Geek Warning: Why so many teams are on last year’s bikes
Spin Cycle
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🗓️ 18 January 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Dave and Ronan are in thick of the Tour Down Under and have a whole lot of new (and old!) race tech to discuss. The industry has woken up from the holiday break with a flurry of new products worthy of discussion. And, as usual, the geeks cover so much more.
Timestamps:
3:00 – Spotting three new helmets on rider heads.
11:10 – Trek working on a knit shoe.
15:15 – New Look pedals, and more from Time.
19:50 – Enve’s new InnerDrive hub and SES AR one-piece handlebar, including a quick tangent on measuring lever angle.
27:10 – Budget smart trainers from Decathlon.
31:25 – Explaining Australia’s two competing custom bike shows.
34:20 – Last year’s race bikes are on our mind.
39:08 – Pro mechanics making do with things from a hardware store.
43:32 – Our PSA.
47:55 – Rapid fire of tech news including new Fulcrum Speed 25+ wheels, OneUp’s V3 dropper seatpost, BlackHeart’s new Gravel AL bike, and Leap Components’ Blip button adapter.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and with the Tour Down Under and the start of the world tour is |
| 0:26.8 | Hello and welcome to Geek Warning I'm Dave Rome and with the tour down under and the start of the world tour in full swing we've given James a week off. I was on the ground to see all the new bikes in tech up close and Ronin well you're still there but you're not no I had to come home in a bit of a hurry yeah my my partner thought she'd locked herself out yes you're |
| 0:32.0 | going to actually give all the details here. |
| 0:33.0 | Yes, yes. |
| 0:34.0 | Thought she'd locked herself out and decided to scale a security wall which she didn't stay on top of. |
| 0:42.0 | I am now the nurse. yes Rennon you're still there so I mean I think you're going to have to give it a little bit extra details and that she's like |
| 0:49.3 | falling a wall could be serious or awfully awfully |
| 0:52.8 | serious and this was... |
| 0:54.4 | Somewhere in the middle. |
| 0:55.4 | Yeah, yeah, I mean the text message I got was suggestive of that she was in a wheelchair |
| 1:00.7 | with both legs legs severely broken. |
| 1:02.8 | Non life threatening is probably hoping. |
| 1:05.6 | Non life threatening, yeah accident, but thankfully it's about half as bad as that. |
| 1:10.8 | So one leg is definitely severely broken. There might be a small |
| 1:14.4 | fracture in the other foot, but needless to say I was needed back home. So, but I had |
| 1:20.5 | a camera full of photos. So I've still got lots of work to do. |
| 1:25.0 | You were here and it's better to have roamed and lost and not to have roamed at all at the |
| 1:30.0 | third down under so. I see what you did there. |
| 1:32.0 | It was. the turn down under so I see what you did there it was it was great while you're here |
| 1:36.2 | and you've gone away with plenty of great shots and all to to keep the content |
| 1:40.8 | flowing or the tech content flowing from Turdown Under. |
| 1:43.4 | Absolutely and we got a couple of solid days to hang out together so it wasn't all |
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