Geek Warning: The future of bike servicing is already here
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Geek Warning is back, with Dave and Ronan on hand to discuss the latest happenings from the world of cycling tech. James is currently roaming the halls of the Taipei show, so this week, you get two-thirds of our geeky Geek Warning trio discussing the Fraser Group's acquisition of whatever is left at Wiggle-CRC after another round of layoffs and the latest questions as the hookless conversation rages on following what appears to be another failure.
There's also news of Look's new Keo Blade and X-Track power meter pedals and Rapha's latest aero jersey that might save you 7 watts, four watts, or both; we're not sure.
Later in the episode, the conversation changes to Ronan's concerns we may be headed for an automotive industry-style "approved service centre only" model for our bike's servicing and maintenance needs. While the conversation throws up some potential positives from such a move, worryingly, Dave suggests we are already there.
Finally, Dave has another reason to buy more tools dressed up as a PSA.
Time stamps:
5:20 - Frasers Group's Wiggle-CRC takeover
10:00 - Hooked on hookless
16:50 - New Giant TCR
21:55 - Stupid helmets everywhere
28:10 - Look's new power meter pedals
32:50 -Rapha's new Pro Team Jersey
37:40 - On Your Mind - "Approved service centre only"
48:00 - A PSA from Dan Bigham's mechanic
Transcript
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| 0:17.3 | Hello and I'm your host this week and once again I am joined by fellow tech editor in Ireland Ronan MacLoflin. Ronan? |
| 0:21.0 | I'm good. You are not where you used to be. I am actually in the same time zone as you, which is quite the novelty. |
| 0:28.8 | Almost. Almost. You're an hour in the future. |
| 0:33.0 | Yeah, it's not like suddenly to Adelaide where the last thing you was like a half an hour |
| 0:37.8 | time zone difference. |
| 0:38.8 | There's actually a full hour here which makes infinitely more sense. |
| 0:43.0 | But yeah, you're a lot closer to me than you use there. |
| 0:45.0 | Yes, yes, I am somewhere where Priseco is made and that's probably all I'm allowed to say. |
| 0:52.0 | It's terrible. I listened back to last week's episode and it was the same thing I couldn't discuss what I was... |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, yeah, it's... |
| 0:59.0 | We don't enjoy doing this, dear listeners. We do apologize. |
| 1:02.0 | No, but it has been quite lovely. I packed a rain jacket for every day. I haven't needed a single one of them as of yet and |
| 1:11.7 | riding bikes with of course related to new things and yeah I probably |
| 1:19.3 | won't say anything more before I get myself into trouble on that topic and just to tease a little bit more where I was last week, |
| 1:27.3 | I have come home and I've been waiting for rain and not been able to get it which is incredibly unusual here in Ireland. |
| 1:35.0 | So I got a notification on my phone yesterday 10 minutes until it starts raining and I |
| 1:40.0 | then had to go and find a way to go out in the bike at that time because I'm waiting for rain. |
| 1:44.3 | What a novelty. This is why I don't test it said things. It always rains in Ireland except when you |
| 1:50.8 | wanted to rain. Yeah. Should we get started in today's episode? |
| 1:54.0 | Yes, let's go. |
| 1:55.0 | Yeah, I guess, firstly, let's a little bit of shameless self-promotion. |
| 2:00.0 | Ronan, performance process. |
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