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  • Are all (well most) mountain bikers engineers?
  • izakimak
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    Truck driver yesterday.
    Domestic engineer today, i’ve cleaned the house and made some dinner i’ll make tea soon.
    Tomorrow i’ll be a mountian biker if i’m not a truck driver again.

    owenfackrell
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    I am an engineer and ride downhill but i also ride uphill.

    compositepro
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    engineer hmmmm….i liked the armchair engineer “quote” i do sit down a lot

    downhill…everything goes down hill eventually…if i was a dog they would have put me down by now

    tandemwarriors
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    Joxster – if you have a large hammer you may indeed be an engineer. If you also have a LARGER hammer then you are most certainly an engineer!

    Rob

    wors
    Full Member

    it’s not a hammer, its a technical adjuster!

    compositepro
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    i was always told it was a fine tuning tool

    Joxster
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    Truing wheels

    This is how I true wheels

    coffeeking
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    Joxster – if you have a large hammer you may indeed be an engineer. If you also have a LARGER hammer then you are most certainly an engineer!

    You could argue that if you own hammers you’re more likely to be a technician than an engineer, but that could open a huge can of worms with the technician-wannabe-engineers and the engineers-who-play-with-real-things-not-just-design-them 😉

    momo
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    Civil engineer here, and former bike wrench too.

    mccett
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    Everyone who gets their bike fixed in a bike shop is an engineer. At least thats what they all used to tell me to try and win the argument over why through lack of basic maintenance, their 9 month old bike is now fuct.

    owenfackrell
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    I like this as a definition of engineer.
    Noun – A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering.

    Surfr
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    Software Engineer. It’s even in my job title.

    wors
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    compositepro – Member
    i was always told it was a fine tuning tool

    i always thought that was a square, for when the technical adjuster was too big or you couldn;t be arsed going to the toolbox!

    scu98rkr
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    Im a computational chemist but work in Mechanical Engineering.

    At Imperial the whole MTB section of the club is from Mech Eng (about 7 people) except one guy whose from Chem. Eng. 🙂

    I think Juan is also a computational chemist so theres at least 2 of us into MTbing.

    tooslow
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    Engineer by training but IT by profession.

    Q: “Is that glass half full or half empty?”

    Engineer’s A: “Neither, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.”

    AndyRT
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    shed in garden………….check
    drink tea………………check
    tried ghetto tubeless and got covered in white sticky latex gloop with a persisitent ringing in my ears……check
    singlespeed……..check
    lots of bikes always needing tlc……check

    Must be a British mechanic

    Job role : irrelevant: pays for more bikes
    DH’er: Went to UK Bike Park and felt skilless and overly burdened with the principles of consequence

    I’m a cyclest and proud of my collection of lycra and baggy shorts!

    elliptic
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    en?gi?neer?ing [noun]: the art of making the things you want, from the stuff you can get.

    jova54
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    Trained as an electronics engineer and then computer engineer but moved to the dark side, management, after about 12 years.

    Been a white van man and now a freelance trainer.

    Downhiller(?); No, too old and scared.

    Cyclist(?); Yes, and more so since I got made redundant earlier in the year and between training sessions.

    eth3er
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    engineer – sort of
    downhiller – no, not at all, it’s bloody well dangerous is what it is.

    mudslinger
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    In IT but with an Engineering degree [:)]

    Definitely not a DHer though.

    Exactly the same here.

    ononeorange
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    Was an engineer (when we had more of a steel industry), now in something entirely unrelated.

    Downhiller? Not flippin’ likely! I like going up hills, me.

    alpin
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    carpenter 1st. english teacher 2nd.

    surprises me how little common sense/technical knowledge many people have when it come to bits that turn, spin or shift.

    most of it is just srews and a cables. not hard really.

    racing_ralph
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    doof_doof – Member

    Given how retarded many of the posts are on here are, I certatainly hope most aren’t engineers.

    Eg:

    – Bearing numbers
    – re-greasing bearings
    – bolt torques
    – changing brake pads
    – anything asked by Racing Ralph

    etc
    etc
    etc
    Posted 4 hours ago # Report-Post

    I may ask inane questions but am not so retarded that i cannot spell simple words – :lukeb:

    pantsonfire
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    Engineers shall inherit the Earth but will take it apart and put it back together again and have lots of bits left over

    julianwilson
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    downhiller: once a fortnight I properly ‘downhill’ yes. But a lot less than I ‘xc’.

    engineer: I think the mind and feelings of the messed-up teenager is about as far away from cars/bridges/software as you could be, so pretty much no.

    wors
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    carpenter 1st. english teacher 2nd.

    most of it is just srews and a cables.

    no surprise there then 🙄

    WTF
    Free Member

    Engineer: Yes
    Mountain biker: Yes

    BigDummy
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    Is “racing_ralph” luke_B then?

    And is luke_B an engineer? 😯

    Hadge
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    Engineer – yes – Toolmaker
    Make bike bits – yes – on CNC lathes
    Mountain biker – yes
    Downhiller – nooooo

    dr_adams
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    Engineer – Yes
    Downhiller – No (haven’t learn how to make MTFU yet…)
    Most of the budding engineers i know are not bikie types, If anything as a group they play basketball….

    rob2
    Free Member

    lol aT this thread

    Engineer – check

    I’m suprised no one has produced a chart/summary table/venn diagram of the stats so far 😉

    racing_ralph
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    BigDummy – Member

    Is “racing_ralph” luke_B then?

    And is luke_B an engineer? [8O]

    living up to the username there dude!! not lukeb not a **** chance!

    adeward
    Free Member

    technician yes certainly not an engineer,, i can make stuff,,
    ex f1 r and d technician,, ex f1 data technician, designed a few mountain bikes , you may know, and now I am a design and technology technician at my local high school

    but never a downhiller

    ampthill
    Full Member

    Physics teacher. Not an engineer but some knowledge of related stuff

    I reckon I’ve up almost exactly the same ascent as I’ve ridden down

    RealMan
    Free Member

    I’m a student (although doing maths, computing, electronics, and physics… engineer in the making?)

    However, I know surveyors, designers, distributors, electricians, pe teachers, and several others who mountain bike. Dont think I know any proper engineers.

    timber
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    I have a good selection of tapometers, gentle persuaders, country screwdrivers and fine adjusters in the back of the Land Rover that have dealt with many bits of forestry kit

    The process is a bit one way since they took away our oxyacetelene set as it was deemed too dangerous

    Newton
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    alternative but equally valid solution:
    3270666

    From a proper engineer

    StuF
    Full Member

    Trained as mech eng but now software eng
    Downhiller – prefer down to up but lacking in skill

    craig1975
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    I’m a wood engineer or the real term is Carpenter/Joiner
    or some may say wood butcher!! 😆

    Downhiller Nope!

    Mountain-biker – Yes

    SammySammSamm
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    Me? Eng student.
    My thermo lecturer owns a Patriot 66.
    Fits the trend

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