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CyclingTips Podcast

The Wahoo Speedplaycast

CyclingTips Podcast

CyclingTips

Sports, Technology

4.4931 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In the latest of our deep-dives with the people behind new products, we sit down with Chip Hawkins, the founder of Wahoo, and Ian Boswell, a former WorldTour pro and now Wahoo athlete, to talk through the company's acquisition of Speedplay, their plans for a power meter, and how they've improved the pedals themselves. This episode is brought to you in partnership with Wahoo. As always, we ask anything we want.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the segment tips

0:07.1

to the segment-tits podcast everybody I'm Kayle Fritz.

0:08.8

We're here with a special episode for you. We kind of teased this one on the regular weekly

0:16.1

episode earlier in the week. Kind of promised that we would be doing a deeper dive

0:20.2

into well something that you wrote about early this week, Ronan.

0:25.7

What are we talking about today?

0:27.8

Yeah, we're talking about the new Wahoo Speed Play pedal range that just, as you said just launched this week just announced this week

0:35.4

But I think has been eagerly anticipated by Speed Play Fans for for a couple of years now and

0:41.6

Yeah, there's been a few refinements to the range a few

0:46.6

updates and we're just gonna get a good chat about about all those today and

0:51.2

sort of pick the brains of the people behind the new pedal.

0:56.0

With that, we do have two special guests with us here today. Chip Hawkins, why don't you tell us what you do over at Wahoo?

1:04.0

Yeah, so my name is Chip Hawkins. I'm the founder, but as we've grown I have maintained my position as the kind of chief engineer so I'm still getting my hands

1:14.1

dirty every day or I try to get my hands dirty every day on the products and

1:18.2

still loving it. And we have Ian Boswell I think that a lot of Cycling Tips

1:23.8

podcast listeners will we recognize your name Ian. But what are you up to these days?

1:28.4

Why are you on this this call with us? Well Kaley, since retiring from the World Tour, I have been working at

1:35.4

Wahoo as an athlete liaison. I look after a lot of the teams and athletes that we partner

1:39.9

with. I also do some stuff on the product side like speed play you know head units just

1:45.4

using my experience as a former writer to kind of make sure that products are

1:50.0

still up to snuff for the world's best riders and still particular are still

1:54.4

potentially doing some gravel racing this year as well, so I still do ride my bike a fair amount.

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