Could a chemistry nerd ever be happy? Let us know what you thought of the video in the comments 👇

@taufikabidin412

3 жыл бұрын

Explanation is good, bit the animation is not there yet.

@andronicodelrosario773

3 жыл бұрын

Probably not.

@oliverbridgewood3929

3 жыл бұрын

Taufik Abidin doing the best we can with the resource and time available

@kedarkulkarni3030

3 жыл бұрын

Really good practical organic chemistry lesson..really need this for my delayed engineering entrance exams 😂👍

@andronicodelrosario773

3 жыл бұрын

In all seriousness, though, I’d like to see you guys talk about aluminium, specifically the ones used to make bike frames. Numbering system, how it came to be used on bikes, and why a specific alloy (aluminium 6061) keeps popping up.

Aaaaand that's why Ollie is irreplaceable on Gcn

@ahmadalwadi9156

3 жыл бұрын

Because of his organic chemistry PhD

@aliensporebomb

2 жыл бұрын

Brain the size of a planet and he likes to ride bikes. Nothing wrong with that!

Yes please, more science, actual real science and not just pretend science. This is a video that needs more than one view, great work GCN.

@M_Baker9ersFan

10 ай бұрын

With the Titan sub going down they got their views finally

I think you’ll need to go over the finer points with me again Ollie. It started off okay when I invited my uncle and a few of his friends over and plied him with alcohol. A conga line was soon formed. The problems began when i attempted to combine the ammonia and propane by pissing on the natural gas heater. Unfortunately the chemicals didn’t react as specified and subsequently my uncle became a free radical and punched me through the kitchen wall. As you can imagine I was disappointed that my planned carbon fibre frame and wheels didn’t turn out as planned . I’m eagerly awaiting your second instalment demonstrating the process in finer detail. 🤔🥴

@yk._.a15

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

I’m a biochemist and cyclist, this made me very happy! Thanks for the excellent content and for not dumbing down, too much! Great example of science communication, chapeau!

Ollie's PhD mentions should get the attention his hour record does. More science please!

@87cigs

3 жыл бұрын

If I had a PHD, I would wear a shirt saying as much. I would also get a gold nameplate with Oliver Bridgewood, PHD on it for the front of the desk. Ill never knock him for dropping that.

Ollie’s best ever American accent is achieved whilst eating celery.

@glennreed9764

3 жыл бұрын

I noticed that, too!

@billinhouston3291

3 жыл бұрын

I am American, and didn't even notice that he was doing an American accent. :)

@billinhouston3291

3 жыл бұрын

@@kimberlystewart8980 ha ha haaaaa!

This is fascinating. I would have loved chemistry lessons like this at school.

Ollie is the kind of guy you befriend because he’s outgoing, charming, and just sitting next to him at the pub can make you look smarter.

(Hears coefficient of thermal expansion, my engineering degree finally pays off 😂) CTE is actually quite important in manufacturing processes even in bikes because often when a carbon fiber sheet is places into a mold it is heated with an epoxy resin to help it set and cure. Cheaper Carbon fibers with high CTE often expand more in the mold causing the manufacturing defects we are so used to such as incorrect BB diameters and misshaped seat posts. The heated fibers move around the epoxy in the mold and cause these defects so its in a bike manufacturers favor to use Fibers with lower CTE to allow for greater tolerances and fewer defects. This is especially important in monocoque designs where there could be hundreds of pieces that need to be heated and bonded together to make a frame and fork combo (Correct me if I am wrong this is what I have learned in class but I know often the real world is much different)

@feedbackzaloop

3 жыл бұрын

True, but the main reason for deformations is thermal setting of the matrix while cooling, so it is rather epoxy pushing the fibers around than setting fibers pulling on it. That what makes resin composition and mold design worth being a company secret.

As a fellow chemist I found the analogy for polymerisation hilarious! Especially the lonesome conga 🤣 Great job Ollie!

i died laughing when ollie did a solo conga line

@JonathonDoig

3 жыл бұрын

brysonszy so, how did you write your comment then? 🤔

@brysonszy6306

3 жыл бұрын

@@JonathonDoig it's something called a figure of speech, i did not mean that i died literally 🤗🤗

@dwebb1935

3 жыл бұрын

I hooted!

I feel this is the video that Ollie has always wanted to make. I enjoyed it enormously - great content and the ever-charming, self-depracating style of the host is always a winner. Chapeau.

As a person thay bikes daily for commuting and errands but that doesn't own a road bike... These are the videos that make me keep coming back to GCN. Well done!!

@gcntech

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them! Won't be long now 🚴‍♀️😉

You did a good job breaking down some pretty complex chemistry in a digestible way.

The glasses + the lab coat + the PhD + the celery chomping + the mullet = the perfect person to teach me about carbon fibre!

One of the BEST ALL TIME GCN Videos!!! Never realized Ollie was really Professor Ollie!

Yes! More science please.

The “Plant Based Cyclist”, needs one of those celery bikes

Love Ollie's enthusiasm.

This has got to be one of my favourite videos from GCN, absolutely love learning all the sciences! Also Ollie’s presentation had me in stitches loving the solo conga life

I absolutely ADORE this. As like most people as soon as I get home I start watching GCN videos, this means that I have science during my day and BIKE SCIENCE after work!

This was fantastic. Thanks Ollie! And yes please - more science videos!

Ollie talks about "annoying drunk uncle" like i'm a bad thing...

The conga line is by far one of the best analogies I've ever heard. Hilarious and hugely informative. Thanks Ollie!

My science teacher is wearing a hoodie?!? I’ve been waiting for this video on carbon fibre for a looong time. Great job Ollie.

I appreciate your efforts on and off the bike.

The best! Thank you Ollie and GCN crew.

Love this Ollie! Please more of this GCN

The hair look great, Ollie!

Mullet and science glasses. The look we've always needed 😂

The only video which actually explains the chemistry of how it's made rather than just talking about the impregnation with resin.

Great educational tech-show. Dr. Bridgewood really earned his celery today ;-)

As an MEng in Chem Eng who worked with acrylonitrile (nasty stuff) back in the 1980’s and the same company made the first carbon fibre for F1 in Coventry, Ollie’s explanations bring back many happy memories. Good stuff.

I discovered GCN tech just now (I discovered GCN already in 2016). Lovely! please go deep in every tech related to bikes (and even something else). You have the brains! (Ollie brains)

I find your videos chill and straight to the point. A lot better than know it alls and always skeptical by beating around the bush. Thanks for this video and many other!

One of the best videos. Ollies hair helps too. I think we need more of these and you should also give these videos to schools. Ollie is great at presenting technical subjects.

Carbon fibre is made by drunk Uncles making conga lines at weddings... the ultimate irresistible force... GCN making science understandable since ages ago! :) Good work.

Finding a use for the old “souvenir” labcoat is always gratifying.

Advanced higher Chemistry finally coming in handy to understand this video

Great video! A very well produced video with great commentary and examples to explain an otherwise complex subject in an easy to understand manner, The juxtaposition of humor, anecdotes and "serious" science make this a stand out video. Ollie, you are ready to teach at the University level! Keep up the great work.

Excellent video with the process explained perfectly for non chemistry nerds. Thanks for putting in the effort!

Fascinating. Cool to see such a unique vid for cycling.

Proper teaching.

I had to design a bike in my Engineering class, so I came here because I decided to design it with carbon fiber throughout. Thanks for the video!

Great explanations! I like how you have related virtually every complicated step to some form of cycling.

Wow. Great video. Thank you, Dr. Bridgewood. I love the tech geekery and your analogies were great. It certainly helped me understand the process better. More of these, please.

Well done! Ollie hit his stride with this video. Not only did i learn & was able to follow along...it was also entertaining. The Konga King...LOL. Congrats on a great video Ollie - seriously!

That is such a complicated procedure, it makes you wonder how anyone thought of it in the first place. There were times during the video when I thought Ollie was speaking Klingon but his solo conga saved the day!

"Is there anything as tragic as a solo conga?" Doing it in those trousers and mullet?

@paulim8703

3 жыл бұрын

Great vid though. Enjoy the science.

Can't thank enough for making this masterpiece mixture of science, art and fun!

Hey Ollie! This video was fantastic!Could you go into the drunk conga line that produces lycra? And what the difference between lycra and other polymers? Thank you

I didn’t realize that I would be taking a remote learning class this morning when I clicked this video.

Ollie: You should start your own channel just about science and nerdy stuff.

Great job Ollie! I was chuckling AND learning all through the video 😊👍

Someone’s loss of a chemistry professor is definitely GCN’s gain. Nice job.

Having worked with TVRs for years I have played with GRP and CF a lot. I had always wondered where this stuff actually came from so This video has answered all the questions I had mused on while trying to get Carbon strands off my sticky gloves after restoring T400 body work - Well done and thank you Dr Ollie Next up: Graphene fortified epoxy resin like the latest BAC Mono, that must be a game changer for bike frames and yet another one in the eye for the UCI weight regs!

Great and very informative video. Thank you for putting this together.

Excellent video! Thank you for sharing your expertise!

Keep these coming. Great job Ollie.

Really nice video. I really appreciate the effort put into making this understandable! Also, funny as always!! Keep it up!! Congrats

I really enjoyed your presentation. Very clever way to use ordinary materials to demonstrate complicated processes. Thank you!

Carbon fiber had catastrophic results on the OceanGate Titan Submersible.

You are so much more interesting, informative and helpful than my chemistry teacher! Can't thank you enough for this video!

Thank you very much Ollie for the amazing video, it’s full of valuable information and knowledge in layman’s terms. Being two years late to watch this video but I enjoyed it so much. Thanks.

Best science-based video... ever! Awesome explanation Ollie. Thanks so much to Dr. B and GCN. More of these kinds of videos please... and if we can see more of Ollie's solo conga-line, the world will indeed become a better place.

One of the best GCN videos yet!!!

I ride a old carbon LOOK from the 90's. I didn't know how carbon was made before this. This was very informative. The only thing that would have made it better is to see a real carbon factory where its being made. Thanks.

Do the talents of this man never end...? I think the Meet the GCN Presenter video needs a revisit....

Excellent presentation even for someone (me ) that does not have a chemistry background. It has made me curious to find out more about the manufacturing process and potential applications.

Brilliant. Great to have a proper scientist on the team.

Brilliant, more of this stuff please! 👍

Definitely need more science vids, good effort to fit that into 14 mins and make it relatable to a wide range of people but informative too.

This is great! Very well done!

As an (cyclist and) aerospace-engineer and youtube-connoisseur I can say: very well done! A really good video with, as it is, science-communication value far beyond for cyclists alone.

Einstein said 'If you can’t explain something to a six year old then you don’t fully understand it yourself'. In many ways I can be described as a six year old and I feel that was explained excellently. I would give that video a solid 9/10, I have dropped one point because I feel like Ollie's mullet could have better differentiation between the business and party ends.

Great job with coming up with examples that us non-chemist could picture !! Chemist nerd got my like :)

Love these videos would, enjoy some vids on metallurgy, high performance fabrics for clothing and maybe even some more physics videos like the wheel weight vid.

Fascinating Ollie.. thanks for the science.. ace 👍🏻

This was a great video, I would love to see more genuine science/ engineering videos from the channel :)

As a chemical engineer with a decade of industrial manufacturing experience in composites and crazy metals, this makes me happy 😁😁 Ive avoided polymer chem professionally up to this point but it’s by far my favorite applied chemistry (as well as organic). nerd alert: The only thing that would make the polymer reactions more amaze is if they used diels-alder reactions!

This is exactly what I was hoping to learn from this video. As complex as the subject of CF is you did a great job of explaining and dumbing down just enough for the average person to learn from.

This was Awesome!! Please do more Science videos!

Educative video, cheers Ollie!

Excellent video! You explained it very well.

Awesome! More of this please! :-)

"Is there anything more tragic than a solo conga?" em... A solo conga in a mullet?

Thanks for the great video! I would love to watch similar videos on the different compositions of steel and titanium and the differences that these make for the bike in the end.

@Nephiism

3 жыл бұрын

Loved it. Have you really got a PhD? Either way, found it cristal clear (carbon based!). And entertaining.

Best gcn video for years 👍

Genuinely love Dr Oli's science chat... Could be the new Jonny Ball.

Ollie should start producing `Tomorrows World` again. Smashed it !!

......and I do appreciate your efforts sir! Thank you!😎

Thanks GCN, now I can build my own race winning bike in my shed.

I would have prefered watching the Olympic roadrace, but since that's not possible right now: great video, Ollie!

This was actually extremely fascinating. I've always wondered how carbon fiber in general was made, though for some reason hadn't yet gotten around to researching it. And it's honestly a lot more.. "free form" of a process than I expected. I love stuff like this personally, I'll have to do some further research of my own on this.

Ollie adds so much credibility to the GCN organization! As an engineer, it was great learning something new!

This is a fantastic video you should do a followup of the history of how carbon fiber was developed, worth learning about !! And you could end it with an update on "What's coming next for improved carbon fiber" and graphene additives for bicycle tires !!

Only Ollie could do this video...fab!! 🤓🧐 We need another factory visit, when all the madness has ended. 👍🏻👍🏻

ACE VIDEO Smart Bro...!!! A really good introduction to Carbon Fibre...Just what I was Looking For...!!! Thank You !!!

Wow! Great vid! Thx!