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24/10/2023

Closing the book on the 2023 season

Ruth Winder joins Dane Cash and Cosmo Catalano to wrap up the 2023 road racing campaign. The crew talks Guangxi and Chongming Island, and ponders some of the broader questions of the season.

24/10/2023

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43 min
13/06/2025

Factory tours and fresh tech

This week in Geek Warning, tech writers Suvi Loponen and Alex Hunt join Dave Rome to discuss their recent factory visits to SRAM, DT Swiss, Oquo, and more. You’ll hear Dave and Alex debate about using full-suspension gravel bikes instead of a mountain bike. The geeks also discuss a whole lot of new and interesting tech. As usual, members of Escape Collective have access to the Ask a Wrench segment of the episode, and this week, Australian national team mechanic, Peter Arch, joins to help answer the questions. Members can submit new questions here. Time stamps: 2:00 - Factory visits18:00 - Full Suspension gravel bikes are coming back25:00 - TRP Vistar with Classified is finally official29:00 - Spoken comes to Sydney in a week30:15 - Oquo now making its own hub33:15 - Industry9 acquires We Are One Composites35:00 - Leaked Roval Rapide wheels37:30 - No.22’s new Drifter gravel bike39:10 - Unno returns to XC with the Horn, room for 2.6” tyres41:50 - Pro’s new internally routed MTB handlebar, please no46:00 - Trek joins the electric air inflator world48:00 - Ronan’s big ride54:30 - Ask A Wrench with National pro mechanic Peter Arch (member-only)56:00 - Solving a skipping hub1:01:30 - What’s going inside a hydraulic disc brake?1:05:30 - Mystery flat tyre1:10:30 - Safer lubricants and lubing cables

13/06/2025

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55 min
11/05/2023

The golden era of high-performance endurance road tires

Don't you dare call it a tire; it's "endurance engineering"! Jokes aside, Specialized and Vittoria are upping their games when it comes to high-end road tires that (supposedly) won't leave you stranded, Chris King is expanding its range of thermoplastic carbon wheels with a new aero all-road model, we debate the pros and cons of the latest crop of fancy bike care products, and Ronan outlines the UCI's latest foibles. And as always, Dave has tools on his mind. A manually curated list of time stamps: 2:30 - The narrow tread of the new Vittoria Corsa Pro tyres. 13:00 - “Don’t call it a tyre!” Specialized’s Mondo tyre. 21:42 - Chris King brings thermoplastic rims to road 29:22 - CeramicSpeed’s new Bike Care line and a discussion on wax lubes. 42:57 - The growing segment of Bike Care products. 46:50 - More price drops! This time it’s Salsa. 47:53 - Rome gets excited about new bearing removal tools. 50:37 - An update on the peculiar new UCI product registration rules coming to the TDF. 56:45 - Does the UCI need a Jig for its Jig? 1:02:45 - On Rome’s mind and over the head of his family. 1:08:07 - News for next week’s episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

11/05/2023

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1 h 10 min
16/01/2025

When AI simply isn’t AI and new bikes galore

In this week’s Geek Warning, the tech team — Dave Rome, Alex Hunt, Ronan McLaughlin, and Suvi Loponen — explore AI’s role in cycling tech, from training and design to marketing, while questioning even is truly “AI” and what’s just advanced machine learning – or marketing. Whether we’re all sick of hearing about it or think it has a place in some applications, you’ll find out. As the off-season is over (and keeps Dave busy at TDU), it seems we’re starting to see more and more new tech drops. This week, the geeks talk through new pedals from OneUp, short cranks from RaceFace, as well as new bikes from Giant and Liv, Stinner, Basso, and Chapter2. There’s also chat about some more industry headwinds that have affected REI and Raleigh. And as usual, Brad Copeland joins the pod to answer a few wrenching questions from Escape members with Dave. Maybe it’s the Christmas break effect still and we’ve got a lot of chat in us, but like last week, this episode is longer than usual, but we hope you enjoy it nevertheless. Escape Collective’s podcasts are made possible by our members. Head on over to escapecollective.com/member to support this show and everything else on our podcast network. Time stamps: 2:40 – On Our Minds: What is AI anyway – and is it being unleashed in the cycling tech?23:50 – Not a Pick One but info on a new Collective Favourites series24:55 – Cycling industry news from REI and Raleigh28:15 – OneUp clip pedal31:15 – New 160mm cranks from RaceFace32:15 – Wolf Tooth tyre pressure app update34:12 – The Cool Bottle36:45 – New Giant Trinity and Liv Avow TT/triathlon bikes42:15 – New Basso SV45:46 – Chapter2 Rira bike47:25 – Stinner Refugio Select adventure bike49:30 – Ask a Wrench with Dave & Brad01:19:00 – Outro

16/01/2025

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1 h 24 min
06/09/2024

Tyre talk and lots of it

Tyres tyres tyres! Aero tyres, big fat gravel tyres - in this episode has a lot of tyres in it. We have a bit of a shakeup this week. Dave Rome is on a well-deserved holiday so Caley and Ronan are joined by pro mechanic Zach Edwards to talk through Parcours' latest tyre testing and what the data can teach us about optimising for various road courses. Then we discuss the trend toward 50mm+ rubber at the pointy end of gravel races, some updates from Zwift, and Caley's new cross-country bike.

06/09/2024

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1 h 3 min
29/08/2025

'There are no new ideas left in cycling'

The Portland-based Made show has wrapped up for another year, and our website has been buzzing with coverage from the handmade bike event. This week’s Geek Warning is a bit different from the usual format, with the conversation focused mainly on what was seen at Made. Here, Dave Rome chats with Escape’s US tech editor Josh Weinberg along with famed framebuilder (and Escape contributor!) Rob English. Within you’ll hear about emerging trends from the custom bike world, why Rob believes there are no new ideas left for bicycles, and some of Rob and Josh’s top picks. As usual, the episode wraps with our regular Ask a Wrench segment, where Zach Edwards (Boulder Groupetto) and Dave Rome answer technical questions from Escape members. You’ll need to be on the Escape member podcast feed to listen to this section. See all the coverage from Made 2025 here. Time stamps: 2:40 - Explaining Made and industry vibes10:00 - Trends in the handmade scene18:30 - Josh and Rob’s favourite bikes of Made31:30 - Rob’s absolute favourite - a bike from 197936:00 - A little Aero bike38:30 - Favourite small parts of Made55:45 - Ask a Wrench (Members only)57:00 - A corrections corner related to impact wrenches58:40 - Bottom bracket torque settings1:03:15 - Solving a worn dropout1:09:00 - Sticky cables, sticky drink mix

29/08/2025

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56 min
19/03/2024

Why are modern bikes so expensive?

Why are bikes so expensive? In this episode, Factor's Rob Gitelis speaks openly, providing an insight deep into the world of premium bicycle manufacturing and breaking down the costs of making a modern high-end bike. More broadly, Gitelis talks us through some of the inner workings of the manufacturing facilities brands employ, staffing models and transient workforces, and his fears that a repeat of the Covid boom and bust is just around the corner.

19/03/2024

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1 h 18 min
27 JANV.

Australia never disappoints

Before the peloton makes its way to Geelong for the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, Abby, Georgie, and Matilda Raynolds have a few points to wrap up the Tour Down Under. Plus, in Mallorca, it's Movistar vs. UAE Team ADQ for two (maybe three) races straight.

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1 h
04/10/2024

Performance Process: How to ride gravel faster, with Dylan Johnson

In this episode of Performance Process, Ronan and Caley welcome Dylan Johnson, a lifetime Gran Prix athlete, coach, and data-driven performance-optimising YouTuber, to discuss the ins and outs of off-road racing. Dylan shares his insights on the category he arguably reignited: drop bar mountain bikes, exploring the whys and the pros and cons of ditching flat bars. He also delves into tyre selection, revealing his two tyres for gravel racing following his own rolling resistance and aero testing. Speaking of aero testing, Dylan discusses the importance of aerodynamics in gravel racing, and his advice on where to optimise first. Finally, as gravel racing continues to evolve, the group discuss if current trends are truly optimal or stop gaps along the way with predictions on the future of bike design. Whether you’re a racer or an enthusiast, this episode is packed with practical insights and inspiration for the gravel and off-road rider.

04/10/2024

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49 min
01/05/2023

Building CyclingTips

This month we’ve got a different episode for you. For a long time now I've been asked to share the origin story of CyclingTips in this podcast, but I always knew there was more to come in this journey. But now that the story is complete, I figured this is a good time to tell it. Instead of this being a monologue, I asked Mitch Docker (from the Life in the Peloton podcast) to host this episode. Mitch's journey with Life in the Peloton is similar to my own in many ways, and I'm enjoying seeing him take his own path and making a success out of it. It's hard to say if CyclingTips was a success or not. It depends on how you measure it. Like countless other media brands, CyclingTips is no longer in existence. But at one time it was a daily destination for cycling enthusiasts around the globe, and had a strong place within the cycling community that we were proud of. The version of CyclingTips that died a quick death was a very popular one. Each year millions of people visited the site. There were thousands of paying members. We ran events. We supported local events whenever we could. We contributed to charitable and social causes. We tried to give a voice to those who didn’t have one. We weren’t the biggest, but we liked to think that we made an impact in our little corner of the world. From the outside it might have looked like a straightforward path, but as you'll hear it was anything but... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

01/05/2023

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1 h 21 min

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