Geek Warning: The Eurobike show!
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
James and Ronan attended the Eurobike trade show last week, and oh boy, did they come back with a lot to talk about. E-bikes were definitely a major theme at this year’s show – again – but there was also a bunch of high-performance goodies, tons of electronic doodads, and as always, cargo bikes galore.
Also: Dave secretly wants to become a firefighter.
7:18 – A convenient way to measure saddle position
9:10 – Ronan likes the looks of the new Look
12:09 – 3T goes fully internal
13:08 – An unlikely new line of bikes from Marcel Kittel and Tony Martin
19:26 – So many amazing kid bikes
22:58 – Who said electronic shifting has to be expensive?
30:10 – Shimano’s 105 mechanical road groupset goes 12-speed
33:53 – There’s a revolution in tires coming, courtesy of Schwalbe
37:20 – Look, ma, no valve stems!
42:15 – A truly promising rethink of the rear derailleur
46:30 – Gearboxes and motors go together like peanut butter and jelly
54:01 – Cargo bikes galore
1:01:30 – NFCs are not the same as NFTs
1:03:15 – Cheap e-bike batteries can be very, very sketchy
Transcript
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| 0:16.8 | Hello everyone welcome back to Geek Warning from the Escape Collective I'm James Huang and on today's show with me is tech editor Dave Rome in Sydney, Australia. Hello Dave. |
| 0:17.8 | Hello. |
| 0:18.8 | We also have our other tech editor, Rona McLaughlin. |
| 0:21.7 | Hi Rona. |
| 0:22.4 | Hey. |
| 0:23.0 | Zach is sitting this one out again, but I promise we'll have him back on very shortly. |
| 0:28.0 | Cayley is actually already in Europe, getting ready for the tour, which starts this coming weekend believe it or not |
| 0:35.9 | Dave standard question latest tool purchase mmm no I've been a very good boy I haven't I haven't purchased anything or have I no that's a lie I see this is this is how |
| 0:48.3 | bad my problem is I actually don't even know what I purchased. Last night I bought a talk wrench off Amazon because |
| 0:55.9 | Amazon basics now have a talk wrench. And someone sent me a link saying what do you think |
| 1:00.9 | about this? And I said you know I don't know so then I bought one. |
| 1:03.7 | Oh man okay this is the things that escape collective benefit from? |
| 1:13.0 | Is it wrong to assume that you've... |
| 1:16.0 | Is it wrong to assume you forgot about that tool purchase because you... |
| 1:19.0 | I'm ashamed by it? |
| 1:20.0 | No, you don't envisage it being up to standard. |
| 1:25.0 | Yeah, I mean it's arguably more a work, a self-funded work purchase than a tool that I actually need or want. I'm just curious. |
| 1:36.8 | Because it's very well priced. It wasn't a lot of money. Yeah, so. |
| 1:42.0 | Dave, let me ask you this. |
| 1:43.0 | So I think anyone who is a regular listener of Geek Warning can, |
| 1:48.0 | will know that you buy yourself a lot of tools. |
| 1:52.0 | Do you ever get rid of any of them? |
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