Podcasts about xds

Giro ruszyło z pełną mocą – i choć pierwsze dni w Albanii były aż do bólu przewidywalne, nie zabrakło dramatu, emocji i kozich ataków (dosłownie!). Piotr Klin, samozwańczy profesor koledżowego chaosu, zabiera nas w pełną kolarskiego nerwu analizę trzech pierwszych etapów Giro – jeszcze zanim peleton dotknął włoskiej ziemi.Odcinek to opowieść o strategii, formie i błędach – tych karygodnych, jak Pettersen i jego “przestępstwo aerodynamiczne” na czasówce, i tych dramatycznych, jak upadek Landy czy Boucharda. Klin z pasją rozkłada każdy etap na czynniki pierwsze: kto kontrolował, kto przegrał przez taktykę, a kto wygrał dzięki niej. Nie zabrakło też sprzętowych smaczków – od tytanowych lemondków po kontrowersyjne kaski XDS.Ten odcinek to nie tylko relacja – to praktyczny przewodnik po logice Grand Touru. Jeśli Giro to teatr, to Klin jest jego najlepszym suflerem: zwięźle, z humorem, z pasją. Dla fanów i laików – must-listen przed kolejnym etapem.Zdjęcia i linki: https://www.podcastrowerowy.pl/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodkastRowerowyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/podkastrowerowy/Produkcja Oryginalna Earborne Media https://originals.earbornemedia.com/projects/podcast-rowerowy/Posłuchaj innych serii oryginalnych Earborne Media.Więcej na http://originals.earbornemedia.com

As per XDS report 2024, 28% of gamedev service providers are developing their own IP, an added 22% want to do in the future. Transitioning from work for hire studio to creating your own titles and IPs is an exciting yet challenging journey. This session will explore key insights and strategies for managing the shift, including team management, balancing client work with in-house projects, recruiting the right talent, and navigating investor expectations. Drawing from my experience, it will highlight the dos and don'ts of building your own IP while ensuring patience and long-term success.

In this episode of the Lanteren Rouge Cycling Podcast Patrick and Benji preview the 2025 team of XDS Astana.This show is sponsored by JOIN Cycling. Lanterne Rouge listeners can access JOIN Cycling with an exclusive risk free 30-day free trial period. Head over to our website for more information: https://join.cc/lanternerouge/Timestamps: 00:00 Intro00:50 2024 recap04:45 XDS joins as sponsor11:10 Transfers30:00 Predictions & hot takesOur merch has dropped! Custom designs painstakingly crafted by Louemans on t-shirts, mugs and hats with all your favourite catchphrases from the podcast. Check it out at ⁠⁠https://shop.lanternerouge.com⁠⁠If you enjoy LRCP please support us by subscribing and leaving us a like and comment! You can also send us a tip here https://ko-fi.com/lanternerougecyclingpodcast

This week on the Velo Podcast, we have something a little different for you as former Pinkbike editor extraordinaire Mike Levy joins the show to talk gravel and road bikes. Some of you are no doubt asking yourself right now: “Wait, isn't he the mountain bike guy?” Right you are. He's a multi-faceted person though who has spent the last year exclusively riding road and gravel bikes and has fallen in love with the drop-bar world, taking on some monster rides along the way and learning what a carb is. In this special episode of the podcast, Levy is joined by yours truly Will Tracy, and tech editor Alvin Holbrook to discuss the pressing issues of our times in gravel and road biking. We start out with a discussion of some of the latest news, including what a possible SRAM smart trainer means for the market, the transition of Astana to Chinese manufacturer XDS bikes, and Alvin's review of the Factor Ostro VAM. Other topics include the emergence of carbon spokes and their impact on performance, as well as the unique features of the Kona Ouroboros and Santa Cruz Stigmata gravel bikes that the team has been riding recently. Finally, we get to the main segment: reflections on personal cycling experiences and the lessons learned throughout the year. We learned a lot on the bike in 2024 (or so we like to think) including knowing when to quit or solider on and how to maintain and in some cases rekindle the joy of cycling, as well as the importance of proper nutrition and fueling and the supportive community found in cycling.

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In this episode of SimCast, the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) welcomes Dr. Safwan Halabi, an Associate Professor of Radiology at Northwestern University and Vice Chair of Imaging Informatics at Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. Dr. Halabi joins the podcast to discuss his chapter from the Practical Imaging Informatics book, focusing on external data sharing and the growing importance of seamless image exchange. Throughout the conversation, Dr. Halabi emphasizes the critical role of image sharing in improving patient care, reducing duplicative studies, and enhancing workflow efficiencies. He explores the evolving technology behind cloud-based image exchange, the challenges of interoperability, and the need for healthcare institutions to embrace modern solutions while maintaining security and privacy. Dr. Halabi also reflects on the efforts to "ditch the disc" and the importance of standards like XDS and MHD to move the field forward. Tune in to hear insights from one of the leaders in imaging informatics as he discusses the current landscape, challenges, and future of external data sharing in healthcare.

Embarking on the dynamic journey where creativity meets digital transformation, we delve into the convergence of artistic ingenuity and cutting-edge technology. In this exploration, we are guided by the seasoned insights of Anjali Dutta, the Vice President and Head of Digital Studio at XDS. Join us as we unravel the fascinating tapestry where left-brain creativity intertwines with right-brain technology, bringing forth a harmonious confluence that propels the realms of digital transformation.  [00:43] - About Anjali Dutta Anjali is the Vice President and Head of Digital Studio, XDS. She is a management professional cum multimedia specialist with more than 21 years of experience in the industry. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tbcy/support

An Episode of Experiment The World with Dr. John Falcon and Dr. Olivia Tatara. This is Unlocking Cellular Energy with Moremito's XDS Technology: Roger Hill's Vision for Mitochondria Health Restoration Roger Hill, CEO of MoreMito, is a leading figure in the field of health restoration using XDS technology. With a focus on delivering energy right to the cellular level, MoreMito is pioneering a new approach to health and mitochondrial wellness.
Listen to Roger Hill to learn more. Tune in to the Live Calls every Monday 9PM EST and Saturday 12 PM EST where various health topics are discussed to aid you in your life. Learn More and Sign up for MoreMito: https://moremito.com/frequency5000 https://moremito.com/john2020 https://moremito.com/pauline888 Note: Please consult with your primary healthcare professional if you have any concerns or questions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/olivia-tatara/support

In this episode of the Data Malarkey podcast, data storyteller Sam Knowles is joined by Shai Reichert, Co-Founder of XDS – a US-based business also known as the Experience Design Studio. Shai has almost 20 years' experience working in web development, user and customer experience. He has held senior roles on both the client side (for Comcast and Rosetta) as well as in digital marketing agencies. Shai spent six years in charge of all things technological at the specialist healthcare agency the W2O Group – now known as Real Chemistry.   Half-a-dozen years ago now, Shai co-founded XDS, where he focuses on the technology and operations necessary to build a positive and robust customer experience for its clients, which are mostly active in healthcare. XDS offers a heady mix of consulting, design thinking, engineering, marketing, and analytics. The company aims to enhance the customer – or patient – experience ‘beyond the pill' for pharma and healthcare companies.   Our conversation was recorded remotely, via the medium of Riverside.fm, on 19 April 2023.   Thanks to Joe Hickey for production support.   Podcast artwork by Shatter Media.   Voice over by Samantha Boffin.   As a sports fan – to play, to watch, and to encourage his sometimes reluctant kids to take part – Shai spends a fair amount of his time outside of the office with his head deep in sport. That includes in the data surrounding sport – particularly his favourite, baseball – though he baulks at the real-time application of the Moneyball principles. Particularly if that means taking off a pitcher when he's only pitched a few balls because the next three at-bat have a great record over him. That's a bit much.   Shai's agency, XDS, makes extensive use of data to understand how its clients are performing in their digital marketing channels, learning from data how they could improve performance, and monitoring it for evidence of impact. XDS helps clients enhance analytics, web traffic, search engine optimisation, paid ads – all different components of digital marketing spend.   The company was founded pre-pandemic, but on principles and ways of working – it turns out – that were perfectly suited for a locked-down world. XDS associates are spread across the US and, even when team members travel overseas, Shai observes that “they never miss a beat”. He goes on: “COVID accelerated a lot of things we were doing – on Slack, Teams and so on – and actually created a huge number of opportunities for us and our clients.”   Shai is lukewarm about the potential of mass-availability AI such as ChatGPT to transform marketing, but XDS finds it helpful in suggesting and elaborating copy and content strategy ideas. That said, Shai knows from experience that many businesses are not doing many of the seven critical website tactics he blogged about back in 2016, let alone embracing ChatGPT. EXTERNAL LINKS The XDS homepage – https://madebyxds.com Shai's LinkedIn profile – https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaireichert/ The evergreen, always-relevant post Shai first shared on LinkedIn on 4 January … 2016: “Forget 2016 ‘Digital Trends' – Here are 7 Website Tactics You Should Focus on Right Now” – https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/forget-2016-digital-trends-here-6-website-tactics-you-shai-reichert/ Shai on Twitter – https://twitter.com/thesreichert     To find out what kind of data storyteller you are, complete our data storytelling scorecard at https://data-storytelling.scoreapp.com. It takes just two minutes, and we'll send you your own personalised scorecard which tells you what kind of data storyteller you are.  

In this episode of the Creative Leaders Podcast, host Stephen Scott sits down with Sam Carlisle, Senior Director of External Partner Relations at Microsoft, to discuss his journey into the world of gaming. Sam shares how he initially pursued art and had a passion for comics before eventually finding his way into the games industry in his thirties. Despite facing challenges in finding work, Sam's involvement in behavior analysis during his time working with his father played a surprising role in shaping his career. Timestamps: [00:01:24] Art and comics in the 80s. [00:05:00] Lara Croft advertising poses. [00:10:49] External development challenges. [00:12:45] India's contrasting poverty and wealth. [00:18:06] External development community. [00:22:11] External development importance. [00:28:11] What external partners should consider. [00:31:01] Production management and trust. [00:36:10] Games never truly finished. [00:39:22] Pre-production in movies. [00:42:27] Polishing by addition in games. [00:46:26] Limitations and creativity. [00:50:08] The loneliness of outsourced management. [00:53:33] Lack of support in industry. [00:57:04] XDS and the external development community. [01:02:23] Gaming industry's unexpected origins. Follow Sam here: ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠ Follow Stephen here: ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠  We're a podcast that focuses on in-depth conversations with leaders, founders and top creative talent working in animation, gaming and beyond. Hosted by Stephen Scott and Powered by Bigmouth Audio. Follow us: ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠ Our website: ⁠⁠https://bigmouthaudio.com⁠

"This motel ain't big enough for the both of us!" ___ Two families operated a motel together until their relationship deteriorated. 2XD owned the land the motel was operated on and leased it to 1XD, a Co co-owned by 2XD: [2] 2XC had assisted 2XD over the years, and came to assist with the motel: [13] - [17] The arrangements (for 2XC to help at the motel, and to eventually purchase it from 2XD having paid a deposit) were informal and legally unclear - an arrangement defined by “uncertainty, if not confusion”: [24] 1XC (who was in a domestic partnership with 2XC) ran a separate business providing accomodation among other things. After a time 1XC obtained an EFTPOS machine to accept payments: [37] - [41] 2XD stopped payments to the XCs for their work at the motel, apparently planning to set those “non payments” against an eventual purchase price: [42] Sometimes the 2XC used the EFTPOS machine for motel payments: [44] This diverted funds away from the XDs' motel bank account: [46] In early 2020, 2XD decided they did not want to proceed with the sale: [47] In around July 2020, the XDs forcibly evicted the XCs and commenced legal proceedings: [48], [49] The dispute crystallised into arguments which parties owed what money, and why: [51] Complexity arose from the messiness of the legal relationship: [52] The XCs were not employees, nor did they have an “equitable lease”, nor were they agents, nor did any equitable relationship arise: [54] - [65], [92] The Court found the parties had a loose, consensual arrangement whose terms were implied: [66] The XCs claimed their deposit and the unpaid “non payments” for motel work; a total of ~$105K. The Court found no reason existed for payment not to be made and the XCs succeeded in their claim: [86] The XDs claimed (among other things) ~$240K of payments made through the EFTPOS machine. There was no conclusive evidence about which payments related to the motel and which related to 1XC's other business (noting sometimes guests would stay at 1XD's premises if the motel was full). The Court considered the most fair outcome was to award around half the amount claimed to the XDs: [95] - [102] A number of other small claims brought by the XDs failed, including because no fiduciary obligations arose between the parties: [103] - [112] Orders were made that the XCs pay the XDs $132K, and the XDs pay the XCs $105K - a difference of around $27K: [113] The Court invited submissions on costs but suggested an appropriate order may be that each party bear their own costs. Without wishing to be flippant or disrespectful, each party might also bear their own regrets about failing to document their arrangement. ___ If you'd like to contact me please look for James d'Apice or Coffee and a Case Note on your favourite social media spot - I should pop up right away!

Designing every button from scratch is probably fine if you've got three buttons and one designer, but what happens to all of that when you start to scale? This week, Faith sits down with Michael Carrick, the Chief Experience Officer at XDS, a Toronto-based company that builds and consults on design systems. They chat about why they're important to incorporate early, the difference between an out-of-the-box solution and a custom one, and how much snow constitutes "not that much" once you've relocated to the South.https://xdsystems.co/https://twitter.com/michaelcarrick Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

XDS Brand, a new and dynamic branding, packaging and implementation agency powered by Perigord, has announced their official launch into the market, working with Irish based and international clients across a range of industries including FMCG, Retail and Life Science. The new agency will be a key part of the Tech Mahindra family through its Experience Design Services (XDS) division. The Dublin based company will be focusing on human-centred and purpose-driven experiences for their clients including innovative brand strategies, creating engaging, functional and sustainable packaging and comprehensive marketing communication solutions. The announcement is part of the continuous development of the XDS Division within Tech Mahindra, an Indian multinational that specialises in digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering services, acquired a 70% stake in Perigord in March 2021. The establishment of XDS Brand, powered by Perigord, and together with other XDS division companies such as BORN Group, Pininfarina, MadPow and the Bio Agency and many others, will allow the agencies to collaborate together, crafting the best strategies for customer experience (CX) throughout all channels and therefore, ensuring that XDS Brand is a leader in the market not only in Ireland but on a global level as well. XDS Brand will provide an even broader range of services to Perigord and Tech Mahindra clients and will have a larger team at their disposal thanks to the resources of the Tech Mahindra and the XDS network. This will include 40 new positions being created this year in Ireland and based in the company's Dublin office. Additionally, XDS Brand plans to develop an international team across Ireland, the US and India within the next 18 months. XDS Brand is also announcing the appointment of Salvatore Acerba as their new Vice President of Client Partnerships. His most recent role was as Vice President of Sales in SGS & Co and has previously held senior positions across a number of world renowned businesses within the branding and packaging industry over a 25 year career. Gary Orr, CCO of Perigord & XDS Brand said, “We are delighted to finally announce the launch of XDS Brand and forming a new part of the Tech Mahindra XDS division, which boasts the top CX agencies in the world. With the XDS Brand forming part of this division it will allow us to develop our collective ambition of being the global leader in branding and packaging solutions. Furthermore, It will permit us to expand our goal of advising our clients on sustainable packaging, carbon footprint reduction and ensuring they are in line with their own objectives when it comes to ESG values. Additionally, we are excited to welcome Salvatore to XDS Brand as our new Vice President of Client Partnerships. His CV is world class and I am looking forward to collaborating with him as we look to develop and grow even further in the US market.” Also commenting on his appointment, Salvatore Acerba, XDS Brand Vice President of Client Partnerships said, “I am honoured to be taking up this position with XDS Brand. They have shown that the company is on the cutting edge of expanding their clients' branding from all aspects from sustainable packaging to augmented reality experiences. I am looking forward to working closely with Gary and the wider international team in ensuring that XDS Brand broadens its client base not only across the US but globally as the leader in this industry.” See more stories here. More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: If you'd like to be featured in an upcoming Podcast email us at Simon@IrishTechNews.ie now to discuss. Irish Tech News have a range of services available to help promote your business. Why not drop us a line at Info@IrishTechNews.i...

The need to think about and design for the broader employee experience is real, but it isn't new. People weren't clamoring for a narrow but slightly refreshed piece of digital content buried in an LMS. Then suddenly, the world changed. The conversation has been happening since long before entering the industry. What's the problem? Some would point the finger at stakeholders. Some would point to a lack of access to tools or technology. Others might look around the room at their colleagues. A handful might take a hard look in the mirror. In reality, it's a complicated mix of all that and more. So, what can we do as an industry to transition from IDs to XDs? In this Learning Tech Talks, I'm veering off the usual path for a special practitioner episode with my friend Kason Morris about this complex challenge and what we can do to solve it. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/learningtechtalks/support

On March 8 2022 Spotify and Discord experienced an outage latest 2-3 hours. The reason was a configuration on the xDS formats on Google Traffic Director. Let us discuss how this change caused the outage and what Spotify did to mitigate that outage without relying on Google restoring the service back up. Resources Spotify outage https://engineering.atspotify.com/2022/03/incident-report-spotify-outage-on-march-8/ Google Cloud outage https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/LuGcJVjNTeC5Sb9pSJ9o Envoy xDS https://blog.envoyproxy.io/the-universal-data-plane-api-d15cec7a Microservices scaling with common sense https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsIeAV5aFLE CARDS 4:36 Miicros https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsIeAV5aFLE 9:30 Spotify Hermes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMq3IpPE3TU&t=21s 0:00 Intro 2:00 Spotify Outage 3:30 Microservices 6:10 Service Discovery 10:00 Spotify Quick Workaround 12:15 Google Traffic Director Outage --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hnasr/support

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※ 本文章发布于订阅号：百车全说，订阅号阅读更加方便，欢迎关注好久没聊性能车了，相比动辄百万的奔驰AMG、宝马M、奥迪RS，今天来聊一款更多人买的起的小钢炮，也就是不久前刚在上海车展亮相的国产第8代高尔夫GTI。“GTI”这个名字在玩车圈子里有多重要，不用我说了吧？就是乐趣，就是信仰，就是干，即使你不玩车，多少也该知道它的大名，或者在马路上被它干过。这车目前还没有公布正式售价，但是必定不会和早前的7.5代相差太多，估计在23.99万左右。与此前几代一亮相就被大呼真香不同的是，这次国产8代GTI一亮相就被很多人喷，连发动机都懒得换，换汤不换药，但只要你去仔细了解一下就会发现，8代除了有一个更漂亮的壳，在一些看不见的、关乎机械素质的地方，还是有提升的，但与其说是提升，不如说是“补课”，这些都是我们今天会聊的，为什么将提升说成“补课”？我对8代GTI的前景其实抱有担忧，市场环境不同了，相比前几代，如今的8代GTI不仅面临电动车在动力上的“降维打击”，同时还要面对新兴国产性能车、小钢炮的挑战。好像留给我们去吹的，只剩下没多少人理解的驾驶乐趣、信仰传承，以及相对成熟的改装潜力了，这同样是我们接下来要聊的，8代GTI还值得我们去冲一把吗？相比7.5代有哪些提升？为什么说8代是在补课？首先说一个没有提升的地方，也是被喷的最多的地方，国产的8代GTI用的并不是海外版本那台EA888 Evo4 2.0T发动机，而是选择沿用此前的EA888 Gen3 2.0T发动机。所以，我们看见国产8代GTI依然是220马力、350牛米，而海外版本是245马力、370牛米，最强的Clubsport版本可以达到300马力、400牛米。同时为了满足国6B，这台发动机还取消了此前的进气歧管喷射，只保留了缸内直喷，喷油压力为250Bar，而8代GTI海外版本最高350Bar。当然，EA888 Gen3 2.0T发动机改为缸内直喷其实不用过多纠结，因为海外早已这么做，环保所逼，这么做颗粒物排放是降低了，但是动力也降低了，以至于国产8代GTI只能做到7.1秒破百，比之前7.5代还慢0.2秒，这里面也有8代比7.5代稍重的原因。不过，大众官标一直比较保守，实测8代可以跑到6.8秒，但7.5代实测也可以跑到6.5秒，更别提海外Clubsport版本可以冲到6秒以内，6.8秒放在今天，连宝马3系、奥迪A4L的2.0T高功率版本都跑不过，也就比迈腾、帕萨特之流快一点。虽然动力差点意思，但在玩家眼里不算问题，都说飞度不改不如推下海，那GTI不改，不如直接推进马里亚纳海沟了，GTI的改装潜力有多大，我们待会再说。冷水泼完了，来说说国产8代GTI相比7.5代有提升的地方，先说玩家们最关心的机械素质，看完你就知道为什么8代GTI是在补7.5代落下的功课了：国产8代GTI换上了高R和S3上的DQ381 7速双离合变速箱，终于和海外版本一样了，之前国产7.5代采用DQ380，而海外分不同版本采用DQ250或DQ381。相比DQ380，DQ381传动效率更高一点，质量也更稳定一点。但最重要的是，DQ381支持四驱，也就是说硬核玩家现在想要前驱改四驱，再也不用像7.5代那样移植变速箱了，理论上可以直接上四驱。一直以来，GTI无论动力做到多强，前驱一直是制约动力发挥的枷锁，换装DQ381对于那些准备将GTI玩到顶、玩到极致的重度发烧友来说是好消息。但是，国产8代GTI只配备了普通高尔夫全系标配的XDS刹车式模拟限滑差速器，而海外版本的VAQ前桥电控限滑差速器依然缺席、不可选配。高尔夫GTI作为一台前驱车，在极限过弯状态下大概率会出现转向不足，即推头，往往动力越强推头越明显，而VAQ可以在转向时帮助外侧轮获得更多扭矩，同时降低内侧轮打滑，提高车身的可控性及稳定性。而XDS说白了就是电子系统通过刹车去模拟出来限滑差速器的效果，肯定不如VAQ这种实体限滑差速器，这点后期只能通过改装解决了。这个问题已经广大车主被吐槽几年了，当初7.5代是因为国产与海外版本变速箱不一致，存在技术难度，所以国产没有配备VAQ，如今国产、海外都是一个型号的变速箱，还有什么理由？给个选装也好吧？接着是转向机，此前国产7.5代GTI惨遭减配，采用与普通版本一样的2.7圈“买菜”转向机，而8代回归了欧版设定的2.1圈运动转向机。也就是说转向比更小了，转向手感理论上会更加灵活、紧致，对于GTI这种追求操控直接的小钢炮来说算是个大buff。与此同时，8代GTI车身高度比普通版本降低8mm，弹簧磅数也提升了15%，DCC自适应悬架系统依然是标配，从舒适到运动，悬架阻尼分15段可调。之前由于7.5代采用2.7圈转向机，导致原先转向机与DCC的匹配受到影响，即转向手感与底盘回馈的匹配度变差，毕竟2.1圈转向机才是原配，这次8代在这方面应该会有所改善。所以，国产8代GTI的提升，更多是尽可能在回归GTI原有的样子，将以前7.5代缺少的、阉割的东西都补了回来，但不得不说没有VAQ前桥电控限滑差速器依然是个遗憾。不过还有一个好消息，8代GTI在达到国6B的同时，并没有加装GPF颗粒捕捉器，所以声浪多少还是保留了一些，没有像大部分性能车惨遭毒手，运动模式下原地轰踩油门依然有轻微的噗通噗通回火。但是根据消息，2022年生产的车就要加装了，话说回来，有几个买GTI的不会去动一下排气？至少对于二阶程序，保证进排气通畅是必须的，高密度三元头段以及GPF这种堵住排气的元凶肯定不能留。再来说说一眼就能看见的提升，这些就不是补课了，而是实实在在的提升：一是外观更漂亮了，8代GTI在普通版本基础上加入了蜂窝进气格栅、五点式LED雾灯、“风火轮”的轮圈，其中格栅和轮圈都是延续7.5代的设计。与7.5代不同，原先屁股左下的“GTI”标，被移到了正中间，同时被喷成红色，大众可能觉得这样左下就空出来了，所以加了个“380TSI”的标上去。也许是8代普通版本已经非常运动了，所以我总感觉8代GTI相比之下的差异化没那么明显，辨识度没以前那么强。二是内饰，8代高尔夫主打数字化，所以8代GTI自然也会跟上，各种屏幕往上堆。10.25英寸液晶仪表，有转速表中置的GTI专属主题，同时表底也从260KM/H升至280KM/H；中控屏幕，与普通版本的顶配一样是10英寸的，但是据体验过试装车的人说依然卡顿。此外，还有运动方向盘和运动座椅，这个座椅相比7.5代有明显提升，变成桶形座椅了，中间是经典的格子布，外面一圈Alcantara。三是配置，依照目前的消息，8代GTI的配置会比较高，方向盘加热、前排座椅加热、前排座椅记忆、抬头显示、哈曼卡顿音响据说全是标配。难道说是动力不够，配置来凑？为什么没用海外版本的新发动机？对我们来说是好事还是坏事？原因很简单：成本。EA888 Evo4 2.0T发动机在海外投产不久，尚未引入国内，这个时间点上市的国产8代GTI想要用到海外版本的新发动机，要么从海外小规模进口新发动机，要么在国内单独再开一条新发动机的生产线。无论哪种，成本都非常难以控制，毕竟GTI一个月的销量能不能破百都是问题。所以，大众选择了最为划算的一条路生产8代GTI，即与普通版本共线生产，并沿用老的发动机。但是大众在国内的确有关于新一代发动机的计划，比如普通版本采用的1.4T发动机会在2022年换装成全新1.5T，也许8.5代GTI出来的时候EA888 Evo4 2.0T发动机就已经在国内完全投产了。没用新发动机对我们来说是好是坏？首先原厂状态下的动力确实不如海外版本，但是旧发动机在世界范围内有着极其成熟的改装经验，有无数人在前面试错，也被证明潜力巨大。只要进排气等硬件跟上，然后选择大厂的程序，还是比较稳定的，也只能这么安慰准车主们了。为什么GTI那么有名？它在玩车圈子里代表什么？为什么GTI在玩车的圈子里这么出名，其实我认为主要包含几个因素：“历史传承”、“性价比”还有“造型”，而其中最为关键的，就是GTI的历史传承，因为相比于从4代高尔夫才开始正式诞生的高R，GTI则是从初代开始就已经诞生。时间拉回到1975年，那时候初代GTI面世，尽管就已经搭载了一颗110马力的1.6L四缸发动机，百公里加速只要9.2秒，可能现在看来这个数据根本不值一提，但是你要知道，即便是后来在头文字D里秒天秒地秒空气的AE86，出厂搭载的4A-GEC发动机也不过128匹马力，而这个4A-GEC发动机是1984年8月才正式生产，所以回头想想，初代GTI的110马力着实有些恐怖。而大众之所以要做GTI，主要原因是为了去参加比赛，结果比赛规定需要有5000台市售同型车才可以参赛，大众公司一看没辙，于是就造了5000台GTI出来卖，顺便还可以看看这台车的市场反馈，结果，这5000台车在面世之后，车迷们都疯狂了，而且当时很多人都以为只有5000台配额，于是车迷们、二道贩子们都纷纷抢购。后来，大众一看这车卖的这么好，于是就开始不断的生产、加推，以至于这台基于初代高尔夫打造的GTI，从1975年诞生开始，一共生产了大约53万辆，大众公司在靠这台车赚钱的时候，也靠这台车赢得了口碑。但是，远在大洋彼岸的美国，这个初代GTI却被人吐槽的体无完肤，一方面是因为大众在1975年把高尔夫引入美国市场的时候，给换了一个“RABBIT”的名字，没有继续使用高尔夫的名号，换名字也就算了，还为了迎合所谓的美系审美，给这车加了一个奇丑无比的加长型保险杠，并且到了1980年的时候，还把高尔夫标志性的圆灯换成了方灯；另一方面，直到1983年的时候，大众才在美国推出RABBIT GTI，可是发动机却只给用上了91匹马力的1.8L发动机，要知道在1983年的时候，欧洲不仅已经上市了2代高尔夫，而且用的就是这颗1.8L发动机，美国人看完直呼内行，不愧是大众，时隔8年姗姗来迟的小钢炮，不仅用的是普通版本的发动机，而且套的还是个旧壳子。除了在当时的美国市场玩了一出“区别对待”之外，大众对于欧洲市场的消费者，也化身成为“韭菜收割机”，在1983年欧洲市场推出2代高尔夫之后，大众在1984年发布了2代GTI，这台车在进气栅格周围还是保留了一圈红边，一样有“GTI”三个字母，一样基于普通高尔夫进行强化打造，但是，这一代的GTI只有112匹马力。要知道，初代GTI是1975年面世，换言之大众用了接近10年的时间，只是给它的后继车型在排量上提升了0.2L，动力提升了2匹马力，百公里加速只快了0.3秒。但是，当年的欧洲消费者还是咬牙买单了，毕竟这是GTI，结果在2代GTI上市还没过多久，买了车的消费者傻眼了，大众在1986年推出了一台升级版车型“高尔夫GTI 16V”，之所以叫这个名字，主要是大众给这台车配上了双顶置凸轮轴16气门发动机。当然，对于当时那些还没有买2代GTI的准客户来说，这简直是天大的喜讯，因为现在GTI 16V上市，他们就不用花冤枉钱去买那个只比上一代提升2匹马力的普通版本了，毕竟这台16V有139匹马力，而且在GTI标志的下面，还增加了一个16V的LOGO，头灯也变成了4个圆形大灯，你开这台车在马路上溜达，车迷们都会像你抛来羡慕的眼神。但是，那些兴冲冲去买了GTI 16V的车主还没来得及高兴多久，大众公司就在1988年推出了“GTI G60”，而且这G60强化的更狠，在之前16V的基础上，不仅给加了一套机械增压套件，使得这台车能迸发出160匹马力，而且还给配了一套15寸的BBS轮毂和一套RECARO运动座椅，简单来说一句话，出厂就是改装车。如果你觉得这就是极限，那我只能说你还是小瞧了大众，因为他们在1989年又推出了限量71台的“GTI G60限量版”，不仅将发动机数值调高到了210匹马力，而且还用上了自家的四驱系统。所以，如果有人问我，高R的历史要从什么时候开始算起，我认为不是那台搭载2.8L VR6发动机的3代高尔夫VR6，更不是后来4代高尔夫R，而是这台2代GTI G60限量版，只不过那时候还没有“R”这个称呼。到了1992年的时候，3代GTI推出，只不过大众又向世人展示了一下什么叫做“新瓶装旧酒”，这台车虽然在各个方面提升都挺大，并且还配备了安全气囊、预紧式安全带、ABS防抱死系统等等安全配置，但是发动机却是在上一代16V车型的基础上，用扩缸的方式做出了这颗145马力的2.0L发动机。当然，3代GTI在1997年的时候结束了它的历史使命，因为那时候4代GTI面世了，从此，GTI进入了“涡轮时代”，只不过4代GTI除了涡轮化之外，总让人觉得有些平平无奇，似乎光芒都被那一代高尔夫R32给抢占了。如果说4代GTI离我们还比较遥远的话，那么这台车的后继车型，也就是5代GTI则是跟我们距离很近，因为这台车不仅是首款进入国内市场的GTI，而且从这时候开始，大众给GTI用上了双离合变速箱，打破了历代GTI都是手动挡的传统，如果你现在运气够好，还能在二手车市场里找到5代GTI，而且还是原装进口的。再往后的6代GTI，则更为我们所熟知，因为在2010年3月的时候，6代GTI由一汽大众正式国产上市，此后的7代和7.5代GTI和现在的8代，也是由一汽大众进行生产和销售。所以，纵观整个GTI的历史，你会发现从1975年开始至今就没有断代过，虽然大众公司把整个高尔夫的车型越做越大，但是GTI我觉得还是保留了当年的“屌丝味道”，使得消费者可以用较少的支出，就能换来不俗的驾驶体验和驾驶乐趣，并且通过自己的双手，去打造出性能更强、更有自己个性的小钢炮，同时在小钢炮逐渐四驱化的今天，能有这样一个还算传统的前驱钢炮，确实也能吸引不少玩家。高尔夫GTI应该怎么去改？既然聊到了GTI，那么势必要聊一聊汽车改装，或者我们换一个委婉一些的说法，叫做“优化升级”或者“释放潜力”，而依照常见的改装逻辑，简单来说就是“更低、更快、更帅”。首先我们来说“更低”。对于很多性能车玩家而言，原车的避震器高度实在是太高了，简直就和SUV一样，所以不少玩家都会去选择更换避震器的方式来降低车身高度，一方面可以满足自己的操控需求，另一方面则是可以提升外观的美感。简单来说，最入门的就是短弹簧，把原厂的避震弹簧替换掉；然后是高低软硬都不可调的避震器，比如倍适登的B12套装；接着是普通的绞牙避震，比如天域的SAZ；最后是高端的绞牙避震，比如KW V3、欧林斯DFV这些。当然，你也可以选择气动避震，也就是我们常说的空气悬挂，只是这东西养护起来确实比较费心，要定期做检查、做水汽分离等等，而且不少气动避震在运动性方面确实比较拉胯，更多还是用来凹造型，俗称“花盆组选手”。其次，我们来说“更快”。很多人在追求“更快”的时候都会陷入一个误区，就是先做程序、后换硬件，实际上发动机程序的调教和硬件应该是相互配合的，对于大多数入门玩家而言，所谓的“特调程序”只是一个赚你钱的借口，与其去相信所谓的特调程序，不如去选择一些大品牌，比如APR、REVO、AW（不是国内那个AW，是正经德国产的Abteilung Werkswagen）、ACR、MTM等等。除此之外，千万要记得一句话，那就是“跑的快更要刹的住”，所以对于车辆圈胎和制动系统的升级，也是必不可少的，甚至可以说圈胎和刹车的优先级，是高于ECU刷写的。对于圈胎和刹车的选择，我的建议是和程序选择一样的，就是在你对于相关知识没有什么了解的情况下，就挑知名度高的品牌去买，这里不是说国产锻造轮毂或者国产品牌的刹车不好，只是这里面水太深，一般人把握不住。一般入门级的改装，直接选择雅泛迪、迈斯盾、IFG等铸造或者旋压轮毂就可以了，如果你想再高端一点，国产的MMX、FACEWHEELS、ACE、ATMOS等等也是不错的选择，或者美国的ROTIFORM、NICHE、ROHANA等等，也可以看看日本的ENKEI或者英国的3SDM、ISPIRI，包括现在德产的BBS其实价格也已经亲民很多，所以也是一个不错的选择……当然，如果你就认日本BBS、RAYS、WORK、OZ、HRE之类的大品牌，只能说多留心，别买到假货就行。刹车也是同理，你听说过的BREMBO、AP、ALCON这些都可以选择，一样不要贪便宜买到假货，另外就是现在很多大品牌的刹车上面都有二维码，可以扫码来看真假。最后，就是我们说的“更帅”。这一点其实见仁见智，毕竟对于外观、内饰的什么更多取决于每个人不同的眼光，一般来说，对于车辆外形的改装无非就是更换包围、加装尾翼、加装风刀，夸张一点的弄一套宽体，当然，换圈胎、换刹车、降低车身高度等等，也能提升外观上的颜值，包括不少人贴改色膜，其实也是为了车子更帅，然后去进行改装。当然，贴改色膜的时候一定要做好心理准备，就是很多时候你看到贴完改色膜之后很帅的车子，其实跟改色膜的关系不大，主要是车子改的好。这个价位除了GTI还有哪些选择？那么，如果想玩这种小钢炮，我们除了GTI还有哪些选择？说实话，如果你早几年提出这样的问题，那我可以给你列举出包括福克斯ST、奥迪A3 45TFSI、宝马120i（进口两厢版）等等选择项，但是这些车子目前都已经没有新车在售了，所以如果你想用二十多万的价格去买一台新车，而且还要符合小钢炮的属性，我能想到的只剩下领克03+、领克02 HatchBack以及凯迪拉克CT4。首先我们来聊一聊18.58-24.88万的领克03+，其实排除掉那个冠军定制版，这台车顶配的价格只要22.88万。领克03+属于一台值得称作“国货之光”的产品，不仅发动机参数达到了254马力/350牛米，而且配备了代号“AWF8F45”的爱信8AT变速箱，并且领克03+还有博格华纳的四驱系统，这在二十来万的小钢炮里，属于越级的配置，更不用说这台车的内饰做的确实漂亮，坐进车里之后满眼都是ALCANTARA翻毛皮包裹，而且还有运动座椅，我就想问一句，有谁愿意去拒绝自己车里装满了翻毛皮呢？但是，领克03+相比于高尔夫GTI而言，确实少了一些传承感，毕竟这车能拿来吹牛B的故事，就是WTCR夺冠，并且你去选择03+的前提，除了要垂涎于这台车的性能，还必须能够接受这台车的外观造型设计。接着我们来聊一聊领克新出的02 Hatchback，这台车目前售价还没有公布，而目前领克02的2.0T版本定价16.68-16.88万，个人猜测这台领克02 Hatchback的价格有可能和低配的领克03+差不多，也就是18.58万左右。相比于高尔夫GTI而言，领克02 Hatchback有着和领克03+同款的动力总成，还有和领克03+同款的圈胎，同时还有比领克02更夸张的外形，而且车辆外形不仅是两厢车的设计，还有真皮内饰和橙色缝线，整台车从配置和观感上来说，确实比高尔夫GTI看起来豪华很多。当然，领克02 Hatchback也不是那么十全十美，或者说这台车的小钢炮味道还是有点欠缺，一方面是因为这台车并不带“+”号，所以在性能、内饰、外形上，都没有03+那么夸张；另一方面，领克02 Hatchback实际上是基于领克02这个紧凑型SUV打造，所以这台车的车内坐姿会偏高，很难给你传统小钢炮那种“贴地飞行”的感觉；最后，这台车还有一个问题，那就是如果你开着领克02 Hatchback出去洗车，你觉得洗车店老板会按SUV的价格来收费，还是按普通轿车的价格来收费？聊完了两台领克，我们最后来聊一聊定价23.97-25.97万的凯迪拉克CT4。其实我最初很纠结要不要拿CT4来进行对比，因为依照传统的眼光来看，CT4这种三厢后驱轿车其实很难称的上是钢炮车型，但是看看这台车的性能和售价，还有凯迪拉克CT4一直主打的运动调性，我觉得似乎也不是不能拿来进行比较。相比于高尔夫GTI而言，凯迪拉克CT4首先是一台后驱车，还有50：50的前后配重，在同级别、同价位中进行对比，可以说“只此一家、别无分店”，并且凯迪拉克CT4的运动氛围做的确实很到位，偏沉的转向、偏硬的悬挂……这些都能让你很直接、很灵活的去和车辆进行沟通，从驾驶的质感和乐趣上来说，不输于高尔夫GTI这种小钢炮。但是，我最为感到担忧的地方，就是凯迪拉克CT4的动力，现在CT4上面那颗237马力/350牛米的LSY发动机，确实有点拖了后腿，尽管这台车之前还推出了官方5.9s的程序，但是回头看看凯迪拉克ATS-L上面那颗279马力/400牛米的LTG发动机，不仅拥有着同级别中最暴力、最嚣张的动力参数，而且出厂状态下就能做到6.2s的百公里加速，如果你再进行程序刷写，可以毫无压力的成为“5秒俱乐部”的会员。综合来说，凯迪拉克CT4也好，领克的03+或者02 Hatchback也罢，它们和高尔夫GTI之间其实很好选择，只要想明白自己要的是啥就可以了，想要后驱就去买CT4，想要四驱就去买03+，想要空间大一点就去买02 Hatchback，想要味道纯正一点的小钢炮，那就去看看高尔夫GTI。现在的GTI是不是已经没什么优势了？那么，现在的GTI是不是真的已经没有什么优势了，我觉得要分角度去看待。如果你只在意车辆的百公里加速成绩，那么GTI确实没有什么优势，因为现在的电动车把车辆的加速性能门槛拉的很低，而且顺带把价格也给拉低了，这些电动车的诞生，使得GTI在原厂状态下的零百加速有些不够看。比如之前我们聊过的极氪001，起步价20来万的电动车，能做到百公里加速4秒内的成绩；又比如最近被推上风口浪尖的特斯拉Model 3，你也只需要花费和GTI差不多的价格，就能拥有百公里加速5.6秒的性能；还有比亚迪汉EV、小鹏P7高性能版等等车型。要知道，对于大多数人而言，什么操控、改装、下赛道、排气声浪……这些都离的很遥远，与其在意这些，倒不如弄一台能在红绿灯路口可以一下子蹿出去的车，只不过，如果你选择的是特斯拉，蹿出去之后能不能刹得住就是另一回事儿了。但是，如果你从另一个方面去看，你会发现GTI依旧有它自己的优势。首先是设计，按照同价位的车型去寻找，你会发现很难找到第二台像GTI这样的纯种两厢小钢炮，就像我们在前文说的，即便领克推出了02 Hatchback，那也是一台SUV降低车身之后的产品，并非纯种的两厢小车，而对于钢炮玩家而言，如果车子不是一个纯种的两厢车设计，又怎么能对得起小钢炮的名头呢？其次，GTI有代际传承、有不错的性能、有极大的后期改装空间、有不俗的驾驶乐趣。换言之，如果你很在意的“情怀”这两个字，特别喜欢GTI给你带来的驾驶乐趣，并且想要不断的去把这台车变成自己理想中的样子，那么GTI确实是一个很不错的选择，哪怕你开着GTI在路上被各种崩哭，当你看到方向盘上“GTI”三个字的时候，当你看到自己车头那一抹红的时候，你也会心满意足，然后默默的念叨一句“马路不是赛车场，有本事咱们赛道见”。可以添加微信46415254加入我们的社群音频图文更新在订阅号： 百车全说每期抽三条留言，每人赠168元的“芥末绿”燃油添加剂一瓶点击订阅，每周三，周六更新会有提醒新听友可以搜索：百车全说2014，百车全说2015，百车全说2016，往期300多个小时的节目可供收听

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This week Randall and Craig discuss the new ENVE Custom Road Project, SPD Power Meter Pedals from Garmin and what vaccinations are going to mean for our own group riding.   Links: ENVE Custom Road Garmin Rally SPD Power Pedal DynaPlug Support the Podcast Join The Ridership Full Transcription: [00:00:00] Craig Dalton: [00:00:00] Hello and welcome to another episode of in the dirt from the gravel ride podcast i'm your host craig dalton i'll be joined shortly by my co-host randall jacobs. [00:00:10]Every two weeks Randall and I discuss how gravel cycling is fitting into our lives in that particular week. And also look at recent product drops and events being announced in the industry. It's been quite quiet over the last few months, but I feel like with vaccinations coming, we're starting to see new product launches and a lot more talk about events. In person later this year. [00:00:35] [00:00:35]If you're a first time listener. Welcome. In the alternating weeks, I have long form interviews with product designers, event organizers and athletes. With a goal of shedding light on the ever nuance sport of gravel cycling. [00:00:50]We've got quite an extensive back catalog of episodes with about a hundred already recorded. So if there's an event or product or an athlete that you're curious [00:01:00]About just scroll back in your podcast feed. I think you'll find we've covered a lot of territory over the last two and a half years. The podcast is sponsored by a small number of supporters, but mainly by listeners, like you. Simply visit, buy me a coffee.com/the gravel ride. [00:01:19]And choose how you'd like to support the show. Your support is greatly appreciated. With that said let's dive right in to this week show. [00:01:30]  [00:01:30] Randall. Good to see ya. [00:01:33] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:01:33] Good to see you as well. Craig, how have you been? [00:01:35] Craig Dalton: [00:01:35] I've been well , for some reason it feels like I haven't talked to you in a long time this week. [00:01:40]Randall R. Jacobs: [00:01:40] I have been largely off grid. So, I on a road trip was in death Valley with my colleague, Sam, and then now I'm in Southern Utah and where I've been for the past couple of weeks. [00:01:50] So it's been a good amount of time since we, [00:01:53] Craig Dalton: [00:01:53] yeah, that makes sense. That's awesome. I forgot that you were intending on meeting up with Sam. Did you guys end up camping and doing some riding together? [00:02:00]Randall R. Jacobs: [00:02:00] So we left bikes at home and I've actually left my bike at home entirely for this roughly four week trip intentionally. [00:02:06] So a lot of trail running and hiking and long walks and so on. Just because of. Yeah, I figured it's one. I have a Prius camper and so I can fit the bike, but it's a lot more work to pull it out and then put in, pull it out, lock it up, outside the car to camp and then, throw it back in and so on. [00:02:21] But then also I just wanted some time away from the bike to, so I could fall back in love with it. And I've been really enjoying trail running and going up a little bit of light mountaineering and things like that on this trip. And so. So yeah, time away. So they do [00:02:34] Craig Dalton: [00:02:34] not take away your gravel cyclist membership card if you cycle for a month. [00:02:40]Randall R. Jacobs: [00:02:40] I think I think I got a lifetime membership for the amount that I've put into this particular space. Hopefully people will forgive me for being off the bike for a bit. Yeah. It [00:02:48] Craig Dalton: [00:02:48] often feels that way. I think, I growing up in the eighties as a cyclist, more primarily in the nineties, obviously. [00:02:56] There was this going sort of vision as a [00:03:00] cyclist that you just have to ride all the time in order to be a cyclist. So it's, I'm stuck in that mentality. I sort of start to get itchy. If I take a prolonged amount of time off the bike. [00:03:12] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:03:12] Yeah, I'll be honest. Like I, my relationship to the bike is very different than it used to be. [00:03:16] I used to have that kind of compulsive need to put the miles in, but I'm really enjoying both the change of scenery, change of lifestyle, still working on the road, of course, but just a completely different Headspace and out of my usual routines and the bike being one of those. When I get back to the Bay area, I'll definitely be doing plenty of riding. [00:03:34] And then again in Boston when I'm out that way, starting probably in may. [00:03:38]Craig Dalton: [00:03:38] Yeah. I mean, the thing is, and the truth is, and everybody listening knows it. Like the bike is always there for you. And that's the beautiful thing about it. Certainly when my son was born that first year, I was pretty light on the bike and that predated my interest in gravel cycling. [00:03:53] And when I came back and discovered gravel cycling, I just sort of grabbed hold of it and was all in again. [00:04:00] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:04:00] Well, one thing I will say that I'm quite excited about is vaccination. So you got vaccinated. [00:04:05] Craig Dalton: [00:04:05] Yeah. So I'm one shot in. [00:04:07] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:04:07] Yeah. So you have the next [00:04:09] Craig Dalton: [00:04:09] one coming up. Yeah. The next one's coming up, I think April 15th. [00:04:12] And it was quite a powerful experience actually. I took the time to talk to a lot of the people who were volunteering at the vaccination site and they were like, you wouldn't believe it. Like we have people burst into tears of relief. Just to have started that process. And I definitely felt [00:04:30] that, I mean, by no means am I being cavalier in my life and my protection at this point, one shot in, and obviously my family is not vaccinated yet, but I have a sense of hope. [00:04:40] I'm really excited about more of my friends getting vaccinated and just slowly returning back. [00:04:48] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:04:48] I definitely feel that the combination of the, having the pandemic and then having the long, cold winter and both of those lifting and having the thing really excited about as well. [00:04:59] I'm here potting with friends who are themselves vaccinated met up with a couple other friends who were in the medical field and are vaccinated. And we took precautions, but we could relax a little bit and. By the time I get to Boston, I hope that group rides can be a thing again, granted with appropriate precautions and so on and trying to not have too many people out and keep some distancing and so on. [00:05:18] But with some  responsible protocol, that being a thing. Yeah. [00:05:23] Craig Dalton: [00:05:23] Curious to learn sort of how we all have appropriate protocols. I know that the ridership forum, one of the members posted an article originated from USA cycling, but also offered and layered in a lot of his. Personal precautions and experiences and riding throughout the pandemic. [00:05:41] It's just going to be strange. I went on a ride over the weekend of my largest group ride in, 14 months, six people, three people vaccinated. So obviously we were massed up and trying to stay distanced, but it's weird. It's awkward to sort of be half in half out. And I think we're all going to go [00:06:00] through with this. [00:06:01]The next four or five months potentially, and it's just important that we stay strong and conservative so that we can go into the winter as a country in a good, in good position. [00:06:14] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:06:14] I think the other thing that we need to be mindful of is that these vaccines are very effective, but are not 100% effective and with new variants and so on, we might need boosters. [00:06:25] And, some degree of precaution protocol will be necessary for awhile, but to be able to know that the worst of it is over or hopefully over is an immense relief. So yeah, absolutely. With you there. I think we get mine in April when I'm back in the Bay. I think California is going to. Offer them to everybody starting either on the first or the 15th of April. [00:06:44] Craig Dalton: [00:06:44] Yeah. This is the 15th of April. It's open to everybody. And I do think, the it was like an assembly line where I went, it was in a high school gymnasium and they were just pumping people through, which is great to see. So I do think if you're motivated, you're going to be able to get in there. [00:06:59] And I, I hope my wife has sort of similarly is just going to get in on the earlier side of April yeah. To get our household vaccinated. Excellent. Excellent. Excellent. But this is not a pandemic COVID medical podcast. We're here to talk about gravel bikes as usual. I feel like a few companies are starting to put new things out there, which is exciting because a few more products coming to our desks. [00:07:22] I know you sort of, one of them caught your eye and a couple of caught my eye that we should talk about. [00:07:28] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:07:28] Yeah. So mine would [00:07:30] be the Donna plugger from Dyna plug. And not that it's anything radically new, it's just a much less expensive solution to their already great Dyna plug set up. And I've been using the bacon strips just because I found the dyno plugs cheap, even though the dyno plugs are. [00:07:45] Arguably more effective or less, less fussy with this, I really have no excuse and I think neither does this will be something that I'm recommending to pretty much all of our right well, to all of our riders from here on in 25 bucks comes with four of the plugs. You can get the replacement plugs as well. [00:07:59] It's super lightweight and it just works. And it's way better than having to pull off your wheel and pop a bead and dump out your ceilings and pull a valve or pull a valve STEM out and so on and throw a tube in. So. Yeah, good job, Donna plug in making this more accessible. [00:08:15] Craig Dalton: [00:08:15] Yeah, I think that's cool. Just to drive that point home. [00:08:17] I mean, they brought the price down from 50 or 60 plus dollars in their original kits that I'd been using previously down to what is it? 29 95. So that's awesome. [00:08:28] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:08:28] 24 99, I think with these. And I believe that they're made domestically as well domestic to the U S so that's cool. [00:08:34] Craig Dalton: [00:08:34] Yeah, that's awesome. [00:08:36] It was funny. I was out Riding Laurel Del maybe three weeks ago. And I had just. I had gotten the GoPro max camera. So I've been playing around with my three 60 photography and my buddy, Jason, shout out to Jason. If he's listening, he is bombing down. There's no tomorrow through Laurel Dell having the time of his life. [00:08:55] I think he was thinking I was going to catch him, but his speed and velocity was [00:09:00] so intense. Like I kept getting close to them, him, and then losing him again. And he blasted through the rock garden at the bottom before the Creek crossing and the tire just explodes upon crossing the river. [00:09:17] So we were he was like, that was just the greatest five minutes of my cycling career. And we're like, now it's going to be the worst four hours of your life. As we hike up to the Ridge and try to find your way home, et cetera. But we had it, we had a couple of plugs which is why I'm mentioning it. [00:09:35] We plugged the tire, but it was too far gone. He'd actually dented the rim and we did have to pull it out. We put a 700 by 30 inner tube for a six 50 by 43 tire. So it was sort of overinflated on the inner tube in, and quite a bit wonky on the way out. But, we were able to ride all the way home, which I considered a victory. [00:10:02] He finally reflated again, right when we got to mill Valley. So someone was able to come back and pick them up. [00:10:09] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:10:09] Now it makes me think. He might want to add another solution, which is we have a few riders mentioned my friend Isaac before who's in the ridership and he uses the foam inserts. I can't recall which ones he's using. [00:10:20] It's the air force or one of the others, but these detonating tires and denting rooms in the process, maybe that's something to add into the package. [00:10:28] Craig Dalton: [00:10:28] Yeah. I think if you're a larger [00:10:30] rider, That seems to make a lot of sense. I didn't really think about it in that context, Jason's definitely well, over six foot tall, a bigger guy, so he's hitting things hard. [00:10:39] Those crushed core or other types of foam inserts might be something of interest. [00:10:44] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:10:44] Yeah. I actually just recommended it to one of our riders who wanted to start exploring lower pressures with our carbon rims. And it's well, they're very robustly made. And when you run them too low and you hit a rock, it's going to be a very expensive repair. [00:10:58] So, yeah. Yeah, the people I know who ride them really like them adds a little bit of weight, but if you're riding that aggressively, who cares, you're already on a very efficient machine. Yeah. [00:11:07] Craig Dalton: [00:11:07] Particularly if you're a bigger guy or gal, like why not? Right. Yeah. Yeah. The other thing that I have here, yeah. [00:11:14] I was going to say the thing that I've picked up over the transom was these new power meter pedals from Garmin, they're called the rally power meters. And they're built on an SPD chassis, which to my knowledge is the first sort of SPD style, power meter pedal that's existed. [00:11:36] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:11:36] I feel like there may have been another one made by Expedo or some, one of the other Taiwanese pedal makers. [00:11:44]Don't quote me on that, but these definitely look really well-made SPDs, as I ride them. I'm a big fan. They're ubiquitous. They're a little bit heavy. It adds like relative to an XD. I'm seeing XDS at 170 grams a piece. These are 220 grams. So an extra 50 grams per [00:12:00] pedal. But dual-sided power meters. [00:12:02] You can transfer them to any bike. They install really easily and you don't have to buy a set of pedals because these are your pedals. So, in all those regards, it makes sense. They're a bit pricey. I think there a thousand [00:12:13] Craig Dalton: [00:12:13] bucks. Yeah. Over a thousand bucks. So definitely pricey. I mean, I think, yeah. Well, you would know better than I, what can you get into a crank ARM-based power meter for, [00:12:23]Randall R. Jacobs: [00:12:23] so if you have crank arms that have a flat inner surface there's a good chance that four I's power meters will work for you. And this is what we recommend to our riders. Cause we have our cranks are hollow, forged aluminum, so it's a smooth surface on the back. [00:12:37] And so this is like a nine grand power meter that you can get either with a coin cell or rechargeable. They both have their upsides and downsides. I like the coin sell myself cause it lasts a really long time and you replace it really easily. And there's no port to get contaminated, but different strokes for different folks. [00:12:54]And it's 300 bucks. Now the downside is that you have to remove your crank set and ship your crank out and be without your bike for two weeks. So that's a bummer, but it works really well. It's single sided. So it's not giving you. You an average of the two sides. It's not giving you a sense of any sort of imbalance, but most people are pretty balanced and frankly, like it's accurate enough for you to understand your progress. [00:13:17] And I think that's really the critical thing. [00:13:18] Craig Dalton: [00:13:18] Yeah. Imagine if you're a professional athlete, knowing about a little bit of imbalance between your legs is something you can work on with your coach. But as the average athlete, as you said, we're, hopefully mostly balanced [00:13:30] and it works itself out in the wash. [00:13:32] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:13:32] Yeah. Yeah. And as far as the weight is concerned, nine grams. So you could actually buy the cheapest Shimano pedals, like the M five twenties, which I recommend all the time, because it just bomb-proof add one of these nine grand power meters and be at $300 versus a thousand dollars and still have a lighter setup. [00:13:49] So I think that's something to consider. [00:13:52] Craig Dalton: [00:13:52] Yeah. Now that you're mentioning it, cause I, I thought, Oh, this would be really cool to be able to swap between the two, but you might as well at $300 price point. [00:14:00] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:14:00] Get one, one, three different bikes. You have a hundred dollars to buy yourself a nice meal. [00:14:05] Craig Dalton: [00:14:05] Exactly. Have you ever trained with power? [00:14:08] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:14:08] Oh yeah, I trained, I had the original wireless power tap with a, an old school Garmin edge, seven Oh five, which was like the big unit back in the day. Yeah. And it was it was pretty radical at the time. And I remember reading I think it's Andrew Cogans book training and racing with the power meter and then Joe Freels book the mountain bikers Bible or something along those lines for a title. [00:14:33] And it just I'd always trained with heart rate. And hardware gives you a lot of great information and you can correlate that with your perceived exertion and your cadence and so on and learn a lot. But adding power to the, I mean, power is just such an absolute metric. Like I weighed this much. [00:14:52] I can put out this much power for this much time. And how does that correlate to my heart rate? And how does that correlate to my cadence and how can I optimize those things in [00:15:00] my body, temperature manager and my fueling strategy and so on to get that power number. As high as possible, as long as possible. [00:15:07] Craig Dalton: [00:15:07] Yeah. I think that's what always interests me about it. There's a purity to a power number that you just can't get anywhere else. [00:15:15] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:15:15] Yeah. At the end of the day it's if you're in an event keeping all else equal, like power, is it though granted? One of the beautiful things about training with power is it kept me from over-training. [00:15:26] Right? So now you have all of these ways of looking at being in a certain zone for a certain amount of time based on your. Your threshold power and your max power and so on in this kind of a curve. And then you can see. And so, like I, I found when I first started training with power, that was over-training. [00:15:41] And so I backed off and focused on recovery more and did more intensity before major events and it actually made a huge difference. [00:15:50] Craig Dalton: [00:15:50] And were you using the power meter while you were racing off [00:15:53] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:15:53] road? No. Back then power. The only. I think it was the SRM. And then there was, which was a crank based, very expensive, very accurate but very expensive. [00:16:01] And then there was the power tap, which was a hub based system. And so I had built up a set of wheel aluminum wheels, training wheels. It was back in the day when you had training wheels and race wheels. Now, everyone just has really nice wheels with disc brakes. Cause you don't really have to worry about wearing them out. [00:16:16] Peters work well in carbon wheels are relatively inexpensive now, but yeah, only on the road bike for training. And then I would just use heart rate and perceived exertion in my events. [00:16:26]Craig Dalton: [00:16:26] Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you sort of see the road racing the road, racers, [00:16:30] looking down at their power meters and you understand, how scientific the coaching staff can be back in the cars because they know exactly what kind of power numbers these athletes can put out. [00:16:42] They're like, okay,  go ride the front. We'd add such and such Watts and keep it there because we know you're capable of doing that. And we know you can do that for 20 minutes. And at 20 minutes in one second, we're going to pop you off. We're going to slot the next athlete in there. [00:16:59] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:16:59] Makes me think back to the conversation. [00:17:01] I had a few weeks ago with Ted Kwong and he was talking about you have different racers and it's they're feeling good today. Well, you can actually verify that with a power number. Like what, how has somebody's training been? And, we now have things like 24 hour heart rate monitors. [00:17:15] So you can see how heart rate variability is a reflection of training recovery and all these things, and really make a science out of it to a much greater degree. It's pretty impressive. I still just like to go out and ride my bike. I actually have a power meter on my bike and I haven't charged it for awhile, but But, for training for events and so on, or just understanding how your body works and how it responds to stress. [00:17:38] It's [00:17:38] Craig Dalton: [00:17:38] it's really useful. Yeah. For me. Yeah. At most it would be a curiosity. I do think it, part of the thing that I love about gravel is I do feel like skill plays such an important role in your performance. Vis-a-vis other athletes at events, or even in group rides. Like I can't tell you how many more powerful riders I ride with. [00:17:58] That just don't have the technical [00:18:00] skills to navigate the terrain we have here in Marin County. [00:18:03]Randall R. Jacobs: [00:18:03] Yeah. One last thing that comes to mind on this topic is in terms of the benefits for say an experienced rider, who's not racing, which is where I put myself versus a obviously a racer. This would benefit there. [00:18:15]But then the other end, somebody who's relatively new. Who has the budget power meter together with a heart rate monitor really helps you to understand how hard to go. And so, as an example, imagine going up a 20 minute climb. And at the beginning of the climb, you're relatively fresh and you go a little bit harder. [00:18:32] And by the end of the climb, you're really, suffering quite a bit and maybe your power is way off. And had you just backed off at the beginning and spread out your effort more over the course of the ride, you would end up with a much better overall time up the Hill and end up feeling better. [00:18:47] But that's something that has to be learned through experience. [00:18:50] Craig Dalton: [00:18:50] Yeah, no, absolutely. I mean, I think every new cyclist has, is going to go through that climb where they absolutely blow up a quarter of the way up and realize they went out way too hard. And yeah, maybe having that power data helps you understand that in advance and you don't make this rookie [00:19:05] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:19:05] mistakes. [00:19:07] Yeah. Disciplined really disciplined and understanding your own physiological response to stress. [00:19:13] Craig Dalton: [00:19:13] Yeah, exactly. So I've had a buddy come to town who only has a road bike. So I've been out on the roads and I've been sort of surprisingly happy with the riding I've been doing when he originally came down and he was like wanting to ride. [00:19:28] I was frustrated [00:19:30] thinking I'm not riding off road. I'm all about the gravel riding, but it has been nice getting back on the road and sort of feeling that efficiency of riding on the road. And it's opened me up a little bit to, maybe I should spice it up a little bit more because oftentimes I feel like. [00:19:47] I'm overly abusive on my body with all the off-road riding idea and a little like phone and get in road riding would do me. Good. [00:19:55] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:19:55] Yeah. You do you still have a dedicated road bike? [00:19:59] Craig Dalton: [00:19:59] I don't. I don't. And the reason I bring it up is twofold. One. I sort of have been road riding with a little bit of chagrin being the gravel cycling guy and going out on the road. [00:20:08] It's just giving me a laugh, but I also, this week caught wind of envies new road plus bike. Envy as some of you may know, as a component manufacturer and a tube manufacturer, they've been great supportive company to the gravel cycling scene via their wheels and some great handlebars to push the limits back in the day, but they've come out of their Ogden Utah factory with this new custom road plus bike that accepts I think about to a 35 C tire, but it's pretty fascinating that. [00:20:42] An Ogden Utah based company is now offering a full custom frame set. So I just wanted to get your thoughts on it. [00:20:50] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:20:50] Yeah. This thing. So my initial impression was, Oh, here we go, another really expensive bike and it's got a seat mast and so on. Not that interesting, but when I dove [00:21:00] into it, it's custom geometry. [00:21:02] And so they had to develop a different manufacturing process to accomplish that because usually in a mass produced carbon bike, like our bikes, our frames you would essentially do usually the front triangle in one mold and you'd have five sizes of that mold. And then you do the rear triangle in another mold, and you may have, anywhere from one to three different rear triangles for that to correspond with the different sizes. [00:21:27] And that's it. And they were allowing, it seems that they're allowing more or less full customization of all the two blanks. And that's that's really hard to do. This is not a mass production process. And so it makes sense why it costs what it does and even the seat mast, which I'm not a huge fan of because it makes it so that a bike has very limited adjustability. [00:21:47] Well, already this bike is being very highly tailored for a very specific rider. And so in that sort of scenario, a seat mass does offer some very subtle advantages potentially in terms of weight in terms of being able to tune the frame. Just so, it's not a decision that I would make, but I can see why it's done here. [00:22:07] Craig Dalton: [00:22:07] Yeah. Interesting. Oftentimes we've talked in the past about custom steel builders and that experience when you have the wherewithal to get accustomed bike, it's just a beautiful process. To work with a builder and have it totally customized to you. And to your point, to be able to do that out of carbon is a pretty special experience. [00:22:29] I'm [00:22:30] excited for the team at envy to have cracked whatever code and put that out there to the cycling community. I'm [00:22:37] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:22:37] actually very, I would be very curious. They probably won't let me in because I work in the space, but I'd be very curious to see how they're doing the customization. So I'm Craig Calfee is as a friend and I've been down to his workshop down in Santa Cruz. [00:22:52] And at one time well, I assume he's still doing it this way. He was 3d printing, molds, custom molds for lugs, and then the L and then he would use a carbon tube to lug sort of construction. Which is an older style, which used to see on, steel brace frames and so on, but it allowed him to do a custom carbon setup. [00:23:11] And in this case it doesn't seem to be, there doesn't seem to be lugs. I'm not quite sure how they're joining the frame joining the tubes. There's no weight figures on here. So I can't even really guess, like if it was on the heavier side, I would think there was probably lugs cause there'd be more overlap and more material. [00:23:25] So I'd be very curious to see how they're pulling that off. And if they're even doing things with say custom tube, stiffnesses. For different riders have different weights to get the tuning characteristics you want either, something as a little bit more flexible for a lighter rider or an off-road or a rough road rider versus something stiffer for someone who's bigger, more powerful and, or riding more on smooth roads. [00:23:48] So quite curious here. [00:23:50] Craig Dalton: [00:23:50] Yeah, it's curious, it sort of reminds me of that Australian company bastion cycles who was doing. Extensive amounts of 3d printed [00:24:00] titanium. So they were 3d printing the whole bottom bracket shell, the head tubes, so they could get the angles as well as the other bits and bobs around the bike. [00:24:11] And then they were using carbon tubes to bring it all together. Is it possible that envy is actually printing the mold shape custom for the individual and then, doing the process from there. That's I'm wondering if like mold technology has evolved in such a way that, that, that becomes possible. [00:24:31] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:24:31] I haven't seen anything like that. I could speculate on some possibilities just for fun and see if we if we get it right. But I mean, the way that it's usually done. So it used to be you lay, put the layup on you have a two-piece mold. You lay the carbon in the mold all around, according to a certain schedule, a typical frame might have, a couple hundred plies or potentially more to tune the flex characteristics and so on. [00:24:55] Just so in stiffness to do custom, I mean, you could do tube to lug if you want. Oh. And then you would put a bladder in, or now the, they use a a foam. And in fact, it's a combination process where it's a foam that is dipped in latex and in that latex creates a bladder. So now you get the best of both being able to force air into a bladder to really push out all, any sort of voids, but then also the foam is expanding too. [00:25:23] So, the mass production technique is really advanced. Now [00:25:26]Craig Dalton: [00:25:26] Is that inflation is that to basically push [00:25:30] the. Carbon fiber applies to the outside of the mole, then create whatever the ultimate frame tube shape is going to be. [00:25:37] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:25:37] Okay. Yeah. It's the, compactified those carbon layers. So all those layers get pushed right up against the inner surface of the outside of the Mo. [00:25:45]What's the way to explain this this, the outer surface on the inside of the mold, just getting pushed up against there and to the extent that you can. Have more pressure pushing that as it's being cured. You're essentially getting rid of a lot of the voids that are in that material. [00:26:00] Inevitably, you're still going to have some voids to the extent that you can minimize them and keep them small as well it just makes for a stronger, more consistent frame set [00:26:10] Craig Dalton: [00:26:10] and talking to you previously. I mean, it's the mold, as you're designing a bike, the mold is a great expense. [00:26:16] Obviously you've got to engineer what that looks like. But then minting that mold is a big step in the process, correct? [00:26:23] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:26:23] Yeah. So doing it in granted, things might be getting more expensive. Now, a supply chains, as we've talked about on the pod before are mess right now and the, even the frame vendors are seeing, Much higher than usual demand, which means that they're probably charging more for molds. [00:26:40] But last I checked from a tier one high volume vendor, a set of five molds would run say 50 or $60,000. And you might spend another say 30 to $50,000 for the molds for the the the foam that goes inside. Okay, so you have this [00:27:00] expanded polystyrene. And so that expanded polystyrene that you're putting in the mold to expand outward and push the carbon applies up against the inside of the steel mold that needs a tool as well. [00:27:13] And that tool can usually be a bit made out of something like aluminum. That's cheaper as opposed to steel, which is more durable, but much harder to machine. But nonetheless you can easily on a standard say like gravel frame set. Be investing anywhere from 50 to a hundred thousand dollars or even more, if you have, tighter size runs, maybe six, seven, eight sizes in order to launch a new model, [00:27:35] Craig Dalton: [00:27:35] Right. And then your to tune sort of how you want the bike to perform within that. There's different grades of carbon fiber that you can use and obviously different numbers of layers that you can put on any given part. [00:27:50] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:27:50] Correct. And of course, tube shapes are that kind of stuff, starting point. [00:27:54] So a bigger tube is if you have a round tube and you make it bigger, it's stiffness is going to go up exponentially relative to the increase in the diameter of the tube. And so working with tube shapes first. And then from there you can tune flex characteristics, but that mix of tube shapes, and then you can adjust further with the layup schedule the particular modulates of the carbon. [00:28:17] And you might also want to consider, say using high modulus carbon in a place that requires a lot of stiffness that doesn't have a lot of risk of impact, but then you want lower modulates carbon say on a down tube. [00:28:30] Where you could have rocks kicked up and so on. So there's a lot of considerations in optimizing this complex set of compromises in order to get an optimized structure for whatever you're going for as a product manager or an engineer, which I am not to, by the way. [00:28:44] Actually, I should just make clear, like I'm a, I am a physics nerd who spends a lot of time in factories. Who's picked up a lot from engineers, both state side and in China. But there are people who know this stuff far better than I do. Yeah. [00:28:58] Craig Dalton: [00:28:58] Presumably the team at envy, going back to their nice bike. [00:29:01] Exactly. They've got a lot of smart people over in Ogden. Utah are working on this needless to say, I mean, it's not specifically. Or non-specifically a gravel bike. It's really our road plus bike, but I encourage you and I'll put a link in the show notes for people to take a look at it because I can give them one thing for certain they've produced a beautiful looking machine that people need to put some eyes on. [00:29:27] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:29:27] Indeed. Indeed. [00:29:28] Craig Dalton: [00:29:28] Yeah. I appreciate you nerding out with me a little bit. I always learn things from our conversations. I hope the listener. Is happy to go down the rabbit hole. I've I find it fascinating just how much can go into carbon bicycles. It's just much more than meets the eye. You think, Oh, you just slap in some tubes together and that's that, but there's so much nuance from, as you describe the layup process, the shape of the tube, et cetera, that goes into producing a great riding bike. [00:29:58] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:29:58] Yeah. And before we hop [00:30:00] off, actually, there's one, one other topic I wanted to bring up, which is a, B I did my first episode recording in which you graciously provided the platform for. And we got some feedback and we got a lot of good feedback and pretty overwhelmingly positive, but there was one bit of feedback that I thought was really useful and it made me think and that was from a listener. [00:30:20] Who mentioned that we were talking about because we weren't making a living as a, as professional cyclists, we weren't technical technically professionals. And we said that kind of off the cuff and self-deprecating Lee, but she made the point that I thought it was a very valid point that by that standard, a lot of women racers wouldn't be professional. [00:30:40] And that was by no mean, the intention of that statement. And I can see why the distinction there. This word professional has a particular meaning and it's really about the level of achievement as opposed to making a living at it. And so I wanted to call that out and just acknowledge that was an area where I learned something from a listener. [00:30:59] Craig Dalton: [00:30:59] Yeah. That's awesome. No, I appreciate that. Yeah it's hard to sort of. Talk about the disparity in wages, in professional cycling between men and women, and a lot of strides have been made, but absolutely there's a lot of men and women who are out there acting as professionals, being professional cyclists that aren't earning the living that they deserve to make. [00:31:23] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:31:23] Yeah. Yeah. And maybe didn't, I should give ourselves a little bit more credit too for having a. Accomplish what we did, even if we weren't, [00:31:30] front of the pack making, making our living at it was definitely a great experience. So please keep the feedback coming. We'll be doing a couple more of these episodes in the upcoming weeks. [00:31:39] Craig Dalton: [00:31:39] Yeah, that was awesome. And we got a lot of great feedback in the ridership forum. If you're not there already. And you have comments about this envy bicycle or power meter training. Definitely go over to the ridership.com. Get your invite and jump in. We'd love to hear from you and get that feedback. [00:31:56] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:31:56] Yeah, and even more so with the ridership now that vaccine genes are being widely distributed. [00:32:03]We can start thinking about really facilitating the sort of in-person interactions amongst listeners and in books, amongst members of that community that we've been wanting to with that platform all along. And that's something that excites me immensely, especially as I prepare to go back to the Bay and then go back to Boston where. [00:32:20] I have a lot of old friends who I haven't written with in years, not to mention a lot of people in the forum who I'll get an opportunity to meet and explore their local trails. [00:32:28] Craig Dalton: [00:32:28] Yeah. It's been great to see people sharing the roots, which I've been putting in our ride with GPS club. And as you and I have said all along, our hope is to build something. [00:32:39] That really facilitates real-world interactions. We're not trying to suck people into some digital void where we advertising. We want you to get out there and ride, and we want you to discover new places, meet new people and let's get out there and have some fun when it's safe. [00:32:57] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:32:57] Yeah, absolutely. [00:32:59] Craig Dalton: [00:32:59] Cool. Well, thanks [00:33:00] for the time this week, my friend. [00:33:01] Randall R. Jacobs: [00:33:01] Yeah, always a pleasure chatting with you, Greg. I'll talk to you soon. [00:33:05] Take care. [00:33:06]Craig Dalton: [00:33:06] Okay. So that's it for this week's episode of, in the dirt, from the gravel ride podcast. I appreciate you spending a little time with us this week. If you're not already a subscriber, please go ahead and hit that subscribe button. That's hugely indicated of how we're doing at the gravel ride. It means a lot to me. If you're interested in financially supporting the show, please visit buy me a coffee.com/the gravel ride. [00:33:31]Until next time here's to finding some dirt onto your wheels  

GSD&M are the agency behind work for brands that include the United States Air Force, Capital One, Southwest, the Great Chicken Sandwich War of 2019 - remember the chicken wars started by Popeyes - oh yeah, it was GSD&M that came up with it. They were recently tasked to launch the first-ever brand and recruitment campaign for SPACE FORCE. Maria D'Amato made a name for herself as a brilliant creative mind and smart technologist. A formative partner to clients like Southwest Airlines, Capital One, Pizza Hut, United States Air Force, and others, she has created or been integral in the creation of some of GSD&M's smartest work. For instance, this year's creation of an enormous virtual jigsaw puzzle, the 'Million Piece Mission'. It even made it made into the Guinness Book of World Records!  Perhaps her biggest achievement at the agency so far is her leadership role in helping to establish experience design as a discipline. The formalization of the XD practice—now immersed across all work streams —has fundamentally altered the way the agency approaches problem-solving. GSD&M's XDs fuse a deep understanding of users' behaviors with technical expertise and pursue innovation to the traditional creative workflow.  Maria joins me on the podcast today to share her story and how they are using technology to help brands come alive across every single touchpoint. 

Our legend of a guest this week is Kassi O'Connor from Glu Mobile. Kassi has spent well over a decade in the industry carving out a niche for herself as the bridge between internal and external development. Beyond having the most positive energy of any guest we've ever had, Kassi is a wealth of knowledge about how to best incorporate external partners into your development process. We talk about how Machine Learning will impact external dev, XDS, excel hacks, and Kassi's days as a competitive Marion Kart player. Kassi is a true 'force for good' in the industry and a great guest. It's worth noting that the audio is a little spotty at times on this episode (the joys of recording at home), but we wanted to make sure it still got out as the content is so great. Enjoy!

In this BONUS podcast episode, Aidan & Ashley are bringing together not one, but TWO private coaching calls on the topic of 'productivity'.In August 2020, Dhiraj came to us with the intention of learning more about what it takes to become more productive and learn some of the ways that this can be applied to the practice and rehearsal of magic/mentalism. There is a LOT of information covered in this episode. Grab your notepad and be prepared to start plotting the ways in which YOU can start optimising your lifestyle for maximum output. Things That You Will Learn:CALL ONE Steven Kotler's 'XDS' Approach To Task Management [04:05] The Impact of Sleep on Productivity [07:10] Aidan & Ashley's Sleep Schedules [10:30] Ritualising Your To-Do List [12:52] Finding A Task Management System [14:50] The Importance of Distraction Management [17:59] CALL TWO 3 Simple 'Speed Reading' Tips [24:05] Aidan's Morning Routine [29:35] Breaking the Timeline of Practice [33:30] How to Practice Properly [38:10] FOOD FOR THOUGHT: "Ideation without Execution is Delusion" (Robin Sharma) "Your days are your life in miniature" (Robin Sharma) Resources Mentioned In This Episode: BOOKS: 'Eat That Frog' by Brian Tracy 'Indistractable' by Nir Eyal The Code of the Extraordinary Mind by Vishen Lakhiani The 5AM Club by Robin Sharma Productivity For Working From Home [FREE COURSE] (mindvalley.com/remote) Book Our 'Boring Mentalism Lecture' At Your Magic Club (thesuccessfulmentalist.com/boring) Free eBooks (https://my.captivate.fm/thesuccessfulmentalist.com/free (thesuccessfulmentalist.com/free)) Did you enjoy this podcast? If so, don't forget to SUBSCRIBE on https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-successful-mentalist/id1512659543 (Apple Podcasts) or https://open.spotify.com/show/41CivTlicy4DWUkDGoQh5n (Spotify) so you never miss an episode! Share and tag us on Social Media (http://facebook.com/thesuccessfulmentalist (@TheSuccessfulMentalist)) or use the hashtag #thesuccessfulmentalist

In this episode, Arjun, Prasanth, and Jason chat with Dawn Cram and Paul Lipton about the merits of using an XDS environment vs. a non-XDS environment. (https://wiki.ihe.net/index.php/Cross-enterprise_Document_Sharing_for_Imaging) Key points Discussed: A high-level overview of an XDS and XDS-I workflow What should an organization consider when evaluating if an XDS environment is appropriate for their enterprise How Enterprise Imaging relates to the use of an XDS/XDS-I environment Connect with us! You can find our podcast on Apple Podcast, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or anywhere else you subscribe to podcasts. Please help us out by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. You can find us on Twitter: @SIIM_Tweets, and individually at @arjunsharmarad, @jaynagels, @AAnandMD Visit us at https://siim.org/page/siimcast Special Thanks to @RandalSilvey of http://podedit.com for editing and post-processing support.

Now that we've made the mold for The Game Dev Show, it's time to break the mold. For week 15, we took on the challenge of interviewing two guests at once. Our guests were Michael Casalino and Maxim Miheyenko from 5518 Studios. We talk about each of their journey within the games industry and how they came together to form 5518. Their vision for what they have built, and how they view their responsibility to their teams is inspiring. Plus they have an incredible business partnership based on mutual respect and admiration. It was a joy to speak to them. We also talk about digital events (especially XDS which is coming right up in North America) and the game dev scene in Russia.

Dzisiaj moim gościem jest Tomasz Micherda - założyciela serwisu "Od Kelnera Do Milionera". Koniecznie zerknij na stronę Tomka i dowiedz się o tym jak zarabia w internecie - dzięki językowi, którego nauczył się w naturalny sposób ("przy okazji") https://odkelneradomilionera.pl/ OPIS ODCINKA: Trudności w rozwijaniu działalności internetowej "Angielski pozwala na to, by sięgnąć do całego świata” Jak się rozwijasz przy pomocy języka, a bez niego nie możesz? Jak dobrze trzeba znać angielski by pracować jak Tomasz Micherda? Praca kelnera i wiele sposobności do nauki "Amazon dał mi więcej nauki angielskiego niż 4 lata szkoły" Podwójne czerpanie wiedzy - jak uczą się ludzie językowego sukcesu? Jakie umiejętności językowe możemy pominąć i dlaczego? Kiedy niektóre umiejętności językowe można pominąć i jak to zrobić? Mega wtopa Tomka w komunikacji w języku obcym! (Czy Tomek dał klientowi restauracji spermę? :O) 5 słówek od Tomka: Wacky - zwariowany Paperback - okładka (miękka) Cumin - kmin Capsicum - papryka, najczęściej słodka Tender - to słowo ma wiele znaczeń, m.in.: w kuchni chodzi o delikatność smaku, w biznesie jest to przetarg, a w rybołówstwie statek transportowy odbierający połów od sejnera tuńczykowego (xD) Słówka z rozmowy: "Make him scream" - "Niech krzyczy" / "Spraw, by krzyczał" Catchy – chwytliwy Hub - węzeł, koncentrator, ośrodek (np. "Ten port morski jest hubem Europy Wschodniej") Pornhub - strona z pornografią ("Hub Pornoli") Bornhub - słowna przeróbka powyższego ("Hub urodzeń") Cum - sperma To memorize - zapamiętywać Thick - gęsty Garlic - czosnek ZAPISZ SIĘ NA NEWSLETTER by być na bieżąco, otrzymywać więcej niszowej wiedzy i fajne promocje oraz wiedzę o warsztatach: https://mateuszstasica.pl/newsletter#main Serdeczności, Stasica www.mateuszstasica.pl Hasztagi: #Amazon #zarabianie #pieniądzeonline #pieniądze #angielski #angielskiwpraktyce ____ Wykorzystano: 1. Music Provided By: Mediacharger; Music Created By : Spitting Distance; Song Title: Awake; License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mateusz-stasica/message

In this episode, we go behind the scenes and interview one of the leading Credit Bureaus in South Africa. XDS is the largest locally owned credit information bureau in South Africa. Here are just some of the topics that we discussed in our podcast; Who can legally list negative information about a user? As South Africa is battling with the impact of COVID-19 on the economy, many consumers have been left with the inability to earn an income or they are receiving less income due to reduced working hours. What impact will this have on their credit scores? South Africa's major banks have introduced various measures to assist consumers impacted by the COVID-19 disaster. Most of the assistance comes in the form of a debt repayment holiday on all kinds of loans. Does this have an impact on a person's credit score? What advice would you give on how consumers can handle their credit score during this pandemic to minimise its impact on their credit score? How many disputes do get corrected, and can you explain the process that happens behind the scenes when a user disputes information with a credit bureau?

9月16日，名爵HS在重庆上市，共推出2.0T和1.5T两个排量共9款车型，官方指导价11.98万元—18.98万元，将以独树一帜的“性能+智能”双能标签，点燃年轻、运动、激情，引爆荷尔蒙SUV新时代。同时，购买名爵HS全系可享2年0利率专属金融礼遇，全系可享5年/10万公里专属质保礼遇，互联网版车型可享基础服务及基础流量终身免费礼遇。发布会上，上汽集团副总裁、上汽乘用车公司总经理王晓秋表示，百年来名爵只做年轻消费者买得起的好车。名爵HS豪华质感，国民价格，配得上年轻人的追求，让你买得起，开得爽。在上汽集团“新四化”战略指引下，名爵品牌打造的战略SUV名爵HS不仅是领先全球的互联网汽车，还拥有保时捷“同款”纯形面设计的外观，动力性能大幅超越同级，同时搭载与路虎同源的AWD智能四驱系统、全系标配“过弯神器”XDS弯道动态控制系统，配备价值数万的BOSE音响等豪华装备，带来视觉、听觉、嗅觉、触觉等全感官新体验。这种足够叫板全球SUV的“爵对实力”，使得名爵HS完全具备了从中国出发，走向全世界的底气，将强势改写SUV市场固有格局。上市现场精彩不断，魔幻4D城市重庆接连呈现美国“超级碗”级别的空中芭蕾、垂直舞蹈以及炫酷的3D光影秀，让名爵HS的上市更加热血沸腾。同时，可口可乐、大嘴猴等潮牌组建的“荷尔蒙联盟”也来热力助阵、各大媒体平台直播不停，线上线下人气持续飙升。 以荷尔蒙之名，还原年轻心态族群最渴望的运动、激情。名爵HS基于名爵这个百年国际品牌“性能+智能”的双能核心理念，强调超越同级的性能，和领先一代的智能，允许冲动，纵容激情，实力“配得上”年轻人。近百年来，创造了43项世界速度纪录的名爵品牌，其赛道基因从来都是响当当的标签。名爵HS作为品牌战略车型，动力表现自然是“速胜一筹”。其30T车型全部配备全新调校的2.0T Trophy高性能版涡轮增压发动机，“7.5秒破百，36米级刹停”，而同价位主流合资SUV只能够提供小排量发动机；其20T车型，搭载1.5T发动机，动力表现大幅超越同价位车型甚至是主流1.8T发动机的水平。车轮跑在最前面，作为互联网汽车销量第一的国际品牌，名爵智能也要拔头筹。目前绝大部分SUV造型同质化，不免让人审美疲劳。打破平庸，名爵HS以性感诱惑之躯，一秒点燃驾控激情：作为首款纯形面、光影肩线设计的主流量产SUV，名爵HS外形高级感十足，此外，猎眼气场全LED大灯，全球首用双色LED技术，兼具时序点亮转向灯和动态迎宾灯功能，让年轻人享受更胜“灯厂”的闪亮和科技感。解禁年轻激情，“爽”才是第一要义。名爵HS咆哮动力的好底子，加上AT般平顺的双离合、AWD智能四驱系统、全系标配XDS弯道动态控制系统，是同级唯一兼顾了“SUV车型的高通过性、高视野和轿车级舒爽驾控”的SUV，同时更有运动车型的加速快感和极致过弯动态表现，全面释放年轻、运动、激情。实用而炫酷的智能表现，也是名爵HS高人气的原因之一。除了全球第一的“互联智行”系统外，名爵HS还壕气配备了比很多C级豪车功能还要齐全的MG PILOT智能主动驾驶辅助系统，集齐了ACC自适应巡航系统、FCW前方碰撞报警系统、AEB自动紧急制动系统、LDW车道偏离报警系统、SAS车速辅助控制系统等功能，这也意味着消费者能以15万左右的价格，感受百万级豪车的安全保障和驾控乐趣。 将“人无我有、人有我优”进行到底，名爵HS搭载顶级BOSE音响、豪车专属的荷尔蒙香氛系统、10.1英寸悬浮式触控大屏、12.3英寸交互式全虚拟仪表、无级变色炫彩交互式氛围灯、赛车级一体式运动座椅、1.19㎡全景天窗等装备，就是让年轻人配得上，更开得爽。名爵品牌定价的传统是国民路线和务实主义，百年来，只做年轻消费者买得起的好车。名爵HS重新解读SUV，既关照年轻人对美的刚需——提供纯形面设计的爵对颜值，有面子；也注重年轻人对品质的刚需——锤炼豪车级质感空间，有里子；更在意年轻人对性能和智能的刚需——追求轿车般驾控体验、领先同级不止一代的“互联智行”系统，有底子。一心一意为全球年轻人打造“性能和智能”双全的梦想之车，凭借这份“一心双能”的信念，名爵的国际发展步伐快而稳。近年来，在上汽集团“新四化”战略加持下，名爵旗下名爵3、名爵ZS、名爵6等国际潮车热销全球，其中名爵ZS更是在英国、泰国、澳大利亚等全球多个细分市场获得第一。名爵品牌在国际市场百年来积累的好口碑以及现有明星车型的高人气，势必为名爵HS接下来在全球的上市，增加筹码，而名爵HS掀起的荷尔蒙国际潮流，也将推动名爵品牌重回国际舞台正中央。最懂年轻人的名爵，进一步关爱年轻人，打造了MG Live！和MG Carffe名爵咖啡等品牌专属IP，产品和4S店也同步升级，一系列线上线下互动的“震荡波”嗨不停。今年8月，名爵HS量身打造的“荷尔蒙工厂”从上海上生新所开始，潮流旋风席卷全国50城，荷尔蒙联盟阵营也迅速扩大，成为跨品牌合作、跨人群互动的现象级事件。同时，随着荷尔蒙SUV名爵HS上市，名爵品牌结合年轻人高频生活、娱乐和社交场景，已在成都建成了“MG Live！名爵体验中心”，一改传统4S店车辆摆设功能，打造出一座年轻人专属的汽车文化体验中心，与年轻人展开多样化的交流互动。 全球年轻汽车消费市场，纯拼价格的豪华已不再是主流。年轻人更愿意接受在可控预算空间内，兼顾性能硬实力、细节可塑性、时代同步感的年轻派座驾。年轻人的向往，不论对产品还是更加年轻的生活方式的追求，名爵HS都能霸气承包。名爵HS独具感性力纯形面设计、豪华感爆棚的配置、兼顾SUV通过性和轿车般的驾控、笑傲同级的诚意价格，无不预示着它将成为全球年轻人的全新选择。

9月16日，名爵HS在重庆上市，共推出2.0T和1.5T两个排量共9款车型，官方指导价11.98万元—18.98万元，将以独树一帜的“性能+智能”双能标签，点燃年轻、运动、激情，引爆荷尔蒙SUV新时代。同时，购买名爵HS全系可享2年0利率专属金融礼遇，全系可享5年/10万公里专属质保礼遇，互联网版车型可享基础服务及基础流量终身免费礼遇。发布会上，上汽集团副总裁、上汽乘用车公司总经理王晓秋表示，百年来名爵只做年轻消费者买得起的好车。名爵HS豪华质感，国民价格，配得上年轻人的追求，让你买得起，开得爽。在上汽集团“新四化”战略指引下，名爵品牌打造的战略SUV名爵HS不仅是领先全球的互联网汽车，还拥有保时捷“同款”纯形面设计的外观，动力性能大幅超越同级，同时搭载与路虎同源的AWD智能四驱系统、全系标配“过弯神器”XDS弯道动态控制系统，配备价值数万的BOSE音响等豪华装备，带来视觉、听觉、嗅觉、触觉等全感官新体验。这种足够叫板全球SUV的“爵对实力”，使得名爵HS完全具备了从中国出发，走向全世界的底气，将强势改写SUV市场固有格局。上市现场精彩不断，魔幻4D城市重庆接连呈现美国“超级碗”级别的空中芭蕾、垂直舞蹈以及炫酷的3D光影秀，让名爵HS的上市更加热血沸腾。同时，可口可乐、大嘴猴等潮牌组建的“荷尔蒙联盟”也来热力助阵、各大媒体平台直播不停，线上线下人气持续飙升。 以荷尔蒙之名，还原年轻心态族群最渴望的运动、激情。名爵HS基于名爵这个百年国际品牌“性能+智能”的双能核心理念，强调超越同级的性能，和领先一代的智能，允许冲动，纵容激情，实力“配得上”年轻人。近百年来，创造了43项世界速度纪录的名爵品牌，其赛道基因从来都是响当当的标签。名爵HS作为品牌战略车型，动力表现自然是“速胜一筹”。其30T车型全部配备全新调校的2.0T Trophy高性能版涡轮增压发动机，“7.5秒破百，36米级刹停”，而同价位主流合资SUV只能够提供小排量发动机；其20T车型，搭载1.5T发动机，动力表现大幅超越同价位车型甚至是主流1.8T发动机的水平。车轮跑在最前面，作为互联网汽车销量第一的国际品牌，名爵智能也要拔头筹。目前绝大部分SUV造型同质化，不免让人审美疲劳。打破平庸，名爵HS以性感诱惑之躯，一秒点燃驾控激情：作为首款纯形面、光影肩线设计的主流量产SUV，名爵HS外形高级感十足，此外，猎眼气场全LED大灯，全球首用双色LED技术，兼具时序点亮转向灯和动态迎宾灯功能，让年轻人享受更胜“灯厂”的闪亮和科技感。解禁年轻激情，“爽”才是第一要义。名爵HS咆哮动力的好底子，加上AT般平顺的双离合、AWD智能四驱系统、全系标配XDS弯道动态控制系统，是同级唯一兼顾了“SUV车型的高通过性、高视野和轿车级舒爽驾控”的SUV，同时更有运动车型的加速快感和极致过弯动态表现，全面释放年轻、运动、激情。实用而炫酷的智能表现，也是名爵HS高人气的原因之一。除了全球第一的“互联智行”系统外，名爵HS还壕气配备了比很多C级豪车功能还要齐全的MG PILOT智能主动驾驶辅助系统，集齐了ACC自适应巡航系统、FCW前方碰撞报警系统、AEB自动紧急制动系统、LDW车道偏离报警系统、SAS车速辅助控制系统等功能，这也意味着消费者能以15万左右的价格，感受百万级豪车的安全保障和驾控乐趣。 将“人无我有、人有我优”进行到底，名爵HS搭载顶级BOSE音响、豪车专属的荷尔蒙香氛系统、10.1英寸悬浮式触控大屏、12.3英寸交互式全虚拟仪表、无级变色炫彩交互式氛围灯、赛车级一体式运动座椅、1.19㎡全景天窗等装备，就是让年轻人配得上，更开得爽。名爵品牌定价的传统是国民路线和务实主义，百年来，只做年轻消费者买得起的好车。名爵HS重新解读SUV，既关照年轻人对美的刚需——提供纯形面设计的爵对颜值，有面子；也注重年轻人对品质的刚需——锤炼豪车级质感空间，有里子；更在意年轻人对性能和智能的刚需——追求轿车般驾控体验、领先同级不止一代的“互联智行”系统，有底子。一心一意为全球年轻人打造“性能和智能”双全的梦想之车，凭借这份“一心双能”的信念，名爵的国际发展步伐快而稳。近年来，在上汽集团“新四化”战略加持下，名爵旗下名爵3、名爵ZS、名爵6等国际潮车热销全球，其中名爵ZS更是在英国、泰国、澳大利亚等全球多个细分市场获得第一。名爵品牌在国际市场百年来积累的好口碑以及现有明星车型的高人气，势必为名爵HS接下来在全球的上市，增加筹码，而名爵HS掀起的荷尔蒙国际潮流，也将推动名爵品牌重回国际舞台正中央。最懂年轻人的名爵，进一步关爱年轻人，打造了MG Live！和MG Carffe名爵咖啡等品牌专属IP，产品和4S店也同步升级，一系列线上线下互动的“震荡波”嗨不停。今年8月，名爵HS量身打造的“荷尔蒙工厂”从上海上生新所开始，潮流旋风席卷全国50城，荷尔蒙联盟阵营也迅速扩大，成为跨品牌合作、跨人群互动的现象级事件。同时，随着荷尔蒙SUV名爵HS上市，名爵品牌结合年轻人高频生活、娱乐和社交场景，已在成都建成了“MG Live！名爵体验中心”，一改传统4S店车辆摆设功能，打造出一座年轻人专属的汽车文化体验中心，与年轻人展开多样化的交流互动。 全球年轻汽车消费市场，纯拼价格的豪华已不再是主流。年轻人更愿意接受在可控预算空间内，兼顾性能硬实力、细节可塑性、时代同步感的年轻派座驾。年轻人的向往，不论对产品还是更加年轻的生活方式的追求，名爵HS都能霸气承包。名爵HS独具感性力纯形面设计、豪华感爆棚的配置、兼顾SUV通过性和轿车般的驾控、笑傲同级的诚意价格，无不预示着它将成为全球年轻人的全新选择。

I mentioned a theory on the podcast a couple weeks ago about how I expected that higher class shooters would probably pull away from lower class shooters on the shorter stages moreso than the longer stages, but gthat it was just a theory because I didn't want to do the math. Well, I got an email from Louis, and he pulled the data from the different stages at the 2017 Production Nationals and... I was totally wrong.  Louis broke down the stages from Nationals, then charted the median percentage by round count on a chart and it turns out that the median finish from each classification was about the same on all the different round count stages. Louis has been pulling the numbers on some other things with classifications and whatnot and if you want to see them, look in the shownotes for this episode and I'll have a link to his github page with the deets: https://lstange.github.io/uspsa/classification_vs_performance.html (By the way, if you didn't know this, you *should* be able to access all the links and stuff from the podcast shownotes in whatever podcast app you're using. I always tell you to go to triangletactical.net/280 or whatever, that's unnecessary for most of you, all the links should be right in your podcast app in the shownotes for this episode). Why do people quit shooting? Trying to think of people who I know who have actually just quit, vs those who have just not been to a match in a while for one reason or another, but have every intention to shoot again. I've "quit" twice over the years. - Ammo crunch after the 2012 Obama Election - Hardcore burnout after ROing way too much So, I emailed everyone on the Triangle Tactical email list and asked them if they've ever quit shooting, and why. I got a bunch of answers that are pretty wide ranging. (BTW, this is what I like to use the email list for, so if you're not on it, get on it!) Interestingly, a bunch of people emailed me back and mentioned that cost probably makes some people quit, but nobody specifically emailed me back and said that they've quit because of cost. Joe mentioned that he's in Michigan and the winters shut down most of the matches up there. Jason and Khan mentioned time away from family. Some matches take a LONG time to get through, so I can see that. With a baby on the way, balancing matches and practice and family time is going to be something I need to put more emphasis on going forward. Several folks mentioned jobs. Either job loss, or new jobs, or jobs taking up way too much time on the weekends. Aaron actually said that he quit a job because his days off were only during the week and he had to work every weekend so he changed it up to get his weekends off. Quitting because the match near you isn't challenging. Aaron mentioned that quit because a local match jsut wasn't pushing him the way it needed to, took some time off and came back as a USPSA shooter where he's being challenged a lot more, and that's making things better for him. Boring clubs. James mentioned a "looks the same every month" match that was near him years ago that drove him away. A couple folks talked about physical injuries. Things that come from practice like tennis elbow, as well as other injuries that just keep them from shooting. Surgeries, etc. So, with all this said, the reasons that people have quit shooting, lets talk for a minute about what's brought people back: Friends Needing a competitive outlet Something to do with kids as they've gotten older and need more man skills. Noticing that competition makes them want to be more athletic and get into better shape than they were previously. Q&A: "Why is there not a specific division for compact size firearms such as G19, CZ P01 or P07 etc?" Here's the thing: we don't need carve outs for every size of firearm. If we were to do that we wind up with way too many divisions, and things just get silly after a while.  In my opinion, the other reason for this is because most shooters don't want to shoot their little tiny guns in USPSA, at least not long term. 32rd stages with little guns that sometimes don't even hold 10 rounds doesn't really sound like a great time to me. I get that the guns mentioned all hold 10+ rounds, but if we're going to go down the tiny-gun rabbit hole, what about guns like the Shield, XDs, and others? So, with all this said, I think the reasoning here is that USPSA isn't really interested in doing what IDPA does. IDPA has a place for these little guns, and they work really well in that game, because of round count, and because of the concealed carry sort of design of that game.  All this isn't to day that USPSA doesn't have a place for the compact guns you mentioned though. All three guns you mentioned (Glock 19, CZ P01, and CZ P07) are specifically called out as legal on the USPSA Production list. There's nothing keeping these guns from being shot in Production, I see guys shoot Glock 19's in Production all the time.  "Should competitors be allowed to shoot two divisions in the same match? I'm starting to see this a lot locally where people are shooting both handgun and PCC during the match (and paying two entry fees)." No. We have a hard enough time getting shooters to help during the match, so letting someone shoot, then wander off to the safe area to bag a gun and un-bag another one, then come back to the stage, stuff mags full from the gun they just shot, check the gear for the gun that they're about to shoot, then shoot the second gun, then wander back to the safe area to switch back, stuff mags for the other gun, means that this person will NEVER run the timer or work the tablet. They'll NEVER paste target for more than a shooter or two per stage if we're lucky, and then they're taking up more time by shooting the second gun.  With that said, if there's a multi-day match and shooters can shoot different divisions on different days, no problem. There's also a local BUG match that allows multiple entries, and for that match it works really well. The stages are 5rds tops. No reloads, and no holster needed, so you can finish your first gun, bag it, and take your second gun out of it's bag when it's time to shoot. Easy peasy, and it works just fine because there isn't much pasting and resetting to do, so there is time for people to switch guns at that match. 

Recently a well known tactical trainer dude posted something on Facebook about having an XD pistol malfunction in his classes, and went on to talk about how he's seen a lot of malfunctions from the XD pistols in his classes. (I don't doubt his experience, at all) Of course, a bunch of folks came out of the woodwork defending the XD pistols, and other folks came into the comment thread bashing XDs, and even others came into the thread defending their pistol de jour while calling themselves a "Glock guy" or "Sig guy" or "1911 guy" or whatever.  I'm less grumpy about someone taking a class and breaking a gun than I am about the folks who identify themselves as a "whatever guy" because they're pigeonholing themselves into one brand, when chances are at some point in time, you're going to want a feature that your gun de jour doesn't have. Especially if you practice a bunch.  It's like screwdriver. I carry an expensive one every day at work, because I use a screwdriver A LOT. To most folks, a screwdriver is just a screwdriver, but once you use one all the time, you start to appreciate the little things in a quality piece of equipment that you overlook when you don't know what you don't know.  Patreon: The Triangle Tactical Patreon is up and running. Think of it like an online tip jar where you can pledge a few bucks a month my way if you think I'm doing a good job. If you come in at the $5 a month level or more, you'll get access to the all new Triangle Tactical News Blast podcast (Episode 3 just went up) in addition to this show. I've also been throwing some show bloopers over there when I come across something funny. Check it out at Patreon.com/triangletactical Cheap Target Tape MGM Targets sells Shuretape for way cheaper than Amazon. Get some here. I don't have any relationship with them, it's just a good deal.

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The Death of Batman,Who the hell is Jenna Fischer and why does she sound like the Brady Campaign has control of her brain?,NYPD approves XDS 9mm for off duty then ruins a perfectly good trigger,I know this may seem like a shock but it appears Facebook manipulates the trending stories!

You've probably seen the videos online for the Urban Carry holster. It's the little pouch holster that you put your gun in, and then it all drops inside your pants. When it's time to draw the pistol, you undo a little magnetic flap with your weak hand, and pull up, which pulls the pistol up where you can grab it with your strong hand. Ben was really interested in one of these, so we ordered up one for his Springfield XDs that he's been reviewing for about a month now. ### Pros:It's the most comfortable holster he's ever used, hands down. It's also well made. The leather seems to be of good quality, the stitching is nice, and and it's stamped with the Urban Carry logo on the back. Cons: Three cons with the Urban Carry that Ben found: Something about the holster and XDs combination in the Appendix position worn on a guy makes Ben (and me when I tried the holster) look like you're... happy to see everyone.   Ben is that an Urban Carry or are you glad to see me? It's just an Urban Carry. #bonerholster #underreview A photo posted by TriangleTactical.net (@triangletactical) on Dec 5, 2015 at 12:44pm PST The next issue that the Urban Carry holster has a little pouch sewn onto the back of the holster that's supposed to be for carrying your concealed carry permit in. This is a terrible idea. Invision this scenario: "Yes officer, I have a permit for my gun, it's right here" and then reaches for the gun without even thinking about it. At best, you'll make the police officer really nervous, and worst, who knows. The last issue Ben had with the holster was that sometimes on the draw stroke, the butt of the pistol would get stuck under his belt, and then when he would try to draw the pistol by pulling up on the flap it wouldn't come up. This would require him to then stick a thumb down under his belt to release the tension, and then he could draw the pistol. Is it a deal breaker for a deep cover holster? That's up to you, but it can definitely slow down the draw unexpectedly. Final word on the Urban Carry holster: Ben think's it sits on the spectrum of carry somewhere between his INCOG, and off body carry. It's not super fast and reliable, but it's better than having your gun in a bag that may or may not be near you. The News: No big articles this week, but we talk over the narrative that's being pushed by the media (and the President) that we need to keep people who are on the terrorist watch list from buying guns. There's a big problem with this: There is no due process for someone to get put on the terrorist watch list, so if getting put on the list then denies them a constitutionally protected right, that's a problem.   Plug of the Week: Are you a Redditor? If so, you should be checking out Ben's Monday Morning Match Recap threads on the r/CompetitionShooting subreddit. The subreddit is pretty great in and of itself, but Ben's Monday morning thread is something I check out every Monday. Check it out. Contact luke@triangletactical.net ben@triangletactical.net

Welcome to the We Like Shooting show, Episode 84, this episode we talk about Hydroponics, SIRT AR bolts, Headhunters Firearms, .458 Socom, XDS-45 and all kinds of other stuff.

I’ve mentioned a bit on the blog and Facebook page over the past couple of days that I picked up a Glock 19 Gen4 to act as my primary CCW pistol for a while. I’ve been wanting to go back to a doublestack gun with decent capacity, and finally made the plunge for a whole host of reasons that I go through in this episode. What I haven’t mentioned is that Ben inherited my XDs 9mm to act as his new summer carry gun. He fell in love with it after we did the “Pocket 9mm Shootout” back in Episode 68, and has been kicking around the idea of buying it since then. We spend a bit of time in the episode going through our reasons for making the switch. The News We’ve talked extensively in the past about the shenanigans going on at the NC State Fair regarding concealed carry. Linoge reported that when he went to the fair last week, the security was incredibly lax, and other listeners have reported just the opposite on the Triangle Tactical Facebook page. It seems that security has been inconsistent to say the least. Furthermore, Saturday night, some folks were robbed at gunpoint while walking back to their vehicle after leaving the fair. With all of the media attention about the ban on carry at the fair, the criminals almost certainly knew that they wouldn’t encounter an armed victim. An NC family was the victim of a home invasion last week, that ended in a shootout between the grandfather, and three home invaders. The grandfather was shot 8 times, and one of the bad guys died. The other two home invaders were also shot. A Minnesota woman somehow found out that a man local to her has a CCW permit, and walks his daughters to school. She decided that this just can’t be, and has posted a sign in her yard with a picture of the man that says “This man carried a loaded gun around your children every day”. Contact

Shooting competitively with your concealed carry gear is a great way to shake out bugs in your carry rig. On Saturday night Ben and I both shot the PDHSC/Shoot2Live IDPA match in south Raleigh. Before the match Ben mentioned that he was going to shoot his carry gun in the match, and I followed suit. Ben shot his M&P9c from an IWB holster on his hip, and I shot my XDs 9mm from a Crossbreed MiniTuck. I had a handful of issues with my carry gun, like riding the slide-lock with my thumb forcing myself to have to do reloads on a closed chamber, and cycle the slide. I had to deal with shooting a sweaty pistol since half of the range isn’t air conditioned, and dealing with a t-shirt for concealment instead of an IDPA tactical fishing vest proved to be somewhat troublesome as well. The News Texas Governor Rick Perry is under indictment for 2 felony counts of abuse of power. With this comes the realization that Perry can no longer carry concealed, or purchase firearms. You’ll remember that Perry used his concealed carry pistol in self defense a while back. CNN’s Don Lemon claimed that “during the theatre shooting in Colorado” he was able to purchase an automatic weapon in 20 minutes. He goes on to show us that he doesn’t understand the difference between semi-automatic and fully-automatic. A bill has been introduced in the US House to ban “enhanced body armor” for citizens. Yes, let’s ban a product that can keep innocent people from getting shot… The anti-gun Moms put some pressure on Kroger to “ban” guns in their stores recently. They didn’t get the answer they wanted, and now some of them are proposing that they should start causing a loss to the company in order to get their way. Linoge put it perfectly, in that they are basically running a protection racket like organized crime… Plug of the Week This week we plugged Sean Sorrentino’s new podcast called the Gun Blog Variety Cast. It’s a variety show format with a bunch of your favorite gun bloggers talking about all sorts of interesting stuff. I was able to get a sneak peak at Episode 1, and it was very entertaining. Check it out. Contact Leave a voicemail from your phone at (919) 295-6128 Leave a voicemail from your computer Email us: luke@triangletactical.net ben@triangletactical.net

In the first version of this episode that was released, we mentioned that the Triangle Tactical T-Shirts were "$15 shipped" and that isn't accurate. They are $15 plus shipping. I bought a bunch of the shirts and shipping was very reasonable. Just want to make sure there's no confusion... This week Ben and I dive into the Skills>Tools topic again. Ben brings up some interesting points about going from a pistol with a lot of modifications to a mostly stock pistol and seeing improvements in his shooting. The News: The Wake County FETC Action Pistol Matches are returning in September! Stand by for more details. Triangle Tactical T-Shirts are available for purchase until August 28th, 2014. Click here to get yours! A Federal Judge ruled that AR-15's and other guns are unusual, and not protected by the second amendment. We talk a little about Ferguson, MO and police militarization. Just like with gun control, the issue isn't the guns and gear, it's how they use it. Durham, NC is still hanging on to their gun registry under the guise that it has some historical significance. Plug of the Week: Episode 380 of Down Range Radio: Michael Bane talks a bit about dealing with someone knocking on your door in the middle of the night. It's good stuff. Listener Feedback: Chris from Minnesota: Pistol modifications for IDPA 3-Gun Rifles Ryan in NC Snub nosed revolvers for IDPA Zack: Is the S&W Shield THAT MUCH better than an XDs 9mm? Should he trade a Glock 27 for one? Contact: Leave a voicemail from your phone at (919) 295-6128 Leave a voicemail from your computer Email us: luke@triangletactical.net ben@triangletactical.net

In questa puntata di Ruote in Pista: Mercedes-Benz Classe S Coupé: tecnologia e fascino del futuro Il Natale è lontano, ed i Re Magi non c’entrano nulla, ma la nuova Mercedes Classe S Coupé si propone come vera e propria Stella cometa del firmamento automobilistico. Le sue tecnologie sono oggi un lusso per pochi fortunati, ma rappresenteranno lo standard per le auto di domani. Non immaginatevi tuttavia una fredda “astronave” hi-tech. Classe S Coupé è in grado di scaldare anche il cuore con forme mozzafiato e tutto il fascino delle mitiche Mercedes SEC. Vedere per credere. Hockenheim Story Dal 1970 il circuito di Hockenheim è terreno di sfide al fulmicotone per monoposto di Formula 1. Dal disegno a banana alla pista attuale, ecco come si è trasformato il circuito che ospita ancora oggi il GP di Germania. WEC Campionato Mondiale Endurance Dopo la 24 Ore di Le Mans, l’appuntamento con il Mondiale Endurance è per le ultime 5 gare dal 20 settembre. Facciamo il punto sulla serie iridata con Toyota sempre più intenzionata ad aggiudicarsi il titolo 2014, Audi e Porsche permettendo...naturalmente. 24 ore del Nürburgring Audi, Mercedes, BMW e McLaren si sono date battaglia fin dai primi giri con l’irruenza di una gara sprint. Alla fine l’ha spuntata la R8 LMS ultra della Phoenix Racing, ma lo spettacolo è durato fino all’ultimo giro. Nel servizio vi raccontiamo i momenti salienti della gara nell’Inferno Verde. Rally Italiano Il San Marino 2014 sarà ricordato come uno dei rally più spettacolari degli ultimi anni. La battaglia sul filo dei decimi di secondo si è disputata fino all’ultima speciale. Dopo 460 km di gara e 120 di speciali, la Peugeot 208 T16 R5 di Andreucci-Andreussi l’ha spuntata per soli tre secondi, accorciando le distanze nella rincorsa al titolo italiano. Ma la classifica è ancora sub iudice: volete saperne di più? Tutti i retroscena nel servizio a seguire. A seguire, le pillole di Autolink: Jaguar Project7 Ha debuttato in occasione del Festival della velocità di Goodwood e sarà prodotta in una serie limitata di 250 esemplari. La F-Type Project 7 è la Jaguar più potente e più veloce mai prodotta dalla Casa Coventry. Le 250 unità saranno costruite a mano dai tecnici della divisione Special Operations di Jaguar Land Rover con prime consegne previste verso la metà del prossimo anno. Con il suo perfetto stile roadster a due posti secchi, la Project7 rende omaggio alla mitica D-Type che proprio a Goodwood ha celebrato il 60° anniversario. Motore V8 di 5 litri sovralimentato da 575 CV e 680 Nm di coppia le consentono di raggiungere una velocità massima di 300 km/h e di accelerare da 0 a 100 orari in appena 3,9 secondi. Seat Leon ST 4Drive Seat avvia la commercializzazione in Italia della Leon ST 4Drive, versione station wagon che consolida una tradizione lunga ormai 15 anni della Casa spagnola nel campo della trazione integrale permanente. Il sistema Haldex di quinta generazione a controllo elettronico reagisce rapidamente in tutte le condizioni di guida funzionando in combinazione con il differenziale a bloccaggio elettronico XDS. Leon ST 4Drive è disponibile con prezzi compresi tra 24.980 e 26.330 Euro ed è proposta in due varianti motoristiche, entrambe turbodiesel ed entrambe abbinate ad un cambio manuale a sei rapporti. Il TDI di 1,6 litri da 105 CV ed il 2.0 TDI da 150 CV. Range Rover Sport SVR La nuova Range Rover Sport SVR da 550 CV ha entusiasmato la grande folla radunatasi a Goodwood per il Festival of Speed 2014. Caratterizzato da un esclusivo wrapping rosso, bianco e blu, il prototipo è arrivato direttamente dal Test Center del Nürburgring alla manifestazione britannica in un container proseguendo così le prove di sviluppo sulla famosa collina nella tenuta di Lord March. La Range Rover Sport SVR è la più potente e veloce Land Rover mai prodotta. Il suo lancio commerciale è previsto per il 2015. Renault Captur Project Runway e Zip Collection Il successo di Renault Captur va oltre gli aspetti legati alla mera razionalità. È riuscita a toccare corde più sensibili ed emozionali. Infinite le possibilità di personalizzazione sia esterne, con la collezione cromatica Be Style, che all’interno con i rivestimenti Zip Collection. Tanto basta per fare di Captur una vera regina della passerella e consolidare il suo legame con il mondo della moda.

In questa puntata di Ruote in Pista: Mercedes-Benz Classe S Coupé: tecnologia e fascino del futuro Il Natale è lontano, ed i Re Magi non c’entrano nulla, ma la nuova Mercedes Classe S Coupé si propone come vera e propria Stella cometa del firmamento automobilistico. Le sue tecnologie sono oggi un lusso per pochi fortunati, ma rappresenteranno lo standard per le auto di domani. Non immaginatevi tuttavia una fredda “astronave” hi-tech. Classe S Coupé è in grado di scaldare anche il cuore con forme mozzafiato e tutto il fascino delle mitiche Mercedes SEC. Vedere per credere. Hockenheim Story Dal 1970 il circuito di Hockenheim è terreno di sfide al fulmicotone per monoposto di Formula 1. Dal disegno a banana alla pista attuale, ecco come si è trasformato il circuito che ospita ancora oggi il GP di Germania. WEC Campionato Mondiale Endurance Dopo la 24 Ore di Le Mans, l’appuntamento con il Mondiale Endurance è per le ultime 5 gare dal 20 settembre. Facciamo il punto sulla serie iridata con Toyota sempre più intenzionata ad aggiudicarsi il titolo 2014, Audi e Porsche permettendo...naturalmente. 24 ore del Nürburgring Audi, Mercedes, BMW e McLaren si sono date battaglia fin dai primi giri con l’irruenza di una gara sprint. Alla fine l’ha spuntata la R8 LMS ultra della Phoenix Racing, ma lo spettacolo è durato fino all’ultimo giro. Nel servizio vi raccontiamo i momenti salienti della gara nell’Inferno Verde. Rally Italiano Il San Marino 2014 sarà ricordato come uno dei rally più spettacolari degli ultimi anni. La battaglia sul filo dei decimi di secondo si è disputata fino all’ultima speciale. Dopo 460 km di gara e 120 di speciali, la Peugeot 208 T16 R5 di Andreucci-Andreussi l’ha spuntata per soli tre secondi, accorciando le distanze nella rincorsa al titolo italiano. Ma la classifica è ancora sub iudice: volete saperne di più? Tutti i retroscena nel servizio a seguire. A seguire, le pillole di Autolink: Jaguar Project7 Ha debuttato in occasione del Festival della velocità di Goodwood e sarà prodotta in una serie limitata di 250 esemplari. La F-Type Project 7 è la Jaguar più potente e più veloce mai prodotta dalla Casa Coventry. Le 250 unità saranno costruite a mano dai tecnici della divisione Special Operations di Jaguar Land Rover con prime consegne previste verso la metà del prossimo anno. Con il suo perfetto stile roadster a due posti secchi, la Project7 rende omaggio alla mitica D-Type che proprio a Goodwood ha celebrato il 60° anniversario. Motore V8 di 5 litri sovralimentato da 575 CV e 680 Nm di coppia le consentono di raggiungere una velocità massima di 300 km/h e di accelerare da 0 a 100 orari in appena 3,9 secondi. Seat Leon ST 4Drive Seat avvia la commercializzazione in Italia della Leon ST 4Drive, versione station wagon che consolida una tradizione lunga ormai 15 anni della Casa spagnola nel campo della trazione integrale permanente. Il sistema Haldex di quinta generazione a controllo elettronico reagisce rapidamente in tutte le condizioni di guida funzionando in combinazione con il differenziale a bloccaggio elettronico XDS. Leon ST 4Drive è disponibile con prezzi compresi tra 24.980 e 26.330 Euro ed è proposta in due varianti motoristiche, entrambe turbodiesel ed entrambe abbinate ad un cambio manuale a sei rapporti. Il TDI di 1,6 litri da 105 CV ed il 2.0 TDI da 150 CV. Range Rover Sport SVR La nuova Range Rover Sport SVR da 550 CV ha entusiasmato la grande folla radunatasi a Goodwood per il Festival of Speed 2014. Caratterizzato da un esclusivo wrapping rosso, bianco e blu, il prototipo è arrivato direttamente dal Test Center del Nürburgring alla manifestazione britannica in un container proseguendo così le prove di sviluppo sulla famosa collina nella tenuta di Lord March. La Range Rover Sport SVR è la più potente e veloce Land Rover mai prodotta. Il suo lancio commerciale è previsto per il 2015. Renault Captur Project Runway e Zip Collection Il successo di Renault Captur va oltre gli aspetti legati alla mera razionalità. È riuscita a toccare corde più sensibili ed emozionali. Infinite le possibilità di personalizzazione sia esterne, con la collezione cromatica Be Style, che all’interno con i rivestimenti Zip Collection. Tanto basta per fare di Captur una vera regina della passerella e consolidare il suo legame con il mondo della moda.

In this episode of Tactical Paradise, Greg discusses the XDs 9mm and 3 tips that could save your life! Go to www.tacticalparadise.com for the complete show notes.

In this episode of Tactical Paradise, Greg discusses the XDs 9mm and 3 tips that could save your life! Go to www.tacticalparadise.com for the complete show notes.

On this special Shot Show podcast: Team Springfield's Rob Leatham announces the brand-new Springfield Armory XDs, a single-stack, super small, .45 ACP pistol for concealed carry.

Volkswagen Tiguan Coniugare la proverbiale qualità VW con le più avanzate soluzioni per la guida in fuoristrada, sviluppando allestimenti specifici e sperimentando inediti livelli di potenza per la gamma propulsori a propria disposizione. La Tiguan 2011 nasce così, con una duplice missione a gravare su spalle possenti che il lifting estetico sempre più fa somigliare a quelle della sorella maggiore Touareg. A 3 anni e mezzo dal debutto, il SUV rilancia dunque in chiave tecnica e stilistica. Mostrando notevoli progressi anche in tema di sicurezza, campo in cui la profusione di tecnologia si tocca con mano. Della nuova Tiguan, strettamente derivata dalla precedente, balza subito all’occhio la rivisitazione del frontale, ispirato al muso del SUV di taglia maggiore nonché sdoppiato in due differenti configurazioni: a quella classica “onroad” si aggiunge infatti l’assetto “offroad”, dall’angolo di attacco di 28° anziché di 18°. Le 2 versioni beneficiano ora dell’allestimento top, “Track & Style” (cerchi da 17”, programma elettronico per situazioni di fuoristrada, protezione sottoscocca) nel caso dell’offroad, “Sport & Style” (climatronic, volante in pelle, cristalli posteriori oscurati, mancorrenti cromati) per la onroad. Giusto per l’esordio e in tiratura limitata, VW propone anche lo speciale pacchetto “Plus”. Detto che all’esterno le uniche modifiche interessano l’anteriore, la rosa motori include ora 3 motori a benzina e 3 TDI, ognuno dei quali caratterizzato da efficace sovralimentazione e consumi ridotti. Alle varianti da 122 CV e 160 CV del 1.4 TSI si aggiungerà in futuro lo step da 180 CV del 2.0 TSI, mentre completa sin dal lancio del 17-18 settembre si presenta l’offerta a gasolio. Il 2.0 TDI è coniugato nelle versioni da 110, 140 e 170 CV. I gradi di ammiraglia spettano tuttavia al 2.0 TSI benzina da 211 CV e 280 Nm (215 km/h di velocità massima), opzione che accostata alla trazione integrale 4Motion e al cambio automatico DSG a 7 rapporti dà vita alla combinazione più completa del listino. In virtù di una natura poliedrica, il SUV compatto si vende anche a due sole ruote motrici: alla Tiguan “tutto avanti” è dedicato lo start/stop con recupero di energia in frenata. Consumi di appena 5,3 l/100 km (2.0 TDI 110 CV) ben simboleggiano i traguardi sin qui raggiunti dalla filosofia BlueMotion Technology. È in ogni caso nei sistemi di assistenza alla dinamica di marcia che l’ingegneria tedesca mostra passi da gigante: Dynamic Light Assist, Lane Assist, sistema di intercettazione della stanchezza del guidatore e differenziale a bloccaggio elettronico trasversale (XDS) i congegni di maggior impatto. La prevendita di Tiguan è in realtà già in atto da due giorni: prezzi tra 22.900 e 33.300 Euro.