
| 1:19.5 | your own email. To be fair though there's lots of really cool new track stuff. |
| 1:24.6 | There is. |
| 1:25.6 | It's a big year for sure. |
| 1:26.6 | There's a lot of stuff going on. |
| 1:27.6 | And we'll get into a little bit of that. |
| 1:29.6 | I'm up and show you everyone. |
| 1:30.6 | But yes, Ronan, sorry, like you're going to have to, |
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