Escape Collective

Placeholders: Welcome to Escape Collective

It's here! Head over to escapecollective.cc to sign up. 
This week Ronan, Caley, Dane, and Kate announce our new Media Empire™ before diving into Omloop, Kuurne, and the impending battle between Pogačar and Vingegaard. 
Thanks you every single one of you for listening, sharing, and getting us to today. We hope you love what we're building. 

Geek Warning: Victor’s 62-tooth classics chainring

This week Dave, Ronan, and Caley discuss...
New Silca pumps
A 62-tooth chainring at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
New Enve gravel bike
New Pinarellos
Bad news for a power meter
New ETRTO standards
A dropper that's also an upper
What you can do to stop your steerer tube from crashing you

Placeholders: Accepting our ugly helmet fate

In this episode of the Placeholders: 
- Omloop is this weekend!
- Pogačar won't stop winning 
- EF is good?
- UAE sprint showdown (Cav watch) (It was a tie) 
- A new ugly but probably fast helmet (https://twitter.com/CaleyFretz/status/1627727127721177093) 

Geek Warning: The terrible heart rate strap toaster effect

Welcome back to Geek Warning. This week Dave, Ronan, and Caley dig into...
- A Parlee restructuring update
- Peaks and bulges as the lawsuit between Zipp and Princeton Carbon goes to trial
- Lab71, the fastest Cannondales
- Strava's CEO is stepping down. What does Strava need? 
- Why are heart rate straps terrible these days? 
- PSA: Bleed your damn brakes 
 

The leadout has become the sprinter

In this week's episode: 
- The woman to take on Lorena Wiebes was part of her old leadout
- Love Island Jonny, explained
- Jaen Paraiso, the Spanish Strade Bianche 
- Pogaçar is nice to his bikes
- Chicken nuggets and fish fingers, if you listen long enough (welcome to Iain's Briain)

Geek Warning: Steering in the right direction

Geek Warning is here! This week Dave, Ronan, and Caley discuss...
Ideal Everesting geometry
A phone holder that doesn't
Parlee's bankruptcy
'90s mountain bike grips
A very cool toolbox

Cross worlds and Quickstep’s annual pillow fight

This week Caley, Dane, and Iain are joined by How The Race Was Won™ creator Cosmo Catalano to chat...
- Cross worlds and drones
- Quickstep's pillow fights
- Kristoff's used bike sales
- The happy tears of Esteban Chaves
- Talent spotting Thomas Gloag
- Something about sarsaparilla

Geek Warning isn’t long enough

A brief special episode with an important announcement. 

Sam the very fast wombat

This week's episode of the Placeholders dives into ... 
- The world's fastest wombat
- The best sprinters so far
- A drink for swerving cyclists
- Peter Sagan's psyche 
 
Side note: You can follow Kit and the Doddie Cup 555 on Twitter @DoddieGump on Instagram at @doddie_aid. 

Tom Boonen’s legs

On this week's Placeholder podcast:
- Tom Boonen's legs, obviously
- Jay Vine is legit
- Quintana's sad end
- Price drops (not sales!) on bikes are starting