Craig Geater has spent more than two decades as a professional cycling mechanic, currently head mechanic at Team Jayco–AlUla, building and maintaining the bikes WorldTour riders trust at 70km/h. He has watched every tool, product and maintenance fad come and go, which makes him an unusually grounded guide to what actually keeps a bike running well — and a useful corrective to the marketing that surrounds amateur bike maintenance.
The major positions Geater is known for in cycling and endurance sport.
Every appearance by Craig Geater on The Roadman Cycling Podcast — 1 episode in total.
Roadman blog articles that reference Craig Geater’s work.
“I think some of us old fashioned mechanics were so used to it that you ended up just putting up with it and doing it even though you didn't like it. I remember the first years of Jacob or of Green Edge. I turned up to training camp in December in Australia and I had the team was brand new so we had 35 sets of wheels to do tour down under and national championships and things with all brand new continentals. We didn't have any rims to stretch them on and I think I lost most of the skin off my fingers doing it.”
“The most dreaded thing to do is changing headset bearings. Although the system is so simple, somewise crack decided to put brake cables up through the center of bearings. Now, so to change a set of headset bearings, you have to disconnect all the disc brakes and then rebleaded all the disc brakes. And it's just a massive task to change a bearing.”
“Most people generally tend to run in our team sorry and JCO tend to run between 3.7 3.8 bar and 4.5 to 4.8 bar.”
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