Ahem...Hambini?

are you an engineer?

No, but I play one on TV

He's got an aero degree and a PhD in aerodynamics hasn't he? I wonder where he picked up the bearing stuff - my experience of aero degrees is that that kind of grease-monkeying is left to mechanical engineers (at least they're not civil engineers I suppose)...

Often many courses over lap at university, but his understanding of bearings and machining is something an engineer who went through a good apprenticeship scheme would know.
Airbus is furloughing staff today..aerospace industry is in turmoil..hambini comes off twitter..connected?

I don't know much about aerodynamics but isn't it pretty much impossible to visibly know someones cda? I've seen some tweets from him that he reckons Dan Bigham is doping because there's no way his cda is 0.17 and therefore his watts published for rides must be wrong too.

PhD

Do you really think he wouldn't make constant references to being "Dr hambini" if he had a PhD?

I don't know much about aerodynamics but isn't it pretty much impossible to visibly know someones cda?

Absolutely impossible. If it was that easy we wouldn't need wind tunnels or aero testing. There's nothing I've seen so far that contradicts my theory that he's an arrogant non-entity who's happy to dish it out, but can't take it.

If the slide here is from one of his vids he's claiming to have one? https://www.lfgss.com/comments/15222368/

he's claiming

Not every one of his claims stands up to close examination 🙂

The timeline of his education and employment doesn't seem to have left much room to fit in a PhD in the conventional way, and you would expect to find at least one citation of his doctoral thesis if it existed, if only by his supervisor to break his duck.

wouldn't his 100+ patents also be a matter of public record?

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/advancedSearch?locale=en_EP

Can't find anything for him either as applicant or inventor.

idk. i have a phd and good luck finding mine. i figure he is mid 30s? if you run straight through you can come out with one around 27, earlier in some cases.

don't recall what he said about his employment history but seems possible anyway.

Deeply unpleasant to see him chucking in with DurianRider.

Deeply unpleasant to see DurianRider

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i figure he is mid 30s?

With +25 years experience?

i figure he is mid 30s?

I’m sure if he’d had the worlds hardest paper route he’d have been boasting about that in some vids too.

like i said don't remember what he said about work experience, but maybe he was doing industry stuff in grad school? make sense for that field. just wanted to make the case that it isn't necessarily clear he is outright lying about that.

He’d have had to be doing industry stuff in primary school if he’s mid 30s yet also claims to have 25+ years experience. Is he the Doogie Howser of aero?

In Scotland you could theoretically get a PhD by the time you're 23 (leaving school at 16, 4 yr degree, immediately doing PhD) without being a genius. I know a couple of people that did mostly because the funding was there and they were on a conveyor belt that enabled them to get pissed and avoid responsibility for as long as possible. Their social maturity was also not great I have to say, mostly through being so institutionalised and not breaking out of that 'schoolground' mentality. Tended to be the science students as well in my experience.

I've got mates who are in engineering who have some similarities Hambini. Very black and white about things, very matter of fact in a way that feels like they've either oversimplified the issue, or missed the point completely. Especially with a churlishness and sarcasm that often misses the mark. Obviously this is based on my limited experience, but I deffo see the similarities.

he is mid 30s?

With +25 years experience?

Mid 30s is just a lower bound based on when he was an undergraduate. There's no reason why he might not have left school at 16 and done 10 years of shop floor engineering jobs before going to university, I suppose you could call that "25 years experience"

Maybe I need to start bigging myself up more, I have well over 40 years experience of "bearings engineering practice" as long as you count being able to strip, reassemble and adjust a loose ball bottom bracket when I was knee high to a grasshopper 🦗 🙂

My cousin is an aeronautical engineer with Aspergers and Hambini has a lot in common with him in terms of manner and unfunny jokes, although my cousin isn’t a cunt (and is very honest about the bits he designs).

Good to see that he's freaked out and canned his Twitter and YouTube channel. Maybe this was the wake up call he needed to sort his shit out.

I think he hid all the video and add back the one that’s not as horrible (I wonder if he didn’t add the one with rape jokes).

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After watching his vids demonstrating his depth of knowledge of bearings and CF technology, I was quite surprised to see his use of basic tools is quite clumsy, suggesting relative inexperience in the practical side of the job. He also appears unfamiliar with names of everyday cycle componentry, standard sizes, jargon, etc.

His incorrect usage of geometrical dimesioning and tolerancing makes me sceptical of his knoweldge and experience in mechanical engineering (as opposed to his aero proffesional specialism). Using cocentricity in a control frame without a datum dosen't make sense, and using an ISO fit tolerance (P7) but then explicity listing a tolerance band which is tighter is ambiguous and lazy. You could argue that the a machinist reading it would probably understand the intent, but if he knew how to do it correctly there'd be no reason to do it wrong.

From working in large engineering organisations, I can imagine that in his job he may have produced designs and drawings for one off test fixtures etc., but this shows me that he probably dosen't have hands on experience of producing production designs.

Shit me that's a lazy drawing

Edit: the more I look at it the worse it gets