His BB’s are good and correctly designed and manufactured, although it really isn’t hard, it’s just the bike industry trying to save pennies and 10g.
His bearing knowledge is correct
I don’t know enough about CFD to critique, however, what he says does make sense and matches what I have seen.
He very rarely backs up anything he says in a complete way, I suspect mainly because he’s used to working with competent people (in a certain field) where you can imply something and the rest is obvious to them. For instance when he’s rubbishing BB’s it makes complete sense to me as I understand bearings, however when he rubbishes someone’s aero/CFD then unless it’s very obvious I don’t get it. e.g. from latest video regarding energising the flow through the helmet vents is not obvious and I still don’t know why this is good?
Less swearing, more validation (other than “I am an expert”) would go a long way in my book, however, that’s not what always gets views as has been pointed out.
Effective explanation and validation to non-experts over video in an engaging way requires investment + competence in visual communication. It might be that he knows this but can't or CBA and that being a provocateur is more fun or a niche that he thinks he can develop.
Yep, there’s no reason for him to do any of it, I just enjoy the engineering part of it and would prefer more of that and less “clickbait’y” type stuff. But I appreciate it’s his own time and a side interest.
His BB’s are good and correctly designed and manufactured, although it really isn’t hard, it’s just the bike industry trying to save pennies and 10g.
His bearing knowledge is correct
I don’t know enough about CFD to critique, however, what he says does make sense and matches what I have seen.
He very rarely backs up anything he says in a complete way, I suspect mainly because he’s used to working with competent people (in a certain field) where you can imply something and the rest is obvious to them. For instance when he’s rubbishing BB’s it makes complete sense to me as I understand bearings, however when he rubbishes someone’s aero/CFD then unless it’s very obvious I don’t get it. e.g. from latest video regarding energising the flow through the helmet vents is not obvious and I still don’t know why this is good?
Less swearing, more validation (other than “I am an expert”) would go a long way in my book, however, that’s not what always gets views as has been pointed out.