About this episode

The episode features the Escape Collective tech crew discussing recent cycling events and tech updates in front of a live audience.

This week sees a big first for the Geek Warning podcast as the entirety of Escape Collective’s tech crew meet up in person over in Takayama, Japan. With that, we recorded live in front of a select group of Escape members! It’s certainly been a huge week on the tech front for our entire tech team to be away riding bikes at the annual Member Summit. Not only is the Vuelta a España in its first week (where new Dura-Ace prototypes were seen), we also had the last Mountain Bike World Cup round prior to the World Championships. And if that wasn’t enough, MADE was held over in Portland, Oregon, the past weekend. Given the special circumstances, our usual member-only ‘Ask a Wrench’ segment was replaced with an ‘Ask us anything’ from the live audience. Be sure to listen on the member-only feed for the full episode. So with that, join the tech crew of Alex Hunt, Jack Duncan, Ronan Mc Laughlin, and Dave Rome to hear about the week in tech. And yes, Suvi Loponen was there, but sadly couldn’t jump on the recording. Time stamps: 00:03:30 - New Dura-Ace R9300 breaks cover 00:23:00 - Leadville wasn’t the expected 32er domination, and that doesn’t matter 00:33:05 - Fox is seemingly returning to…

People in this episode

Hosts: Alex Hunt, Jack Duncan, Ronan Mc Laughlin, Dave Rome

Topics covered

• Dura-Ace R9300
• Mountain Bike World Cup
• MADE event
• live audience Q&A
• tech updates
• cycling news

Keywords

• Dura-Ace
• cycling technology
• live podcast
• Ask us Anything
• Mountain Bike World Cup
• MADE
• Takayama

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Escape Collective

Products: Dura-Ace R9300, Abbey Bike Tools’ new budget disc brake mount facer, Silca’s entry to tires

Places: Takayama, Japan

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