Ahem...Hambini?

a BAME face

Pity he’s such a prick.

Shots fired!

( at @NurseHolliday )

Are you inferring that I'm a BAME faced prick

We'll just add casual misogyny to his list of crimes I guess

we all are

BABE faced

Well he’s ride a cervelo

Eyyyyyy

https://giphy.com/gifs/happy-days-fonzie-the-fonz-jtHt7SGfIYqWc

https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugxkun4p_ilo3z9UJ414AaABCQ

We're Famous!

We'll be rubbing elbows with Brad Pitt in no time

Lol, he's a penis

i don't get it at all. can someone enrlighten me?

We're Famous!

We're not as famous as the timetriallingforum, apparently
http://www.timetriallingforum.co.uk/index.php?/profile/21125-hambini-engineering/

We're Famous!

I’m the most famous here!!!

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He popped up on my YouTube suggestions too so with all this time to kill i spent a bit if time this afternoon watching some. In some of the older ones he's rather polite but they are like every other tech tutorial out there so probably the sweary stuff gets him more views but for me it wears thin pretty quickly i was into Durainrider for a couple weeks because his videos were abit different before i realised the theme and the theme being he's a prick. Hambini seems to knows his stuff but his over the top rants make him harder to take seriously which is shame because it looks like he takes his engineering seriously and could be a lot of peoples go to guy for tech and aero advice but i don't think he's trying to be that guy. He has provided some real insight into some of the problems within the cycling industry some of it we kind of knew but accepted anyway but also some stuff i didn't know. For me his most shocking video i saw wasn't offensive because of his language it was because if true an unnamed large high end European bike manufacturer called him in to help them with a problem they'd been having with creaking bb's resulting in a lot of warranty claims. He thought he'd been called in to help provide an engineering solution to improve the quality of their frames sounds great right? But actually they just wanted him to supply them lots of bottom brackets that compensate for poor manufacturing tolerances so they could continue their relaxed qc standards and rely on his bottom brackets to take care of the issue so they can stop losing money on warranty claims. He refused saying he only makes these bottom brackets to offer a solution to a problem that wouldn't exist if frames were made properly in the first place not to mass produce them so these practices can continue and he refused to name the company so he appears like a guy with some values. Ffwd a couple of years and you've got the whole orbea, flo, aerocoach etc slagging off thing which is disappointing. I've not seen/read enough of his stuff to know where this turning point in attitude occurred maybe he's had a bump on the head or needs one? Because if he dialed that side of things back he's clearly capable of providing lots of useful information that could help both cyclists and the manufacturers. Unfortunately i think the offensive shock value approach has a considerably shorter shelf life. Gordon Ramsey seems totally cool now he's not doing all that kitchen nightmares shouty shit so there is hope he could turn this around before he burns too many bridges.

I got quoted! :)

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Lol, what a sad guy

Is he on the spectrum then? To me he swears like a teenager on a first school trip abroad, and although he's not a native speaker that's not really consistent with his otherwise excellent command of English.

Oh great. Attention whore.

"LOOK AT MEEE!!!! THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT MEEEE!!!! I WILL PUT IT IN A VIDEO TO SHOW THAT I AM IMPORTANT!!!"

I've put together classified ads here with more views. Sit down.

Is he on the spectrum then?

Yes, obviously, because we're all on "the" spectrum.

There's an awful lot of amateur and self-diagnosis of autism spectrum "disorder" out there, and crowbarring individuals into convenient DSM boxes is the bastard child of humorism and phrenology anyway.

The question is both baseless and irrelevant.

I've put together classified ads here with more views

Are you the one selling those Lightweight wheels?

No no no. The baby blue Fixie.

Surely one frame isn't a broad enough sample size for his pretty harsh comments?

Correct, and the cycling industry doesn't have as tight a tolerance as the motoring let alone aerospace industry; they simply do not have the budget.

Customers send him their worst frames, that's about it.

I tried to ask him to put closed captioning but he says it's too much work and someone should do it for him.

Turn on the auto captioning, it made it a nightmare to watch.

I think it's more likely the economics of bikes.

Nice Bike = £
Nice Car = £20 x Nice Bike
Nice plane = £200 x Nice Car

Also. BBs are like £25-£45. Even if you need to replace one every year. (even at a very reasonable £25 for LBS installation). So what? Bikes are consumables. Most of the cost of parts is operating costs for the mfg and the distribution chain.

To be honest some of his findings were quite shocking, completely undersized or oval bottombrackets, that's not how pressfit works and it should be checked before they sell a frame. If its too hard or expensive to properly make it than they should stick to threaded bb's or so