Ahem...Hambini?

cycling industry doesn't have as tight a tolerance as the motoring

Depends where you measure

Sounds like a quality control issue. Still. Seems a strange hill to die on.

People who die in valleys really get overlooked.

He is a foul-mouth cunt, and his swearing gets old soon, however he is really knowledgeable!

When he acts like less of a douche he seems ok.. Here is a video for when he was on GCN-Tech:
https://youtu.be/hRLbamNQa_0

The question is both baseless and irrelevant.

It was badly worded, yes. TBH I was simply interested in his use of language and the format of his videos (from a neuro-typical point of view). If that's an excuse or explanation for his online character then viewers can decide.

Hambini maybe very blunt but some of the pointd he raises are valid. Being blunt is a tool. It may seem really and needlessly rude but it gets you noticed. If he talked about frame defects in a polite way then I doubt his videos would have the impact they have had.

Hambini is a tool

Edited for concision.

A stopped clock is right twice a day. To the extent that I've been exposed to his "engineering" opinion, the stuff he's right about is really simple obvious stuff. Bearing pairs on a shaft should be coaxially mounted in the housing! Well, no shit Sherlock.

Similar question - what’s the deal with AvE on YouTube? His videos are entertaining. Is his engineering knowledge legit? From what I’ve worked out his background is in mining, no idea about qualifications.

Similar question

Not that similar. AvE is a much more creative curser, much more willing to give credit where it's due to production engineering, and (the polar opposite of Hambini) pretends to be less clever than he actually is.

I did wonder whether my AvE subscription was at least partially responsible for the constant YouTube recommendation of Hambini, but if it is then the recommendation algorithm is even more moronic than the advertisement selection algorithm.

Well he certainly doesn't know how to spell 'vagina'. Nuff said.

he seems to expect a lot of consumer/mass produced recreational sports gear <

What a load of crap! That certainly is not how these bikes are marketed! If they expect me to spend what a small car costs on a bicycle, my expectation will be proportionate. Most commentators out there only fawn all over these over-hyped, over-priced heaps of shit without any objectivity at all. My wallet is grateful there’s a Hambini in the world, preventing me from getting gobbled up by some multi-national marketing campaign.

If you're buying a branded carbon road bike for yourself then you've already been gobbled up by a multi national marketing campaign and may as well take your punishment.

There is nothing in that sentence that marks you out as having more than 2 brain cells to rub together.

Go away.

The most interesting / concerning thing for me was the change in manufacturing tolerances from a certain brand which meant the specified bearings could be working out-with their recommended parameters from the outset...

If they expect me to spend what a small car costs on a bicycle, my expectation will be proportionate.

My experience is with motorcycles more than cars but if your plastic bike was as woefully poorly toleranced as the motorbikes I’ve worked on then your bottom bracket wouldn’t creak, it wouldn’t even turn under the power you are delivering to it.

Maybe someone can photoshop him putting his D... into shiv space between wheel and seat tube? Is anybody competent in photoshop art enough

From the mouth of the man himself on the thread Biggles linked above

'H7 is like shagging a bucket. I'll see what some of the others chime in for M7'

They're International Tolerance grades used for mechanical components.

His knowledge is good, his method of semi destructive disassembly can be a bit annoying though.
Lots of people quote his tear down of the festool railsaw, yet ignore the fact that he ragged it apart, then complained it didn’t run well when put back together.

Also, there’s not much to be gained from pointing out that a heavy duty tool is built better than something designed for light duties. Obviously a hilti monster combi drill will be better built than a cheap 10.8v drill designed for putting cabinets together. Which has lead to this attitude of people thinking that all tools need to be robust beyond their intended purpose.

Or put another way - while ave’s criticisms of many tools are valid from his engineering perspective, they’re not that helpful when compared to the amount of skilled end users that don’t experience his predicted failings.

has lead to this attitude of people thinking that all tools need to be robust beyond their intended purpose

To be fair to AvE, he pretty much always points out when a cheap tool is more than adequate for home gamers even when it's not up to full time use, and he doesn't pretend that you actually get that much more tool for your money with pro kit

Pretty inexcusable.
https://twitter.com/RideWriteRepeat/status/1250500576120647680?s=19

Yeah I liked him a lot but that isn't an acceptable thing to say at all. Very disappointing but he's fallen below the standard, there's no excuse for that.

You'll never the cycle media pile onto Peter Sagan or Shane Sutton in the same way though will you. That doesn't justify what he's expressed in any way. But it does get on my nerves that the big money (and white) figures like Sagan seem to get away with literal sexual assault by contrast.

Comes from a reputable industrially relevant background with higher production standards than that of outsourced, mass produced road bike frames which, fairly, gives him ground to critique as well as create his own curious brand of jargon-memeage.

Realises that going after more esteemed brands (Cervelo et. al) washed down with some clickbait titles, lumped in with a load of profanity leads to an uptick of viewership ("Wow, this guy really tells it how it is!") and sales of whatever gubbins he's peddling.

All of which is fair enough but the guys comes across as such a prick. 2/10 would not have a pint with.

I feel like something is over my head here.

I don't think the swearing is an act. Lots of people are like that. I worked in the construction sector for four years. The operatives et al make him look like a girl guide.

I think what's difficult to accept for many of us (I am no different) is that there are a lot of very intelligent and capable people who are also nasty, unbearable and rude. I am reliably informed there is a doctor at UCLH who is forbidden from teaching women students alone because he is an unbearable person. But they legitimately can't get rid of him because he is crucial to training people in life saving work.

In short, the m7/h7 refers to tolerances - implying looseness - and the schoolyard associations that go with that.
It’s all a bit vile, and apparently justified because “engineers are real people who can hack the bantz”, or something to that effect.