Broken in 40 miles: CERVELO ASPERO:.HAMBINI REAMS CERVELO... AGAIN!!

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This Cervelo Aspero was brought in by a Criminal barrister who was miffed that his bottom bracket had broken after about 40 miles.
I'm not sure how people are allowed to sell stuff like this, it's utter garbage, and the practice of making a bottom bracket specification that no bearing supplier can support speaks for itself. A bit of a joke. The headset system was also utter garbage.
It's more telling that Cannondale and Cervelo are owned by the same parent company, but the end product is vastly different.
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@theillegalimmigrant9314 11 месяцев назад

Owning a "cannondale is like the worst disease ever" and owning a cervelo is like trying to "fuck a cactus without anathetic". THis was a reaming like the good old days

@username8644 11 месяцев назад

Disagree. Cannondale Caad series have always been good, ignoring last couple of years, like we do with any bikes now and days. I've got a 2003 Cannondale Caad7 with Campagnolo record, very nice bike, it's got a ton of miles on it, been in crashes, dent on the main tube, still works great. Handmade in the USA as well.

@ebikescrapper3925 11 месяцев назад

You catch the former by doing the latter.

@savagepro9060 11 месяцев назад

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@Reanimator999 11 месяцев назад

@@username8644Hambini meant Cannondale bikes in 2010-2020 period.

@Dr.Schlitz 11 месяцев назад

Except it’s total bullshit. I own 3 Cannondales manufactured between 2010 and 2015 and they are fantastic bikes, especially my 2012 Supersix Evo Hi Mod.

@SR-fm1ft 11 месяцев назад

My hairdresser never complains about it being oval and oversized.

@ds6914 11 месяцев назад

Bet she hates your under rotation though

@SuperAnatolli 11 месяцев назад

Its because it's not oversized...

@savagepro9060 11 месяцев назад

but your hairdresser, HE always complains about it being SMALL

@YoureSoVane 11 месяцев назад

But do you complain about the hole being oversized?

@ds6914 11 месяцев назад

@@YoureSoVane so big you could get very valuable baseball through it

@Scabadart 11 месяцев назад

I work in a bike shop, I currently have an R5 in my stand (for a bb creak, obviously) and I watched this video on my lunch break, i thought hambini was clairvoyant because you could swap the bikes out between my stand and the video and everything would be the exact same

@interceptor7905 11 месяцев назад

Now pay him 50 bucks for reading lol

@scottchaney4573 11 месяцев назад

as a mechanic that had worked on too many cervelos i love this.

@rollinrat4850 6 месяцев назад

Same here. My shop sells Cervelo and Cannondale. The corporation that owns our chain also owns these brands. Cervelo is little more than certain job security as far as I'm concerned. I checked over two brand new Cervelos yesterday. $5-10k bikes required more time to fix brand new than an entry level bike. One was missing the freakin AXS battery. All that fancy overpriced tech, relegated to a mere single speed in the least used gear. I can get this junk at cost. I never lose sleep, lust after or want any of it. I buy custom metal frames from an old riding buddy, then DIY the rest. Two frames have lasted me over 20 years. Still riding both. They might outlast myself! I don't 'need' a plastic bike that's for sure.

@SamuelBlackMetalRider 11 месяцев назад

To this day I still don’t know why I love Hambini’s videos & PowerPoints so much. The room in which he does it is dreary for instance.

@tharifdzulfiqar789 11 месяцев назад

thats a reamroom baby

@GmailNexus 11 месяцев назад

I think while the room is charming, all that Stuff in the Background can be a bit visually distracting sometimes.

@billyjo1148 11 месяцев назад

yes like a clinical temple of pain for cervelo

@larryt.atcycleitalia5786 11 месяцев назад

Yep, dunno why he insists on the background of gardening tools which make him look like a flake. But he takes delight in this I guess, along with the Disney kid's blanket on what passes for his workbench. But at least he calls shiite as he sees it even if twits like Vroomen threaten to sue!@@GmailNexus

@pedromanuellopez142 11 месяцев назад

Because he knows what he is talking about

@Jayneflakes 11 месяцев назад

I trained as a bike mechanic in 1990 and often saw frames that needed to be manually realigned. However that was always cheap shit made by Moore & Large, where a frame could be out by several mm and still be viable to sell. To see the same slack attitude on something so costly is very disheartening. These guys must know that every shit frame tolerance is going to be ridiculed by our favourite rude five year old at some point? Keep up the great work Hambini, maybe one day people will learn not to buy crap and frame builders will see the error of their ways...

@thesoultwins72 5 месяцев назад

@Jayneflakes......I think you will be pleased to know, that the utterly greed-driven, 'product-centric' cycling industry is finally getting its comeuppance. In fact, it's in dire straits! [several large well-known brands are going bankrupt - eg: Rapha -- bike and component sales are way down and even the more established and dominant market-players like Canyon have made dramatic losses over the past 12 months]. I don't know if this current situation WILL make frame builders 'see the error' of their gouging ways - we live in hope! But with due respect, this was always going to happen. As a practicing CX expert I have been 'championing' Customer-centricity for the best part of 15 years. [despite being ridiculed, ostracized and generally dismissed when speaking/writing on the topic!] However, it was always inevitable that if you failed to understand your customers and meet/exceed their 'expectations' you ain't gonna be in business for very long! [and by the way, this is in no way different to the transformation happening across the global marketplace]. We have seen more businesses fail in the past 5 years than in the previous 50!] Yet the most successful companies [eg: Amazon, Southwest Airlines, Ritz-Carlton, ING-Baring Bank, Wallmart etc etc] are all Customer-centric. Today, it is the customer that has all the power and respected sources such as hair-dresser-shagging Hambini perform a very valuable service in publicising the exorbitantly over-priced yet piss-poor quality shite that the bike industry produces. Nowadays, Customers are dramatically influenced by reviews and word-of-mouth. [87% of people buy on peer reviews and recommendations]. Allied to that is that we have infinitely more choice of products than in the past. [ie: 'commoditization']. If the bike industry ignores this ongoing change, they are doomed to failure. The best companies strive to understand what their customers really want and do their utmost to deliver on that. [as a simple example of this in the bike industry, look at Chinese suppliers like Winspace - that are producing high-quality products at extremely reasonable prices]. It's not rocket-science and all it takes is a change of mindset. Sadly, a LOT of the pre-dominant manufacturers etc haven't the ability to recognise this and adapt.

@EverythingsFine82 23 дня назад

We bought my wife's Caledonia from one of her friends. This lady and her husband own Parry Sound Bikes in Ontario, Canada. They sell Open, Cervelo, Opus, and other such sh*t. He actually worked at Cervelo corporate before opening their shop. When we went to pick it up, I noticed scratches on the seatpost. Through continual glaring from my wife, I had the following conversation with the husband: "Why is the seatpost all scratched up?" I asked. "Cervelo seatposts always fit tight out of the box." He said. "Did you force that seatpost into the seat tube?" "Yeah, we have to do that." He replied. Turns out the seat tube is all carbon, there's no bonded aluminum insert. Cervelo can't make a BB to spec or a seat tube either. The top of the seat tube was a little scored so, I cleaned it up with a bit of sanding. Now the seatpost fits well. Also, Cervelo "doesn't send all the hardware for cable groupsets". The bike was missing a grommet covering the exit of the front derailleur cable behind the BB. Just a naked cable coming out of a 1cm diameter hole, totally unsupported, in a carbon frame. I balked at that and said I needed the grommet. He obliged, and while ordering it, I had a look at a few other Cervelos in the showroom. It was the same story, naked cable, big hole, no hardware. Cervelo is supposed to be a premium brand? Bullsh*t! They're garbage from manufacturing to delivery.

@youlube1029 11 месяцев назад

the only workshop with Makita and Festool system tray and rakes and reliable tools. Thanks Hambini for the insight and roasting . Trully deserved.

@MrDazP1adv3ntures 11 месяцев назад

Thank you Hambini for sharing your expert opinion on these matters.👍

@RV-jq5pb 11 месяцев назад

Wow I finally understand what Overdrive actually means. Amazing. The little things you learn along the way from smarter people is amazing. Thanks Hambini!

@Twinpot1962 11 месяцев назад

Thanks again, for keeping it real and reaming the perps.

@eddierodden 11 месяцев назад

It's good to watch a video that goes into the engineering aspects of the bicycle. You get a better understanding of why something is working well and not working so well.

@bigtsperspective5831 11 месяцев назад

I appreciate your tone, Good Sir, Well said 😉🔧

@rodscher28 10 месяцев назад

Scandalous execution of the frame for such prizes. Excellently explained and solution executed.

@rockymanbro 11 месяцев назад

I don’t understand why people give you shit. Your engineering analysis are always spot on. You go far deeper into engineering specifics than any other bike related RU-vid channel. Also, I’m sure it pains you to purposely machine an oval billet of pure titanium.

@holdenmcgroin8699 11 месяцев назад

You get a reaming of epic proportions and i am fairly sure you won’t be happy as well

@plasot 11 месяцев назад

@@holdenmcgroin8699 OK, you could expect such a thing from roasted companies but from users?!? You bought 5 k rig and it works fine so you are satisfied customer and you don't need to hate someone who was less lucky.

@Dr.Schlitz 11 месяцев назад

Why do people give Hambini shit? Because he’s a crude jerk, that’s why.

@rcg9573 11 месяцев назад

Likely they give him shit because of their ego. People don't like to admit when they have been conned and duped. The very hardest thing to prove to most people is that they are wrong about something even when a mountain of evidence indicates they are wrong about it. Don't believe me? Go take a look at the US. It currently has 30-40 million adult age citizens, who truly believe Trump won the 2020 election despite 70 plus US federal court cases that clearly proved them wrong. Yet to this day, those tens of millions continue to believe their delusional BS that he somehow by magic won simply because he told them so. And no, this example isn't political. It's about large amounts of people being perfectly comfortable ignoring easily observed facts and reality. Those that rail on Hambini do so most likely because of ego and buyer's placebo effect. It does not take a genius to do a little research, and realize that a significant number of these mass produced Far Eastern outsourced CF cookie cutter framesets have average to poor fabrication quality and QC, yet are being sold at silly prices as if they were some artisan intricately fabricated Porsche F1 development type product. The very fact Cervelo increased their BB shell tolerances to a whopping 0.8 mm's is all the proof one should need to realize they do not take the quality of their end product seriously. When a guy like Gerarrd Vroomen claims on a social media platform a few years back that Open has its own "internal company standard" regarding the tolerances for its 386EVO bottom bracket shells, well, if you can't figure out from that what is going on all I can say is, " you can lead a stubborn mule to water, but that is no guarantee you can make it drink" (though an actual mule would drink it). To put it into perspective, I can buy a brand new Kawasaki Ninja 650 motorbike out the door including sales tax for about $7K US. Think about how that compares to what these cheaply fabricated nonpowered bicycles are being sold for. And that "entry level" Kawasaki Ninja motorbike, I'll guarantee you has exponentially more REAL R&D and manufacturing tech and fabrication quality in it than any disposable nonpowered CF bike ever produced by Specialized, Canyon, Pinarello, Colnago, Cervelo, Giant, Trek, BMC, Focus, Santa Cruz, Niner, Merida, TTT, Open, etc.... that's being sold for a similar or even a laughably higher price. 🙂

@laurynasjagelo5075 11 месяцев назад

people are salty because in this modern world, everyone is a delicate snowflake, and "this ain't rocket engineering". But in reality, They don't have a hairdresser to bang.

@virginiabowland6156 11 месяцев назад

Wow, fun to see that getting fixed. The alternative as has been my experience the bike shop keeps shoving new bottom brackets into the bike until they give up and warranty the frame.

@dougsrosen 11 месяцев назад

This is my experience.

@Metal-Possum 10 месяцев назад

Pon holdings, who own the Cervelo name are particularly annoying with warranties. Everyone else is wrong until proven otherwise. It's an inefficient process.

@ChromeLuxx 10 месяцев назад

That’s because the vast majority are untrained people without any mechanical experience, watching RU-vid basic repair videos right before they work on your several thousand dollar bike. The shops are owned by a bike aficionados without the afore mentioned mechanical experience nor business sense.

@brianford8493 11 месяцев назад

Laughed until i browned out.....brilliant as per usual mate.

@sylvainmichaud2262 11 месяцев назад

Believe it or not, *_áspero_* in Portuguese means *_rough_* ! Seems like Cervelo believe that it's not a gravel bike if it doesn't feel like there is sand in your bearings.

@jamesmedina2062 11 месяцев назад

Too funny!😂

@colintraveller 10 месяцев назад

People who buy into gravel bikes are fucking mongo's . Because they are tooo fucking retarded to realise it's just a fucking racer with offroad tyres . change the handle bars you got an old fashioned heavily over priced FULL RIGID MTB . the cunts will lap up bs marketing jargon from mongos nowadays

@NeoPayneHK 11 месяцев назад

damn its been some times since the last BB install video love every bit of it thanks man~

@sloopjohnbable 11 месяцев назад

Your hair looks like the hairdresser was particularly enthusiastic. Glad to see you've had a good weekend.

@nocturnalcadence1676 11 месяцев назад

I finished my Trifox build with your BB on my channel. Turned out pretty well I think. I've only ridden it around the block a couple times, I will do a review video next. Your BB is smoother than the hairdresser's pubes. Thanks Hambini.

@clydeco926 10 месяцев назад

I have a 2016 R3 and a 2020 Aspero, both purchased new. I don't use Strava or any apps, but have logged serious miles on the R3 training for and competing in the Triple Bypass and Tour de Cure century ride anually in Colorado. If I had to guess on the Aspero I've logged 4 to 5k miles through nasty Boulder county single track and gravel roads. Your video had me freaked out a bit, so I pulled the BB out of each frame and inspected each thoroughly, and they were absolutely fine. Never had any creaks and they both spin great. Absolutely love both bikes.

@passat18t 9 месяцев назад

2015 R3 owner here, also ride many Colorado events (live in Denver) had mine built brand new from ground up 3yrs ago and used a Wheels mfg BBRight BB since the stock cervelo BB is notorious for being shite. Zero issues what so ever, after thousands of miles until about a week ago and out on a ride it started grinding/crunching noise real bad from the BB. Removed it and although it seems it's just the bearings were shot I still replaced the entire thing with a BBInfinite ceramic BB and super happy with it so far. Too early to say of course in the long run but I'm definitely sold on the 1 piece BB's vs thread together.

@chrisgee3197 2 месяца назад

I had a 2016 R3 I bought as a frame and had a Wheels screw together bottom bracket installed. Was fine for the 5 years I bought it. Traded it for a Caledonia because I needed to run wider tires. I’ve put around 10k miles on it, including a Triple Bypass and multiple Highlanders in upstate NY, and I love the fit and ride, maybe considering it my perfect setup. It also has a Wheels screw together bottom bracket, and it does have under rotation wear on the Shimano crank spindle on the non-drive side. Maybe it’s time to send it on a trip across the pond for a retrofit. I’ve not seen another frame with the same dimensions and setup that I love so much, so maybe it’s worth the time, money and hassle.

@two20john 8 месяцев назад

Full disclosure, I love the videos from an entertaining and informative perspective and can see why the industry probably has kittens watching them. I also own 2 Cervelos, a 2007 R3SL and a 2011 R5, they are both amazing bikes, and (touchwood) I've never had a problem with either. Having just seen the SRAM recall, hot on the heels of Shimano's, I'm so glad I'm a Campag man. Keep up the good work.

@crack0n 8 месяцев назад

Running the 2022 caledonia for over 20k km now. No problems whats so ever. Even the first BB.

@two20john 8 месяцев назад

Just a heads up, I have been through at least 8 seat clamps on my R3SL and about 3 on my R5. So much so that I now carry a spare on both bikes. The R3SL is so light it's ridiculous for a component that just needs reliability.

@Mosely2007 10 месяцев назад

I had the bottom bracket crap with my Trek Madone. Every week new bearings. Finally broke. 7 carbon frames broke and wheels too. My new Madone Project one replacement broken twice. Now its on a trainer not so far to walk when it breaks. Back to Steel and happy. Good info .

@ahmetkaraarslan1464 10 месяцев назад

🤯 Just when we thought we knew the real hambini, this info hits like a bombshell!

@jl3567 10 месяцев назад

Cervelo replaced my frame and all crank components for free when I had issues with my bottom bracket for free. They even provided me with a $5,000 frame set upgrade at no extra charge.

@GWYN2006 11 месяцев назад

great work 👍

@SethJayson 11 месяцев назад

8:10 I went into a local bike shop a few months ago with my wife and said "I wonder how long before I can find a bicycle that costs more than the motorcycle I have on order." First tag I flipped was >$15k for a CF road bike, nothing special. Bought the honda for 2/3 that price, and I know which one has better tolerances on mechanical bits.

@rcg9573 11 месяцев назад

You can walk out the door with a brand new Kawasaki Ninja 650 for $7,000 US with sales tax included. The very notion that you have mediocre fabricated non-powered CF bicycles selling for the same or even up to twice as much or more is one of the biggest consumer Tulipmania type jokes of the past 30 years. And like you, I know which one has exponentially more real tech, real R&D and real fab quality in it, and it isn't the BMC, or Cervelo or Specialized, etc... selling for $7-15K. 🙂

@ehmen93 11 месяцев назад

The way he says things to not get sued again is so fkn funny

@mtzlolp 11 месяцев назад

who got him for defamation?

@RobertGirard 3 месяца назад

Had to jam a Hambini BB into my Aspero. Came with a 30mm bbright that treated me with issues after less than a year. Hambini's shimano spec bbright (upgraded crankset as well), has been going strong on 2 years now smooth as butter.

@imightbebiased9311 10 месяцев назад

Glad you're able to give Lance his due. Greatest Doper of ALL TIME!

@rsam346 10 месяцев назад

Imagine living next to Hambini and just hearing 'HELLLLLLLLLLO' intermittently during the week

@harrie205 11 месяцев назад

Great video Keep it up

@matthewfranklin7541 11 месяцев назад

Looking very tall Mr Hambini...

@savagepro9060 11 месяцев назад

said the hairdresser, on her knees

@rodrigomaero 11 месяцев назад

Really missed these case study videos!

@savagepro9060 11 месяцев назад

Dentist: "our bikes are painted in . . . enamel. That's the tooth, the hole tooth, and nothing but the tooth"

@simonalexandercritchley439 11 месяцев назад

We all have our teething troubles you just have to grin and bear it.

@MerlinMan1579 11 месяцев назад

The tight clearance on the non drive crank for a Gravel bike spells dusaster if grit and mud get dragged through the space.

@SprayIgniteBoom 11 месяцев назад

agreed indeed

@rockymanbro 11 месяцев назад

That’s probably why it was covered in helicopter tape.

@interceptor7905 11 месяцев назад

Space cadets

@M3PH11 11 месяцев назад

pro tip from a moutain biker. use fully sealed, threaded bearings and wash you bike regularly.

@truantray 11 месяцев назад

The disaster was spelled out by using carbon for a gravel bike. The industry just can't leave affordable class options alone.

@rcg9573 11 месяцев назад

Just an FYI, Pon Holdings in addition to Cervelo and Cannondale also own GT, Mongoose, Santa Cruz, IronHorse, Focus, Schwinn and several other minor brands. Can't comment on the quality or lack of quality of any of them except for a Santa Cruz bike I purchased several years ago at a steep discount. To say it was a poorly manufactured piece of garbage with a laughably out of tolerance BB shell that I measured myself with a Mitutoyo caliper would be an understatement. The manufacture of these CF framesets has gotten so shoddy and piss poor in recent years that now if I am actually going to buy any outsourced CF frameset I will buy the frameset only (not a complete bike) and the very first thing I do upon delivery is measure both the bottom bracket shell and headtube with calipers to ensure they are to spec before ever building the frameset up. If it's junk it gets returned for a refund and I never lay a wrench to it. Have already had that happen with 2 Specialized's (a Roubaix and an SL7) and a Canyon (neither brand from which I would ever buy from again). Last year I took some of Hambini's advice and I purchased my first ever Time frameset, a Time Alpe D'Huez. When I measured it the thing was absolutely dead on regarding its PF BB shell dimensions, and perfectly round as it should be, and when I measured the frameset for alignment from front to back again it was dead on. BB has been dead quiet for a year now and the frameset has been ridden in all sorts of weather including being submerged in a foot of water when I plowed my way through a partially flooded underpass after a heavy storm. Don't let any of these online shill hacks like David Arthur convince you a quality CF frameset with a PF BB can not be made or convince you the junk that he and his ilk are pedaling is quality stuff and that you should accept paying nosebleed prices for poorly fabricated junk. That Time though is a keeper, and I could not give a rats ass if it is or is not ridden in the TDF by a pro paid to ride it. I would never buy a complete CF frameset from any manufacturer including ENVE that is made in the Far East at this point knowing the utter crap that is being sold as quality product over and over due to outsourced cost savings and maximizing ROI. There is one and only one reason why most CF frameset manufacturers have shipped their production to the Far East and it isn't to produce a better product or a more reliable product. It is to cut costs, maximize ROI, increase margins and to permit guys like Specialized's Mike Sinyard and Gerard Vroomen of Open to literally laugh all the way to the bank at the astronomical prices their products are sold at given the cheap shoddy fabrication of those same products.

@WillPower46 11 месяцев назад

David Arthur is a shill.

@ozlemaktas3973 10 месяцев назад

This is GOLD. I am saving this page as I am sure it will disappear fast.

@minaminx 11 месяцев назад

Hi, thanks for saving me money by showing excellent reasonably priced alternatives to Hambeenies BB. Thanks also for your video exposing his Ham fisted clumsy bearing extraction and demonstration of your elegant solution. I have purchased a set of expanding pullers and now feel like a proper engineer and less of a butcher . . . and what's with all that shouting ?

@MRCOPE1965 11 месяцев назад

Surely if its a new frame and has only done 40 miles its under warranty and can just be replaced ! Love your videos regardless..

@rcg9573 11 месяцев назад

Not if they set their BB shell tolerance to 0.8mm's and it is within that. Yeah, you can try for a warranty replacement and they'll likely reject it after viewing the frameset. Then at that point you have to be willing to spend your personal time and resources taking them to court. How many people you think are going to do that? Cervelo believe me knows that answer and are counting on that. Same for Specialized, Trek, Cannondale, Santa Cruz, Pinarello, Colnago, Focus, Canyon, Giant, etc.....

@Sadak37sozen 10 месяцев назад

😂 hambini, the master of surprises!

@nickw6175 10 месяцев назад

when I bought a C3 years back i just thought the bottom bracket creak came as a standard, four years later and a DIY job with ROTOR BB and cranks its finally sorted but I sort of miss the look everyone gave you as the old creaky cervelo rolled along !

@zeynepsalik7063 10 месяцев назад

Seems like hambini's got some serious multitasking skills! 😂

@littlehistory2392 11 месяцев назад

"he's bald, he took it literally" Had me on the floor! Lmfao

@chrisparent4660 11 месяцев назад

Nothing turns us on more than Hambini ASMR.

@Dr.Schlitz 11 месяцев назад

If there was a problem after just one ride, why didn’t the owner take the bike to a Cervelo dealer for a warranty claim? Was this bike purchased used, or from a grey market seller? Something in this video doesn’t smell right to me.

@raufus 11 месяцев назад

I was thinking the exact same. It wore out the crank spindle in 45min, he didn't take it back to a company that offers a lifetime warranty on the frame...and he is a lawyer? None of that is logical!

@rollinrat4850 11 месяцев назад

RTV (sending it back) may seem like common sense, BUT then you just get another frame with the same exact problems. Specifically, poor QC, compromised manufacturing and shit 'engineering'. You may (just maybe) be able to keep warrantying frames, but at such a price?? The consumer will still often pay to get the bike reassembled. At my shop you will pay $550 (frame up build) for assembly or your warranty is nullified. I know, it sounds unfair, but we must be paid for our time. THIS way, the poor consumer hires a BB expert to solve the problem. Hambini's actually got the experience and equipment to troubleshoot and SOLVE the freakin problem. Large production bike companies simply don't. And they don't give a shit. They might even try to find any little reason not to honor a warranty. They've already got the consumer's money. You now OWN what used to be their problem. That is the reality. This burden to get it 'fixed' becomes YOURS, whether or not the problem is ever fixed. Personally I'd get it fixed and sell the bike to be rid of the problem. Production bike companies just want your money. They're not going to solve the problem or improve QC, much less invest in hiring competent engineers. They can't (or won't) pay enough to keep them. QC is merely lip service, a sticker applied. Actual QC is also too expensive. As a high end bike mechanic, warranties and recalls are certain job security for us. We don't cause these problems as retailers, but we might sell the bikes. So the burden falls upon us. And bike companies rarely compensate us very well for our troubles. So guess who's going to pay? As a retired mechanical inspector and machinist, nobody is fooling me. I've precision inspected hundreds of crappy plastic production frames, not just BBs either. A well tolerances frame is an anomaly. But I just wrench on bikes for fun and laughs. Unless you buy a bare frame, inspect it and measure all the various fits, alignment and tolerances, as a fact, you'll have no idea what you're buying into . Pressfit shit BBs have caused so many issues and gone through so many iterations, the wisest thing to do is avoid them completely in the first place. But BBs aren't the only thing to focus on. Poor QC effects EVERYTHING.

@larkiess 11 месяцев назад

@picocassette101 you would be surprised. I've seen some 2021 bikes sitting on clearance sales recently (not cervelo though) Could have been excess stock from covid era orders and demand has gone down significantly since then

@rollinrat4850 11 месяцев назад

@@larkiess Yup, bike sales have certainly gone way down. NOW is the time to buy a used bike! Lots of barely used bikes out there, bought by people when they were bored during COVID. Definately not the best time to sell one though, that's all over with..... We knew the downturn had to happen and our sales staff are on reduced hours. The economy doesn't help one bit. However, bike service is busier than ever. I've worked here for 7 years and we're always busy in service except for a couple weeks after Christmas when everybody goes skiing. This year with all the Wackofornia winter rain, service slowed down a bit more than usual, (the Sierra snow was epic) but this is truly a bike crazy area, with lots of world class riding and serious bike freaks. The particular neighborhood our shop is in is one of the highest income in the US and our customers often have money to literally burn. Not a joke. We do have two big sales every year though. With all the new, overpriced, insanely complex bikes (especially the high end junk) many consumers simply aren't working on their own or they're keeping their old bikes going. E bikes are still hot, which is the very best job security of ALL for mechanics! Lots of savvy consumers are wising up on the poor quality thats plagued this overpriced sport for over a decade. There are certainly alternatives out there and wise folks find them. I work in maybe the busiest and most productive repair shop in the South Bay Area. We're also the highest paid. Pretty much all year we're often scheduling out work at least two weeks, even 3-5 weeks at times for particular high end service. We actually are looking to hire another mechanic, but it's really hard to find competent ones who are willing to work hard.

@jojoanggono3229 11 месяцев назад

@@rollinrat4850 what you said is like a bitter pill to swallow for most buyers but I guess you have a point. Even my steel frame needs BB shell re-threading, and that was after I was losing some hair trying to understand why the f*** BB bearing kept failing after every 1 thousand km, in the dry. And yes, re-threading solved my problem.

@jptrainor 10 месяцев назад

I have at least 100 trouble free miles on my new-to-me $80 (Canadian!) reconditioned 1990 Norco Bush Pilot. I did put new grease, wheel ball bearings, and cables on it. So there's that. I also got rear rack and pannier bags, a nearly new bike computer (with dead batteries), and a light for my $80 (all of which are now doing service on other cheap reliable bikes).

@escgoogle3865 10 месяцев назад

I still have an 80's norco wool jersey. lol

@ttxxdd 11 месяцев назад

Good episode

@moobaz8675 10 месяцев назад

Sweet. Nice job.

@chrisko6439 11 месяцев назад

The swearing is back! Hambini is healthy again! :)

@savagepro9060 11 месяцев назад

Naaah, the hairdresser is on vacation

@andreaforcella1094 10 месяцев назад

Well, at some point I wanted to give Cervelo a try but Hambini gets me back to reality all the times...LOL

@ironmantooltime 11 месяцев назад

Sweet sweet TI 🥰

@scottthomas8842 10 месяцев назад

Oh my. How have I not seen your stuff before? 😂😂😂😂 New follower in America. PS, Gravel is evil.

@quantumdecoherence1289 11 месяцев назад

Another enema for Cervelo by hambini.

@alexchin6074 11 месяцев назад

"I had to buy a happy meal" Hambini you are the best, cracked me up and made my day mate!!!! keep it up :)

@Lider1solo 10 месяцев назад

Can't believe the tea spilled on hambini's true identity! 😮

@ferventheat 11 месяцев назад

The bearing manufacturers NKN and SKF, who each been established for over a hundred years, are really saying to Cervelo (not yet 30 years old): please dont put our top quality, proper toleranced products in your over priced, crap toleranced frames, or both you and your customers will regret it. Cervelo response: whats a customer but a cash cow?

@MrJx4000 11 месяцев назад

NTN

@moin6747 11 месяцев назад

Do you have proof on that?

@ferventheat 11 месяцев назад

@@moin6747 did you watch all of the video?

@moin6747 11 месяцев назад

So you’re saying that you just repeating the video in your own words? Cheers

@phillycheesetake 11 месяцев назад

A criminal barrister? Aren't they all?

@Kim_Miller 11 месяцев назад

You know what they say, '99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.'

@TheSpoovy 11 месяцев назад

The ones I used to work with did planning inquiries so no not all of them.

@Hambini 11 месяцев назад

There are civil claims too

@Kingsoupturbo 10 месяцев назад

In MTB many of us have moved back to Aluminum from that long run of press-fit BB carbon frame fitment issues, 1.5lbs saving seems pointless on bikes in the high 30's anyways.

@TeknolojiBilgileri.2023 10 месяцев назад

Saving this for later. I hope it won’t vanish too fast.

@davidlewis2055 6 месяцев назад

Great work, trouble I got is my hairdresser is a power lifter & she's into martial arts !!!!!

@SuperAnatolli 11 месяцев назад

A lot of practicing behind that shaking of the head tube, thats for sure. I have to do some more "exercise" to get up to that standard.

@Pubgmobile-cu9zv 10 месяцев назад

this is a proper reaming of hambini🤣

@kaanmarasoglu9171 10 месяцев назад

I need to go and grap popcorn. this is going to be fun.

@shieldsofsteel 2 месяца назад

In an age when mass production techniques should mean consistent results (good or bad), I asked a local shop owner who sells more Cervelos than other brands. He’s familiar with Hambini but can’t reconcile Hambini’s views with the fact that not a single bike has yet come back to him with BB issues (admittedly the shop has only been open for almost 2 years). This isn’t a big outfit either, it’s an independent that relies massively on its service and reputation. Personally, I don’t know whether I want one or not.

@greggsenne1268 11 месяцев назад

My advice to newbie cyclists is to watch Hambini and then decide.

@allanfoster6965 11 месяцев назад

This was a mild one. But very interesting. 😊

@Mapdec 11 месяцев назад

Good vid. Klunkey klunkey klunk is going on the bike shop bingo card.

@ademberkseyhan9157 10 месяцев назад

Hambini’s gone rogue 😅 I guess finally you got reamed

@escgoogle3865 10 месяцев назад

I went a little too far down the food chain when I bought my first bike. One frame three bits and bobs tiers. (I bought the bottom tier) Day 2 the BB exploded. Day 6 while I was on an Island the rear hub internally shattered. The frame Lasted 14 years and over 60K rough n tough miles before the dropout cracked.

@saynotothegreatreset 11 месяцев назад

@3:36 is the best demonstration how I work on my hairdresser😊

@boriss.861 10 месяцев назад

Sachin almost a Freudian slip there: 0:40 s " Without further f****in' Faffiin' around" lol

@YukiTsunoda7 11 месяцев назад

*hAMBINI* :*"goes through video with lots of info*" *ME* : just looks over at the caledonia

@Sills71 11 месяцев назад

Never feel sorry for anyone that buys a Cervelo.

@robertrivera5597 11 месяцев назад

LOL 😂

@rafaeldegiacomoaraujo8778 11 месяцев назад

They deserve it.

@markxkovacic 11 месяцев назад

I have a P series Cervelo TT frame. Best TT bike I have ever owned.

@rcg9573 11 месяцев назад

There will always be some good ones that come off the assembly line, even if by pure luck. 🙂

@rdvansade3813 10 месяцев назад

The moment of silence. Rip Hambini?

@leslie7922 11 месяцев назад

I wish hambini did the 6 o clock news

@Hambini 11 месяцев назад

I wish I did some of the crumpet on the 6 o clock news

@veganpotterthevegan 11 месяцев назад

Yeah, Jonas is definitely taking some kind of magic potion😅 Very few if any world tour riders are clean and the ones that are definitely aren't winning ANYTHING

@uptown710 11 месяцев назад

Last person I know who won the tour clean (imo) was Cadel Evans. That was like, what, 12 years ago?

@veganpotterthevegan 11 месяцев назад

@uptown710 really think he beat the Schlecks clean?😵‍💫

@veganpotterthevegan 11 месяцев назад

@uptown710 its very likely there hasn't been a clean rider winning the tour since the 20s or 30s if ever. Although doping wasn't illegal then.

@jnavonoD 11 месяцев назад

@@veganpotterthevegan It's not the cheating that irritates us, it's the elaborate lying and dissembling making fools of any intelligent observer.

@rollinrat4850 11 месяцев назад

Last year I heard "cleanest tour in history". It was also the fastest tour in history and the average speeds have been trending upwards. Must be those inFernally routed cables!

@glen3509 5 месяцев назад

I bought my Shimano XT M770 crank way....back....in 2008 and other than having to replace the small chain ring its in relatively good shape. I should replace the middle and 99.9999% of the time used middle chainring. I just replaced the Shimano bottom bracket that I bought with the XT M770 crank. My bike guy said the spindle is still in good shape🤘🤘

@puckloki873 8 месяцев назад

In the early aughts I really wanted a cervelo or a tarmac. But, years of seeing how the industry does business and I'm so good buying used bikes with special character or lower tier frames. No amount of kit will make me feel more of a boss or faster. If I could justify dropping cash on a 14k frame, or even a 5k, I'd immediately enter myself into a conservancy or guardianship.

@DeveryAndrews 11 месяцев назад

Have you done a video on servicing NTN bearings? I run them on my BB30s and curious if I should be periodically removing the seals and repacking or just keep my paws off of them if they are still running smooth. I normally don’t ride in the rain.

@rollinrat4850 11 месяцев назад

Get a small sharp knife to (carefully) peel out the seals. Use Tri Flow and compressed air to flush and blow out the old grease. Now repack with your favorite grease. For high quality bearings, I like Rock n Roll's Superweb white grease or Campy's grease. Light colored grease is easy to see how contaminated it's getting. Lastly push the seals back in with your fingers. It's all actually pretty easy if you have good access to the bearing. BUT this will compromise the sealing ability slightly where you begin prying the seals out. Be gentle, careful and patient. I like to take a used utility knife blade and dull it a bit more with sandpaper so it's less liable to cut the seal. Round the tip a little bit too so it's less pokey. If you actually check your bearings often and regularly for contamination, you should get more life out of your bearings this way, but I wouldn't bother with any of it if you use cheap bearings. To inspect your bearings, first remove the chain and spin the cranks. If there's any noise or rumbling, the bearing is shot and needs to be replaced. They should be pretty much quiet when spun. Next, remove the cranks and turn the bearing with your fingers. If the bearing feels the least bit gritty, it's contaminated and needs to be serviced. If it feel notchy, the races are damaged or dented and the bearing should be replaced. After a rainy ride, remove your seatpost and turn the bike over for several hours. This works great, because all the moisture collects in the bb, OR better yet make a small hole in the bottom of your BB shell. Hope this helps!

@diverg3 11 месяцев назад

Great tip!

@truantray 11 месяцев назад

@@rollinrat4850I think someone is missing the point of high quality sealed bearings. Nothing goes in or out of the bearing races and the seals are not designed to be removed, ever. They should only be serviced when worn out, and the service is replacement. Your advice will just net a damaged seal on a bearing that should be left alone.

@bartuyetisen 10 месяцев назад

Suddenly it all makes sense. The BB’s, NASA, Formula 1, bearing knowledge hahaha

@HansensUniverseT-A 10 месяцев назад

Meanwhile my old vintage beaten to hell steel bikes from the 50s and 60s still have their original smooth bottom brackets, the hell with these modern bikes.

@bikeman1x11 10 месяцев назад

i love the English expression - "criminal barrister" in the US we think of ost lawyers as crooks but say criminal defense attorney

@tevfikdemirezer3323 10 месяцев назад

what is happening? this is pure gold.

@TrommAdrian 11 месяцев назад

Tight manufacturing tolerances should be applauded. The more that tighten their tolerances the fewer problems we will have. Claiming that sloppy manufacturing is a good thing is...weird at best.

@rollinrat4850 11 месяцев назад

Unfortunately the larger bike industry has serious issues with QC, not to mention engineering! I wrench in this industry. I'm a retired QA inspector for high reliability industries. Production plastic bikes are shameful or shameless. Depending on your point of view. The best thing you can do is save your money and buy a custom frame from someone you know and trust. Someone who actually takes pride and stands behind their work. THEN and only then, you might get exactly what you want. Production bicycles (especially carbon). have generally become a lousy overpriced 'value'. A custom metal frame can be had for quite a bit less than this Cervelo. It might last a lifetime and will. accept far more serious riding and abuse.

@MrSupermugen 11 месяцев назад

often its not "tight" its made smaller on purpose because you can remove material rather than add. It's a very canyon thing to do.

@Dwyane1st 11 месяцев назад

a little bit of context: the s-works stumpy evo frameset, which comes with a fox factory shock, retails for a 'mere' $3,400. How dare they charge this piece of shit 5k is beyond me. It appears Cervelo is a brand one must avoid at all costs.

@M3PH11 11 месяцев назад

i saw this video and then spent the entire night, when i should have been sleeping, checking all of my tools and spares to make sure i do not have anything from any of the companies in that group. thats means tools and parts (luckily i don't ride road bikes and gravel bikes are for idiots).

@plasot 11 месяцев назад

@@M3PH11 Especially when you encounter gravel road with plus 1 cm pebbles on your roadie trip around Finland. Ignorance of some people is really astonishing (yup I made 5k kms on gravel around Europe, best bike choice to be honest)

@truantray 11 месяцев назад

I owned an alloy Cervelo S1 and it was a brilliant frame, which was used in the Pro tour, but it had one big problem for Cervelo: they could not justify thousands of $ for an alloy frame. The company made good frames when they were based in Toronto, then they just got more and more obsessed with profit margins every time the brand got sold off to yet another private equity firm. I had the first gen R1 carbon frame, but even at 62cm and my 200lbs, the frame was brutally non compliant, despite claims to the contrary. They also did a major do not ride recall for shit forks. Honestly, I just fail to see the point of carbon frames outside of racing. But even for lame hobbyist like myself, a few pounds really does not matter.

@Dwyane1st 11 месяцев назад

@@plasot personally, the only scenario that I think could remotely justify the existence of a gravel bike would be these ultra-long-distance-bike-packing-tour-ish rides. Otherwise an XC mountainbike just runs circles around a gravel bike.

@Dwyane1st 11 месяцев назад

@@truantray yeah their pricing 'strategy', or greed, is simply outrageous. The last time cervelo made a scene I remember, was probably when Hesjedal won the Giro on the R5ca? That frame cost $10k, and that was ten years ago. Like, however good that frame was, it was not worth the price. And what pro tour team uses really isn't something to go by IMO, they just rode whatever their sponsors ask them to and they have infinite spare bikes and parts so.

@khas01_earthling 10 месяцев назад

I love the detail and analysis, but why didnt the lawyer just take the bike back to seller/maker to fix?

@S9999Frank 9 месяцев назад

Strange that Jumbo Visma have won all three grand tours on the "crapvelo" :-) And Pogacar shining om the only "non-aero" bike in the top circus :-)

@dougpence3862 11 месяцев назад

Hi Hambini, Did Cervelo 2016 P-3 frames have problems? What town/country were those made in? Thank you,

@rcg9573 11 месяцев назад

All Cervelo's made after 2014 have been made in the Far East. That is when Cervelo was sold to Pon Holdings, who has held them since then. I have a 2012 Cervelo R3 that has been brilliant, but that was made under the original Cervelo company in Canada when they actually had high quality control and high quality manufacturing. The moment they were sold to Pon the manufacturing and QC were outsourced to the Far East and the quality has never been the same IMO. I would not pay even $1K for a current Cervelo frame. Not gonna pay good money for a cheaply fabricated and outsourced product. Cervelo's factory in Canada in the past was used to produce all their frames prior to the Pon sale, and it is now only used on a very limited basis to produce new experimental frames they are developing. All the frames that are sold to consumers are being fabricated in mainland China and then are shipped to Taiwan for finishing so they can claim it was "fabricated" in Taiwan when it really was not. This is done mainly for tax purposes as the import duties from products coming out of Taiwan are far lower than those coming out of mainland China. The actual fabrication of their CF framesets takes place in Xaimen on mainland China. Specialized does the exact same thing as well as Trek, BMC and several other CF manufacturers. They fab their CF framesets in Xaimen and then ship them to Taiwan for finish work and minor assembly so they can claim it was made in Taiwan and get the tax breaks.

@JwallzMTB 11 месяцев назад

first that guys fork just explodes for no reason and now this haha, i was looking to get one and now im not

@u.e.u.e. 11 месяцев назад

Funny, right a few hours ago I saw a guy with a bike of that brand "é" on a street near Berlin. 🤭

@XBKLYN 10 месяцев назад

Cervelo and Campy, the perfect pairing.

@ramirezaguilaraa 9 месяцев назад

I assume this has been covered somewhere, but when you inspect/build carbon bikes, how do place the bike stand clamp? Do you clamp the frame's top tube or by the seatpost?

@savagepro9060 11 месяцев назад

Broken bottom bracket to Hambini, about its former owner: "Kross Fred, TORQUED too Fork in much!"

@mk4th 11 месяцев назад

Oh, dear lord, at 16:30, the bearing rotates by their own :)

@RV-jq5pb 11 месяцев назад

what if a bearing is bearing? lol

@drbell7631 7 месяцев назад

Wow I was Looking Actually at A Possibility of a New Bike Frome Cervelo but Ill now b Choosing TiME

@jogem1038 11 месяцев назад

Surely you mean the frame is oversized not undersized if the nds crank arm is too close requiring a spacer, would making the bottom bracket 0.5mm longer have made more sense or is a spacer just way more cost effective.

@r.davies2702 11 месяцев назад

A spacer is the cheapest quick fix. You're right though, a longer BB would be a permanent fix. I had a similar issue with mine.

@yuritarded621 11 месяцев назад

"that's like motorcycle money" gc performance definitely triggered by that

@rcg9573 11 месяцев назад

The very fact these cheaply made non-powered CF cookie cutter bikes are selling for as much or more as a quality motorbike goes to show how utterly silly the pricing is that people are asked to pay for what they actually get.