Hambini Engineering

Welcome to the Hambini Engineering website. This website started off as my place on the internet for me to detail technical aspects of bikes, cars and my love of engineering. This is largely in conjunction with my YouTube channel where content mainly involves bikes and cars.

Hambini products are highly rated, the average rating for technical proficiency and quality is 4.95 out of 5. All products are sold directly, there are no distributors or retail outlets. Genuine Hambini products can only be purchased from this website.

Since starting the website and the combined YouTube channel, I have become one of the largest stockists of bicycle bearings in the UK, I supply many of the UK's wheelbuilders preodminantly with NTN bearings. The current offering is NTN, SKF, NSK and FAG. All of my bearings are genuine items and not B Grade stock.

Recent posts from the Hambini Blog

Appearance on GCN

Posted: November 14, 2018

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Categories: Bottom Brackets , Bearings , Site Updates

I was recently invited to appear on the GCN Tech YouTube Channel. You can see my performance below. I had a great day there, it was fantastic!

Some of the content was edited out, the original recording was probably in excess of 1.5 hours so I will make a video to cover some of the questions that had not been answered as thoroughly as some of the commenters wanted

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Bicycle Wheel Aerodynamics, Which one is fastest!

Posted: November 12, 2018

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Categories: Wheels , Aerodynamics

In terms of drag caused by a bicycle rider, the biggest loss is caused by the rider themselves followed by the wheels and frame.

The drag caused by wheels is significant because of two fundamental reasons. The first is they hit the air first as they are the most forward part of the bike and second because they are rotating. The effective air speed at the top of a wheel/tyre is double the indicated speed of the bike.

In the bike industry, wheel aerodynamic testing has generally been conducted by two groups of people - Wheel manufacturers and journalists. Wheel manufacturers will usually adjust tests to make their particular wheels look more favourable than their competitors in testing. This is usually achieved by a combination of adjusting speeds and angles. The reality is this type of test is not impartial.

Journalists on the other hand tend to visit their local university and ask some clever boffin to conduct their testing for them and give them the

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