Ahem...Hambini?

For the record, the only cyclist I celebrate is Carlos Betancur. Can I still express my unbridle disdain for Hambini?

Every thread turns into an internal argument these days.

No it doesn't

Anything to avoid doing something constructive

Sorry, I was out pinching men's bottoms all afternoon. Dressed in full lycra.

Yet he makes bearings for bikes? Does that make him a bicycle engineer? In which case also a failure?

fuck you

thank you

Has this been resolved rotated yet?

The bottoms were in Lycra or you were? Or both?

can't we all just agree that having strong legs or engineering has nothing to do with being a good person and be done with this?

rather unfortunate but so it goes

I did enjoy the post where someone told him off for bad language by calling him a 'foulmouthed cunt'.

Lols that his most recent video has been removed.

Just watched an older one and the engineering explanations are good but it’s ruined by the pathetic performative swearing sections and a narrow-minded superiority complex.

Lols that his most recent video has been removed.

By him or by YT?

His Cannondale video with the whiffler has no bad language or shouting at all, I feel a lit underwhelmed.

Shoot the messenger.

His twitter account is now deleted.

It's also 2 minutes long. Can't believe people sit down and watch an hour of this guy going on about stuff.

He makes some weird accusations about bike engineers being shit, "Bike engineers are shit because they produce shit bikes, but I work on fighter jets therefore I'm a better engineer."
This sort of qualitative equivalency makes no fucking sense. It's a stone's throw from the old
"Those who can, do; and those that can't, teach". I mean, maybe people would rather make bikes than fighter jets? Or whatever - the list is endless.

But on the flip side, I'm not sure if there's any point in me taking him seriously. His attitude is annoying, and I don't agree with his worldview, but it's not hard to not watch his videos. He's a bloke that likes slagging companies off and making youtube videos and selling bottom brackets.

Edit: one thing though, if he has got such a big fancy engineering job, I probably wouldn't be acting like such a div so very publicly.

There is a point though and it is quite basic, that some bike companies have been selling poorly manufactured frames and parts, then increasing the acceptable tolerance to avoid liability for these. That is a systematic fraud on consumers.

A carbon frame made for $300 and sold for $1000-3000 and more shouldn't be so poorly made and if it is it should be accepted as defective and replaced, not covered up and avoided.

That is completely true but it doesn't excuse his behaviour. To be honest I value one normal person who's just trying to make their way in a shit industry for women's self esteem and dignity than all the bike teardown videos on the internet.

With who and what are you arguing? No one is really denying that the production faults that he has found are undesirable. Also, pinning the problems on "the engineers" when bike production requires a very long chain of people making various decisions which affect the final outcome, doesn't really make sense.

Edit: cake analogy.
If I design a recipe, then someone fiddles with the ingredient quantities for cost, then sends it to another baker to make, then sends it to a taste tester to verify, who then sends it to a shop, who then sell it to a consumer who doesn't like the cake - is it fair for the consumer to decide that I'm shit because the cake isn't right? They might be right that the cake is shit, the problem may lie with my recipe, but there's a lot of other factors involved.

You're missing the point. That is not what is being discussed here and nobody is claiming otherwise

No but Hambini is RIGHT. And we all know, that being RIGHT, matters over everything.

I liked the cake analogy.

But yeah, fuck Hambini. Misogyny and exclusiveness is a far bigger problem for the cycling industry than the "engineering" one he's trying to expose.

It's the attitude of "I'm right about THIS, therefore I'm right about everything else", or at least being right about one thing justifies being a dick. As if correctness and not being a dick are somehow mutually exclusive.