Crap Advice

[petitpal]

That can't be a real engineer, can it? I thought they spent all their time giving crappy advice on retrobike while claiming to be engineers.

 

[Archemist]

Am I missing something?

This was a thread started to complain about crap advice

And then the OP complains about the crap advice he gets?

And they say irony died with the pythons

 

[Woz]

Here's a sensible suggestion. Two threads:

1) The Best Bike Wrencher of the Month
Voted by the community to show recognition to those who show brilliance in offering proper advice.
Awarded with a Retrobike engraved 9mm spanner.

2) The Worst Bike Wrencher of the Month
Voted by the community to show recognition to those who offer crap advice. The OP should be satisfied about the name and shame it would produce.
Awarded with a Retrobike duct-tape.

There could even be statistics on how many self proclaimed Engineers get certified.

 

[We_are_Stevo]

This thread is too amusing to be allowed to run to less than 10 pages...

 

[hollister]

Here's a sensible suggestion. Two threads:

1) The Best Bike Wrencher of the Month
Voted by the community to show recognition to those who show brilliance in offering proper advice.
Awarded with a Retrobike engraved 9mm spanner.

2) The Worst Bike Wrencher of the Month
Voted by the community to show recognition to those who offer crap advice. The OP should be satisfied about the name and shame it would produce.
Awarded with a Retrobike duct-tape.

There could even be statistics on how many self proclaimed Engineers get certified.

if it ups the quality of shared technical knowledge, that could only be a good thing

(your choice of wrench is funny on a few levels )

 

[Rich34]

Knowledge is knowing tomato is fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad. Blaming someone else for putting it in the fruit salad when they've suggested you should has as much to do with you not doing your research as the other bloke being an idiot.

Coming soon: my thread on how to repair cracked 531 with blu-tack and zip-ties.

 

[elPedro666]

Seems to me that the same open forum mechanism that permits bad advice to be posted also allows said bad advice to be jumped upon by clueful people, and that in general appropriate answers tend to emerge. Although I accept that this isn't any sort of guarantee

I think that answered the original point, I'm just signing in to proclaim my status as a rocket scientist and in a moment add a link to a thread of utterly deadly mis-advice..

I'm nearly out of Duck tape.

 

[We_are_Stevo]

I, naturally, have lots; would you like to borrow a cracked Ti frames-worth?

 

[johnnypie13]

This thread is too amusing to be allowed to run to less than 10 pages...

Oh haven't laughed so much in ages thankyou everyone that has contributed to this thread, it is great and long may it last

just want to point out i'm and engineer and a technician and i have a honours degree not in anything remotely bike related but there you go

I can and do ride a bike though and they never go to a bike shop unless i'm feeling lazy I have made some silly errors on bodging and have scars to prove it but they all add to the experience (once had to use my foot on the wheel to brake as the brakes i fixed :roll: didn't exactly work as expected broke my arm and nose when foot slipped into spokes still look back and giggle at that )

Ah this quote sums up how i feel about this thread.
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

 

[Mr Panda]

well, there is the roads.

Aye, but look at the state they're in :evil: Nothing lasts these days :roll:

PLUS - just because just because someone can lay down a few straight lines on a map doesn't make them a competent transportation engineer, oh no.

I prefer to take heed of General Wade and Mr T Macadam - now there's proper designers wot knew a thing or two. Think they invented corners too.

Romans? Pah!