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The Wild Ones Cycling Podcast

Ep 74: Specialized $44,000 Error? + ‘World’s Fastest Bike’ Slammed By Aero Expert

Feb 6, 2025
55:52

Check out the video versions of the podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMZ241fyVfiuPaQU2Cec_MidojrHElaC-


Hope you enjoy the episode! Here's some chapters:

00:00 Cycling state-side

03:05 Is this really the world’s fastest bike?

14:46 SRAM has a plan to make 2-by more aero

16:50 Specialized accused of lying over $44,000 donation

20:47 £30 a month to watch cycling?!

21:30 100 fewer people on 20mph roads

22:53 Bike brand apologises to Sir Chris Hoy over cancer video

26:32 Unpopular Opinion: life’s too short to clean your bike

34:24 Unpopular Opinion: driver’s licences for e-bikes

39:36 Unpopular Opinion: Claris is good enough

41:09 Send us your Unpopular Opinions!

41:18 Jimmi got it wrong (FUOTW)

42:51 Best destinations for solo bike trips


If you’d like us to send in a question, story, some good news, things you’d like us to discuss or anything else, email us at wildonespodcast@cademedia.co.uk

Thanks and see you next time.



See the TheFalcon pictures here: https://road.cc/sites/default/files/styles/schema_org/public/2025-toot-engineering-tred-thefalcon-2.jpeg


Check out Toot’s testing data here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1w-cga6PXiC68Tf7MxuYyxO0A52jAFm9MEneDTy8UZ4E/edit?gid=1330611408#gid=1330611408


Read Escape Collective’s article here:

https://escapecollective.com/specialized-says-it-donated-44000-to-unpaid-factory-workers-did-it/


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