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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 😉
Civil engineer here, and former bike wrench too.
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.
I like this as a definition of engineer.
[i]Noun - A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering.[/i]
Software Engineer. It's even in my job title.
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!
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.
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."
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!
en?gi?neer?ing [noun]: the art of making the things you want, from the stuff you can get.
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.
engineer - sort of
downhiller - no, not at all, it's bloody well dangerous is what it is.
In IT but with an Engineering degree [:)]Definitely not a DHer though.
Exactly the same here.
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.
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.
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doof_doof - MemberGiven how retarded many of the posts are on here are, I [b][u]certatainly[/u][/b] hope most aren't engineers.
Eg:
- Bearing numbers
- re-greasing bearings
- bolt torques
- changing brake pads
- anything asked by Racing Ralphetc
etc
etc
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I may ask inane questions but am not so retarded that i cannot spell simple words - :lukeb:
Engineers shall inherit the Earth but will take it apart and put it back together again and have lots of bits left over
[b]downhiller[/b]: once a fortnight I properly 'downhill' yes. But a lot less than I 'xc'.
[b]engineer[/b]: 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.
carpenter 1st. english teacher 2nd.most of it is just srews and a cables.
no surprise there then 🙄
Engineer: Yes
Mountain biker: Yes
Is "racing_ralph" luke_B then?
And is luke_B an engineer? 😯
Engineer - yes - Toolmaker
Make bike bits - yes - on CNC lathes
Mountain biker - yes
Downhiller - nooooo
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....
lol aT this thread
Engineer - check
I'm suprised no one has produced a chart/summary table/venn diagram of the stats so far 😉
BigDummy - MemberIs "racing_ralph" luke_B then?
And is luke_B an engineer? [8O]
living up to the username there dude!! not lukeb not a ****ing chance!
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
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
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.
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
alternative but equally valid solution:
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From a proper engineer
Trained as mech eng but now software eng
Downhiller - prefer down to up but lacking in skill
I'm a wood engineer or the real term is Carpenter/Joiner
or some may say wood butcher!! 😆
Downhiller Nope!
Mountain-biker - Yes
Me? Eng student.
My thermo lecturer owns a Patriot 66.
Fits the trend
Nope ! elf & safety here 🙂
im a market man, in birmingham wholesale. I sell flower's, nearly finished a physics degee though so who knows what ill do next, teaching maybe.
Hmmm... Ex Cycle mechanic, Mech Engineering Degree and Civil engineering degree (tho i gave both up!)
But been in sales for 10 years or more!
im currently studying for a Graphic Design Degree. Not what I wanted to do when I left school though lol. But its all good 😀
Downhiller? I have tried it, more an all moutain techy rider. Love anything Technical, even uphills
i love anything technical too
but i tend to fall off / bail out when i try to ride it
my job title includes the E word
Medical Scientist (reserach and odd patient work. )
I did do an engeering course of racing cars, materials, tyres and forces at degree level before getting fed up of stats and changing my course which had more stats... 😈
DH = no
i seem to ride the bits that most people would call boring fire road
Engineer =yes!!!!! stw BINGO somewhere have a piece of paper awarded to me after spending 3(+) years closely studying the vertical morphology/geology of The Peak and other good climbing places that says i'm a Microstructural Engineer - not sure if this was because they thought i hadn't turned up enough to be able to spell Metallurgist or because they knew that one day in a bike shop i will need to say "well actually....... I AM AN ENGINEER!"
I provide ongoing real time hands on lifecycle management strategy support system solutions for mobile technical assets in the retail supply chain sector. (Truck mechanic, does that count ?)
Most engineers I know tend to be more into xc type riding, and I do know what seems a highly disproportionate number of them compared to other careers. Most of the dh'ers I know are either tradesmen or they work in the bike industry in one form or another.
Bodger. I'll shortly post details of my belt drive conversion as proof 🙂