Geek Warning: The return of a loved rim brake bike
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
It’s time for another episode of Geek Warning. Dave and Ronan are back to discuss the latest happenings in the world of cycling tech and what’s on their minds.
Ritchey and Factor have new bike (frame) releases that sit near polar opposites of the road market. Ritchey has brought back its well-loved Road Logic frames, while Factor’s Ostro VAM, a bike we’ve looked at before, is now officially official.
There are new shoes from Trek and Specialized, with the former leaving Ronan a little confused over what size his feet are. And Dave shares what’s on his mind (hint, tools), and then there’s a quick wrap of other interesting tech and industry news.
Timestamps:
5:03 - Ritchey Logic brings back its rim brake road frames
8:03 - Factor’s new Ostro VAM is now official and Ronan has built one
23:43 - Black Inc’s 1,270 g aero wheels
26:45 - Specialized’s new mid-price helmet and shoes
28:45 - Trek’s many new shoes, many new fits
41:45 - On Dave’s mind
46:58 - 4iiii’s new Pro 3+ dual-sided powermeter
50:40 - KMC gets into cassettes
52:05 - F+B Shift wheels bring thermoplastic carbon to a lower price point
54:52 - Giant Bicycles to be sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and today I'm |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome back to Geek Warning I'm Dave Rome and today I'm joined once again by Rona McLaughlin, |
| 0:17.0 | Ronen, welcome. |
| 0:19.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:20.0 | And likewise to you. |
| 0:21.0 | Oh, thank you. |
| 0:23.0 | James is off again this week. |
| 0:25.0 | Unfortunately, a family emergency has pulled him away, |
| 0:28.0 | so wishing all as well there to James, |
| 0:31.0 | but we'll hear from him again next week and expect to hear a episode from James with |
| 0:38.7 | Kalnago on our paid channel for Geek Warning. So for our members, they get access to more content |
| 0:46.3 | than just this episode, and yeah, |
| 0:48.0 | you'll find a new episode there shortly. |
| 0:51.4 | Ronan, speaking of members only content what have people missed on the |
| 0:57.0 | performance process side of things well actually not really all that much if you're not a member because last week we were feeling awfully generous and |
| 1:07.4 | we published the entire part one of our sort of three hourlong deep dive with JP Ballard of suicide we published |
| 1:15.4 | that in its entirety to the free feed so both members and non-members got to |
| 1:21.0 | enjoy that and that's partially because well it was a very |
| 1:26.1 | brand heavy sort of discussion didn't really feel it right so we'd sort of |
| 1:30.1 | put out for that reason also the better of the two great halves of that |
| 1:38.0 | podcast is the second one and half of that second one |
| 1:42.0 | so I don't know is that a third or a quarter or what |
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