Geek Warning: Tire pressures are trending lower, but road racing frames are getting … stiffer?
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Merida and Polygon have just announced some interesting new gravel bikes, and Campagnolo's new Hyperon road wheels are a far better value than the flagship version. But what we're really interested in this week is Focus's new Izalco Max semi-aero road racer. It's supposedly faster, stiffer, and lighter than before (naturally), but also unabashedly less comfortable. Is that a good thing?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody welcome back to the Geek Warning |
| 0:11.5 | podcast brought to you by the Escape Collective. |
| 0:14.2 | I'm James Wong here in Boulder, Colorado and I'm joined by Dave Rome in |
| 0:17.8 | Sydney, Australia. Hi Dave. |
| 0:19.6 | Hello. |
| 0:20.6 | And we're also joined by Ronan McLaughlin in Ireland. |
| 0:23.5 | Hi Ronan. |
| 0:24.5 | Hi, James. |
| 0:25.5 | Ronan, I feel like we're like maybe at risk of losing you to a Formula One gig at some point soon. So how was how was your trip to Kota? Yeah if there's only |
| 0:36.0 | Formula One team's listening. You know how to find me. Well you probably don't but |
| 0:41.9 | It was pretty good. Yeah, It was a long, long time since I was in the States, so it was nice to get back that side of the Atlantic, and it was nice to finally attend a Formula One race. Haven't been a lifelong Formula One fan and not been the one. |
| 0:54.4 | So that was a nice weekend, yeah? |
| 0:58.0 | Excellent. |
| 0:59.0 | Your ear still ringing? |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah, but not from the Formula One cars, unfortunately. |
| 1:04.4 | Those days are kind of gone, but from the Porsche Cup, |
| 1:08.8 | some sort of Porsche 9-11 race that was on beforehand, |
| 1:11.0 | that was closer to the Formula One of Old and also from your own |
| 1:14.4 | screaming and enjoy yes and also from a Queen and Tieso which I was not expecting |
| 1:22.2 | at the weekend but was an added bonus. |
| 1:24.0 | Fun fun. |
| 1:26.0 | I dare say that's going to be a weekend. |
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