Geek Warning: The road drivetrain market is starting to get very crowded
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Who said road riding was dead? Clearly a lot of industry folks haven’t gotten the message. Lauf just introduced its first road bike, Classified and TRP are seemingly teaming up for an integrated wireless electronic road groupset with Classified’s novel two-speed rear hub, and Ingrid Components showed a prototype mechanical road lever with Shimano flippy-shifter vibes.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody welcome back to another episode of Geek Warning brought to you by the Escape Collective. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm James Huang here in Boulder, Colorado. |
| 0:16.5 | We've got the full cast of Escape Collective tech editors with us today, including Dave Rome |
| 0:21.1 | in Sydney, Australia. |
| 0:22.1 | Hi Dave. |
| 0:23.0 | Hello. |
| 0:24.2 | And Rona McLaughlin in Ireland. |
| 0:26.0 | Hi Ronin. |
| 0:27.2 | Hi Ronin. Hi, James. |
| 0:29.0 | Dave, I'm a little curious now that you've presumably received |
| 0:32.3 | and built up your new E mountain bike and have figured out |
| 0:36.1 | the dilemma you were talking about the other day about what spares to carry? |
| 0:39.7 | Hmm. What do you end up deciding to do? |
| 0:41.3 | Uh, I actually got a tip from a reader and a member and the CO2 dilemma was very simply solved with a sleeve. |
| 0:56.3 | I was completely overthinking it with a double threaded thing but yeah you just get a small |
| 1:01.5 | little bit of plastic sleeve and sit it between the CO2 head and the |
| 1:07.2 | cartridge and it stops the CO2 head from bottoming out on the cartridge. |
| 1:11.9 | So yeah, a minute in CAD to design it and 10 minutes to print it and now I have |
| 1:20.9 | slaves. So Peter Peter Hoeth. |
| 1:24.0 | Thank you, Peter. |
| 1:25.0 | Yeah, and Chris, Hirschchap, I can't remember. |
| 1:28.0 | Is that last name? |
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