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Is he really a great engineer, or is it a case of the Emperor's new clothes? For instance; Ken Bird used to be the best wheelbuilder on the planet, the primary source of this information was Ken Bird. Could someone qualified please comment.
Either way, he remains an unpleasant twat.
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Could someone qualified please comment
Unfortunately, you've asked that question on the only cycling forum I can think of where the majority of members aren't 'engineers'
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Is he really a great engineer?
No, obviously not. I'm not even sure that he's a good engineer. He has some basic knowledge of mechanical engineering and aerodynamics which you would expect from somebody with an engineering degree and a few years working in engineering jobs.
The mark of a great engineer is an attitude which is clearly entirely alien to hambini. Any slightly competent person can see when a product or process is not perfect in some aspect. When hambini sees it, his immediate conclusion is that he is a genius and everybody else is an idiot. The great engineer will go away and think for a long time about what it is that he has missed which has made all these clever people come to the current solution.
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I think he's a good engineer, just sullies it with OTT vulgarity, sometimes very smart people are just a bit eccentric (on some spectrum - I dunno) , he needs to be careful though as his private enterprise shenanigans could spill over into his professional life, hence I suspect the reason he's gone to ground. From an engineering point of view he's very watchable, as it's always backed up with facts. I do genuinely hope it's not the last we've seen of him provided he reigns all that vitriol in, I think his "being a wag" plus baiting forums has got totally out of hand.
BareNecessities
gbj_tester
BernardRenault
I advised him to let it drop and walk away on twitter, he was asking for retweets of his rather poor defence. Shortly afterwards he closed his account! Great engineer, just too much personal libellous stuff has been slung around for ages and now it's bit him on the arse. He seemed somewhat subdued in that last video.