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Classic misogynistic attitude that thinks women "wanting attention" is a bad thing (that is literally the entire point of journalism) - all while running a YouTube channel, trying to sell branded merch, etc. The guy's a wrongun simple as.

I am hugely disappointed that there isn't more pushback against that gateway-to-fash cult leader bullshit, it is fucked up. All kinds of pro athletes or whatever popularising it.

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Has anyone died or been injured due to poor tolerances on the bb shell, causing creaking?

BB shell I don't know. But crank failure which I guess could be exacerbated by it, definitely. Anyway I've been steering clear of Cannondale forever you'll never catch me on one.

Who gives a shit I'm not in Hambini's corner here, fuck that guy.

Bikes are toys

Yikes. Bikes are not toys they are vehicles like anything else. A badly designed and manufactured vehicle will kill and maim people and cycles are no different

https://gearjunkie.com/cannondale-caadx-cyclocross-bicycle-recall

But they recalled the bikes and replaced them when the problem was identified. Which is a mechanism put in place as a means of protection. And one of the exact reasons you buy a name brand that comes with brand protection and warranty, which adds to the final cost of the part you're purchasing.

As far as I am aware, Cannondale warranty doesn't bring a dead person back to life.

That bike engineering is actually a serious concern because bad bike engineering kills and maims people, citing the Cannondale snapping forks as an example.

He posted on his Youtube community page 'Due to a load of death threats and racist abuse from Michelle Arthur's friends. I have come off Twitter.'

Oh dear

Classic whataboutism 👆

He says, indulging in whataboutism himself.... 😂🤭

Bikes are sold for the hundred and it not life or death if a BB creaks or headset not smooth.

It is still hugely dangerous though. We've seen for ourselves big brands put out cycle products that have maimed and killed clients.

https://www.outsideonline.com/2400321/cannondale-recalls-over-11000-cyclocross-bikes

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I've been using these on the fixed for a few months after a recommendation.

https://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/TYPAJBMM/jack-brown-mile-muncher-700c-folding-tyre

Really terrific tyres, not just for £15, full stop. They're pretty light and made with a good folding bead but were £15 each in a sale. No flats. Picked a few bits of glass etc out but so far very pleased. And they look great.

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.

His twitter account is now deleted.

Well I am not. That is just a fact. What makes me very angry with the cycling industry more broadly is that much worse than Hambini is routinely ignored and even celebrated. We have an entire thread celebrating Peter Sagan on this forum, 'hero on the bike' https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/277547/ . As far as I am concerned he is trash. All the facts about his attitudes and behaviours are out there. What's the excuse for looking the other way once those facts are known?

It isn't about "bad behaviour on the podium" because this behaviour doesn't happen in isolation. That's just what he's been caught doing on camera.

I appreciate what you are getting at but this is dissonant attitude in this industry and 'culture' gets on my nerves and I can assure you I'm not the only one in the cycle industry frustrated that tolerance of sexism and literal assault is rife when it's from people with the right logos on their jerseys. Certainly Hambini is repugnant and I will have nothing to do with him, ever again. My concern is that the totally dominant misogyny in cycling, from the media to the pro scene to the product sector is always, always looked the other way on.

Yes and I haven't discredited anyone's argument. That is literally my entire point. I agree with the hambini criticisms. What I do is go further with them and apply the principle to this entire fucked up industry.

Sigh.

Guys, why give oxygen to someone with a whataboutism argument?

That isn't what "whataboutism" is.

My entire point is that Hambini is bad and is in the wrong. I have unsubscribed and won't have anything to do with him again. However I am making the point that the cycle industry does far worse all the time with no consequences.

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/san-juan-woman-files-police-complaint-against-keisse/

Keisse wasn't sanctioned in any serious way. He didn't lose his spot. He wasn't arrested. All the sponsors including Specialized looked the other way. He got away with it. Did the cycling media "cancel" him and his team and his sponsors? Of course not, they know which side their bread is buttered. Indeed CW published an "inside look" into DQS the other week https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/the-wolfpack-insider-deceuninck-quick-steps-behind-the-scenes-documentary-452079/amp

Yeah all of them. The whole media industrial system is a set up to promote products and sell things, any small problem like a sporting star sexually assaulting a "podium girl" is brushed aside as no big deal.

No I know about it because of social media posts by Amanda Batty who is hugely disillusioned with the cycling industry.

Your cheap gotchas are pretty pathetic tbh.

The giro organisers literally paid the guy a fortune just to turn up to it let alone win anything.

I'm not going to try to turn this thread into a "what about" because Hambini has clearly crossed a line here big style. But it doesn't sit right with me that the cycling media industrial complex will all look the other way and keep schtum on much worse up to and including workplace bullying and sexual assault, as well as publicly humiliating cycling fans with cruel sexist prank photos, and then clap themselves on the back saying well done aren't we upstanding citizens because they all told hambini to fuck off on twitter.

"bollocking" is cheap. It's assault. He got away with it with no actual material consequences from what I can see. The same people (rightly) piling on hambini will completely switch in attitude compared to Sagan.

One of them is white and is involved in big money cycling with commercial ties...

We haven't even gone on to the likes of Shane Sutton telling Jess Varnish to "go and have a baby" either.

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.

Thanks Grams I'll get one in the post or similar.

Send my love to Gwynn! :D

from your fellow control oper8or

I bought an aventon frame with a brake on it a while ago. Unfortunately it had seized and the nut was rounded so it had to be drilled off.

After discarding the ruined brake I returned home to get a spare old campy one from the shed, feeling very smug that I had saved such a thing for this eventuality. Alas the Aventon uses a lite carbon fork meaning my hoarding was all for naught since the campy brake was for older skinny metal forks (it seems). https://www.aventon.com/products/lite-carbon-fork

Does anyone have any strong opinions on how I should be sure that a new caliper is the right size to go on the fork before I order it? I am aware that mounting bolt lengths etc do vary. I've sent aventon an email but who knows if they'll come back to me.

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.

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