Who's your favourite geek?

[hellkat]

Mine is Mouse.

I've met him a couple of times here and there in real life but I am always too shy to talk properly to him (News of the World: shock, horror : Jen in "Too Shy to Chat up a Fella" scandal). ... let alone for long enough to understand or ask stupid girl-questions about the in depth nature of his projects.

We once had a reasonably competent conversation about the braille machine project he was involved in - although I have still yet to see one in real life, but hope springs eternal.
(I had a short phase back in 1984 of trying to learn how to type on an old style one in an effort at "giving back" to a charity. But then I came over here and got stuck in London).

Been watching and following him online for quite a long time now. He has a charming streak of the eccentric about him. Its always a pleasure to bump into him out and about at rallies and such like.

If I had the opportunity to have had a brother, I would want him to have been like Mouse (or possibly Stinkwheel )

But I am struggling to see HOW people think of these things. I think I have some kind of creative block that doesn't allow me the opportunity to tinker.

I quite like listening to geeky types talk about shit like that, even if it goes over my head. My dad was a bit of a geek (astronomy and ham radio in his garden shed) and a couple of my blokey cousins are, too. So seeing geeks in action is always absorbing to me.

It's things like this that make me understand that women's brains are not at all wired up the same way as men's
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[Riejufixing]

Without doubt: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

[hellkat]

I'd have thought you would be more of an Aristotle Onassis kinda guy
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[Riejufixing]

[Easy-X]

You're opening a whole can of worms here: any particular flavour of geekery you'd like 'cos I got about 32 different shades of it on my YouTube subscriptions

My favourite nutter has to be 2STROKE STUFFING:

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheAdegnes/videos

I'm still not sure what it's all about! (Apart from the recent videos on building a log cabin without powertools - remarkably sane and conventional.)

Bad Obsession would be pretty obvious but I always have time to talk up Grind Hard Plumbing Co:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCivi_f1nniBzEOfKhRoN12Q
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[hellkat]

[hellkat]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I'm already confused by the selections (a pampered Royal and a Greek playboy?) so I had to look up the definition (sort of):

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-bfb43fe86cf3668ce93b407b48eec16b

I'm probably going down the "weird crushes" route but Lucy Worsley, histowy geek (nerd?) and little hottie.

[hellkat]

Okay, nerds, geeks, whatever they are called ... I don't care.
Reijubobbins is queering the pitch with his sense of humour.

Just show me some interesting funky people who make weird/cool projects.

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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[iooi]

[hellkat]

I am fascinated to know that he was in fact a Turk
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[pepperami]

Sheldon Cooper from ‘The Big Bang Theory’ .

He annoys the crap out of me and make me laugh at the same time??

EDIT : what’s this got to do with bikes.. ?
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[Poseidon]

Never really given much thought to who my favourite geek is...

Mark Evans ranks pretty high on my list... The guy from the "is born" series of programs. Loved watching him build cars/bikes/aircraft. The inside natures giants was an interesting watch too, I actually used a couple of those programs in biology lessons (when I couldn't be arsed to plan a proper lesson) when I was a science teacher. He's also a qualified veterinarian.

He was the first man that got me to understand how a differential worked (in "a 4x4 is born").
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[hellkat]

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[Poseidon]

[A100man]

Allen Millyard is kind of geeky although I strongly suspect he's never been near a computer. His use of hand tools and old school machine tools to make his creations is what I like most...
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Then: Fizz, RS200, KL250, XJ550, Laverda Alpina, XJ600, FZS600

[pepperami]

[Fisty]

Colin Furze.
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[stinkwheel]

Mouse is a lovely guy, I know him quite well. Something of an engineering savant, it never fails to impress me what he can come up despite being perpetually skint (needed a bike, had no money but did have an Ural rolling chassis and a scrap 1.6l turbo diesel VW car engine in his yard).

hellkat, he's very personable if a little shy and will quite happily geek right out at length on any subject. Just go up and ask him something about his bike/thing he's fiddling with next time you see him. He has also never knowingly refused a free beer.
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[A100man]

[colink98]

Abom79 is an American chap who i stumbled across on the you tubes.
His videos are excellent if your into engineering/shop stuff.

He recently did a repair on a bike cylinder head when the local bike shop tried to fix a thread with a insert but used an hand drill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en5s0x3583s

he goes into some detail about the tools/parts he is using and the methodology of the repair.

He comes across as someone who makes the videos because he loves to do so... rather than making any moneys.
I bet he is a top bloke with which to share a few beers.

and just to add.
Linus tech tips do one the annoying twat.
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[MarJay]

I am disappointed. I did not reply to this thread because I assumed it would just be full of Millyard posts. A guy who I used to work with knows him and he's a bona fide genius.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj4hbNBjmdvXONmcxcLSNhg

He's the guy who creates all the multi cylinder bikes from standard ones. They look factory, but just have way more cylinders. He's also built the Flying Millyard made from an old radial aero engine, and a Velocette V twin out of two singles. He's a genius and I wish I had half of his engineering talent.
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[ThunderGuts]

Millyard is an obvious contender, although I somehow suspect he's probably quite reserved so getting him to discuss his creations in detail may or may not be easy.

The other one for me would be Prof Brian Cox; I have a moderate interest in astronomy and I like the energy (no pun) he seems to possess for his topic. I can imagine a night in the pub (remember those?) with him, propped up at the end of the bar being a fascinating, if not slightly mentally exhausting, way to while away the hours.
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TG.

[Skudd]

IT Geeks should be shot for making simple things complicated, having sub, sub,sub menus on things and being responsible for needing so many passwords on a computer.
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