Geek Warning: Wireless 13-speed Di2?
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to Geek Warning! This week, James and Dave have a varied conversation covering tech related to road, gravel, and mountain bike.
The Giro has begun and Tadej Pogačar took a little tumble that many were quick to blame the equipment for. James and Dave discuss that such finger pointing was not warranted this time.
At the opposite end of UCI disciplines, the conversation then turns to aero gains returning to professional downhill mountain bike racing.
In the tech new front, the geeks praise Chris King’s new Gen 4 hubs and discuss why Forge+Bond entry into the road market may not be hugely successful. Plus there’s discussion of a new Bike Yoke dropper, Zwift’s price rises, and more.
Meanwhile, a new Shimano Di2 patent has surfaced teasing wireless 13-speed shifting. Dave got Terry of BetterShifting.com on the phone to discuss the discovered patent and what it may mean.
Our pick one this week is perhaps better described as a buyer’s guide to selecting a wheelset for gravel. From rim choices, to spoke choices, to hub choices, you’ll hear what our geeks prefer for their own bikes.
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Time stamps:
4:00 - Hookless now getting undeserved blame..
9:25 - Downhill mountain bike racing getting aero?
16:30 - Chris King’s new Gen 4 hubs
21:45 - Forge+Bond brings its thermoplastic rims to road
28:40 - Chatting with Terry of BetterShifting.com about a certain Di2 patent
36:07 - e-Cargo bikes being covered by car media is on James’ mind
40:50 - Picking one gravel wheelset, or at least, what we look for
52:00 - A member-submitted PSA
56:15 - 3T’s Strada Italia, made in Italy
57:15 - Bike Yoke’s Revive V3 dropper looks great
59:20 - Wolf Tooth updates its chainguides
1:00:25 - Zwift price increases
1:04:20 – A gimmicky indoor stationary bike on Kickstarter
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Geek Warning Podcast from the Escape Collective. |
| 0:14.0 | Every one-stop shop for maybe not quite everything you need to know this week in the world of bicycle tech, |
| 0:19.0 | but maybe just the more interesting stuff. Let's just call that. |
| 0:22.0 | Anyway, holy crap, it clearly must be spring, at least in like the northern hemisphere, because we're definitely still getting flooded with a whole bunch of new product announcements. We've got fresh goodies to talk about |
| 0:33.3 | from Chris King and Wolftooth and Bike Yoke and Thirteen Forge and Bond, among others. |
| 0:37.2 | We're going to chat a little bit about how hookless road rims and tires apparently aren't |
| 0:42.1 | going to shed their stigma anytime soon |
| 0:44.4 | seemingly we're going to discuss aerodynamics in downhill mountain bike racing |
| 0:49.2 | Dave's going to have a little chat with Terry Sidler better known as Better Shifting Terry about a |
| 0:53.8 | pretty intriguing patent that was recently discovered from Shimano that might |
| 0:58.2 | offer up some clues to impossible upcoming fully wireless group sets. |
| 1:02.3 | We're also going to talk a little bit about how the automotive world seems to somehow be |
| 1:06.6 | embracing e-bikes. |
| 1:07.6 | We'll talk about what to look for and grab a wheel sets and an unexpected place on your |
| 1:11.6 | drive train to pay attention to for this week's PSA. |
| 1:15.4 | I'm James Hmong joining me today is Escape Collective senior tech editor Dave Rome. |
| 1:21.2 | Dave, you and I actually just recorded another Geek Warning podcast like we did two |
| 1:26.7 | days ago yeah what what do we chat about and what do our listeners have to look |
| 1:30.8 | forward to well Well well overdue but we finally recorded |
| 1:36.4 | another Oscar Ranch episode which is so overdue. Yeah we were we were answering questions that I hope people weren't waiting on because they might not have ridden their bike in months if they were. |
| 1:48.0 | Sorry members. |
| 1:50.0 | Quick, how do I perform CPR? |
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