{"id":401392,"date":"2026-01-09T06:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/401392\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T06:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:18:11","slug":"a-life-of-bikes-with-calvin-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/401392\/","title":{"rendered":"A life of bikes with Calvin Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Geek-Warning-with-Calvin-Jones.jpg\" alt=\"Geek Warning: A life of bikes with Calvin Jones\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <a class=\"article__category\" href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/geek-warning\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Geek Warning<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__sub-title\">The best-known face in bicycle mechanics retires.<\/p>\n<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Escape Collective\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"author__photo lazy \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ESC_Avatar.png\" width=\"99\" height=\"99\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Welcome back to Geek Warning. We\u2019re feeling well-rested from a couple of weeks off, despite the world of bicycle tech not waiting.<\/p>\n<p>To kick off the New Year we\u2019re bringing you a special episode, one with someone who should be a familiar face. Calvin Jones has been the public face of Park Tool\u2019s education resources and programs for 29 years, and this week he announced his upcoming retirement from the role.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Rome sat down with Calvin to talk through a variety of topics, including a number of throwback moments, a chat about the current state of professional bicycle education, how some modern tech changes may be driven by a lack of that education, some life tips for all, and so much more.<\/p>\n<p>This is a wholesale listen to kick off the new year, and so we\u2019ve left it open to all. Hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>                Did we do a good job with this story?<\/p>\n<p class=\"reactions\" data-post-id=\"6960509520882205a6635b08\">\n                    \ud83d\udc4dYep<br \/>\n                    \ud83d\udc4eNope\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/geek-warning\/\" title=\"Geek Warning\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f291de geek-warning\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Geek Warning<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/podcasts\/\" title=\"Podcasts\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f29427 podcasts\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Podcasts<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/tech\/\" title=\"Tech\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f29565 tech\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tech<\/a>\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geek Warning The best-known face in bicycle mechanics retires. Welcome back to Geek Warning. We\u2019re feeling well-rested from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-401392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}