Geek Warning: To be, or not to be
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
So many new bikes to talk about this week! Giant’s new TCR is a meaningful evolution of the previous one, but should it have been a revolution instead? Meanwhile, the new Liv Pique offers a preview of the next-generation Giant Anthem, and Specialized’s new Epic and Epic Evo genuinely push the envelope of what XC bikes are supposed to be. And do electronics belong on bicycle suspension? Why does Trek offer seven colors in one model of Emonda? And what the heck does “Ari” mean? All of that and more in this week’s episode of Geek Warning.
Timestamps:
3:04 – Giant’s got a new TCR road racing bike, but is it all it could (or should) have been?
14:04 – Liv’s new Pique Advanced mountain offers a sneak preview of what’s to come in the new Giant Anthem
16:35 – The new Specialized Epic ticks an awful lot – maybe all? – of the boxes.
26:33 – RockShox’s Flight Attendant electronic terrain-sensing suspension finally comes to XC
34:33 – Trek is “right-sizing” in a big, big way
41:01 – US-based consumer-direct brand Fezzari finally addresses the elephant in the room
46:24 – Not everyone wants to know how the sausage is made
52:50 – The suckiest addition to any home workshop
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome back to the Geek Warning podcast from the Escape, your one-stop shop to bring you up to speed |
| 0:15.1 | on what's happening this week in the world of bicycle tech. |
| 0:17.4 | In this week's show, we're going to talk about the new giant TCR and how much its design may or may not |
| 0:22.1 | have been perhaps overly influenced by the wanton |
| 0:25.2 | needs of pro bike racers instead of everyday enthusiasts. |
| 0:27.8 | We're going to talk about how the new specialized epic may be the exact opposite. |
| 0:31.2 | We're also going to chat about whether electronic smart suspension |
| 0:34.1 | makes sense for mountain bikes. Big business changes at Trek and the importance of a good brand name. |
| 0:39.1 | Why the next addition to your home workshop might not actually be a bicycle tool and a whole bunch of |
| 0:43.3 | fresh product news from industry nine Scott physique and post said la I'm James |
| 0:47.4 | Huang that's obviously a big list of stuff and today it's well it's just me and |
| 0:51.6 | senior tech editor Dave Rome in sitting Australia to go through it all |
| 0:54.0 | hi Dave hello I see James good to see you too it's good to be back I've definitely |
| 1:00.9 | been on the road a fair bit lately and it's nice to be sitting in my living room for once. |
| 1:05.0 | Hmm. Yes, yes. Nothing to add. |
| 1:08.0 | Well that's good because like I say we've got a big long list of topics to get through today so we're going to kind of dispense with the idle chit chat. |
| 1:17.0 | But first, it sounds like we've got a little bit of a quick corrections corner to tackle here. |
| 1:21.0 | What's up? |
| 1:22.0 | Yeah, last week we had on our mind and discussed whether like |
| 1:30.0 | bicycling or cycling is turning into the sort of automotive car dealership model where |
| 1:35.2 | products are locked into being serviced only by the verticals of that brand and I made some comment that I really wish track would publish their manuals online and not keep them to their dealers only and turns out they do. |
| 1:51.0 | I'm quite confident they didn't use to but nowadays yeah if you go on to the |
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