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La nueva Orbea Rallon se ha llevado todos los titulares gracias a sus impresionantes soluciones tecnológicas y por haber ganado en Copa del Mundo “antes de nacer”. Zipp también se los ha llevado por su sensor de presión integrado en las ruedas. La nueva Orbea Rallon ha sido, sin duda, una de las grandes revelaciones de la temporada al debutar con una victoria en la Copa del Mundo de DH. Y también por hacerlo con una plataforma doble para DH y para enduro. Y es que Orbea ha logrado, con la misma base, tener dos bicis diferentes, con dos comportamientos diferentes, aunque en ambos casos excelentes cuando la gravedad juega a nuestro favor. Pero es que la nueva Rallon también ha sido una de las grandes revoluciones gracias a su adaptabilidad, impresionantes posibilidades de personalización y soluciones tecnológicas como el Gravity Link, sin duda una muestra de que el DH sigue siendo la F1 del MTB. También hemos hablado un rato sobre el monitor de presión integrado en las Zipp 353 NSW y 303 SW ¿es realmente necesario? ¿está justificado? Pero también de las novedades que presentó el grupo SRAM junto a este dispositivo y que han quedado un poco eclipsadas por la controversia que ha creado dicho sensor. La marca irlandesa LittleBig nos presentó la evolución 2025 de su bici infantil, una solución excelente que acompañará a los ciclistas más pequeños de la casa desde los 2 a los 7 años (aproximadamente) y desde una bici de equilibrio a su primera bici de pedales. Todo en la misma bici y sin comprar nada en todo ese tiempo.Y Giant ha presentado el Rivet Mips, su nuevo casco de contrarreloj que nos ha sorprendido, precisamente, por no tener un diseño extravagante ni desproporcionado, más bien al contrario. Este programa ha sido posible gracias a Cannondale, que ha renovado su Moterra con dos nuevas variantes de su e-bike de alto rendimiento, una versión trail con 160/150 mm de recorrido de suspensiones y dos ruedas de 29” y otra, la Moterra LT, con ruedas mullet y 170/165 mm, ambas con cuadro full-carbon y sistema BOSCH Performance Line CX 5. Tienes toda la información sobre ambas versiones de la moterra en www.cannondale.com. Enlaces de interés: Nueva Orbea Rallon de enduro y DH: https://www.mtbpro.es/afondo/primeras-pedaladas-con-la-nueva-orbea-rallon-dh-y-enduro Zipp 353 NSW y 303 SW, ahora con monitorización de presión integrada: https://www.maillotmag.com/actualidad/zipp-353-nsw-y-303-sw-ahora-con-monitorizacion-de-presion-integrada LittleBig 2025: https://www.maillotmag.com/actualidad/littlebig-2025-la-bicicleta-infantil-ajustable-que-crece-con-los-ninos-ahora-mas-ligera Giant Rivet Mips: https://www.maillotmag.com/actualidad/giant-rivet-mips-el-nuevo-y-aerodinamico-casco-de-la-marca-para-triatlon-y-contrarreloj

Today's show takes a deep dive into two new bikes at opposite ends of all the spectrums: State's no-fuss 4130 All-Road sells for under $1,000 USD, and Cannondale's Topstone Lefty Gravel bike that employs a single-sided suspension fork and 30mm of rear-wheel-travel via a clever system combining built-in frame flex with a single pivot. Alvin, Josh, and Levy also dissect Zwift's new outdoor ride-tracking feature that may (or may not) eventually challenge Strava as many people's go-to app, and Alvin reports back on how using shorter cranks for the last five months has propelled him to new heights and watts... or maybe not? 

Pivot acaba de presentar la nueva Shuttle SL/AM, una e-bike ligera de all-mountain con 160/150 mm de recorrido de suspensiones, sistema BOSCH Performance Line SX con batería de 400 Wh, ruedas de 29” en ambos ejes, sistema de suspensión trasera DW-Link y un montaje superior por debajo de los 18 kg de peso. También nos hacemos eco de la actualización de SRAM para cambiar de un grupo mecánico a un GX Eagle AXS electrónico e inalámbrico. Y del nuevo Brose QORE con motor Drive³ Peak con 95 Nm, 2,9 kg y 600 W potencia pico. Canyon ha incorporado su cockpit PACE, que hasta ahora sólo estaba disponible en la Aeroad, en las Ultimate y Endurace. Este conjunto de manillar-potencia PACE permite adoptar una posición más aerodinámica y acoplar los apoyos de triatlón. Además, Canyon ha incorporado un nuevo cierre de sillín para la Ultimate que permite ajustar de forma independiente la inclinación y el retroceso del sillín y una herramienta TX25 en el eje pasante de la rueda delantera. Por último, la marca alemana ha inaugurado el servicio Collect & Ride en España y Portugal con un acuerdo para recoger tu bici montada y ajustada en diferentes talleres y tiendas adscritas a este programa. Por último, repasamos las cifras del Shimano Rebound 2024 y te contamos todo sobre la edición 2025. Este programa ha sido posible gracias a Cannondale, que ha renovado su Moterra con dos nuevas variantes, una más trail con 160/150 mm de recorrido de suspensiones y dos ruedas de 29” o la Moterra LT con ruedas mullet y 170/165 mm, ambas con cuadro full-carbon y sistema BOSCH Performance Line CX 5. Tienes toda la información sobre ambas versiones de la moterra en www.cannondale.com. Enlaces de interés: Nueva Pivot Shuttle SL/AM: https://www.mtbpro.es/actualidad/pivot-shuttle-slam-la-all-mountain-electrica-de-la-marca-ahora-mas-ligera Kit actualización SRAM GX Eagle AXS: https://www.mtbpro.es/actualidad/kit-de-actualizacion-sram-gx-eagle-axs-transmission-pasate-al-electronico-por-650-eu Nuevo Brose QORE: https://www.mtbpro.es/actualidad/brose-qore-el-renovado-sistema-de-asistencia-para-e-bikes-que-la-marca-presentara-en Novedades para la Ultimate y Endurace: https://www.maillotmag.com/actualidad/canyon-incorpora-el-cockpit-pace-en-las-ultimate-y-endurace Canyon Collect & Ride: https://www.maillotmag.com/actualidad/canyon-inaugura-su-servicio-collect-ride-en-espana-y-portugal Shimano Rebound Gravel 2025: https://www.maillotmag.com/actualidad/shimano-rebound-2025-en-busca-de-superar-los-400000-participantes-en-el-evento-gravel La actualidad en MTBpro: https://www.mtbpro.es/actualidad La actualidad en Maillot Mag: https://www.maillotmag.com/actualidad

This week we've got wireless shifting on our minds. Campagnolo's new 13-speed wireless continues to be seen out in the wild, now at the Giro d'Italia. Dave has had his hands on WheelTop's latest wireless mountain bike derailleur and shifter. And SRAM has an option to upgrade its new mechanical T70/T90 system to wireless, and nope, we're not joking.Additionally, Ronan is feeling misunderstood. We warn about using modern Ai-type tech in your repair endeavours. And of course, there's plenty more.As always, Escape Collective members will hear our popular Ask a Wrench segment. This week, Zach Edwards (Boulder Groupetto) and Dave Rome answer member-submitted questions related to fixing tubeless punctures in road tyres, the complications of Cannondale's Ai asymmetry, and we provide some thoughts on the best tyre setups for amateur racing across multiple disciplines. As a reminder, you'll need to be a member of Escape Collective (go here) in order to access this popular segment of the podcast. Members can submit new questions here.Time stamps:2:50 - Ronan's feeling misunderstood8:15 - Thumb shifter all-but-confirmed for next-gen Campagnolo Wireless13:30 - Dave's first impressions of WheelTop wireless (EDS OX2.0)23:00 - a PSA about using Ai to help you wrench27:00 - SRAM's new mechanical shifting can be upgraded to wireless32:00 - Canyon updates the Ultimate and Endurace road bikes38:00 - Rocky Mountain secures new Canadian owners39:20 - Where to for Felt Bicycles?42:00 - Threaded this week45:00 - Time for Ask a Wrench (member's feed only)49:00 - How to properly fix a cut tubeless tyre57:00 - Cannondale Ai crank woes1:04:00 - Best tyre setups by disciplines

Cannondale are changing the endurance game, Are Campagnolo relevant again and Chris rides Zwift for the first time

Han sido días de novedades y lanzamientos relevantes, sobre todo en el ámbito de las 'ruedas finas'. En primer lugar hablamos de la primera 'gravel race' de MMR, la Simun, que pudimos conocer (y probar) hace unos días en Rioja Alavesa junto a los miembros del nuevo equipo Jaleo! de la marca asturiana. Seguimos con la renovadísima Cannondale Synapse 2025, cuya versión LAB71 hemos podido disfrutar días antes de su lanzamiento y que supone un cambio de rumbo bastante relevante sobre lo que era la 'gran fondo' de la marca... ¿O es una vuelta a los orígenes? En el extremo opuesto, nos vamos al DH para hablar de la nueva Canyon Sender CFR y toda la tecnología que las marcas ponen a disposición de los pilotos de esta disciplina tan exigente... y poco rentable a nivel ventas. El debate se 'calienta' charlando de las novedades de DJI, la 'liberación' de sus 1.000 watios de potencia pico sin límite de tiempo pero, sobre todo, de su jugoso comunicado en respuesta a las propuestas de la asociación alemana ZIV del segmento e-bike. Y como ya se nos iba de tiempo este episodio, realizamos una 'pedrea' final que algunas noticias que también hemos recogido estos días, como los frenos Trickstuff Piccola HD Titanium, la nueva colección de ropa Alpinestars, los montajes más asequibles de la BH Lynx SLS y el recall de la Santa Cruz Heckler 9. En perspectiva 'Maillot', repasamos también novedades como las nuevas gafas Spiuk Dabbel, la nueva S-Works Tarmac SL8 de Remco, los nuevos neumáticos de Vittoria y Cadex, la llegada de la marca Festka a España y los nuevos colores Project One de Trek. Este episodio, una semana más, ha sido posible gracias a la marca alemana FOCUS, que acaba de lanzar al mercado su nueva e-bike de enduro, la FOCUS SAM2, una bici ideal para los amantes del descenso y sensaciones fuertes. Nosotros ya la hemos probado y hemos comprobado en primera persona que es una bici... ¡Que puede con todo! Monta la última versión del motor BOSCH CX, baterías a elegir de 600 o 800 Wh, un recorrido de 170mm en la parte delantera y 165 mm detrás en formato Mullet para rodar sin límites en los terrenos más exigentes. Conoce todos los detalles en la web de FOCUS: https://www.focus-bikes.com/es_es/ Más referencias: MMR Simun: https://www.maillotmag.com/actualidad/mmr-simun-llega-la-primera-bici-de-gravel-race-de-la-marca-asturiana Cannondale Synapse LAB71: https://www.maillotmag.com/afondo/primeras-pedaladas-cannondale-synapse-lab71 Canyon Sender CFR: https://www.mtbpro.es/actualidad/nueva-canyon-sender-cfr-carbono-mullet-sistema-high-pivot-y-200-mm Comunicado DJI: https://www.mtbpro.es/actualidad/se-liberan-los-1000-w-de-potencia-pico-en-los-motores-dji-avinox-m1 Trickstuff Piccola HD Titanium: https://www.mtbpro.es/actualidad/trickstuff-piccola-hd-titanium-con-manetas-de-titanio-impresas-en-3d Recall Santa Cruz Heckler: https://www.mtbpro.es/actualidad/recall-santa-cruz-inicia-una-recogida-de-baterias-de-su-bicicleta-heckler-9 Ropa Alpinestars: https://www.mtbpro.es/actualidad/alpinestars-presenta-su-coleccion-de-ropa-tecnica-primaveraverano-2025 BH Lynx SLS: https://www.mtbpro.es/actualidad/llegan-nuevos-montajes-mas-economicos-de-la-bh-lynx-sls Spiuk Dabbel: https://www.maillotmag.com/actualidad/nuevas-gafas-spiuk-dabbel-polivalentes-y-con-opcion-fotocromatica S-Works Tarmac SL8 Remco 'Golden': https://www.maillotmag.com/actualidad/asi-es-la-s-works-tarmac-sl8-remco-golden-season-ltd Neumáticos Cadex: https://www.maillotmag.com/actualidad/cadex-aero-cotton-el-neumatico-de-competicion-mas-avanzado-de-la-marca Neumáticos Vittoria: https://www.maillotmag.com/actualidad/vittoria-rubino-un-clasico-renovado-mas-eficiente-ligero-y-tambien-para-tubeless Festka llega a España: https://www.maillotmag.com/actualidad/festka-y-sus-bicicletas-premium-apuestan-por-el-mercado-espanol Trek Project One: https://www.maillotmag.com/actualidad/trek-presenta-ocho-nuevos-colores-project-one-chroma

New Tech Alert: A speedy all-road bike with all the tire clearance, an unreleased (and still embargoed) gravel bike, and a clever gravel suspension fork from DT Swiss make this a gear-focused show.  Senior Tech Editor Alvin Holbrook chats with Levy about riding Cannondale's completely redesigned Synapse that offers massive tire clearance, a best-in-class storage box, and integrated lighting that (might) finally make sense. Further, he explains how one battery powers all of it and the AXS derailleur. The price? $16,499.  He's also spent some time on a new gravel suspension fork from DT Swiss that features integrated brake hose routing and aero-ish shaping, and even got to use one while racing a very wet Traka 100 in Spain just a few days ago.  Topics covered: First Ride: The New Cannondale Synapse Road Bike Gets Gravel Tire Clearance and Integrated Lights Canyon's Unreleased Gravel Suspension Fork Surfaces Again at The Traka The Bikes of the 2025 Traka Gravel Race

How is it that a product can be raced by a professional, in a professional event, and that the media aren't allowed to tell all? It's become a surprisingly common occurrence, and in this episode, you'll hear Ronan Mc Laughlin and Dave Rome explain how it all works.You'll also hear about Campagnolo's latest spotted new drivetrain, and why it likely spells a wider change to 13-speed. Also, Ronan and Dave discuss the new Cannondale Synapse and its rather confusing overlap with other bikes in Cannondale's range. The conversation then moves to cover other new products and industry news.Finally, Escape Collective members will hear our popular Ask a Wrench segment. This week, Ronan and Dave answer member-submitted questions related to their favourite Co2 inflator heads (and preferred alternatives), an update to the Classified two-speed hub system, and calibrating power meters. As a reminder, you'll need to be a member of Escape Collective (go here) in order to access this popular segment of the podcast. Members can submit new questions here.Language warning: Ronan said a naughty word at the 6:58 point of the episode.Time stamps:2:00 - Spotting new products in clear sight and embargos explained10:40 - Campagnolo 13-speed EPS Wireless is coming22:00 - We're not sure how to define the new Cannondale Synapse37:00 - Chit chat, amusing clickbait, and problematic AI41:00 - Canyon US and Amazon Prime42:00 - Industry news from DT Swiss43:20 - Vittoria updates the Rubino45:30 - Park Tool's new free things47:00 - Feedback Sports' new chain whip alternative50:00 - Ask a Wrench (member-only)51:00 - Our preferred Co2 inflator heads and alternatives59:20 - Calibrating power meters1:04:10 - Classified's requirements for the 10T cassettes

Cannondale has launched a new Synapse endurance bike, with 42mm tyre clearance, an aero-influenced frame, down tube storage and a reimagined SmartSense system that's, well, much smarter than before. It's a bike that, on paper, represents the evolution of the latest endurances bike – a category that's in rude health. In this podcast, George Scott quizzes Warren Rossiter on the new Synapse, and the essential features of an endurance bike in 2025. Read more about the new Cannondale Synapse – https://www.bikeradar.com/news/2025-cannondale-synapse Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Esta semana ha estado marcada por la llegada de la nueva Specialized Turbo Levo 4, una e-bike que era muy esperada y que ha generado muchos debates, opiniones encontradas y comparaciones más o menos afortunadas (sobre todo con el sistema DJI Avinox M1). En esta ocasión, en lugar de repasar las características técnicas (que están más que detalladas en el Primeras Pedaladas que hemos publicado en la web y el vídeo de nuestro canal de YouTube) hemos analizado ese debate y esas comparaciones para ver cuánto de justas y acertadas son y cómo es, realmente, la nueva Turbo Levo 4. También hablamos, rápidamente, de la Unno Mith, una de las primeras bicis que equipa, precisamente, el DJI Avinox M1; también de la llegada de la nueva Cannondale Moterra Carbon y Moterra Carbon LT, la renovación de un nombre mítico en el eMTB; y de la nueva Santa Cruz Bullit (estas últimas e-bikes apuestan por el BOSCH CX Gen 5) que hace una apuesta arriesgada por el e-enduro más manejable al montar la batería de 600 Wh (más range extender) y abandonar su mítico sistema de suspensión VPP por un four-bar. Por último, repasamos de forma más rápida las otras novedades que ha tenido la semana en forma de nuevos neumáticos de Continental (que suponen también el adiós a unos nombres míticos) de Good Year, de aros y bujes DT Swiss, Marzocchi... Este programa ha sido posible gracias a FOCUS, que recientemente ha presentado la SAM2, su e-bike de enduro y quizá algo más, ya que es una eMTB ideal para los amantes de las emociones fuertes y del DH con un cuadro robusto, mucho recorrido de suspensiones y el apoyo del BOSCH CX. Descubre más sobre la SAM2 en https://www.focus-bikes.com/es_es/ Enlaces de interés: Primeras Pedaladas Specialized Turbo Levo 4: https://www.mtbpro.es/afondo/primeras-pedaladas-con-la-nueva-specialized-turbo-levo-gen-4-hasta-111-nm-de-par Nueva Unno Mith: https://www.mtbpro.es/actualidad/nueva-unno-mith-para-e-enduro-con-el-sistema-dji-avinox-m1-y-21-kg-de-peso Nuevas Cannondale Moterra Carbon y Moterra Carbon LT: https://www.mtbpro.es/actualidad/nuevas-cannondale-moterra-carbon-y-moterra-lt-2025 Nueva Santa Cruz Bullit: https://www.mtbpro.es/actualidad/nueva-santa-cruz-bullit-ahora-con-motor-bosch-cx-dos-flip-chip-y-sistema-de-suspension La actualidad en MTBpro: https://www.mtbpro.es/actualidad La actualidad en Maillot Mag: https://www.maillotmag.com/actualidad

Esta semana hemos debatido sobre un tema que comienza a ser, cada vez más, recurrente sobre todo en el MTB, la posible llegada de un nuevo tamaño de ruedas: 32”. Y es que estamos viendo cada vez más vídeos en redes sociales sobre los “supuestos” beneficios de unas ruedas de ese diámetro (aunque no se habla de los inconvenientes y nosotros sí que lo hacemos) y cada vez más marcas minoritarias que ofrecen bicicletas con este tamaño. Por otro lado, la actualidad ha pasado por dos importantes lanzamientos en el mundo del gravel, la 3ª generación de la Cannondale Topstone Carbon, con mayor paso de rueda, almacenamiento interno en el cuadro, un sistema KingPin optimizado y horquilla Leftyt Oliver de 40 mm en el modelo que pudimos probar; también por la nueva Orbea Denna, la primera e-gravel específica de la marca española que se presenta con un paso de rueda aumentado hasta los 50 mm, el motor Shimano EP8 RS Gen2 RC de hasta 85 Nm y una batería propia de 420 Wh. Además, en un repaso rápido a otras noticias hablamos de la nueva potencia Race Face Turbine SL para bicis trail y con diseño reversible para elegir una postura más cerca del XC o más orientada a las bajadas, la renovación de Specialized de sus neumáticos Butcher y Eliminator de trail y enduro y la revisión de la gama en la marca americana de sus neumáticos de carretera y gravel. Más información: - Cannondale Topstone Carbon 3ª generación: https://www.maillotmag.com/afondo/primeras-pedaladas-cannondale-topstone-carbon-1-lefty-axs-confort-y-diversion-partes-iguales - Nueva Orbea Denna: https://www.maillotmag.com/afondo/primeras-pedaladas-orbea-denna-probamos-la-primera-e-gravel-de-la-marca - Potencia Race Face Turbine SL: https://www.mtbpro.es/actualidad/nueva-potencia-race-face-turbine-sl-con-diseno-reversible-para-mayor-personalizacion - Nuevas cubiertas Specialized Butcher y Eliminator: https://www.mtbpro.es/actualidad/specialized-renueva-sus-neumaticos-butcher-y-eliminator-para-trail-y-enduro - Gama de neumáticos Specialized para carretera y gravel: https://www.maillotmag.com/actualidad/specialized-presenta-su-gama-de-neumaticos-2025-para-gravel-y-carretera

What do matching bike fits and cordless air tools have in common? Truthfully, very little, but you'll hear them both discussed in this week's episode of Geek Warning.Join Ronan Mc Laughlin, Dave Rome, and Zach Edwards as they discuss these topics on their minds, plus share the latest in tech.Listeners on our free feed will get a whole hour, meanwhile members of Escape Collective get treated to an extra geeky 30 minutes with Dave Rome and pro race mechanic Brad Copeland answering listener questions.Time stamps:3:30 - Our methods, tips, and tools for matching fit between bikes25:00 - On our mind: Air powered tools versus an air compressor39:40 - PSA: Don't forget your computer mount42:00 - Cannondale's new Topstone45:20 - Vittoria has a 29 mm road tyre just for wide rims50:10 - Specialized has a busy week of new tyres51:45 - Ari's new Signal Peak 3.0 cross-country bike53:30 - State Bicycle's budget Carbon All-Road59:39 - Ask a Wrench with Brad Copeland1:03:00 - Repairing bikes for friends (member-only)1:10:30 - Do jockey pulley wheels have a direction? (member-only)1:18:15 - Is there a benefit to warming a chain? (member-only)1:25:30 - Tips for removing frayed cables from shifters (member-only)

In this news round-up, Jack Luke grills Warren Rossiter and Simon von Bromley on the new Cannondale Topstone gravel bike, Boardman's value-packed SLR, and new tyres from Vittoria and Hutchinson.   Read more: https://www.bikeradar.com/features/opinion/2025-cannondale-topstone https://www.bikeradar.com/news/boardmans-new-slr-promises-to-be-fast-for-all-four-seasons https://www.bikeradar.com/news/hutchinson-blackbird-race-blackbird-all-season https://www.bikeradar.com/news/vittoria-wide-rim-optimised-tyres Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vi befinner oss på klassisk cykelmark när avsnitt 191 spelas in. Landsvägssäsongen är i full gång, Cannondale har släppt en ny gravelhoj och folk kör tempohjälmar på linje. Ur led är sannerligen tiden!

Esta semana la actualidad está marcada por la noticia que nunca querríamos dar que es la aparición del cuerpo sin vida del ciclista norteamericano desaparecido en Jaén. También por algo que, aunque de inicio es ajeno al ciclismo, al final nos puede tocar de lleno. Y es que la sanción pactada del tenista Jannik Sinner nos permite debatir con la situación que vive el ciclismo en estos casos y la injusta comparativa que podemos ver. Metidos de lleno en la actualidad, la Cannondale SuperX, la nueva "gravel race" de la marca americana, se ha llevado bastantes focos. Y aunque no se ha llevado tantas atenciones, el hecho de que en septiembre se celebre el IMBA Europe Summit en Boltaña, Huesca, es una gran noticia que sigue poniendo al pirineo oscense en lo más alto del MTB internacional. Además, este año puedes participar. Te explicamos cómo y por qué. Por último, no queremos dejar pasar la importancia de los productos específicos para el cuidado de nuestras bicicletas. Y X-Sauce acaba de presentar un nuevo limpiador dieléctrico (es decir, que no conduce la electricidad) para componentes electrónicos, e-bikes y otras partes delicadas como las suspensiones. Cannondale SuperX: https://www.maillotmag.com/actualidad/cannondale-superx-la-nueva-y-ligera-gravel-race-de-la-marca-norteamericana X-Sauce Isolube: https://www.mtbpro.es/actualidad/nuevo-x-sauce-isobike IMBA Europe Summit 2025: https://www.mtbpro.es/actualidad/quieres-participar-en-la-cumbre-imba-europe-summit-2025

It's a new week and that means a new episode of the Geek Warning podcast. This week you'll hear Suvi Loponen and Zach Edwards (Boulder Groupetto) join Dave Rome in covering the big tech topics of the week.You'll get a beginner's guide to PFAS (forever chemicals) and why you should care. Thoughts are shared on the new Cannondale SuperX gravel race bike. And a widespread leak teases new full wireless from Shimano.There's something silly on Dave's mind, and then the geeks wrap up the remaining tech news of the week.Finally, and as usual, the episode wraps with Brad Copeland, Zach, and Dave answering mechanic-related questions from Escape's members – including a tangent into our favourite shift cables. As a reminder, Ask a Wrench is now exclusively available on our members-only podcast feed. Head to escapecollective.com/member in order to hear the full episode.Time stamps:2:00 - PFAS' and why you should be aware13:55 - Cannondale's SuperX returns, now more gravel23:45 - Next generation of Di2 appears to be truly wireless27:05 - Dave thinks the white off-road shoe trend won't last32:00 - iceBike, a trade show from a single distributor36:35 - TrainerRoad training programs now work in Zwift3730 - A new tool from Enduro Bearings38:40 - Berd collabs with HED on a road wheel41;30 - Garbaruk teases its entry into wheels43:50 - Pivot joins the lifetime bearing replacement policy club48:00 - Removing dried tyre sealant from inside of a tyre (member-only feed)53:05 - Diagnosing SRAM AXS battery and derailleur issues (member-only feed)59:00 - Cable routing for Shimano mechanical 11-speed and our favourite cables

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Max Commençal calls her the queen of queens of queens. And I guarantee that after listening to this episode, you'll understand why.Anne-Caroline Chausson is a 12-time Downhill Mountain Bike World Champion and an Olympic BMX racing Champion, winning gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.------Please pay a visit to our sponsor buycycle and save 30% off the seller's and buyers's fees with the code ENROUE30 on buycycleCheck:  bit.ly/enrouelibrebuycycle------A huge thanks to Max Commençal for supporting this very special episode

Thanks to Maxxis Tires | FOX | Jenson USA for supporting The Inside LineMax Beaupre is a ball of energy on and off the bike. Taking a moto heritage to mountain bikes, Max grew into a national enduro powerhouse before making the move to e-enduro. But don't pigenhole him as a single discipline specialist. He rides everything and rides everything well. On top of that, he's a becoming a premier trail builder and is pushing his moto talent by opening up an e-moto future, too.Thanks to Jack Rice for the interview!Interview contents0:00 - Some history10:08 - Hitting Highland, Meeting Kyle Strait,  National Champs16:44 - Always enduro22:00 - Racing with a broken leg24:12 - Dropping out of school33:07 - Getting into a machine for the first time37:18 - Getting on Cannondale, U.S. EWS races51:20 - Sponsors and bike setup57:08 - Racing e-bikes, work ethic, faith in God1:01:18 - Wrist injury, riding for Surron, riding in Monster Jam1:31:30 - Back to Europe for E-EDR and World Champs1:45:54 - 2025 plans, getting on Ari2:01:18 - Digging trails and Working with Sean Leader at Wildside2:07:58 - Questions from friends and e-Moto talk2:19:42 - Future of WC Downhill

Piet van der Velde is a veteran product developer and entrepreneur in the cycling industry. His fascinating journey began as a competitive cyclist in the Netherlands before he became one of the industry's most respected product innovators, ultimately founding the premium components brand ERE Research.Having worked with major brands like Specialized, Cannondale, and Velo, Piet offers invaluable insights into how cycling products are conceived, developed, and brought to market. In this episode, we explore the challenges of building a premium brand from scratch, the importance of deep industry knowledge, and why the cycling industry remains uniquely resilient to outside business models.Whether you're interested in product development, entrepreneurship, or the inner workings of the cycling industry, this conversation offers a wealth of practical wisdom from one of the sector's most experienced voices.Read the latest 'The Business of Cycling' BlogSign up for 'The Business of Cycling' Newsletter

Yesterday, we shared the first part of Isaac Seidel's story, providing insight into his life and the events leading up to his disappearance. You learned that Isaac vanished along with his bike, phone, and backpack, leaving behind everything else at his home. Isaac hadn't mentioned to anyone that he had plans to go anywhere. In fact, it appeared that Isaac was simply going about his usual Sunday routine. He had chicken thawing, something he regularly did to prep meals for the week. It seemed he set out for a bike ride, intending to return in time for dinner. But something happened to Isaac, and several years later, his whereabouts remain unknown.If you have any information about Isaac Seidel's disappearance, please contact the Pennsylvania State Police at (717) 567-3110. Isaac's dark green Cannondale bicycle is also missing.Megan has a social media page for Isaac to help spread awareness. You can follow her over on Facebook at Find Isaac Seidel. If you or someone you know is struggling with thoughts of self-harm, help is available. The National Suicide Prevention Hotline is open 24/7 at 800-273-8255.If you have a missing loved one that you would like to have featured on the show, please fill out our case submission form.Follow The Vanished on social media at:FacebookInstagramTwitterPatreonSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Isaac Seidel, a 36-year-old man from Blain, Pennsylvania, disappeared on September 12, 2021. His loved ones grew concerned when Isaac missed several days of work, prompting them to visit his home. There, they discovered a chilling scene: Isaac, who lived alone, was gone, but his bicycle, backpack, and phone were missing. Everything else seemed untouched, including chicken thawing in the sink, suggesting he had planned to return home to cook dinner.Initially, Isaac's family feared he might have suffered a tragic accident, and they began combing the roads near his home, searching ditches and ravines, but found no trace of him. Now, several years later, they continue to search for answers, holding onto hope that they will uncover the truth behind his disappearance.If you have any information regarding Isaac Seidel's whereabouts, please contact the Pennsylvania State Police at (717) 567-3110. Isaac was last seen with his dark green Cannondale bicycle.You can follow Isaac's case on social media at Find Isaac Seidel. Support us by supporting our sponsors!If you have a missing loved one that you would like to have featured on the show, please fill out our case submission form.Follow The Vanished on social media at:FacebookInstagramTwitterPatreonSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hello and welcome back to another great episode of Gravel Kings Podcast! We've got a barn burner today as we look back at the year in review courtesy of Strava, we examine salaries of World Tour riders as compared to the nascent world of gravel pros, we chat about how to deal with a case of the shimmies as well as a case of cold weather riding. It's that plus lots more, so welcome to the show. Check out Ted's Cannondale year-end video of UCI Worlds here: https://youtu.be/ipqFah7Hrm0?si=RZ-nerU3Q5fQp7d6  Follow us at @gravelkingspodcast Follow Stu at @ridingthefences Follow Ted at @iamtedking Follow Laura at @lauracameronking Send your questions to gravelkingspodcast@gmail.com or message your questions to the Instagram handle above.

Josh Bryceland, aka Ratboy, is a huge fan favourite. After stepping away from World Cup racing after his 2016 season, we've seen Josh change his focus. But after all those years away, will we finally see him back between the tape at a downhill World Cup? Join me as Josh and I catch up on the last few years. Hear how his use of psychedelics has informed some of his decision making. Josh shares the details behind his move from Santa Cruz to Cannondale, shedding some light on the impact it had on his own mental health. We also discuss becoming a father, running an enduro race and ask the question on everyone's mind 'will we see you between the tapes at a World Cup?'. So, it's time to sit back, hit play and listen to this episode with Josh Bryceland. You can also watch this episode on YouTube here. You can follow Josh on Instagram @ratty_bryce, watch the 50to01 YouTube here and find Bolly Skyline Enduro here. Podcast Stuff Become a Better Rider in 2025 In last week's episode with Ben Plenge, we chatted through 6 simple steps to be a better rider in 2025. If you'd like a handy document that covers all that we talked about, then Ben has a free pdf available here. If you want even more and are keen to get on a Strength Factory programme, then there are some offers available. Discount code is DTIMEPOD Valid until 31st October 2024. Get the first month of The Complete MTB Programme for only $10 and you get a 1 week free trial. Works out at only $2 per week for the first 5 weeks! Get 50% off of lifetime access to The Over 40s MTB Programme. All covered by a 100% money back guarantee. Patreon I would love it if you were able to support the podcast via a regular Patreon donation. Donations start from as little as £3 per month. That's less than £1 per episode and less than the price of a take away coffee. Every little counts and these donations will really help me keep the podcast going and hopefully take it to the next level. To help out, head here. Merch If you want to support the podcast and represent, then my webstore is the place to head. All products are 100% organic, shipped without plastics, and made with a supply chain that's using renewable energy. We now also have local manufacture for most products in the US as well as the UK. So check it out now over at downtimepodcast.com/shop. Newsletter If you want a bit more Downtime in your life, then you can join my newsletter where I'll provide you with a bit of behind the scenes info on the podcast, interesting bits and pieces from around the mountain bike world, some mini-reviews of products that I've been using and like, partner offers and more. You can do that over at downtimepodcast.com/newsletter. Follow Us Give us a follow on Instagram @downtimepodcast or Facebook @downtimepodcast to keep up to date and chat in the comments. For everything video, including riding videos, bike checks and more, subscribe over at youtube.com/downtimemountainbikepodcast. Are you enjoying the podcast? If so, then don't forget to follow it. Episodes will get delivered to your device as soon as it's available and it's totally free. You'll find all the links you need at downtimepodcast.com/follow. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google and most of the podcast apps out there. Our back catalogue of amazing episodes is available at downtimepodcast.com/episodes Photo - Downtime Podcast

It's great to be back with another episode! It's been quite the recovery journey, so in this episode, we'll discuss everything I've been doing, how it has helped, and why Everwell MD in Newport has been a huge resource in getting me back on track after surgery. (Shout out to Mark!) I dive deep into BPC 157 and TB 500, and we also have a good bike talk since cycling is the only form of cardio I can currently do without putting too much strain on my knees. We'll cover recovery, peptides, fitness, and a little motivation to kickstart your day.

In this episode I chat to a former colleague of mine at Slipstream Sports, the management company behind the professional cycling team that's been known over the years as Garmin, Cannondale and most recently EF Pro Cycling. Dr Kevin Sprouse is a rare breed of both medical MD and exercise physiologist and has worked closely with riders like David Millar, David Zabriske, Christian Vandevelde through to the current crop of EF riders like Lachlan Morton, Ben Healy, Rigoberto Uran and Richard Carapaz. Kevin also runs a private practice working with high performance athletes across a variety of sports and high level amateurs and weekend warriors who want the same level of medical care and performance support that the pro's get. We dig into how professional cycling has changed in the ten or so years he's been in the sport and the mental impact of so many variables in cycling being measurable these days, and related to this how pro cyclists and teams approach dealing with athlete mental health. From a physical health standpoint Kevin walks me through the types of things guys in their 40's should be getting checked out on a regular basis and we finish up tackling the tricky subject of testosterone, when to know you have a problem and what to do about it. Dr Kevin Sprouse Instagram Podium Sports Medicine (Kevin's Private Practice) Listen on iTunes here. Listen on PodBean. Listen on Spotify.

Click here to text DCMTBBlue Mountain DH recap time. We rocked it solo, as our warrior in the trenches (Chris Gilbert) was stricken with sickness. This one got a little loose, as we had no chaperone. None the less its the content that we are sure you have been waiting for. Sit back and relax, you're going to feel a pinch...

Click here to text DCMTBWoodstock ESC recap baby! The Woodstock race has quickly become a fan favorite, and with good reason. Amazing trails, amazing conditions and an amazing event put on by the ESC crew. Find out how it went down in VT last weekend and why you should be bummed you missed it. Dirt Church MTB is your home for all Easter States Cup recaps, so don't get caught sleeping.

Click here to text DCMTBWhat makes a legend? We dive into the world of MTB legands, the people, the places, and the things that have left a lasting impact on the MTB world and the bike industry as a whole. Hop on board and buckle up as we get right to jamming on some of our personal MTB legends.

We are all excited to watch our pod guest, Canadian Olympian, Alison Jackson compete in the Paris 2024 Olympic Road Race. Reposting this convo from April 2024. Today on the podcast I'm sycing up with Canadian Olympian and World Tour Professional Cyclist, Alison Jackson on Team EF Education-Cannondale.  Alison just won Stage 2 of La Vuelta Femenina in 2024. We recorded our convo just a few weeks earlier. Today we are  talking about Alison's Paris Roubaix win in 2023, her new film with Cannondale on YouTube, New Roads Uncovered: From The Plains to Pavé with Alison Jackson, what Alison loves about cycling, her fave places to ride and race,  how she got into cycling and what she is up to when she is not on the bike! Photos by Jered Gruber & Ashley Gruber | Gruber Images OFFERS KETONE-IQ: Ketone.com/Marni for 30% Off First Subscription CONNECT Alison Jackson on  Instagram Marni On The Move Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, or YouTube` Marni Salup on Instagram and Spotify SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER Sign up for our weekly newsletter, Do What Moves You, for Marni on the Move updates, exclusive offers, invites to events, and exciting news! SUPPORT THE PODCAST Leave us a review on Apple. It's easy, scroll through the episode list on your podcast app, click on five stars, click on leave a review, and share what you love about the conversations you're listening to. Tell your friends to what you love on social. Screenshot or share directly from our stories the episode you're listening to, tag us and the guests.

We are all excited to watch our pod guest, USA Olympian, Kristen Faulkner compete in the Paris 2024 Olympic Road Race. Reposting this convo. When Kristen Faulkner moved to New York City to pursue her career in finance and venture capital, she thought getting into the sport of triathlon would be a fun athletic activity. She already loved running and swimming and was on the varsity teams in high school.  She was also on the varsity rowing team while studying at Harvard. Clearly athletics was in her DNA.  Cycling however was her weakest link, so she joined a local cycling organization here in New York City to improve her technique and confidence on the bike. Kristen is now on Team EF-Oatly-Cannondale as of 2024. Kristen and I sync up about what it was like growing up in Homer, Alaska, moving to NYC, then California, and now living in Girona, Spain. We talk about she loves about cycling, how she went from recreational cyclist and a career in venture capital and finance to becoming a professional cyclist. We discuss our mutual love of Zwift and how she got in to E-racing, she talks about her love of gravel cycling and I get the scoop on what she reading and watching when shes not on her bike! Kristen and I caught up before the official teams were announced for the the tour and she was about to compete in the Tour de Suisse, where she came in second overall final. Some other 2022 race stats include two stage wins at Giro Donne and third overall at Itzulia Womens Stage Race. CONNECT Kristen Faulkner on Instagram ZWIFT  On Instagram and YouTube Le Tour De France Femmes on Instagram  Marni On The Move Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, or YouTube Marni Salup on Instagram and Spotify SUPPORT THE PODCAST Leave us a review on Apple. It's easy, scroll through the episode list on your podcast app, click on five stars, click on leave a review, and share what you love about the conversations you're listening to. Tell your friends to what you love on social. Screenshot or share directly from our stories the episode you're listening to, tag us and the guests, and use our new Marni on the Move Giphy! SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER Sign up for our weekly newsletter, The Download for Marni on the Move updates, exclusive offers, invites to events, and exciting news! Photo Cred: Getty Images  

Click here to text DCMTBDon't waste any more time. Dial yourself into the ESC recap from the Burke enduro. Who was fast, who was last, and who got passed. Get it here and lock it in!

Jordan sits down and talks about all things Lefty with Cannondale Factory Racing (CFR) and the suspension team at Cannondale. Steve Exstance, Murray Washburn, and Lefty Larry walk us through the conception, progression, and even electrification of Cannondale's Lefty line. Larry was kind enough to meet us at the CFR headquarters and described the "day in the life" of a CFR team member and how all the moving parts behind wins work in tandem. We cover how the team dials in their suspension for different course demands and rider styles and what it's like servicing multiple Lefties while traveling worldwide. Plus, we get the insider scoop and some secret tips from Lefty Larry for setup, lockout and the team answers reader questions. So, if you're a Cannondale fanatic or a rider looking to get a peek behind the scenes of World Cup life, this episode is a must-listen!  WANT MORE? Find the Bikerumor Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podbean, and through RSS, or wherever you listen to podcasts! Can't find it? Let us know which players you use so we can get them up to speed! And let us know who you want us to interview. Click here to send in your suggestions! Hit like, hit subscribe, and hit play. Then just get out and ride! FOLLOW BIKERUMOR Keep tabs on all the latest bikes, wheels, components, gear and tech on The World's Largest Cycling Tech Blog by following us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. FOLLOW JORDAN Like us? Love us? Follow your hosts on social @tylerbenedict (FB // TW // IG) and @cxjordancx (Coaching //IG // Strava)

Click here to text DCMTBThe party was bumpin' at Arrowhead last weekend, with the 5th enduro of the season. Conditions were dry and dusty, something most racers were not use to, but spirits were high. Tune in to find out, who was fast, who was last, and who got passed in the ESC race recap from the July 14th race held right out our front door at Arrowhead mountain in Claremont, New Hampshire.

Click here to text DCMTBWet and wild! Just how we like it. Here it is, your race recap for the second showdown of the 2024 season. Pull up a chair and dial it in. Find out who was fast, who was last, and who got passed. Dirt Church MTB is the home for the Eastern States cup recap show.

Click here to text DCMTBWere blastin' and recapin' What we have here is our freshest offering of the first Eastern States Cup Thule showdown of the season. Wild weather and wild times. Tune in to find out who was fast, who was last, and who got passed. Catch us every Monday evening after an ESC weekend to get a recap on how it all panned out.

Today on the podcast I'm sycing up with Canadian Olympian and World Tour Professional Cyclist, Alison Jackson on Team EF Education-Cannondale.  Alison just won Stage 2 of La Vuelta Femenina in 2024. We recorded our convo just a few weeks earlier. Today we are  talking about Alison's Paris Roubaix win in 2023, her new film with Cannondale on YouTube, New Roads Uncovered: From The Plains to Pavé with Alison Jackson, what Alison loves about cycling, her fave places to ride and race,  how she got into cycling and what she is up to when she is not on the bike! Photos by Jered Gruber & Ashley Gruber | Gruber Images OFFERS KETONE-IQ: Ketone.com/Marni for 30% Off First Subscription CONNECT Alison Jackson on  Instagram Marni On The Move Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, or YouTube` Marni Salup on Instagram and Spotify SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER Sign up for our weekly newsletter, Do What Moves You, for Marni on the Move updates, exclusive offers, invites to events, and exciting news! SUPPORT THE PODCAST Leave us a review on Apple. It's easy, scroll through the episode list on your podcast app, click on five stars, click on leave a review, and share what you love about the conversations you're listening to. Tell your friends to what you love on social. Screenshot or share directly from our stories the episode you're listening to, tag us and the guests.

The Sea Otter Classic just wrapped up literally a few days ago, but clearly someone forgot to turn off the tap of new bikes and gear. Cervelo just announced a redesign of its ultra-popular Aspero gravel bike, and clearly put a lot of thought into what needed to change – and perhaps more importantly, what didn't. Colnago also just dropped a new gravel bike of its own, the G4X, and Giant finally revamped its Trinity TT bike – no more rim brakes! Dave and James also chat about the eight billion tubeless valve stems out on the market, our favorite mountain bike computer mounts, and some of the latest happenings on the industry side.Escape Collective's podcasts are made possible by our members. Head on over to escapecollective.com/join to support this show and everything else on our podcast network.Timestamps:3:17 – Cervelo's ultra-popular Aspero gravel bike gets a careful redesign10:50 – Zwift has added a whole bunch of new features, and some of them sound pretty sweet15:15 – What's up with seemingly everyone having their own high-flow tubeless valves now?28:11 – Pick one! Our favorite mountain bike computer mounts38:54 – A dirty cassette can easily turn into a skipping chain43:22 – Colnago announces its new G4X gravel race bike58:54 – The last holdout of rim brakes in the pro peloton is no more59:30 – Enve Composites has been sold1:01:07 – What the heck is going on at Rapha?1:06:29 – More industry layoffs, this time at Cannondale

The Sea Otter Classic just wrapped up literally a few days ago, but clearly someone forgot to turn off the tap of new bikes and gear. Cervelo just announced a redesign of its ultra-popular Aspero gravel bike, and clearly put a lot of thought into what needed to change – and perhaps more importantly, what didn't. Colnago also just dropped a new gravel bike of its own, the G4X, and Giant finally revamped its Trinity TT bike – no more rim brakes! Dave and James also chat about the eight billion tubeless valve stems out on the market, our favorite mountain bike computer mounts, and some of the latest happenings on the industry side.Escape Collective's podcasts are made possible by our members. Head on over to escapecollective.com/join to support this show and everything else on our podcast network.Timestamps:3:17 – Cervelo's ultra-popular Aspero gravel bike gets a careful redesign10:50 – Zwift has added a whole bunch of new features, and some of them sound pretty sweet15:15 – What's up with seemingly everyone having their own high-flow tubeless valves now?28:11 – Pick one! Our favorite mountain bike computer mounts38:54 – A dirty cassette can easily turn into a skipping chain43:22 – Colnago announces its new G4X gravel race bike58:54 – The last holdout of rim brakes in the pro peloton is no more59:30 – Enve Composites has been sold1:01:07 – What the heck is going on at Rapha?1:06:29 – More industry layoffs, this time at Cannondale

This episode of Reading with Your Kids featured conversations with two authors of middle grade novels. Stephanie Brick discussed her book "The Secret Doors of Cannondale," about an outcast girl who discovers secret portals to magical worlds. Brick drew inspiration from her childhood love of exploring secret passageways and hideouts. She and Jed Doherty talked about how co-reading books can help kids build resilience through discussing themes like self-esteem and loss. Adam Gidwitz then shared about his spy thriller "Max in the House of Spies," inspired by true stories of children rescued from Nazi Germany. The authors and Jed discussed the importance of understanding different perspectives in history and fiction. They also talked about using books to have meaningful conversations about current issues like refugee crises. Both authors reflected on how researching and writing their novels changed their own views on understanding complex characters and situations. Click here to visit our website - www.readingwithyourkids.com 

Welcome back to Geek Warning! In this week's edition of the regular show, Ronan and Dave discuss why current road bikes may not be ready for emerging trends in seated positions. Later Ronan shares a PSA related to multi-tools that turns out to be more of a Pick One and a rant.On the news side, the geeks discuss the new Cannondale Scalpel cross-country race bike. Pinarello has finally officially revealed its Bolide F HR that Italy will race on the track in Paris. There's more 3D-printed tech to discuss in the hubs of Scope's new and impressively light Artech wheels. And Dave gets excited at the chance to talk about Feedback Sports' new Pliers Wrench tool.As usual, the end of the episode is kept for a quick discussion of other interesting new things. There you'll hear about Wahoo's firmware update, another new Mirror saddle (the comfy 3D-printed type) from Specialized, and CeramicSpeed's new OSPW RS derailleur cages.Happy geeking!Time stamps:4:25 - Cannondale's new Scalpel is yet another 120 mm cross-country bike option9:10 - Pinarello's 3D-printed Bolide F HR track bike is now official15:10 - More 3D-printed tech with Scope's new Artech wheels23:40 - Feedback Sports release a Pliers Wrench28:00 - The limitations of modern road bike geometry is on Ronan's mind40:45 - A non-PSA that unexpectedly into a wider topic and Pick One about multi-tools53:40 – A firmware update to Wahoo head units55:15 – Specialized brings S-Works Mirror technology to the Phenom saddle56:04 - Our thoughts on CeramicSpeed's new OSPW RS1:01:00 - Where much of the Escape Collective team will be next week

Welcome back to Geek Warning! In this week's edition of the regular show, Ronan and Dave discuss why current road bikes may not be ready for emerging trends in seated positions. Later Ronan shares a PSA related to multi-tools that turns out to be more of a Pick One and a rant.On the news side, the geeks discuss the new Cannondale Scalpel cross-country race bike. Pinarello has finally officially revealed its Bolide F HR that Italy will race on the track in Paris. There's more 3D-printed tech to discuss in the hubs of Scope's new and impressively light Artech wheels. And Dave gets excited at the chance to talk about Feedback Sports' new Pliers Wrench tool.As usual, the end of the episode is kept for a quick discussion of other interesting new things. There you'll hear about Wahoo's firmware update, another new Mirror saddle (the comfy 3D-printed type) from Specialized, and CeramicSpeed's new OSPW RS derailleur cages.Happy geeking!Time stamps:4:25 - Cannondale's new Scalpel is yet another 120 mm cross-country bike option9:10 - Pinarello's 3D-printed Bolide F HR track bike is now official15:10 - More 3D-printed tech with Scope's new Artech wheels23:40 - Feedback Sports release a Pliers Wrench28:00 - The limitations of modern road bike geometry is on Ronan's mind40:45 - A non-PSA that unexpectedly into a wider topic and Pick One about multi-tools53:40 – A firmware update to Wahoo head units55:15 – Specialized brings S-Works Mirror technology to the Phenom saddle56:04 - Our thoughts on CeramicSpeed's new OSPW RS1:01:00 - Where much of the Escape Collective team will be next week

On our second episode of Reviewing The News with hosts Simon Stewart and Ryan Palmer; Ryan may have uncovered what Kyle and Rachael Strait are keeping secret before their big announcement on Friday (March 8th); Simon considers adopting Ronan Dunne's pre-race hydration program after watching his incredible Red Bull Hardline winning run; there's a brake lever lawsuit to talk about; Ryan's father-in-law's souped-up scooter; exploding lithium-ion batteries; and Cannondale's wild Moterra SL lightweight full-powered eMTB.RELATED LINKS:BLISTER+ MembershipBLISTER+ Real World TestimonialsBlister LabsThis Week's Gear GiveawayBlister Mountain Bike Buyer's GuideTOPICS & TIMES:Fezzari name change (2:53)Kyle and Rachael Strait's new bike sponsor (4:38)Red Bull Hardline Tasmania (8:44)The dangers of racing Hardline before a World Cup DH season (12:35)Brake lever lawsuit & the broken health care system (22:13)Dutch police field testing e-bikes (34:22)Lithium-ion battery task force in NY (47:18)Frankenstein Batteries (49:40)Lithium-ion battery safety (50:51)Cannondale Moterra SL (1:00:32)The future of lightweight lower-power eMTBs (1:13:28)Cornhole College Scholarships (1:21:37)OUR OTHER PODCASTSBlister CinematicCRAFTEDGEAR:30Blister PodcastOff The Couch Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lawson Craddock grew up in the flatland of Houston but fought his way onto the WorldTour feeder team Trek-Livestrong when he was still a teenager. After turning pro three years later, he raced for Giant-Shimano, Cannondale, and his current team, Jayco–AlUla. In his 10 years in the WorldTour, he's taken podiums at the Vuelta, won the Time Trial National Championships in back-to-back years, and had a standout performance at the 2018 Tour de France, but not for the usual reasons.Lawson caught up with Payson in Spain last week to reminisce about racing together in Texas as teenagers and his subsequent move to Europe and into the WorldTour. He talks about how getting pulled from the Vuelta in his first year in the pro peloton gave him extra fuel for a triumphant return the next year, and how a relentless training plan mandated by his team nearly derailed his momentum. He also details his viral performance at the 2018 Tour de France. After fracturing his scapula in the first stage, he went on the complete every remaining stage and raise $380k for his hometown velodrome in Houston which was damaged by Hurricane Harvey. Now in his early 30s and raising a young family, Lawson talks about whether he plans to move back home to Texas and whether he finally intends to fulfill his childhood dream of joining the family roofing business.Instagram: @theadventurestacheYouTube: Payson McElveen

In today's episode, we interview Tony Karklins, the owner of Time Bicycles. We discuss Tony's journey in the bike industry, from working in a bike shop to becoming a distributor and eventually acquiring Time Bicycles. Tony shares insights into the evolution of the bike industry, particularly the impact of carbon fiber technology. He also talks about the acquisition of Time Bicycles and the company's focus on manufacturing and innovation. The conversation then shifts to the new gravel models introduced by Time Bicycles for 2024 and the unique features that set them apart. Tony explains the importance of staying true to the Time brand while catering to the evolving needs of the market. He also discusses the future plans for Time Bicycles, including expanding manufacturing in the United States. Time Bicycles Episode Sponsor: Pillar Performance (use code Craig for 15% off)  Support the Podcast Join The Ridership  Automated Transcription, please excuse the typos: About the Guest: Tony Karklins is the owner of Time Bicycles, a storied brand in the cycling industry. With over 40 years of experience in the bike industry, Tony has a deep understanding of the market and has played a significant role in the growth and development of various bike brands. He started his career in a neighborhood bike shop in the early 1980s and went on to become a bike shop owner. Tony then ventured into distribution and agent deals with European bike brands before joining Orbea as the managing director of the Americas. After his time with Orbea, Tony acquired the Guru Bicycle Factory and later acquired Time Bicycles from the Rossignol group. He is now focused on expanding Time Bicycles and bringing manufacturing back to the United States. Key Takeaways: Tony Karklins has over 40 years of experience in the bike industry and has played a significant role in the growth and development of various bike brands. Time Bicycles is a storied brand in the cycling industry, known for its high-performance carbon fiber bikes. The acquisition of Time Bicycles by Tony Karklins was driven by the desire to acquire the company's manufacturing capabilities and continue the legacy of the brand. Time Bicycles is focused on innovation and manufacturing, with a particular emphasis on resin transfer molding technology. The introduction of new gravel models for 2024 reflects Time Bicycles' commitment to meeting the evolving needs of the market while staying true to the brand's identity Transcript: [TRANSCRIPT] **** - (): time_bicycles _ jan 19, 2024 001_riverside [00:00:00] - (): Craig Dalton: Tony, welcome to the show. **** - (): Tony Karklins: Thank you very much. Thanks for inviting me. Uh, **** - (): Craig Dalton: as, as a fan of the sport and someone who's been around the sport from my bike shop days in college till now, I'm excited to talk about Time Bicycles. It's such a storied brand in the industry. And having spoken to you a little bit offline, your journey to get there, I think is going to be fascinating for the listener to learn about. **** - (): Craig Dalton: And ultimately we want to talk about the new gravel models you've got for 2024. Sounds great. Where do you want to start? Let's start off just by a little bit of your background. Where are you located and how'd you get into the sport of cycling and what led to you working in the bike industry? All **** - (): Tony Karklins: right. **** - (): Tony Karklins: I, uh, I live in Little Rock, Arkansas. You know, Arkansas is the new hotbed of cycling globally now. So, uh, I've been in the bike industry here for about 40 years. I started to work in the neighborhood bike shop in the early eighties. Became a bike shop owner in the mid 80s, and I ran 2 retail stores here until 99, 2000. [00:01:00] - (): Tony Karklins: It's almost made it 20 years in bike retail here, and I decided that I wanted to stay in the bike industry, but I was kind of done with retail. I'd taken my turn there, and so I started traveling to the European trade shows. Looking for bike brands that were established in Europe that maybe needed help in the United States. **** - (): Tony Karklins: Um, and did a few small distribution and agent deals with some, you know, really neat, small artists and Italian brands and kind of 1 deal led to the next. And then, uh, late 99 or early 2000. I was introduced to this brand that I had never heard of. And no 1 in America had at that time was called. And it was a tiny little, uh, BASC company that was moving out of kind of mass production bikes, and they wanted to get into high performance, and they wanted to get their brand on the Tour de France, and they wanted to see if they could produce, you know, a leading global brand, and started as a distributor for them for a couple of years. [00:02:00] - (): Tony Karklins: It went really well, uh, and then we built it into a joint venture, and I ran that joint venture as the managing director of the Americas until 2014. So, uh, yeah. And we built Orbea in that time to, you know, leading European brand selling in the United States and a true global player. And it was a really interesting time in the bike industry because I started in it right before the carbon fiber boom happened. **** - (): Tony Karklins: When I went to work for Orbea, premium bikes were made out of really lightweight steel. Uh, or, uh, even and we advance in a really lightweight aluminum, like Columbus Starship and some of the really cool 2 pound aluminum frames and they were light and they were fast, but they wrote like crap because they were so stiff. [00:03:00] - (): Tony Karklins: Right? Yeah, I mean, carbon fiber comes into the forks and all of a sudden it made the aluminum bikes ride a lot better. And so, uh, watch, watch carbon fiber hit the bike industry, and it really took the industry by storm in around 2003, 2004. There was this moment where all the best bikes in the Tour de France were aluminum or titanium. **** - (): Tony Karklins: And within 12 months, it all went carbon fiber. And really changed the bike industry a lot because the bike industry and the bike brands, all this history brands that you know of, they were born as metal shops, right? They can cut and weld and bend, but when carbon hit, everybody was like. What is this stuff? **** - (): Tony Karklins: Where do I get it and how do I do it fast? And so I lived in this moment where I saw all that bike production all through the United States and Europe come down in the premium categories and get shipped to Asia because they could make carbon fiber. Yeah. **** - (): Craig Dalton: I was going to ask you from an Orbea perspective, like how did they solve that problem? **** - (): Craig Dalton: They knew they had to get into carbon fiber, the same **** - (): Tony Karklins: thing at the same time. You know, Orbea was Orbea is they take fast, smart decisions quick. So we were right there at the very start of carbon fiber. I remember there was this moment in America where we had a warehouse full of carbon fiber before it was really. [00:04:00] - (): Tony Karklins: Hot, like a couple of months before it was hot and then Cannondale went into bankruptcy and then something happened at light speed, but spike the cost of titanium raw material. And then like a month of fearing. I would never be able to sell this inventory for a bicycling magazine being sold out for 2 years. **** - (): Tony Karklins: That was some of the magic that happened during that time. A lot of, uh, when carbon hit, it just, it hit hard and it changed the industry and it changed where and how bikes were made. Um, and it was a, it was a boom moment for us at Orbea, for sure. We, we, we, we went through the roof, you know, because we were there. **** - (): Tony Karklins: One of the very first real product and real availability. Yeah. So I had a great run with, with Orbea. Um, they acquired the rest of the company from us in 2014. And then I decided that, um, I wanted to get into manufacturing because I noticed at that moment in 2014, 15 and 16, that everybody was sort of cooking in the same kitchen, you know? [00:05:00] - (): Tony Karklins: It was, everything started to look alike again, and there was just different colors and graphics and marketing campaigns. So I said, okay, if I'm gonna stay in the bike industry, I wanna get into manufacturing. **** - (): Craig Dalton: That seems like a big leap, right? So you a big **** - (): Tony Karklins: leap. But you know, I, I, I, I'd been in the industry a long time, been in a lot of the factories. **** - (): Tony Karklins: I mean, I saw it, you know? Yeah. I'm not an engineer. Um, now I almost am. But um, at that point, I just, I knew that, I knew that there was very little chance of success if you just went to Asia and did the same thing again. Yeah, I've seen too many people try to start their own brand, um, based on just desire of having a brand and no real tech or no real, you know, capabilities and, and they all kind of petered out the same way. **** - (): Craig Dalton: And did you see the opportunity being, Hey, if I stand up a manufacturing facility, I've got enough connection in the industry that some brand may want to come to me for manufacturing. I'm thinking back to like. Frank the welder shop and you'd have, **** - (): Tony Karklins: you know, interested in OEM business because you know, you, you do all the work and you get none of the room. **** - (): Tony Karklins: Yeah. [00:06:00] - (): Craig Dalton: Can't explain to anybody what you do for a living because you can't point to anything. **** - (): Tony Karklins: Yeah. I was more interested in. Okay. I think the way that this can really work is if you take it from raw material all the way through to the sand. Right. Okay. Do you want all of that? Because, you know, when you have a bike made in Asia, you have it made in a carbon fiber factory and then they send it to a paint factory and then they send it to an assembly factory and then they put it into a box and they ship it into the United States. **** - (): Tony Karklins: So you pay duties and freight and tariff and all that stuff. And then it's sold to a distributor and then it's sold to a retailer and then it's sold to the consumer. And, you know, you have this, You know, no one has any real piece of the pie, you know, the only people making the money here are the shipping companies and the government, you know, let's break that. [00:07:00] - (): Tony Karklins: Let's see if we can take it from raw material all the way, you know, through selling it to a dealer. Okay. And so, uh, after my time with Orbea, I went to work with a group in California that was attempting to do this, uh, with golf technology, a lot of golf production in the San Diego area. And I learned, you know, during that year that. **** - (): Tony Karklins: Very difficult to do manufacturing in Southern California. It was, it was a great, great learning moment for it. Um, and so did not work there, but after I departed, I was able to acquire the Guru Bicycle Factory. In Montreal. Gotcha. Okay. We located in Arkansas, got some government grants and brought in some investors for this. **** - (): Tony Karklins: And we, uh, the project there, we created this company called HIE Villa, which was going to be, you know, mass production of prepreg carbon fiber bicycles, you know, made the same way that the best bike brands were making them in Asia, but making them here. **** - (): Craig Dalton: And when you, did you not acquire the Guru brand, you just acquired the means of manufacturing at that point? **** - (): Craig Dalton: I just acquired the manufacturing assets. Yeah. And was that just, uh, tooling, machinery, et cetera, or were you getting [00:08:00] - (): Tony Karklins: Messiness, cutting tables, it was everything you needed to do. Gotcha. I mean, everything, you know, and so it gave us a great, it was a great start. Uh, it was a beautiful project. We launched, you know, six Cycleworks brand, and that hit hard. **** - (): Tony Karklins: You know, it resonated just perfectly at that moment because it truly made an America product. Um, we, we did it right. We did it well, um, beautiful project and that company got acquired by the Walton family. In one of their groups, uh, that owns, uh, the Rafa **** - (): Craig Dalton: cycling brand and then was that acquiring the brand and the manufacturing **** - (): Tony Karklins: facility? **** - (): Tony Karklins: They took it all and they did that a little rock and they put it in Northwest Arkansas. And now it's part of the, uh, the cycling empire that they're building. Sure. And so I stayed here in Little Rock after that and looking for my next opportunity. And during the early stages of the pandemic, I learned that the Rossignol group who had recently acquired time was looking for a new owner for it. [00:09:00] - (): Tony Karklins: And I'm like, wow, I really want that because I want, I want their factory. Cause I knew that they had the oldest and the largest scale carbon fiber bike **** - (): Craig Dalton: factory in Europe. Can we, can we pause for a second, Tony, and just explain the history very briefly of the time brand? Cause it's not lost on me, like how important that had been over the last 30 years, but I'd just love to hear your words and understanding of like how time fit into the bike industry. [00:10:00] - (): Tony Karklins: Yeah. So time, uh, was established in France in 1987 and Roland Catan was the founder of it. And Roland Catan married a woman whose father was the inventor of the modern ski bike. And he owned a company called Look. Yep. Sure. And Look had just introduced a bicycle pedal that was clipless. And Roland was around this and he was kind of part of the company. **** - (): Tony Karklins: And I guess at some point there was some family dispute that happened, because Roland believed that a clip in bicycle pedal needed to have some kind of rotation. Because if you were locked into one place, You would have ankle, knee, some kind of problems. And so, I guess the father in law didn't like that. **** - (): Tony Karklins: And Roland left look, went across the street and opened time. Amazing. With a clipless pedal that had rotation. **** - (): Craig Dalton: This is filling in so many gaps for me. As I mentioned offline, I had a friend who was like a die hard time pedal fan. And like the ski binding technology, I'm now all visualizing it in my head. [00:11:00] - (): Tony Karklins: And so I don't know how, I don't know how Roland's wife made this all work with the family. They split and they made it together. Um, and you know, Time, you know, was a very fast moving brand globally the second he did it. It was styled perfectly. Everybody believed in the rotation. They were off to the races. **** - (): Tony Karklins: Um, then somewhere in the late eighties to maybe 92, 93, Roland became friends with some of the people that had started TVT carbon fiber and TVT was, you know, uh, French company. That had done some of the very first, you know, carbon tube, aluminum lug bikes, they were briefly in the tour, but the technology wasn't really stable enough yet to really have true tour riders on it. **** - (): Tony Karklins: But you, I think you saw maybe some of the Greg Lamont years, he might be on a special carbon fiber bike with some sponsors name on it. That was a TVT thing. So the time people got involved with him. Um, and they opened up a project to make a carbon fiber fork because they saw the problem in the bike industry of all these lightweight aluminum bikes using steel forks, or sometimes even aluminum forks, which were super jarring. [00:12:00] - (): Tony Karklins: Yeah. And they believed that they could, they could make a better riding aluminum bike by doing a carbon fork. So Mario Cipollini, Marco Pantani, anybody of who's who in that, you know, in that era, whatever bike brand they were riding, it had a Time fork on it, and from what I've been told, uh, they were making about 100, 000 carbon fiber forks here. [00:13:00] - (): Tony Karklins: I mean, they, they were, they were the player there. Then, of course, Look got into the fork business as well. Those 2 really kind of hit it, you know. So time then moved into bicycle manufacturing in the late 90s. They want to do a full carbon fiber bike. Um, and then in the early 2000s, they signed with this little team called Quickstep and we had writers like Tom Boonen and Paolo Bettini, uh, you know, and they won the Olympics and they won the world championships and they won Paris Roubaix and they were just, they were killing it in 2004, five and six, I mean, they were, they were the, you know, pinnacle of technology really being made in Europe when everybody else had just left for China, they were killing it. **** - (): Tony Karklins: Um, and then. I guess from what I've been told, the Pro Tour got really expensive when the big American brands came in. You know, when you saw Specialized come in and take over Quickstep, and Cannondale was in there first, I think, Giant got in there, uh, Trek obviously got in there, and so Time became a brand that, you know, truly couldn't afford the Tour de France anymore. **** - (): Tony Karklins: And so, uh, they Kept developing products, they believed in their resin transfer molding technology. They believe in European manufacturing, but, you know, they started to kind of hit harder times, maybe in 2012, 13, 14, and then Roland passed away on a bike ride. In 2000, late 2015, early 2016. Oh, man. [00:14:00] - (): Craig Dalton: And did they ever, did they ever diversify into mountain bike products or did they always stay focused on the road sport? **** - (): Craig Dalton: No, **** - (): Tony Karklins: there's, you know, we, we have all the historical stuff and, you know, they did a couple little things and they made their own wheels for one model, but they didn't really ever get in the wheel business. I've got a few time carbon fiber handlebars. I don't believe that a real mountain bike frame was ever truly produced by them, but he was pretty true to the cause. **** - (): Tony Karklins: I mean, he, he was a road cyclist. He was a drop bar cyclist. He, um, he, he, he protected his brand really well. Yeah. Yeah. He, he didn't, he didn't go with, you know, the, the, the trend of the week, like some of the bike companies do. **** - (): Craig Dalton: And then did the Rossignol group, uh, purchase it after his passing **** - (): Tony Karklins: then? They purchased it, you know, so he passed away. [00:15:00] - (): Tony Karklins: Company was in shambles because he was the race car driver of the company. Right. Yeah. And, and so big problems there, but Rossignol stepped in. Um, they. They did an acquisition of everything, they reinvested in the company, um, they built out both the France factory and the sub factory that's in Slovakia. **** - (): Tony Karklins: Um, and they were really building it for big growth. And I, I believe their plan was to, to put, um, they, they bought a few other bike brands as well and to inject those brands into their ski dealerships for summer business in Europe. I think it was their master plan. **** - (): Craig Dalton: The plan that many a bike shop owner, many a bike brand has theorized over the years will work perfectly. **** - (): Tony Karklins: It makes sense. But at the end of the day, you know, a consumer purchasing a 10, 000 bike doesn't want to buy from the ski shop. Yeah. I know. Yeah, nothing against the ski shops, but he wants, he wants to buy it from a passionate, you know, cycling store. So that didn't work so well. And then the pandemic hit, and when the pandemic hit, that's when we were told, Hey, good time. **** - (): Tony Karklins: Rosalind was looking for a new owner from time. And I [00:16:00] - (): Craig Dalton: interrupted you right when you were saying what really attracted you to the opportunity was the fact that there was a factory involved. **** - (): Tony Karklins: And that's how we got it from Roil because we were the people that wanted the factory. I think there were a lot of people that wanted the time brand, right? **** - (): Tony Karklins: Sure. Because there's a playbook. You take a great brand like that, a Halo European brand, you go to Asia, you build a new bike line, boom, you're done. And Ros, I don't think, wanted that to happen. You know, it's proud French brand. There are a lot of people working in factories. Um, they wanted, they wanted somebody to come in and take over the factory. **** - (): Tony Karklins: I had just come through this project at Allied and lived in a prepreg factory. So I'm like, I want that factory, you know? Yeah. **** - (): Craig Dalton: And you were mentioning offline, some of the nuances in the approach prepreg versus another way of manufacturing that attracted you to the **** - (): Tony Karklins: time process. I knew what their tech was, but I had never been in their building previously. [00:17:00] - (): Tony Karklins: And, and I knew the quality that was coming out of that. And so when, when we were able to acquire that, you know, at the same time, SRAM bought the pedal and shoe business. So we actually broke time. Into two pieces. Okay. So that was a perfect fit for SRAM to take that and then we didn't have to be in the pedal business. **** - (): Tony Karklins: Did **** - (): Craig Dalton: that just sort of happen to work out timing wise that I imagine they wanted to sell the whole thing in one fell swoop. **** - (): Tony Karklins: I think they wanted to sell the whole thing in one fell swoop, but it's hard to do that because those two businesses are totally different, totally different factory, totally different customers, totally different rules. **** - (): Tony Karklins: And so when SRAM stepped in with interest in that, it was perfect. And that's when it all kind of came together. And, uh, you know, it was a strange time because when we bought it in the pandemic, we couldn't even go to the factory for a visit. Because this is what Americans travel into Europe. We were on lockdown. [00:18:00] - (): Tony Karklins: Yeah. So a lot of faith in there. And luckily we got a good investment group behind this that also believed in, in us, in the vision of what we wanted to do with time. Uh, and we pulled it off. So we bought it because we wanted that factory. We wanted that technology. You know, what, what Roland spent, you know, 25 years developing in that factory is resin transfer molding and lost wax cores. **** - (): Tony Karklins: And that is the way that aerospace and automotive carbon fiber products are made. You know, the bike industry is prepreg. Prepreg is a very interesting way to make products. And there's some neat things you can do with prepreg. But automotive and aerospace would never use prepreg. Because resin transfer molding gives you complete control of the structure. [00:19:00] - (): Tony Karklins: You end up with a, with a structure that has zero voids in it. It's cosmetically perfect. And that you can blend whatever you want to into the carbon fiber sleeves because they're not impregnated. And so, this one factory that they had built in Slovakia initially as a fork factory had built its way up to being the largest carbon fiber bike factory in Europe. **** - (): Tony Karklins: And with the technology that Was above and beyond what anybody else in the world was doing. When **** - (): Craig Dalton: you talk about that, and I'm sure it's difficult to express it in layman's terms, but when you think about the different design opportunities and possibilities with prepreg versus this type of carbon manufacturing, what type of opportunities for performance, as it translates to riders, does this technology lend itself to? **** - (): Tony Karklins: You know, the biggest difference in resin transfer molding, Is it's not, it's not bladder mold. There's no internal pressure there that is squeezing all those layers of carbon fiber into one structure. So, in resin transfer molding, we start with the wax core. It is, you know, an exact interior core to the structure. [00:20:00] - (): Tony Karklins: And then we wrap the carbon fiber sleeves over those doors. We set them in the tools. When, and when we close the tool, you have steel surface on the outside, hard wax surface on the inside. So two hard surfaces, and then you inject the resin and the hardener through the tool at the same time under high pressure. **** - (): Tony Karklins: And when you do that, the resin fills 100 percent of all available space between the two hard surfaces. So you can't have any leaks. That's why airplane wings are resin transfer molded, because you can't have a void in an airplane wing. Because a **** - (): Craig Dalton: void is a, is a weaker part of the part, if a **** - (): Tony Karklins: void exists. A void is a bubble, it's a fold, it's a wrinkle, it's a drip. [00:21:00] - (): Tony Karklins: It's, you know, because when you're dealing with prepreg, you have this hard tool on the outside. You have, A bladder on the inside, and then you have all these sticky layers, somebody's hand put together, kind of like, almost like paper mache in some ways, right? And each one of those is a sticky, challenging layer. **** - (): Tony Karklins: These will go on just right, right? And then you put that into the tool, and you blast this pressure on the inside, and it just squeezes the heck out of everything. And that's the structure you're left with. But resin transfer molding, hard tool on the inside, hard on the outside, and a flow through of the resin that makes it a perfect structure. **** - (): Tony Karklins: And so when you have that, you have a product that is a stronger and more durable product for sure. Less chance of anything happening to the structure for sure. Also cosmetically perfect. So now you can actually show fibers, which you don't see on carbon fiber bikes anymore, because prepreg structures are ugly. [00:22:00] - (): Tony Karklins: So you have to paint them, make them look nice. But on this, it comes out perfect. And even the inside of the structure, the inside of our bikes is as cosmetically perfect as the outside because it can only be that. Yeah. And then in these braids, you know, a lot of these things have 244 different, you know, threads through we can. **** - (): Tony Karklins: blend in any modulus that we want. We can mix in fibers like Dyneema. We can mix in Vectran fibers. We, we have unlimited recipe of what we could do for the actual sleeves **** - (): Craig Dalton: themselves. And what, what are those additional elements? What are the benefits of those additional **** - (): Tony Karklins: elements? Everybody's familiar with the different moduluses, right? **** - (): Tony Karklins: You can take out weight, you can add stiffness. You know, the one that we've had the most fun with the last two years is bringing Dyneema into it. Dyneema has got kind of a wonder material that really came out of the sailing industry. It's a polypropylene fiber that's lighter than carbon fiber, which you can't destroy. [00:23:00] - (): Tony Karklins: So we can weave this into critical areas where there could be catastrophic failure. And this will keep that structure from ever breaking. And so we brought that in a lot on our 1st gravel bike. We introduced that indoor **** - (): Craig Dalton: structure. Yeah, I was going to say that seems like a natural **** - (): Tony Karklins: thing. We're using more and more and more with it. **** - (): Tony Karklins: And you can't use too much with it because if you use. Two, if your ratio of Dyneema to the carbon fiber is too high, the bike doesn't ride right. Dyneema doesn't have the riding characteristics of a high modulus carbon fiber. But when you put it in small doses in strategic places, you've made a stronger and safer problem. **** - (): Craig Dalton: Got it. Now, I appreciate this detour into the tech because we were going to come back around to it in the gravel bike, but I think it sets the stage really nicely. So if we're going back chronologically. 2020, 2021, it seems like you've acquired the, the, the brand, the facility were models continuing to be pushed out at that point. **** - (): Craig Dalton: And then how, when did you sort of reintroduce what I imagine to be your new vision for time bicycles out there in the world? [00:24:00] - (): Tony Karklins: You know, it, it played out differently than we thought because when we bought the company, our plan was we were going to take it to ground and we were going to redo everything and we were going to relaunch it perfectly and we bought it in that moment in the pandemic where we were all going to die, you know, there was this moment. **** - (): Tony Karklins: It was doom and gloom. And then a couple of months later, everybody decided to go buy a bike. Yeah. **** - (): Craig Dalton: We're not, we're not dead. So we might as well go ride a bike. **** - (): Tony Karklins: Yeah, we're not dead. So let's go buy a new bike. And so our plan was kind of spoiled because we were one of the only operational factories in Europe. **** - (): Tony Karklins: Everybody needed everything from us. And I'm like, no, we're going to be redoing all this stuff. They're like, no, we need bikes now. So we turned it on hard. You know, we turned that factory on harder than it had ever **** - (): been **** - (): Craig Dalton: turned on. And were you kicking out road bikes at that point, **** - (): Tony Karklins: presumably? We were kicking out road bikes like crazy. [00:25:00] - (): Tony Karklins: We were trying to get to gravel, but we had just tons and tons and tons of orders for road bikes because, you know, you couldn't get them. They were stuck in Asia. People were sold out. Yeah. You know, and you know, we're a factory that we make them every single day, you know? So the first 18 months of us owning this company, it was like we were trying to repair the plane mid flight. **** - (): Tony Karklins: You know, we were just going crazy. You know, we're trying to get to new. Because Rossignol didn't really push new because they were in the selling phase. Right. So you're not going to invest in products like that. And so we had slightly dated product and we needed as much of it as possible right now for sales while we're redeveloping. **** - (): Tony Karklins: So just now, you know, in 2024, we're back to our plan of, of key new model introductions, **** - (): Craig Dalton: you know. Yeah. You know, during that timeframe with everything running so fast, it sounds like you wouldn't have even had time to rethink market positioning the brand. It was more people love time. It's a storied brand as we've just talked about, and people are going to buy the product. **** - (): Craig Dalton: The [00:26:00] - (): Tony Karklins: second we bought it, man, the love just kind of flowed in through emails, you know, everybody's like, Oh God, thank God, you know, cycling people have the time brand, you know, and, and yeah, the love for the time brand is amazing. I can't tell you how many people have sent an email with a picture of their Time VRX, VXRS, Paolo Bettini edition to say, I own a hundred bikes and this is my all time favorite. **** - (): Tony Karklins: You know, people love it. I mean, Roland did a great job building a really beautiful, he really, he, he always. Did the right thing. Yeah. Always took the high road. You know, not a lot of people in the bike industry can really say that. **** - (): Craig Dalton: For sure. You mentioned Roland's love of the sport of road cycling, and it doesn't sound like prior to you much, if any, emphasis was put on the gravel market. **** - (): Craig Dalton: When you decided to move in, or correct me if I'm wrong, certainly. [00:27:00] - (): Tony Karklins: Well, there were some weird things in there. Like one of the things, when we did the acquisition and we got the trademark, Roland owns the global trademark for all. Okay, we were looking at that. Oh, my God. What was he going to do with that? **** - (): Tony Karklins: You know, he saw something, you know, maybe he was maybe had a pedal plan for it. But, you know, he, you know, he was pretty deep in the Belgian site. Okay. And so he, he was, he was working on something for sure. **** - (): Craig Dalton: Gotcha. You weren't handed any gravel models, so it took you, took you to what, 2022 to introduce the first, uh, ADHX? **** - (): Tony Karklins: Yeah, we did. We introduced that, um, midway through 2022. **** - (): Craig Dalton: Now I'm curious, like obviously you had your imprints on that model with you alongside your designers. How did you envision the gravel market at that point? Times the, the time, the people who are appreciating the time brands vision for what a time gravel bike would look like. [00:28:00] - (): Tony Karklins: Well, that was our first rule with the ADHX is we wanted to make a bike that would appeal to time. Right. We weren't going to go out and make some bike that had frays on forks everywhere and for camping on it. That's not time, right? You need to go buy a Surly if you're going to do that. We wanted to do an all road bike. **** - (): Tony Karklins: For a time and we wanted to also make sure that it worked with all road drive trains. Because we want to be a multi surface road bike. Gotcha. We call it fast gravel. Um, and and we introduced that before a lot of these wide drive train 1 by systems really became legitimized and, you know, our requirement is let's get biggest tire possible in here. **** - (): Tony Karklins: It will still take 52 chain ring. You know? Yeah. And we'll not have an obscenely long chainstay. So we'll ride like a road bike, but we'll allow you to do multi surface. Yeah. [00:29:00] - (): Craig Dalton: I've had this conversation before where it's very interesting when you talk about constraints and what you're able to do. And as you're articulating the desire to have a 50 tooth chainring in there and ride a two by drivetrain and a road specific drivetrain, it's understandable where you end up spec wise. **** - (): Craig Dalton: Yeah. I **** - (): Tony Karklins: mean, so that, that's, those are the limitations we put on it. And so then we launched it into the market. You know, and at that moment, anything, anybody launched into the market was going to do well because the market was just consuming all by itself. But quickly, we learned that nobody wanted our ADHX with a one by drive train. **** - (): Tony Karklins: Everybody who was buying, because we made, we, we took an assumption that 50, 50, one by two by, you know, and it was 99 percent and 1 percent was the reality of after six months of this. So everybody, they were buying pure road groups and they were running. You know, 35, maybe 38 C tires. **** - (): Craig Dalton: Yeah. It's interesting when you think about that 2022 timeframe, because I do think the, the consumer base had started to really. [00:30:00] - (): Craig Dalton: Sort of pick a camp if you will. And they were picking either I want a fast gravel bike or I want something more on the adventure side. And there were distinct camps starting to emerge even back then. **** - (): Tony Karklins: Yeah, there were. And, uh, you know, so we got a lot of feedback maybe nine months after launch, but we can't get this 42 tire and everybody racing on unbound this year is running a 42. **** - (): Tony Karklins: And then, you know, we were also at that moment where the interior rim widths were changing like crazy. Yeah, so even if you were putting a 38 seat tire on there, but this new wheel coming out from head has a 26 internal measurement. It was measuring a 42, you know, so we ran into that fun, but everybody else ran into that fun at the same time. [00:31:00] - (): Tony Karklins: Yeah. So we decided that we would open the next project to do a wider. You know, tire version of the ADHX, um, because we thought that was truly where the market was moving to. And what we learned in all of that is it all just comes down to the drivetrain. And the second we launched the ADHX45 and we explained it was built for wide drivetrains and it was built for, you know, it won't take Ultegra, Dura Ace, Campagnolo drivetrains on there. **** - (): Tony Karklins: That we had this boom of sales in our existing ADHX because all of a sudden people really understood. Yeah, this is this is as much of a multi surface bike as I can have and it'd be a road bike. This is really a pure gravel, right? And so for now, it's crystal clear. We didn't really expect that to happen. **** - (): Tony Karklins: We assume the 45 was what everybody was going to want, but now it's crystallized for us where there are three for us. There's pure road. There is multi surface pass. Yeah. And there is. You know, I don't want to call it pure gravel, but wider tire [00:32:00] - (): Craig Dalton: gravel. Yeah, it's a, it's a really interesting force and forcing function. **** - (): Craig Dalton: Cause I think a lot of consumers develop a love and appreciation for a particular brand. And then, so they're in the time family, they're in the time world, and then they're looking at your two models and they're asking themselves, what type of gravel rider am I? Where, where do I live? What type of terrain am I on? **** - (): Craig Dalton: And which one of these two models fits their riding style and ambitions. **** - (): Tony Karklins: What I think we've learned is. It's more important around the drivetrain than it really is around three or four millimeter width change on the top. That's what the customer seems to really care about. **** - (): Craig Dalton: Interesting. So on the, on the, the ADHX45, will that still run a 2x? [00:33:00] - (): Tony Karklins: Yeah, it'll run a 2x, but you have to use a wide version of it. Okay. Yeah. So you're using these, these gear ratios that true road cyclists Don't really, they still want their 52 ring on there, right? Yeah. And when you move into the a H 45, you gotta deal with all, all the new systems from Shram and the new ones from the G Rx system. **** - (): Tony Karklins: And it, it does, it does really seem to be that the 45 falls more to the MTB crowd and the A DHX falls more to the road cyclist. It just wants to do a little bit of ground. Yeah. As you and then, and then in Europe they use the A DHX. As the fat road tire. Okay. **** - (): Craig Dalton: And what do you, does it ride sort of as if it say you have road tires on their 32s or 35s? **** - (): Craig Dalton: Is it ride like an endurance road bike? Would you, would you suggest? That's **** - (): Tony Karklins: where a lot of people have kind of put it. Yeah. You know, cause you can, you can build out, you know, with those Victoria 34 C tires and nice carbon wheels, you can have a, you know, 14 and a half pound 34 seat tire road bike. It's just super fun to ride. [00:34:00] - (): Craig Dalton: Super fun to ride. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was just out with a buddy I hadn't seen in a while. And so he was like hardcore roadie and saw him rolled up on some 38 Cs, nice carbon wheels. And he was like, man, this bike is, he's like, it's a revelation. He's like, I've never been happier road riding than I have been on these 38 Cs. **** - (): Craig Dalton: Yeah, I love it. Super interesting. As you, you know, you had the the 80 HX out there in the market. Obviously, you were getting some feedback from riders that led to the tire and drive train decisions on the 45. Were there any other elements of the frame design that taking the opportunity to think? Hey, we're now getting 45s in there. **** - (): Craig Dalton: People are going to take this on gnarlier terrain. Do we need to do anything different? Or was it really about upsizing and, you know, configuring the drive **** - (): Tony Karklins: train? You know, when there were some people that were pushing us for adventure bikes and stuff, but it's just, we're, we're doing our best to stay true to time. [00:35:00] - (): Tony Karklins: We're not an adventure bike company, we're a high performance carbon fiber bike company. We want to, we want to keep it that way. So I think, I think the 45, at least. What we see of today's gravel market is as far as we need to go, you know, because there are other things at the time brand needs to do. We know we have to get back into the aero road bike development and we have to get back into endurance road development. **** - (): Tony Karklins: We've got other projects there. So I think that, you know, while we'll continue to evolve the ADA checks family, I think we sort of have our two models **** - (): Craig Dalton: in there. Yeah. When you think about it, you mentioned sort of unbound. When you think about a competitive race bike, is there anything that The ADH X45 has that doesn't put it as a gravel race bike, other than the choice of drivetrain that you're, you have to **** - (): Tony Karklins: make because it was, it was really built for that type of application. **** - (): Tony Karklins: Yeah, it a go fast. You know, wide tire ground. Yeah. You know, it's, it's a race bike. I mean, we, we, we did some really tight tolerances on there. The things we had to do to get the chain stays, you know, in the seat too. And just, just to the point where they'd be right on the edge of giving the proper amount of clearance. [00:36:00] - (): Tony Karklins: And, and, and truly be a high performance ride. We, we couldn't have done it any tighter than we did. Yeah. **** - (): Craig Dalton: Yeah. And when you think about the ideal rider for these types of bikes, um, are you, you know, are the head tubes taller or are they, or are they still sort of real Euro race style **** - (): Tony Karklins: geometry? We are upper middle there on this particular family when we, well, when we bought time, there was no integrated front ends at all. **** - (): Tony Karklins: So we had to, the first project we did was to do, to bring integration in when we did that to all of our existing product line, we increased that head to height just a bit more for the, for the mature American market. **** - (): Craig Dalton: And when, with integration, you're talking about **** - (): Tony Karklins: specialized Roubaix, we didn't, we didn't go there, but we brought it to a point because I, I hate premium bikes with three or four spacers in there. [00:37:00] - (): Tony Karklins: Or, or an upstem. Yeah. So we built it, you know, we engineered it to sell and be looked at. **** - (): Craig Dalton: Okay. And with that integration, you're referring to putting the cables inside the bar and through the headset and all that stuff. We got a moment to **** - (): Tony Karklins: tweak all the hit tube heights when we did that. Yeah. And so we, we, we took, we took benefit. **** - (): Tony Karklins: We cleaned that. Got it. Because, you know, traditionally time Short head to bike. I mean, it was the, a lot of the design was led by the racers who all want these head tubes that are this tall. Yeah. You know, nobody who's actually buying a bike and ever ride, you know, **** - (): Craig Dalton: exactly. Um, what, what's sort of next for time and gravel this year? **** - (): Craig Dalton: I imagine, you know, there's still a lot of people who haven't gotten in front of a time. Gravel bike. How do people find **** - (): Tony Karklins: them for time right now is, um, our expansion into manufacturing in the United States. Okay. That's our next thing. So we announced, uh, middle of last year that we acquired a facility in South Carolina and it's in Spartanburg County. **** - (): Craig Dalton: Was it outside the bike industry? Something doing carbon fiber in another field? [00:38:00] - (): Tony Karklins: No. Um, but it is inside the bubble that BMW built in North America and BM W's carbon fiber technology is exactly the same as times. Got it. So it's resin transfer molding. So in this one little region of South Carolina, they have the entire global supply chain specific to exactly what time does. **** - (): Tony Karklins: Amazing. So we acquired a factory there in this little town called Landrum. It's 140, 000 square foot facility on 30 acres, right at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Really cool area. Uh, about, about 30, 45 minutes from Nashville, North Carolina. And we are. Um, throughout 2024, moving process by process over, so we'll have a second factory here to support the United States. [00:39:00] - (): Tony Karklins: And at the same time, as we're installing our processes into that factory, we're getting a lot of assistance from, um, the state of South Carolina and the University of Clemson, and a lot of the, um, automotive, Development tools that were put into place inside of BMW. They do things with resin transfer molding that were light years beyond what Roland ever thought about when he was building his factories in France and Slovakia. **** - (): Tony Karklins: And so we've been for the last six months doing proof of concept manufacturing there about, um, high pressure resin transfer molding. We're similar technology to what we do in our factories now. But under three to five times pressure, and that has the potential to really, uh, has the potential to revolutionize bicycle manufacturing, but certainly advance our product to a point where beyond what we ever thought possible. [00:40:00] - (): Tony Karklins: When you, when you are able to do resin transfer molding at 35, 45, 50 bar, that is incredibly high pressure. It's going to make a A structure that is thinner, lighter, and stronger, and also more beautiful than anybody's ever been able to pull out of a carbon fiber tool. So we are fully focused on that development and deploying that technology in our new South Carolina factory. **** - (): Tony Karklins: By the end of **** - (): Craig Dalton: this year, that's so exciting to bring back more manufacturing in the United States. And as we heard, **** - (): Tony Karklins: that's the real thing, you know, because the automobile industry invested a lot in resin transfer from BMW, McLaren, Aston Martin, Lexus. Audi, I mean, resin transfer molding used in all those brands significantly. [00:41:00] - (): Tony Karklins: Polestar, Volvo. And to take benefit of what they've done there and apply it to bike under the Time brand name and being true to, you know, what Roland Katana actually wanted to build out of Time. That's, that's our special project that we're really excited about. I think that I'm a few months away from inviting people such as yourself into the kitchen over there so you can see firsthand what what's actually about that. **** - (): Craig Dalton: I love it. Book me a date. Maybe in July. My sister just moved to Asheville. So I'm planning a trip over there at some point **** - (): Tony Karklins: 3045. I **** - (): Craig Dalton: love it. I love it. I love this journey. You've taken us on in this conversation. Love the time brand. The story very much lands with me. Just the sort of. Race perspective of the bicycles and the expansion of the ADHX to the ADX45 just to give riders kind of what they're looking for in terms of the versatility. **** - (): Craig Dalton: In the time models. So, um, yeah, super appreciate it. And for customers looking to get in touch with the brand or get, get a foot over one of these, what's the best way for riders to get in front of a time bicycle? You know, [00:42:00] - (): Tony Karklins: we, our website and the team that we have supporting all lines of communication through that social media. **** - (): Tony Karklins: We're very easy. Okay. I mean, ping us ping us on Facebook, Instagram, through our website, we have a team here ready to help. And **** - (): Craig Dalton: are you selling direct to consumer at this **** - (): Tony Karklins: point? We sell every way possible. We sell direct to consumer and we've got around 150 retailers in the United States. Uh, we've got distributors in 18 countries around the world. **** - (): Tony Karklins: Um, so yeah, we're, we're pretty much available in all key markets. **** - (): Craig Dalton: Amazing. Thanks again for the time, Tony. **** - (): Tony Karklins: My pleasure.  

Season 3 is here baby and we're back after a short hiatus off the mics. We fired this one off with some high energy from one of our wildest guests yet. Max is an east coast native who is hitting the bike world from all angles. Tune in to check out how his rookie professional season went, what he's up to, and what his future may have in store. Welcome back to the greatest podcast known to the observable...DCMTB

We check out some new pro bikes; Jayco's Giant Propel, Bianchi Outré and an unreleased Factor Ostro VAM. Cannondale double down on the 'fake' LAB71's and why is everyone so obsessed with Valtteri Bottas.Chapters00:00 intro00:15 Giant Propel Debate06:22 Bianchi Oltre Disappoints 10:33 New Factor Ostro Vam18:32 Pick Our Top Bike21:09 Time To Move Nationals 30:45 Cannondale Double Down37:52 Lotto To Orbea47:07 Cycling Youtube 52:24 Valtteri Bottas Obsession 55:42 Best Cycling Celebrity 58:56 Nero Show At TDUGrab a nero kit: https://nero-club.myshopify.comSL8 Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qAhuxGYptA&t=76sShills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIEFclL5IFI&t=306sWatch the Show On YouTube: https://youtu.be/E2w2OarHrXgThe Nero Show is available on your favourite Podcast platformSpotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0UEODvANsVqrvSZV5TAqBvAmazon:https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/28558e66-2a6b-4ff5-a6bf-709f05b1ffe9Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nero-cycling-show-|-unfiltered-cycling-podcast/id1659229051 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week pro mechanic Nic reveals what he really thinks about popular bike products as we play ‘Love, Tolerate, Kill', plus he reveals what makes a great winter bike and when you should replace an alloy frame.Here's the full rundown:00:00 Bikepacking in freezing Scotland00:54 Wiggle owed Harribo £20,000?!02:31 Nic's ultimate ‘winter bike' recommendations06:31 What frame material is best for winter?09:41 Choosing the right frame12:01 Groupsets for winter riding14:42 Our winter wheel choices16:25 Our winter tyre choices19:54 Do mudguards destroy your components?25:03 The problem with tubeless27:27 How to maintain your bike over winter28:48 SRAM, Shimano or Campagnolo?33:59 Di2, Etap or mechanical shifting?36:35 Titanium, carbon or alloy?39:25 Gravel, road or time trial?40:52 Cannondale, Trek or Specialized?42:02 Sarto, Tommasini or Time?43:41 Hunt, Enve or DT Swiss?44:23 1x gearing, 2x gearing or fixed gear?45:53 Shimano SPD-SL, Look Keo, Speedplay47:27 Schwalbe Marathon Plus, Panaracer Gravel King or Continental Gatorskins?48:39 Overrated or Underrated: Rollers51:07 Overrated or Underrated: Dropper posts on gravel bikes52:49 Overrated or Underrated: Bike bells54:16 Emily ruined our best podcast intro yet… (FUOTW)55:53 Listener's takeover: Bike muggings56:45 How long do alloy bike frames last?If you'd like us to send in a question, story, some good news, things you'd like us to discuss or anything else, email us at wildonespodcast@cademedia.co.ukThanks and see you next time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With 2024 just around the corner Abby chatted with EF Education-Cannondale's new General Manager Esra Tromp about the process of building a team from scratch, the hurdles the team might come against in the new year, and more.

With 2024 just around the corner Abby chatted with EF Education-Cannondale's new General Manager Esra Tromp about the process of building a team from scratch, the hurdles the team might come against in the new year, and more.