Ahem...Hambini?

What frames (apart from look) are hambini approved?
He gave cervelo the treatment, but was complaining about the new tolerances on the BB.

What frames (apart from look) are hambini approved?

Ones in which he can sell you one of his bottom brackets for it......

whats NOT a consumable these days?

love my canyon, no creaks, zero issues, I have even bikepaccked on it

has a hope BB though

Kinesis and Mason here.

Metal is something that rhymes with metal that means good.

Yeah, but it's not made properly and it's not worked on properly so it's not better and it's unlikely to ever be better. Threaded also gives you the advantage of being able to fix a manufacturer fuckup, whereas press fit does not. Basically, Hambini is a fuckwit and I'm right.
Am I doing it right?

Steel is real.

And good luck trying to get their customer service team to respond to you in a meaningful way or your LBS to properly identify the issue.

Yeah. This is a problem and it’s made far worse by distance selling.

Also a good chunk of the people buying bikes cannot really tell when their bikes work and when they do not work so well. And another chunk just don’t care. Suspect many will tolerate defects that the minority will - rightfully - seek to get a warranty replacement for, leading them to appear as a pain in the ass to industry, especially those on the front line.

I could barely make it through a few minutes. Is he about to have a breakdown?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Mlc5tozTU

I’ve not watched the latest one as it looked to be just him shouting.

Turn the volume off and it’s just one long yawn.

I'm watching this now - it's actually pretty hard to sit through. Every other word is c*nt, fuck, bellend, fruitcake etc.

Sounds like me trying to finish turbo session.. but i'm not videoing it for broadcast

It's not the swearing for me. It's the mad rambling and inability to focus on one thing at a time

Does he ever properly explain how anything works?

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.

Threaded BBs are also press fit

Watched 2 minutes of a video and that was enough for me. Cringeworthy to watch

Liked his first videos (from about 3 years ago if I recall correctly) where he was sharing knowledge about bearings and bottom brackets. Informative, and much less swearing at the time.

I like the Luescher tech videos - the bike he built himself is really tidy - even in the video that he's slating the Cervelo with the internal bump stop that's cracked the frame from the inside he keeps it polite, Hambini makes some good points to the random bloke in the street (me) re. BB alignment etc. but yeah, he needs to get creative at least with the swearing...

I've got a steel bike with a bb86 press fit thing that I've put thousands of miles on as the second owner through all sorts of shit & it's smooth as when I got it & it hasn't had an easy life up to that point - big bearings in a steel shell, seems to work well (the others are all threaded though)

There is no spoon.

I watched the boardman video..and he slates ALL bicycle engineers as failures, quite frankly i thought it was disgusting.
I know he works in aerospace industry where margin and regulation is very high.
In the bike industry where margins are low and manufacturing subcontract to far east, the bean counters will have there way over the engineers. Very harsh to blame them for product shortcomings.

I've seen a couple of things before and couldn't remember him being that bad so wondered what all the above fuss was. Of what I could endure, this was just painful.

Personally I felt it was quite refreshing to see a BAME face speaking with knowledgeable authority on cycling and having a following. Pity he’s such a prick.

Actually watching a little further into that video I find his little remark at 7:48 disgraceful and the comments it has spawned below worse. Really doesn't help himself there.