Geek Warning
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Welcome to Geek Warning, a podcast focused on deciphering the world of cycling tech, explaining how bikes work, and how to make them better. Hosted by Dave Rome, Ronan Mc Laughlin and Brad Copeland, this weekly show is your fix for tech geekitude, covering the latest tech news, industry trends, answering mechanical questions, and whatever else is on our minds.
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The 2025 GWAs
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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Do we ever get tired of bikes?
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Introducing Escape tyre testing: Get ready to rethink accepted wisdom
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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It’s the little things that matter most
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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One more cut to rim brakes
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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The value of trade shows and new off-road things
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Top-end frames on mid-level bikes
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Special ep: Design decisions behind the new Giant Anthem
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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A big factory tour and Gravel Burn tech
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Campagnolo goes top-tier on gravel, now where’s Shimano?
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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WorldTour rumours and a split in aero bikes
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Saddle positioning and Campagnolo goes Ultra
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Special ep: In for review, October 2025
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Emergency Ep: SRAM's win and what it means for the UCI
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Fancy bottom brackets and adjustable crank lengths
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Back to basics with chain lubes
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Workshop wishes and crooked hoods
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Geek Warning Bonus: Trek on testing gravel suspension and bike design
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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There is no best bike
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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The barriers to entry-level road race bikes
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Riding a 32in and Ronan is now a mountain biker
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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'There are no new ideas left in cycling'
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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The spares we carry
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Progress creates opportunity in the backfill
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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The UCI approval sticker is overrated
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Brakes, brakes, and brakes on big wheels
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Finished with unfinished products in the market
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Big wheels, TT saddles, and Five Stars
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Tour Tech
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Hookless to hooked and pondering spoke colours
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Special ep: Bikepacking aero nerd
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Shimano Di2, Classified, and Eurobike week
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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The week of wireless trickle
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Special ep: A chat with SRAM about new Rival and Force and trickling down tech
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Factory tours and fresh tech
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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A Week of Wireless
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Special ep: Shimano’s MTB Product Manager on the new XTR Di2
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Mountain bikers on gravel tyres. What in the upside-down world?
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May 30, 2025 |
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Modern chain wins and questionable pressure sensors
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May 23, 2025 |
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Special ep: Why is kit so expensive?
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May 21, 2025 |
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Tech so smart it’s dumb
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May 16, 2025 |
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Is every flagship drivetrain bound to go 13-speed?
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May 09, 2025 |
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Special ep: In For Review, May 2025
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May 07, 2025 |
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Wheel size history is repeating
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May 02, 2025 |
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Electric inflators and a narrower UDH from Factor
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Wrapping Roubaix and Sea Otter tech
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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A lot of new tech and pricing fears
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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What’s the widest tyre we’ll see at Roubaix?
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Tyre pressure apps and unexpected counterfeits
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Special ep: Deep dive with SRAM on mechanical Transmission and new brakes
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Unique features that make endurance bikes less desirable
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Matching fit between bikes and cordless air tools
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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The first ’In for Review’ special episode
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Gravel things go road and fixing easy rattles
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Special ep: Gear that survives the 1,300 km Atlas Mountain Race
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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The challenges in making quantitative testing useful
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Tyre sealants, gearboxes, and wide kicks
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Special ep: Clearing up PFAs
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Forever chemicals and another product leak
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Big tubular is Cross
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Explaining Shimano’s new entry-level dropbar range
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Special ep: TDU pit walk with aero expert John Pitman
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Jan 25, 2025 |
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Winners and Losers of the 2025 WorldTour bikes
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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When AI simply isn’t AI and new bikes galore
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Are pro-only road bikes the future?
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Members Only: How bike fit trends might change frame geometry with Rob English
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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Not your typical annual tech awards show
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Dedicated aero bikes are coming back in a big way
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Just why? The thinking behind Colnago’s new Y1Rs
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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All for longer-lasting products
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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A future of simpler integrated bikes
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Strava changing the app map
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Tyre security, fitting, and setting pressures
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Mysterious creaks and snapped chains
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Fingers crossed for Campagnolo giving us a thumbs up
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Fork me, it's the ring of death
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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The bikes we’ll never let go
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Members only: Gerard Vroomen Opens Up on why most gravel bikes are moving to 700C-only
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Oct 12, 2024 |
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Gravel Worlds and the Mount Rushmore of cranks
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Performance Process: How to ride gravel faster, with Dylan Johnson
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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How to build a great wheel
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Newer ways to sell a new bike
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Members Only: Lauf Cycles on mountain bikes, wide tyres, and low prices
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Flying with integrated bikes
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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The Matrix is a system, Neo
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Tyre talk and lots of it
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Member's Only: Stunning bikes and interesting accessories at Made
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Recyclable thermoset carbon fibre is here
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Tyre trends outpacing the industry
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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What's that chirping?
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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A bonus episode with World Bicycle Relief
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Rim brakes, split bearings, and Ask a Wrench returns
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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How wide is too wide?
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Reviewing bikes can get expensive
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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The (lack of) spares we carry
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Flat mount should be flat!
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Eurobike week and a two-chain bike for a great cause
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Bonus ep: Speaking from Spoken
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Lateral thinking, a new way to consider chain wear
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Chisel in the Dogma
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Flat bottom chains don’t make the wheels go round
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Bonus ep: Why experience is still key in the modern bike design world of CFD & CAD
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Not peaked, gravel is still growing
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Bonus: Picking Unbound Gravel tires with the pro who can pick any tire
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May 31, 2024 |
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A new voice
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May 31, 2024 |
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Bonus ep: Kids might need nicer bikes more than we do
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May 25, 2024 |
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Is new Shimano GRX enough?
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May 24, 2024 |
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Your bikes have secretly been getting longer, and no one told you
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May 16, 2024 |
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Bonus ep: A deep-dive with SRAM on new Red AXS
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May 15, 2024 |
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Bonus ep: Ask a Wrench is back!
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May 10, 2024 |
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Wireless 13-speed Di2?
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May 10, 2024 |
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Cervelo redesigned its Aspero gravel bike, and thankfully didn’t screw it up
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May 02, 2024 |
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Chasing noises and the better way to apply chain lube
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Rear Radars need to work 100% of the time
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Bonus ep: A deep dive on the new DT Swiss Ratchet DEG
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Everyone loves a magnetic personality
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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When they go high, we go low (with a $160 drivetrain)
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Bonus ep: A carbon fork nearly broke Bridge Bike Works before it even got started
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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A pointless trend in what people carry
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Bonus ep: Question time with Zipp on the how and why of Thomas De Gendt's crash
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Bikes aren't actually more expensive than they used to be
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Why are modern bikes so expensive?
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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To be, or not to be
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Bonus ep: Precision, process, press-fits, and pandemics with Framework Bicycles
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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The future of bike servicing is already here
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Getting our hooks into hookless road
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Chain waxing for all at last?
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Bonus ep: Colnago is sharpening its focus, and it’s probably not thinking of you
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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The return of a loved rim brake bike
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Common themed tech rants
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Not everyone can be in the cool kids club, and that’s OK
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Bonus Ask a Wrench ep: Disc brake fears
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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The goldilocks of cycle clothing
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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A pit walk critiquing 2024 WorldTour setups with JP Ballard of SwissSide
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Why so many teams are on last year’s bikes
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Function-over-form, our favorite gravel shoes, and we’re off to TDU!
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Our favorite handlebar tapes, and what we look for in them
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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No angled levers for you!
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Bonus Ask a Wrench ep: Preparing for winter
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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It’s time for our annual awards!
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Has the bike industry reached peak gravel?
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Bonus ep: How to build out your home workshop
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Our favorite road helmets, mega-pricey chain lubes, and cheap Pinarellos
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Plummeting bike prices and our favourite dropper posts
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Bonus Ask a Wrench ep: Wax, grease, and degreasing
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Shedding mud and our favourite eyewear
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Ask a Wrench Bonus Episode
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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A car collaboration we like
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Our favourite road pedals and Lotus’ new road bike
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Tire pressures are trending lower, but road racing frames are getting … stiffer?
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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The road drivetrain market is starting to get very crowded
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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We're listening, too
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Hookless rim designs are coming after your aluminum wheels now, too
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Snap, crackle, pop: Shimano finally deals with its broken crank problem
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Recalls, weird brand choices, and more recalls
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Specialized and Giant have very different takes on what makes the ideal endurance road bike
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Trek’s new Domane AL goes all-road, Bontrager goes thermoplastic, and a deep dive into Columbus Trittico
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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A wrap on MADE with Rob English
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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A deep dive on new Shimano GRX and 105 12-speed mechanical
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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750D wheels and questionable cockpits
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Ask a handful of Wrenches
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Speed Sniffers, Classified things, and too much choice
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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More MTB-like gravel bikes, a sharper Microshift, and hookless blow-offs
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Is Mavic coming back to the United States?
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Dissecting the Tour TT and aero advancements with Marc Graveline
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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A climbing bike too light for the pros, but carbon inspection for everyone
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Racing, schmacing: Let’s talk about tech at the Tour
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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The Eurobike show!
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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The next frontier of XC race tech
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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SRAM Apex goes wireless, Commencal gets into gravel, a big BB blowout, and Ronan’s big bike ride
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Shimano GRX going 12, and a flurry of new bikes
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Dropped chains, dropped thumbs, and how to buy your first handmade bike
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May 31, 2023 |
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Good entry-level aluminum bikes are rad
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May 24, 2023 |
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Introducing Ask a Wrench
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May 18, 2023 |
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The golden era of high-performance endurance road tires
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May 11, 2023 |
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XC MTB is so hot, even die-hard road brands are getting into it
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May 04, 2023 |
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How hardtail mountain bikes are like cats
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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A new Tarmac and the worst bike James has ever ridden
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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The Roubaix Tech Special
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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Two thumbs up for Campagnolo's upcoming new wireless groupsets
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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New bikes, head scratchers, and Dave’s Ultimate birthday present
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Ronan's least favourite assignment
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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The Trojan horse of derailleur hangers and way too much stock
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Deep Geek Dive: How SRAM is killing the rear derailleur hanger
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Geek Warning: Is Campag killing the thumb shifter?
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Inner tubes, no tubes, and our first live audience!
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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New SRAM, new Shimano, and a new old voice
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Victor's 62-tooth classics chainring
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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The terrible heart rate strap toaster effect
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Steering in the right direction
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Geek Warning, the Pilot
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Feb 06, 2023 |