CHOP SHOP: UNCUT! GIANT TCR Cam Nicholls Hires my pen for Convict Edition reaming!

[@NielsHeldens]

Who needs a morning coffee when you can get the Hambini intro at 6:30 in the morning

[@Hambini]

It's my morning gift to all those out there whose pens are not wooden in the mornings any more. I blow their ear drums too take their mind off it

[@Finn-pe7uj]

Oi you bloody foreign git it's not even 6:10am here in the centre of the world 🇬🇧

[@NielsHeldens]

@@Finn-pe7uj apologies. I took the local time of the holy site that is Jumbo Benders in Venlo

[@DeepakKumar-lv4te]

​@@Finn-pe7ujnow there's a centre that needs reaming.....

[@Hambini]

​@@NielsHeldensI'm into Albert heijn XL now!

[@CamNicholls]

OZ convict edition hahaha. Watch that pen mate! I'll take anything.

[@Hambini]

Did you see the all black shirt? I have a twisted sense of humour!

[@scottrobertson9417]

“I’ll take anything”! I bet you will 😂

[@davemellor4697]

So Giant are not that bad....you and Cam work well together my son!

[@LaurentiusTriarius]

As a convict I now know what bike to steal, or I can go work for absolute crap. Thanks Hambini always informative! 🎉

[@MichaelRichards293]

A big brand frame that has fared quite well in the reaming. Mapdec will be disappointed 😂

[@lumpy_vinegar]

I think Gary caused the delaminated section on the top tube. You can see in the cutting video that he paused for a second and started cutting again in that spot. I reckon it caused a few of the other split bits throughout

[@PatrickLino]

0:30 mark - Dear Santa: I was expecting a lump of coal, but you blessed me with a present of the year! Correction - 6:13 is the real gift.

[@nightdipper5178]

I like my LOOK 585. Uses Carbon Lugs which which seem to provide a more substantial and uniform connection to the carbon tubes than the construction shown on the Giant which is common. Over the past 4 decades I've watch many developments in the manufacture/design of bicycle frames. 40% of the changes led to a performance or comfort improvement for the rider, 60% made the bike cheaper to produce.

[@ericl6460]

The legend returns 🎉

[@foundfoundfound1]

hambini has the necessary vulgarity to qualify for oz citizenship. he’d fit in nicely here.

[@Alan_Hans__]

Best part of the video was going over the results of the world cup. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie. Worst part of the video was the mention of the ranga from Welshland. If you compared carbon bike frames to cricket the English frames would be universally appalling and the Indian frames fail miserably when put under pressure :D

[@DP-PhD]

The man has good taste, and knows what to look for a good reaming, if you ask me - absolutely not biased at all🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ;)

[@madplanet3351]

I love my Aldi caliper/adjustable spanner.

[@Captinfun101]

Liz ain’t Aussie soz Bini . She is from your knack of the woods Basingstoke to be exact. Born June 10 1965 aged 58 . Height of 1.73 . One child and married to Steve Bing . Our main man Warnie had a stint up her ( lucky bastard) and no I’m not obsessed with her anymore.

[@madrx2]

We need to get an OCEANGATE video from you. LOL

[@kenedward4585]

I have had 2 Giant TCR's and they have been absoutely fantastic! Never an issue ever over many thousands of miles. They are the best value and build quality by far when compared to almost any other brands.

[@phildunn1983]

As the song goes "All I want for Christmas is my two"........ears to be able to hear again after that intro.

[@fissionchips8840]

Morning hot choc ☕ and hambini convict video, it must be Xmas 🎄🎁 have a great time!! Being a lucky five year old I hope you get lots of nice presents.. feels wrong saying from the hairdresser 😉

[@Bigkidbird4]

Youre correct about the BB cup inconsistency, my '21 TCR is the same, caused two bad BB's before i went to a thread-together BB, all creaks vanished but my peace of mind about it has not.

[@0tispunkm3y3r]

holy hell that intro. I was not ready for that with my headphones on full!

[@dcv9460]

Enjoying my Popcorn right now! 😎👍💯

[@basedgodstrugglin]

I wake up in the middle of the night but I see it was my Hambini senses tingling

[@paulwujek5208]

When you are pointing out something on the screen it would help if you could use a pointer that is bigger than a pixel!

[@clp91009]

Listening to you talk about this frame (and many others) has convinced me that my next bike purchase will not be carbon. I’m going to buy a steel frame from a small company that knows what workmanship is and where a bottom bracket shell in spec is not left to luck.

[@michaeltilney1298]

And which will look after you if anything is or goes wrong.

[@truantray]

Or buy a good alloy frame which will be lighter, stiffer, cheaper

[@clp91009]

@@truantray I have an alloy and a carbon bike and they both have their pros/cons. I do fancy a nice Steel frame though for build quality and comfort to ride.

[@olo398]

old school hello hambini....i miss those

[@_J.F_]

Love the added syllable in the word gam-be-ling. Might as well have been Karl Pilkington speaking 😂

[@MarioKurill]

You know it’s gonna be a good day if it starts with a working pen

[@kehlew0160]

Pens need something to write om tho

[@raulmarquez5485]

What time is it? It’s time for a Hambini reaming!

[@dougdority5589]

The thick section on the bottom bracket looks like it is from the internal cable routing

[@valiantabello]

Getting yelled at by Hambini at 7am is quite a treat

[@V___D]

I should ask out my haidresser to go tenting!

[@cahal]

JFC that intro exploded my brain 🤣

[@alexk.7250]

Fucking hell, that's all that I need to make my day. A cussing 5 year old and if his pen-is working. Thanks Hambini for the lolz, keep banging!

[@olbucky9413]

Is a Southern Hemisphere reaming counter clockwise?

[@s23bho38]

Can imagine Cam getting the “winge er” ready now for his riposte! Great work.

[@benjohnson5887]

Another good reaming. Love to hear your thoughts on the Atherton MTB frame manufacturing process.

[@edic2619]

Great job.

[@the_fatshark]

I was waiting for AB kicking down the door behind you and steal your pen, but was not disappointed because of the hello Hambini fans.

[@ferventheat]

Having the fortune to have bought a very old, affordable and immaculate Time VFX complete bike last year, i think other manufacturers should adopt the resin transfer method. It would clear up frame failures and customer complaints overnight. But they are too proud , unwilling to say Time technology is best, or pay the royalty fees (if Time can actually do that.) Just my 2p worth.

[@DP-PhD]

Pen-iteration. Slipped that one in nicely 🤭

[@Hambini]

says you with "slipped that one in nicely"

[@DP-PhD]

@@Hambini haha. Great (one track) minds think alike mate! Also so good to see a Welsh one in your top rated. We need the advertising, to counter all the sheepish comments

[@Maximilian-vonliedberg]

I want more channels like Hambini grown bigger With a hope that bike quality world wide going up. I had a bad experience after buying crap bike that cost me 7months of paycheck, And my cycling life ain't go good after that one bike, basically i go down depressed for more than a year, i lost my job and all, niw i can't afford buying a bike. But i still hope that someday i can buy good quality bikes and back cycling again. Still holding on, one more day every single night

[@AntiVaganza]

I think you are potentially wrong on one or both of the following. What you see as glue lines could very well be where the bladder ends and thus the surface looks markedly different next to it. The bladder would be smooth and leave that more glossy surface. On that same note, ripples in the fabric could "just" be ripples in the resin from creases in the bladder. Now, why the steerer section looks like it had peel ply on it and not a bladder, I don't know.

[@Hambini]

I don't disagree with any of that and it's difficult to tell from the photos which is what I had to work with. If the ripples were "resin creases", the resin must be held in the matrix with something so a layer must have shifted somewhere - even if it was towards the centre of the frame. The problem with this chop up is the frame appears to be okay, in the sense it looks quite clean and there were no voids through the cuts, but there is evidence that the geometry (BB, mounts, roundness etc) of the frame is off and none of that was checked.

[@johnnyboy4711]

JAYSIS!!!! thats loud! triple espresso!!!

[@xxFormula1989xx]

Love it man, keep it up!

[@zugdsbtngizudsgbnudsdsoiu]

i didnt know we have so much in common. I like the exact same things about australia.

[@craigm5713]

If you had to recommend a Chinese brand frame for cam to take a grinder to what would be your recommendation? The Elvis frame didn't appear to cut it with him or you. In others words what I am asking is what Chinese brand do you rate the highest? Hong fu? Winspace? Other? From memory you seemed to rate Hong fu?

[@Saints66]

Pure Vegimite 🎉

[@edwardhomson6005]

Master B......oops, sorry. Hambini. You missed the opportunity for a double ender early on, with the "meat in the seat". Mr Zappa and Saint Alphonso would have been proud.

[@wulcanic9603]

0:28 I love these days pen intro LMAO

[@neilwheel]

Most of the severe injury & death incidents are from fork failures, yet where are all the fork examinations/post mortems? Is there a channel somewhere that's chopping up fork blades & steerers, examining fork tip failures? If not, why not?

[@Hambini]

I can only comment on what was sent to me.

[@neilwheel]

@@Hambini I mean across the board. It seems to be overlooked in the content creator universe as the major cause of serious/fatal accidents, perhaps because the remnants of a fork failure usually ends up in an evidence bag and not donated to 'influencers'. I've seen a few videos on fork failures, but those have laid the blame squarely on poor expander bung design or user error, but little on the aftermath of a fork giving way under a rider.

[@truantray]

While true, I'm old AF and fork failures were a lot more common with steel forks. People just didn't sue everyone back then.

[@neilwheel]

@@truantray same here, but i'm a former framebuilder who at one point worked for the largest lightweight manufacturer in the UK. Forks would bend but rarely fail - until the introduction of low-temp brazing, which was another of those market-driven "innovations". The worst accident I ever witnessed - and it still haunts me today - was a guy going face first into tarmac at racing speeds, thanks to low-temp brazing and his fork blades separating from the crown. 20 years ago, when frame building became the hip and trendy lifestyle choice of people in wooly hats and half-mast trousers, they'd "learn" the craft from a few KZbin videos or via a couple of hours of hands-on training by self-taught grifters, it was time for me to get out. I'm just glad there were plenty of them who couldn't figure out how to build a fork so opted to use pre-fabbed Taiwanese stuff instead. Lives were saved.

[@Mapdec]

Subtle shade to poor Jordain and his callipers 😂. How did you all get through these videos and not mention the brake mounts and dropouts.

[@Hambini]

I only saw the pictures after it was chopped up so I don't know if they were flat and true or if the BB etc was round etc.

[@richspillman4191]

His hair looks amazing, he must be banging an exceptional hairdresser.

[@namboozleUK]

That intro just blew my speakers.

[@joerenner8334]

Great Pen! etration....

[@TheGroupRide]

Is it not a good business decision to phone it in a little at the top/seat/seat-stay junction as it is fairly low stress?

[@czeckson74]

greetings to the hairdresser

[@aveedub7403]

Crap I bought one of these last year! Ahhhhh well at least when the frame cracks in half I'llbe prepared and after the crash I'll have a quite expensive unicycle and not too many injuries to use the Giant Tcr unicycle!!😂😂😂😂😂

[@LTBlightthebeam]

I have a TCR SL too. Giant's warranty is undefeated so do not fret.

[@truantray]

Wear clown shoes and a red wig. Be prepared.

[@savagepro9060]

From the looks of it, seems giant also sells bicycle vernier calipers for the curious minded!🤭🤣😂

[@stephenlinton1236]

Liz Hurley is British. She was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire.

[@rjacko7478]

The way that pens working , the hairdresser needs a good measuring 👍👍

[@10ktube]

How much of a difference does the whole carbon layup process actually make to ride characteristics? I read of these fancy layup processes that supposedly alter stiffness and comfort and what not. But after everything is glued, how can it matter? Does it matter? If you took the same amount of glue and carbon and did different layup processes would you feel a difference?

[@project-rtf7455]

Yes it does, how carbon structure behaves comes from 3 different elements. 1. Quality of actual carbon strains, 2. Quality/Type of Resins, 3. Directions of strings/carbon strains. I have studied carbon structures when being part of the college RC plane competition team. One of the things lots of college teams tried was a landing gear made out of carbon fiber sheets. Even with exactly same amount of resins, temperatures and pressure to cure with exactly same type of carbon sheets, lay-up in different direction changes structural characteristics drastically. Criss-Cross, 45 deg, unidirectional, it is endless combinations.

[@Dolmar-Rick]

Think that's the newer tcr sl frame , think overall doesn't looks too bad, wondering if it slightly worse than previous frame, the bb is slightly disturbing, though hard to say if its actually thinner and thicker without a closer pic or measuring, kind looks thinner but just could be the cut and the way the light is hitting it🤷🏻‍♂️. Lets see some newer specializes, treks, bmc's, cannondales, pinos, which I doubt will be any better with bonded in threaded crap inserts which will probably corrode and fail, but you pay substantially more money for them😂

[@craiggough3272]

The pen is working

[@taburetca]

I set your intro to notification sound

[@lbanezjs1000]

as an australian, i knew the memes were going to go hard in this video.

[@wiseoldman5841]

As per the request for a sexual innuendo comment: i should think Liz at her advanced age must be suffering from an ovalized bottom bracket at this point.

[@treyquattro]

bonzer reaming, mate!

[@lkaprals]

Hambini! What is the first word that comes to mind when you hear S-works Aethos?

[@Hambini]

Greek chicks

[@ironmantooltime]

That's three words

[@Hambini]

Geekchix

[@DeepakKumar-lv4te]

​@@ironmantooltimemaths is hard😶

[@enigma1000]

@@DeepakKumar-lv4teNot as hard as Hambini’s pen

[@KurtBob]

The Pen15 is working

[@gabiology77]

Hambini completely misunderstood the Giant BB concept! This assymetry built in with purpuse. 1., The strengthed part is pointing toward to the centre of Earth... 2., The 3 and 6 o'colck parts are more robust because of the uneven torque generated by the average rider (not me)... This design is the highest level of engineering without the extra price tag. You should believe in this obvious reasoning! LOL

[@matthiasmitu]

Mooooorning!

[@coverstem]

if Hambini say no, the frame is good for everyone 😅

[@rowanrobinson]

How good was the Cricket. Even better that you lost heaps of money on it. Not salty over the Ashes still?

[@Hambini]

I'm not even sure how they won that. India only lost one game in the entire tournament

[@sammoffitt3682]

@@Hambini very true. However, unfortunately for your 800 quid (and the Indian team), the bet was who would win the final, not who would be the best team.

[@DeepakKumar-lv4te]

​@@Hambiniyou would think with a billion people they could put together a decent cricket team, or any team for that matter. They should be untouchable (not in the Indian sense!) Like the Chinese are with ping pong

[@gjmob]

Liz Hurley is British, but we will gladly swap her for Delta Goodrem.

[@RICHARD.WRIGHT1]

G'day mate Sir Les Piss on 'em here how's it goin' me old matey.....Just like to say love the show and can I ask if you've gotta couple spare cans of FOSTERS in yer fridge? If not well then that's pretty much LESS THAN IDEAL😅

[@9psi]

Not many pirates or fosters in Australia

[@Mikadobiscuits]

Do factories cut up/dissect frames as part of QC and-or production?

[@weareallbeingwatched4602]

Of course. They have to.

[@DeepakKumar-lv4te]

So what's with the Australian love in? Is it the cussing or general lack of culcha ?

[@savagepro9060]

Hambini = French-A-Stray-lian

[@waynosfotos]

Trouser tenting? 😂

[@ATDreamLand]

So Hambini, I was thinking of getting their latest Giant Defy; with this picture review, how would you rate the frame out of 10 and compare it with Winspace and Time?

[@rascal1234]

You made a good point. If you spend $4k on a frame, you would expect perfection, else you might as well get a cheap Chinese frame. At least you woulkd have spent alot less for the imperfections.

[@truantray]

Or, Ferraris are actual FIATs.

[@rascal1234]

@@truantray "Fix It Again Tony." My father's '65 1500 Cabriolet was pretty good.

[@martinhotan8946]

Thanks and red - yellow or a light green make better contrast for that pen thing …

[@jarob9255]

Is there a tool to buy for facing press fitt?

[@pierrex3226]

Was there a point to this? Why was the frame binned to start with?

[@knalliebar]

The bb could it look oval because of lens distortion?

[@robertrhyu5591]

You forgot Kylie. And Dannii as well

[@enigma1000]

‘Some of the cutting operation will damage the frame’. A comment worthy of a five year old. I must check my pen. Is it working?

[@ianmc7698]

A lunatic yes...but a likable lunatic 😅

[@infocuslearning]

You need to check what colour your pen is. Purple on black is not easy to see.

[@xiaojiang2610]

I will send you Delta vidoe in Sydney Opera House.

[@AlienLivesMatter]

Shove that big 0 up their pen is working.

[@chrisko6439]

Once you've married Delta, you can call yourself Hambini Goodream!

[@Hambini]

I like that.

[@abedfo88]

A very subjective question but at what point do little issues like seen in the above become cause for concern? in its current state would that frame ride as well as it is designed for or is it a ticking time bomb.

[@Hambini]

I think the overall frame carbon build up is good. There is not much wrong with that. The headset area looked good. My comment would be the objective things like actual measurements were not done and these are the things which would cause the end user a problem. On a more general note, I'm a firm believer in getting what you paid for. If you buy a $5k frame, the bottom bracket should be in spec and to tolerance. If it's not, then there is no differentiator to a winspace which does have an inspec BB and costs a lot less. Having a bottom bracket that tapers to zero would generally cause an oval hole and reduced bearing life - would you notice that, I suppose it depends on how much you weighed and how if you spun the pedals or not.

[@abedfo88]

@@Hambini Thanks for the detailed response. I would most certainly have the same mindset of getting value for what you paid. It seems there is just an alarming trend of cost cutting manufacturing and rising costs whilst slapping some nice paint on the frame to cover it up.

[@LuescherTeknik]

Amateur

[@LibbyLibster]

helloooooooo!!

[@ssenssel]

If the pen is working then everything should be fine

[@Livitt351]

Did you say "TENTING "😅😅😅😅😅

[@Rusty-Metal]

"That pedantic hambini" . Should be a fucking national Indian dish.

[@LTFC77]

Liz Hurley?!

[@ehmen93]

fuck i missed this

[@IverKnackerov]

Betting against Aussie cricket team at world cups…… at last something hambini isn’t expert at 😂