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The fastest sleeves you've ever seen | TDF Tech special

7/2/202653 min

It's time for a Geek Warning crossover episode! Ronan Mc Laughlin and Jack Duncan join Caley Fretz ahead of this year's Tour de France to break down how bikes and gear are changing and highlight what our tech reporters think will be the most important equipment of a modern Tour. 

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Clips

Van der Poel Suit Outrage
UCI Scramble To Ban Bikes
Shimano Called A Laggard
Sleeves Save Eight Watts
Six Punctures In Five Days

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Caley Fretz· Host0:00

    [upbeat music] Welcome back to the Spin Cycle Podcast, everybody. I'm Caley Fretz. We got a special episode for you today. We're gonna get a little bit geeky. We're gonna, we're gonna talk about tires, and skin suits, and position. And- Just sell this Tour Tech, Caley.

  2. Ronan McLoughlin· Guest0:26

    [laughs] [laughs] Because otherwise people are gonna be turning off.

  3. Caley Fretz· Host0:29

    [laughs] I'm joined today by Ronan McLoughlin. Ronan, welcome to the show.

  4. Ronan McLoughlin· Guest0:34

    Thanks for having me.

  5. Caley Fretz· Host0:35

    And Jack Duncan. Welcome, Jack, back to Spin Cycle.

  6. Jack Duncan· Guest0:39

    Thank you.

  7. Caley Fretz· Host0:39

    We got, yeah, we got, we got our geek-worthy nerds here. And, and we wanted to do a, a Tour Tech special episode. Before we kick off here, uh, you know, Ronan, you're gonna be at the start in Barcelona this weekend, so obviously we're gonna be digging way deeper into some of the team time trial tech and things like that once we are on the ground, once we see what they've done. But I thought this could be a bit of a primer for everybody, for the, for the tech curious perhaps, or just the folks that are kinda wondering, like, "What's changed since last year's Tour? What, what is different? What, what have they improved upon? Or how are, how are they finding additional speed, or not perhaps?" Uh, you know, some things are probably exactly the same [laughs] as they were. So that's what we're gonna kinda dig into today. We wanted to start with tires, and we had a, we had a small debate before we hit record today as to whether we would even

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