In person and pondering new Dura-Ace

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 electronic suspension for cross-country

00:35:00 - Abbey Bike Tools’ new budget disc brake mount facer isn’t quite it

00:40:30 - Going into the member-only section with a live audience

00:42:00 - Ask us Anything!

00:44:00 - Are carbon spokes a fad?