How hard is it to be a woman in the cycling industry? Shockjock engineer devotes entire Youtube video to trying to discredit female Cycling Weekly tech editor

Might have been three. However I would suggest they are either Hambini Bots (would be interesting if the IP addresses are very very similar) or just his "fans" who probably made some of the comments shown after the original story. 

Well whoever they are, their whataboutery powers are strong anyway, Like Hambini, not one of them have said it was wrong to do the original comments and instead have whatabouted the content of the original CW video being bad, and other websites content. 

Well, I have. I (and others as well) have said that I don't like the vajina this'n that and the other namecalling. But to go from a perhaps in manners childish roast to call in the big weapon of sexism and the mob that follows is ridiculous. Fact is that the internet cycling press and the cycling industry need to shape up. Most are at best selling snake oil. 

On here? On this article or the other one?

Because all these single figure posters on this page, including you have just done whataboutery from what I can see. 
 

Being sexist is worse than being called out for that sexism.

No matter how "big" that weapon may seem.

Don't be sexist, then you cannot be legitimately called out for it, simple enough?

Yes I agree, ban them all! Especially those who don't agree with you. 

Probably because that isn't the cycling press but a collection of illegal live streams of pro races (some of which didn't even go ahead) and one "article" that you seem to take issue with.

Also, no need to deflect from Hambini and his misogyny - he could have apologised and learnt something but instead directs a worrying level of vitriol at the person who called him on it. Tactics straight from the Trump playbook or even Joe Exotic!

ktache wrote:

Well, this story is definitely incereasing sign ups.

Positive RaceView Cycling reviews anyone?

Thanks for the reminder to re-read the thread where they embarrassed themselves. For anyone else who would like a chuckle:

https://road.cc/content/forum/176025-anyone-ordered-raceview-cycles-co-a...

The new forum software seems to have muffed up the threading, so just view it in "Oldest First" mode.

yes he makes or resells bb bearings

Hambini makes the best bottom brackets you can buy; exquisite pieces of engineering.

Fair enough then, I had thought he was just a comentator. But he is also a bit player.

But the point I would make probably still stands. MAB asks how hard it is to make it as a female in the bike industry. But Hambini's invective, in so far as he is at best a bit player in the industry, is more symptomatic of his kind in general rather than of the bike industry in particular. MAB could equally have come up against the same headwinds in any industry.

I suspect the bike industry does present its own particular difficulties for women, but not because of the likes of Hambini, whom you could encounter anywhere. However, the bike industry, leaning as it does on the underlying competitive sport, takes on the popular bias towards male competition.

Name a top cyclist. I know, you can probably dredge up some women's names. But I'm pretty sure the men's names come more easily. Same for olympic 100m winners. And so on.

Hmmm, one post only and on this story. Are you Hambini?

Yes, we are all a hambini

Thanks, but no. I'm not even a russian bot as far as I know.

I have watched a lot of Hambini's videos - and I enjoy the educational aspect. But inviting ridicule at a personal level is quite different from saying 'this is bad engineering/silly marketing.'

Crying racism is not compelling. Saying he's received death threats is almost certainly nonsense. Lying about asking a psychologist is damning for someone who claims to be a 'truth-seeker'.

I believe he did ask an nhs psychologist/psychiatrist, very very likely his  wife. 

Except he's a fool who uses perjorative and vindictive language against seemingly any group that doesn't contain him. 

Because he knows engineering he gets a free pass does he? As for don't watch it, sure but also call it out for what it is and challenge his bullshit.

Msiv wrote:

If you watch all of his videos, if you can be bothered, he roasts people and companies that deserve it and bigs up people that deserve it. He knows his stuff about engineering and applies it to bikes. Consumers are fed so much rubbish and unfortunately only get the chance to read about manufacturers that put bikes into the hands of journalists. Thank goodness for dc rainmaker and Hambini et al who only look for truth. There are different ways of presenting it agreed, you have a choice, don't watch it. If you are doing a crap job expect to be roasted regardless of colour, creed or gender. Power to the individuals with the knowledge and time and passion to call out the bullshitters and incompetent. Ridicule is invited by those confident in what they do.

Don't forget Luescher Teknik. Gotta love his video showing the frames and forks cut out.

Partisan in the sense that we're reporting on someone using there Youtube Channel to pick on a female cycling journalist?
For what it's worth our view on Hambini is that in his limited field of specialism he's clearly a talented engineer - if you look back though some articles on road.cc you'll see we've referenced him on some things - ceramic bearings being one. But he also clearly talks about stuff the he doesn't know half as much about as he thinks he does which undermines his credibility. And then there's him being an arse. Normally we'd be indifferent to whatever he's got to say - but if you're going to spend the time and effort to produce a video trashing one of Cycling Weekly's tech editors for no better reason than she pulled you up on your own sexism then I think you can expect it to be newsworthy to the rest of us. Even websites that aren't Cycling Weekly.

Firstly it seems pretty bizarre your even reporting on something like this, but if you are going to I think it would have been more professional to report the facts and let people make their own minds up.

Why impartiality? Road.cc isn't the BBC. And as for the reportage, clearly it's a talking point that people are engaging with.

No they don't have to, but for a site that relies so heavily on seemingly impartial reviews, you'd think they'd be more inclined to. This article just feels like blinding defending one of "there own" and in doing so I think people will question the integrity. I do, I previously didn't.

Tony Farrelly wrote:

in his limited field of specialism he's clearly a talented engineer

registered just because of this. you clearly have no idea what engineering means when you say an aeronautical engineer has a limited field of specialism. 

speaking only from an engineering point of view, having anyone without any training or understanding in any engineering discipline lecture the general public about engineering concepts and whatnot just to make a buck does tend to raise some pulses. not everyone handles bs politely. i can understand hambini.