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| textI took a standard design and slightly changed the size of a fundamentally replaceable part, i am an INVENTOR now!! t. ALLEGED contributor to human progress |
| textPost your ride during sundown Post your favorite lights and light setups Do not: Be a hater Talk shit Post daylight ride photos |
| textI ride at night 4-5 times per week. |
| textThose amber side lights are neat. I've been looking for something like that."} |
| {"text":"It's called Bottle Blinky, my brother got me it years ago and it's still going strong."} |
| {"text":"Well the UK needs more housing/accommodation and could distribute them near stations along the Chiltern mainline. Plus more capacity between London-Birmingham to help relieve the West Coast Mainline. I genuinely think that the Chiltern Mainline should receive more investment, especially as it connects the Great Western Mainline to Birmingham and further north via Oxford. It's an underutilised and under appreciated through route. |
| textLove it when old stuff resurfaces - passenger information posters, old timetables and so on - that reveal how shit the railway was in places. Thank fuck for a) half-hourly, mostly-clockface services, and b) 24-hour notation |
| textThe same timetable for next Monday, by comparison. |
| textTGVs should be orange. Blah blah blah different liveries blah blah variety blah blah I don't care. TGVs should be orange."} |
| {"text":"It's because this is now a soulless, faggot country. |
| textbut it's ok if we just copy the Budd look The orange locos are fine, stop shrieking like a woman who thinks she deserves originality."} |
| {"text":"Nigger just can't have an original idea Deflects What else is new?.... |
| textI'm not to blame for your dislike of having your own lack of originality questioned, take it up with mommy or daddy. Orange locos are fine."} |
| {"text":"Niggerish whinings Btw, Muh Budderinnod Absolute retard, they literally licensed the corrugated steel tech from Budd The stainless steel carriages were built at the company's factory inAmadoraunder licence from theBudd Companyof the US. [...] Sorefame also assembled diesel and electric locomotives for CP (such as theSérie 1900in 1981), notably using components designed and supplied by the French companyAlstom. That loco is a french tech 2550 series, derived from 2500 series (picrel), with Budd's corrugated steel tech for lighter weight and consistent looks with other rolling gear. The firm had also made shells for American rapid transit rolling stock, most notably forBoeing Vertol's2400 series railcarsconstructed for theChicago Transit Authorityin 1976,[8]as well as for the N-5 railcars constructed byABBTraction forSEPTA'sNorristown High Speed Line."} |
| {"text":"When are we getting nuclear powered ocean liners?"} |
| {"text":"Never. Bunker oil is still cheap, and sea fairing is the domain of turd world’s working for peanuts. That’s the exact opposite of what you need to operate a nuclear vessel."} |
| {"text":"forget that, when the fuck are we getting massive hovercraft ferries again?"} |
| {"text":"For when you want to fall over in front of a crowd without getting drunk first"} |
| {"text":"WTC this fit?"} |
| {"text":"i never understood why you need to be physically tied to your pedals. just get better shoes nigga"} |
| {"text":"post bike"} |
| {"text":"What is not a race? Vidrel is group n, so stock direction and gears"} |
| {"text":"I been watching those NY bike check videos and everyone seems to have cleats now"} |
| {"text":"An entry level new bike, that is agreeable to ride, not dragged down by antiquated standards like QR, that you won't regret buying, nor immediately feel the urge to swap out half the components because of cut corners, cost approximately USD $1500 at standard retail prices as of late 2024, give or take a few hundred (depending on the finer details). Now, the prices are going to go up by at least 20%, and the smaller independent brands are going to go under as only the largest players will have the spare cash to ride out the sudden loss of consumer confidence. The most interesting and original bike products will simply disappear from the market permanently until the next wave of prosperity (which may be entirely concentrated somewhere far away and foreign, so that only the wealthiest of your peers will be able to import and use such goods). How does that make /n/ feel? |
| textIf it's just for transportation, always keep in mind that your bike can get stolen and you can get into an accident with it. Buy something cheap first and see if you use it. A 300 to 400 bucks bike will last you two or three years. Then buy a new one again. By then you'll know if you use it and if you do, you'll know exactly what you want and what you want to spend your money on. Whether you buy 3 or 4 new bikes over the course of 10 years or just one expensive one doesn't make a difference in the financial sense, but the cheaper options hedges your risk against damage and makes you more flexible later on. If it's for offroad sports you can go berserk, but there quantity also trumps quality unless you care competing, which lets face reality, you are not if you're asking here. |
| textGood point. Better stand in your nearest toilet and carefully watch all the kids urinating just in case one of those pervert trannies tries one of their perverted tricks! |
| textBetter than 0km |
| textnot dragged down by antiquated standards like QR qr is fine unless it's carbon (and entry level bike won't be carbon) |
| text1500 Lolwut Low end shouldn't cost more that a third of that, at most. You can replace qr with thru axle on most bikes, btw; probably don't even need to replace hubs, but at most only that. Also, 2nd hand. |
| textWhat bike repair manuals/books does /n/ recommend. I prefer having a psychical book I can reference while I'm working on my bike instead of fiddling with my phone, stopping and playing a random youtube video. Is picrel any good?"} |
| {"text":"UMMM youre not supposed to repair bicycles. They are CARBON FIBER and 100% of parts of them are not serviceable. Just get a new bike if you aren't a poorfag. If your a poorfag just get a new BSO from Cambodian Tire. |
| textKill yourself you samefagging brony. |
| textthat's a blast from the past. are we still hating bronies in current year? can we get a \"kys barneyfag\" schizo spergout post too?"} |
| {"text":"written by mustache man I like the blogs and videos on the park site so this is presumably them in a book. seems legit. I learned out of a book that was written by Bicycling Magazine because I've been wrenching since a few years before the world wide web. it covered indexed shifting but not disc brakes or any type of suspension. it's still good and I still refer to it, but I don't know how many subsequent editions they made and presumably it's no longer published."} |
| {"text":"No real need for books (though i do have one, but it came with a bike); all you need, new and old, specific and generic, basic and specialized, is already online."} |
| {"text":"low key been driving 10 years and im not sure who has to yield in this situation. Say you are at a red light and the light just turned green. does car 1 have to yield to the bus? or will the bus zipper in between 1 and 2?"} |
| {"text":"Seldom isn't quite right, and neither is occasionally, really, to describe what is saying. I hate to say it, but the zoomers might have come up with a useful phrase here. |
| textCommunication is not about inviting new and exciting catch phrases to cut everything down to the fewest characters to smash into your phone. If that's your goal, drop all pretenses and use only grunts, sighs, gestures, and skibidi toilet to get your point across, cretin. Saying, I've had a license for a decade, but I seldom drive except for personal errands and commuting, makes you sound like an adult human being and not some infantile rube. |
| text\ has been a phrase for decades and always has meant \, zoomers just brought it back and overuse the shit out of it to the point that it is used more to emphasize utterly routine complaints (similar to how \ started being used more figuratively around 20 years ago) e.g. I'm low-key hungry as fuck = I acknowledge that everyone gets hungry, but nigga I still want lunch low key I'm gonna be fucking late = I will be tardy and am willing to admit it, but please do not inform anyone who may punish me i've been low-key driving for 10 years = i've been driving for a long time, but only in a casual manner and have lost awareness of advanced techniques and legal edge cases |
| texteven a chinese AI could make out what they were saying |
| textlow key SIX SEBBEN XD |
| textLooks like India |
| textThis moved people to the stadium at U of I but it's dead now."} |
| {"text":"no. whenever I get the train and there is some sort of match on its full of piss drunk loud yelling retards and littered with beer cans and fucking stinks toilet ends up looking like something from india and there’s not a single nonwhite involved, interesting."} |
| {"text":"English ones are really sort of the same in cultural impact but ended up more associated with football hooliganism considering how many 'firms' ended up naming themselves after rail services. Is /n/ the real Inter City Firm or 6:57 firm?"} |
| {"text":"Group stage draw is on Sunday, any suggestions for new players before Saturday's deadline? |
| textIs this the video from which the /n/ \ meme came? |
| textIndirectly, maybe. Many years ago, /n/ was approaching a significant get and thus drew the attention of a hoard of low-quality posters from a board which primarily concerned themselves with such matters. Perhaps /trash/ or /s4s/; the details have escaped me with the passage of time. In any case, /n/ was subject to a torrent of spam in pursuit of the forthcoming get, where perhaps the equivalent of a steady mountain stream's worth of pig entrails would have been sufficient to establish a dominant presence. It was all but certain that the get would fall to the outsiders and their incursion would culminate in some inane post of theirs being crowned with the coveted numbers. The get inexeroably approached through the inscrutable fog of posts to come, seemingly doomed to curse our home with a brand rudely inflicted by the fatuous trespassers. It was then, in a moment of piercing clarity, that Forever Shinkansen burst forth into our world. Salver of wounds, dispeller of demons! The heathens shrieked and whithered, banished to the wastes whence they came. As is the nature of this place, once the get had come it was bound at some time to go, and it duly did. Those get archives that once were, no longer are or are hidden from me. Thus the noble origin of Forever Shinkansen's fame on /n/ has passed from the realm of common knowledge to the mark of the learned and ancient scribes who remember such times. |
| textDEEPEST LORE |
| textIt was then, in a moment of piercing clarity, that Forever Shinkansen burst forth into our world. Salver of wounds, dispeller of demons! The heathens shrieked and whithered, banished to the wastes whence they came. Kek, I didn't know Thomas Carlyle posted on 4chan."} |
| {"text":"Bike Training Not sure if this is better on /fit/ or here but I assume I'll get probably less shittier posts here. How are you handling training in the winter? I've been forcing myself to zwift more and I have no idea how people do races so frequently where they can do 2-3x a week."} |
| {"text":"Giant is dogshit and overpriced even if they gave shit out for free"} |
| {"text":"yes im always riding on prefectly flat glass smooth roads so this is great"} |
| {"text":"do you need an app for the shitter as well?"} |
| {"text":"a turbo trainer is an app outstanding retardation"} |
| {"text":"NOOO I was always talking about a turbo trainer not about my newest girly uWu fortnite zwift skin to use when running with my sisters you don't understand, chud! |
| textHear me out, we need one of these. |
| textConductor we have a problem! |
| text\ never understood this boomer babble To Be Quite Honest, |
| textin certain boomer castes it was really important to have a wife that you could pass around to other men, that was how social and career advancement were accomplished if that sounds bizarre and alien, I can only imagine the horror show shit that goes on these days. |
| texti know it's a swinger thing, i just dont see why they feel the need to concatenate \"hot\" and \"wife\". it just makes it seem that much more schizo. it hits the same way \"fully and foreverially\" used to"} |
| {"text":"Anyone else feels like absolute shit after crashing? it's not even the pain of it it's just the faith in your ability slowly dying inside. When I was younger it was whatever but now it feels like someone chipped away a chunk of confidence."} |
| {"text":"This thread gets funny if you pretend everyone's talking about car crashes |
| text6 months and my arm still hurts |
| textUsually more annoyed than anything. Worst crash happened to me couple years ago, week before my summer holidays. cycling to work dog walker's dog runs towards me swerve to right, hit kerb next notice I'm lying on the pavement, one shoe few meters from me, bike another few metres to another direction road rash on one knee, rear derailleur busted, handlebar is twisted, couple of ribs busted Managed to straigthen the handlebar, but still that maneuver cost me pair of shorts and a derailleur. |
| textthere's a steel plate for water drainage it's probably the incorrect type of plate and is just super fucking smooth. my city does the same shit and people constantly eat shit in winter because they have these smooth metal plates all over the fucking place you're supposed to use special non-skid ones but cities are not only cheap but overtly hate anyone who is not currently in a car"} |
| {"text":"Second time ever bringing out the bike I built from scratch for a test drive Come around a blind corner Road work, with no sign. There is no pavement anymore. It's a 6 inch deep hole. I go into the hole while braking and turning into an uphill corner. Still not used to the new geometry and weight Flip over the bars god damnit. Lots of airtime to anticipate the pain. sacrifice my wrist to arrest my fall and save my face faceplant anyway Broken wrist, still hurts to this day Road rash new bike is already fucked up on the second time I took it out nearby do-gooder calls 911. Fuck. Blood everywhere, clothes shredded Comment too long. Click here to view the full text. |
| text0.25 Yeah he's either retarded or having you on. .25% is fucking nothing. Usually I'll leave my chains til either 1% or if they snap. Then ((IF)) the new chain skips on the cassette replace that. Never had to swap out jockey wheels or chainsets or anything, the units typically fail somewhere else before it becomes noticeable. Shop guys are fucking insufferable for the most part. Either booger eating fetuses who's last time on wheels was in a pram, or turbo tards who throw a hissy fit at any sign of someone actually using their bike as intended."} |
| {"text":"Are you poor or something?"} |
| {"text":"i was looking up motorbike suspensions and apparently this is a thing ripped off from ancient chopper culture. boomers would use leaf springs on the front fork because muh cheap mod and the modern versions of it are basically that picture using normal coil gas springs and a weird armature. it's just typical boomer paint huffing retardation making things overcomplicated because they can only think in terms of parts they can rip off a truck and manhandle together with salvaged tie rods and bondo |
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| textthere is literally nothing wrong with this except for that he (or you) at some point came in it |
| textHey /n/, what strategies do you use to mitigate ass pain and skin health? I only experience deep muscular soreness on very long rides, but as I get older my skin is getting irritated more often. Painful red bumps crop up and ruin the ride. I hit them with neosporin and cover with a bandage, which works, but I want to prevent them in the first place. I always ride with a clean ass and clean undies, but now those padded cycling shorts are suddenly making more sense. I might even pick up some chamois cream even though the idea always seemed gross to me. Anyway, how bout you? Is your ass chapped like mine? Tips from ass masters would be appreciated. |
| textyou might want to consult with one of those woke new \ if they're legal in your jurisdiction, otherwise just eat raw meat and get lots of sunshine"} |
| {"text":"there's something very wrong with your gut, my man |
| texti have never experienced this and i eat really bad, maybe get better underwear or something just change diet, do not wear diapers. they will break apart on the narrow seat of a bike and even if they did work and not leak it's not like you won't stink |
| textthis, but unironically. OP pic is a top shelf brapper |
| textBe careful to specify woman, otherwise you might be gay |
| textThe EMUs are out of service. Post your pics here of Queensland Rail service- double imaginary bullshit points for rural/discontinued services |
| textFuck you cunts and your $20 or 25 airport train tickets that shit gave me a shock when i was getting a transport card at the booth |
| textMake your own board then |
| textaustralian rail is shit why different gauges in each state? why do you need to bogie-swap at the border? why couldn't they just use the same gauges nationwide like every other damned country in the world? baka my head"} |
| {"text":"It is funny though"} |
| {"text":"That's just a Sydney thing. Which isn't in Queensland. Because rail was laid before federation. They actually did consider making it all the same gauge. But some Scottish wanker in NSW wanted to use the Scottish gauge over the agreed upon Irish gauge. So Victoria and SA had Irish gauge. Other states were just being cheap or something and so they did narrow gauge."} |
| {"text":"I see you all are intimidated by my obvious superiority"} |
| {"text":"Sure but that kind of car is going to need a lot more maintenance. lil bro doesnt own a spanner or CVD machine"} |
| {"text":"2010ish yamaha majesty's mog, hard |
| textWow, less bad than most Yamahas because it looks a little less like Axe body spray and has low height wheels. |
| textIt’s still mostly axe body spray desu |
| textIt needs a license, registration, and fuel, and it's too large/heavy to be carried onto a train, up a building, wherever. Also noise and fumes. I'd rather just hop on and pedal away in near silence without ID, going as far as my legs can take me. Then chain the bike to a random post behind a bush somewhere. |
| textI'm genuinely sad a copy of this book costs over $2k. I'm praying that christophers new book succeeds in sales so that Mattel or whoever the owners are would reconsider putting it back into distribution again. |
| textI have a copy, it was a good read. I also hope it goes back into publication |
| textjust pirate it lmao |
| textThere's no need to pirate it. It's available on the internet archive. But it's never the same as owning a copy you can hold in your hands, studying it in your free time, reading it before bed every night or reading it while drinking coffee."} |
| {"text":"Wilberts lore book is my white whale. I have both rbtl copies from 2005 and 2025, both signed by christopher awdry. I will never part with them."} |
| {"text":"mfw cleaning my bice and saw that my 45mm wide knobbies were chewing through my chainstay on my gravel bice for some time ordered some 40mm wide hutchinson overide (currently running 45mm Tundra), scared to ride as not to damage my frame further... the manufacturer said up to 46mm wide... be honest...am I retarded??"} |
| {"text":"You're supposed to enjoy the suffering, man. |
| textI don't know who you think you're addressing or giving advice to but I feel like you must be new to this whole thing and just want to sound cool. Relax, when you're jaded and old like me you won't feel such a strong urge to fit in anymore because you'll know it won't work anyway |
| text2 long sentences to convince me he's chill"} |
| {"text":"nta but i am not chill at all and i will let you know it i would hope that any similarly unchill people will also have continued and lastingly damaging autism freakouts until the situation is resolved"} |
| {"text":"In which we discuss the Bikelighting culture (Fahrradbeleuchtungskultur) of our countries. Here in Germany, because of the Danger, it is not allowed to have a blinking Taillight. This is also the Reason that all emergency Vehicles in the World have blinking Lights. By attracting other dangerous night Vehicles to crash into the Ambulance, instead of the civilian Vehicles, it spares Drivers in smaller Vehicles, where the Occupants are less able to administer emergency self-Aid. This is the Consequence of what we call a „high trust Society“; our culture of Politeness dictates the most Risk to the most capable Roaduser. The same Expectation is extended to Police and Construction Engineers who are paid more for occupational Hazards such as a blinking Light. Do you have a Law about blinking Bikelights in your Country?"} |
| {"text":"Now I get what you mean. Perhaps I should explicitly mark a tangent as such? You see the puerpose the tangent served, right? Long story short: Depending on your location an air horn, like a wheel driven bell and other signals, might be illegal. You might also find that no one cares or 'we're just happy for anyome we see with some kind of lights and signal'. Another tangent: At my uni someome had a commercial bicycle air horn. It was a bottle to go in the bottle cage and to be pumped up via bicycle pump, a hose to the bars where there was a horn with button. Tangent over. Way too much hassle for me, I bet it would be empty when I want it because I didnt pump it. t. runs no signal on any of his bikes If I ever find myself with a pedestrian (say pedestrian zone with bicycles specifically allowed) I find it much more polite to just say 'Hi, excuse me, may I' instead of passive aggressively RINGringRingRing |
| textIm considering them as a second/emergency option, also for daylight. I took all reflectors off my bike in favour of battery powered lights. But they dont reflect. All magnetic lights I've found are mounted at the wheels, which is convenient since the battery lights take up all the space on the frame. There are lights that store energy to give a 'standlight' capacity that keeps the light on Do you have an example?"} |
| {"text":"so, wait, the magnet passes by the lamp and pulses it? this generates it's own electricity similar to a dynamo? I've never heard of such a thing but that's neat. what is the search term? |
| textanon these have been around for 50 fucking years. and they're dogshit. just get battery driven light. you're already strapping \ electronics to your bike and a modern tiny lipo battery is probably lighter than the permanent magnet and coils you need to make those work. but otherwise basically yes, it makes little electrical pulses as the magnet moves by some coils and there's some extra electronics (usually) to smooth out the power delivery. inductors and sheeit. it wouldn't be difficult to wire in a little button cell that is recharged by the magnet/coil assembly but they dont reflect so get one that does jesus christ |
| textImagine being a \ who has any less than 5000 Lumen. Enjoy being invisible, retard. |
| textPretty incredible |
| textAlso Kino launch |
| textSetback for V3 booster gor starship |
| texttwo retards fighting |
| textAlthough I set out some preferences for the last one I ended up settling for literally anything to do with Britain. Those preferences about foreign exports and rare diversions remain in place but otherwise post what you like as long as it fits the broader requirement |
| textThere was a train crash in Mexico and for a brief moment I was worried that those dumb spics had ruined another Class 43 after having already ruined one this year by driving into a lorry that tried to cheat a level crossing, thankfully it was just one of the ex-burger locomotives that they've ruined instead by taking a curve too fast and going over a cliff."} |
| {"text":"Went on the subway earlier and noticed that there's now platform screen doors at Govan |
| textThis thread is for images of trains only not blog posts |
| textI wonder if the Underground will get them. It does rely on having standard door spacing so would need to happen after the 2024 stock has a full fleet. |
| textRoad signs. What do you think of them? Which country does them the best? Would you change anything in the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals? |
| textgreen/blue/brown - general info Its actually even more specific than this: Green - Route info Blue - Service info (rest stops, lodging, etc) Brown - Recreations & historical sites Some states even designate pink for detour information or \. I love American signage! |
| textFor the record, PA and UT are the best state route signs, with FL an honorary mention for using the state's weird sillouette gracefully"} |
| {"text":"I prefer MA, VA, ME and Michigan. They look like real road markers, not something straight out of a cartoon. Having been in both FL and NH, shape-based signs suck. They don't even do the road distance posts right. |
| textUK Blue. Motorways (highways with few turn offs) Green. A roads (fast smaller roads linking places) White. Local roads (you got there and need to find a pub) |
| textI love UK road signs. I also like those of the French and the Dutch for just doing the job well without being obnoxiously wordy. |
| textis it possible before 2030? |
| texttrains are extremely overrated by pro train shills. they dont nearly bring as much usefulness as people claim. how often is your average person from estonia really traveling 50+km to justify the need of HSR? does everyone just jump on the train and travel 200km daily for no reason? something like tampa to orlando makes more sense not soviet city 17 to city 20 |
| textTampa to Orlando Stupid italians |
| textno one has a need to travel to and from those countries Having HSR in Baltic countries would both be a strong incentive for people who want to go from Scandinavia to Central Europe (just add a ferry crossing to Helsinki and you got an alternate route from Poland to Finland) and vice-versa, and could also be used to propel the tourism industry in all the Baltic countries. Once Ukraine and Belarus join the EU, they'll actually benefit from having a near-direct land-based link to countries like Estonia and Finland due to HSR infrastructure currently under development."} |
| {"text":"NTA; the main purpose of Rail Baltica is freight and military mobility. Moving people is just a side benefit."} |
| {"text":"Slow progress in Latvia."} |
| {"text":"imagine being a voltagelet"} |
| {"text":"south africa, there's not much to guess when you keep the title |
| textWell, I am a retard |
| textfree buses Cagebros...should I be afraid...? |
| textNon-sequiters I accept your concession. |
| textfree Blue-eyed people pay for it... it's only free to you brown-eyes."} |
| {"text":"Surely you're not idiotic enough to say that police presence has NO effect on the amount of crime, but just pushes it around like a sweep? And even if that's the case, simply moving the crime to less critical areas, and away from say, the incredibly expensive and vital transit system seems like a no brainer. If you go outside at all, you need to practice personal safety by being prepared, This is true in NYC, but there are other transit systems where this isn't the case. Now, to be clear, I do agree that there is a \ aspect to this, and that the places with much safter transit systems aren't simply throwing cops at the problem, but your line of logic makes no sense.."} |
| {"text":"I consider Philadelphia to be very shitty honestly. The Russian propagandists are making fun of Philly's zombie town known as Kensington. |
| textThere are a lot of things to dislike about philly but a 1 square block area where the police have cordoned off all the junkies to keep them from bothering anyone else is not it, congrats on falling for it |
| textPulse Lightstar (1986) |
| textIf starter/alternator weren't abandoned to drive belt for failure insulation, it could have been starter /alternator/power assist/harmonic balancer/flywheel. New prius finally looks good. Still an idiotic living room on wheels...."} |
| {"text":"Aren't hybrids backwards? It should be electric assist for launch, then ICE on a parabola for cruise? electric motors and batteries were shit at the time so it wasn't economical. now that they are good, there no reason not to have a full ev instead of a hybrid. by like 2010 you could have just had A FUCKING LEAF instead"} |
| {"text":"I looked a used leaf 5 years ago, it was still 8K....batteries have 92 times less energy density than petroleum."} |
| {"text":"The \"wings\" trigger my inner child that likes to play with toy spaceships. is this the one that won the X-Prize cup many years ago?"} |
| {"text":"Are there any actual disadvantages to them? They seem to perform as well as standard bike frames but with the advantage of being easier to mount and dismount without the top bar getting in your way. I know they were originally marketed to women who wore skirts because the top bar on traditional bikes got in the way and exposed their panties but it never quite made sense to me why these weren't just the \ frame style in the first place, especially since most utility bikes and pretty much every single E-bike on the market uses this style of frame. |
| textIf both of you wear clipless you can ride together, you up top and her below. You use the hoods, she can use the drops. |
| textLmao I wouldn't mind. For 63 the lady is really pretty with a nice figure"} |
| {"text":"Mexican cyclists are highly underrated"} |
| {"text":"Early /n/ was obsessed with picrel but most of you zoomzooms weren't even born yet |
| textThese guys passed you on the last big hill before the cafe. Didn't even take pulls. What do you tell these Freds to not seem mad?"} |
| {"text":"everyone knows riding park is for losers. imagine wanting to be around so many people, its the same reason I can't roadbike your literally just surrounded by people and cars 24/7 |
| textSkill issue, I literally live in one of the densest most crowded places in north america and I can easily get to no-cars greenery and chillaxed riding just by riding half an hour out of the city. Even more so if I get on the train. |
| textour definition of no cars is clearly different. I live rural as hell and there isn't a road maintained enough to roadbike on that no cars drive on, on earth. When I say no cars, I mean most of my rides I literally don't see another soul for 3 plus hours. I probably see a side by side or atv once every 10 rides. |
| textI guess for me getting passed by a car every 30 minutes or so doesn't give me a rage aneurysm, I know for some it does, the guy who spams NJB shit and screeches about cagers maybe"} |
| {"text":"Id have kept up or passed in my prime. Maybe. My average cruising speed on a heavy mountain bike weighed down with a heavy duty chain lock and extra lights was 20mph. My \"training\" was biking uphill for an hour straight after work every night."} |
| {"text":"3 months No major plane crash"} |
| {"text":"Has a point. It's been 2 months since that ups plane. |
| textit doesn't count because it was still mostly on the ground it doesn't count because I can't easily link the Trump administration to it it doesn't count because it was mostly Boeing it doesn't count because the passengers weren't sentient |
| textit doesn't count because it was still mostly on the ground it doesn't count because I can't easily link the Trump administration to it it doesn't count because it wasn't a Boeing plane it doesn't count because the passengers weren't sentient"} |
| {"text":"that's an impressive victim complex you have there, MIGA-kun |
| textIt doesn't count because it's an MD-11 you ni... |
| textgirl cabin edition Previous: |
| textWow, took a yearlong hiatus from checking this thread due to the stupid 10 minute captcha thing but it looks like that's finally gone and been replaced with a slightly less obnoxious captcha? Cool, will start posting again. Well, diary, been pushing oil around NY for a year and a half. It's alright, and by alright I mean I kind of want to KMS when I get the call to start my hitch, but that's every job I've ever had, so I guess I'll keep going. But I also made a lot of money in the market so I have even less need to put up with work I don't like--kind of want to take an easier job somewhere in a nicer / more interesting place, even if it means a paycut. Alaska? Some Pacific islands working for the Navy? Idk. We'll see."} |
| {"text":"The rates are very generous. I think they are looking for UK crew. Even for AB they are offering $400/day."} |
| {"text":"Nothing is worse than a woman on a boat"} |
| {"text":"You need to remove her clothes in order to turn that bad luck into good luck. Aphrodite approves."} |
| {"text":"Fuck off alarms during UMS"} |
| {"text":"I bought an NJS frame. Does anyone want to make ignorant comments assuming that I have never ridden fixed-gear or that I don't know how JIS standards work or what toe overlap is or similar? Yes, I'll be riding it exclusively on the street."} |
| {"text":"at least put some mtb bar ends near the top bend, or a Jones H bar or something so you can lay down power for climbs and speed. is that a nitto stem?"} |
| {"text":"fast as fuck you literally can't go fast in that position your acting as a human air brake, I guess you would likely go faster then me cause your 30bmi stomach would be piercing the air. |
| textit's comfier and your head position is better for seeing stuff around you such as traffic and fluffy deer booty"} |
| {"text":"You are in over your head."} |
| {"text":"Sick! I bet it's fast. Nobody is going to expect that with those handlebars. |
| textwhy doesnt /n/ make stickers? |
| textppl like stickers tho |
| textplease wipe your chain. |
| textit's not my bike but yes I serviced everything before I sold it"} |
| {"text":"Fuck you nigger"} |
| {"text":"kek. Respect the hustle."} |
| {"text":"the dude got one of those adventure gravel bikes with enduro tier stack and not a performance road bike"} |
| {"text":"Exactly. So, should I adapt it, or there is no other options then sell it?"} |
| {"text":"I'm 178 centimeters tall, and I bought size L Why? Look at the Effective top tube height, that's really long. I'm 181cm and my bikes are usually either Large/53-54cm top tube length and it still feels like it's too large for me. I also apparently have weird proportions (shorter legs/long torso) which makes the exposed seatpost really short. Try buying compact dropbars (short reach) or 0 offset seatpost. Long story short, try out the bike before buying it. but I'm buying online Try a bike with similar geometry from your LBS |
| texthe thinks bike shops still exist outside of california |
| textTry buying compact dropbars (short reach) or 0 offset seatpost. Do not buy shit until you know where the fuck your hands should be. |
| textWhy is /n/ in general so much more friendly and cordial than other boards? |
| textI also love Sexual Assault |
| textNot in any major city It is as common as snow in Australia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Brazil or any mostly tropical/subtropical country |
| textThe smaller boards are always nicer. Compare which is helpful, with which is visibly mentally ill. My main board is which is the most fun but it's full of incredibly repetitive spam threads. You could also compare cartoon threads to cartoon threads. One is comfy and interested, while the other is frantically trying to just yell NIGGERS as many times as possible."} |
| {"text":"Because the faggot janny bans you if you say anything negative about other races"} |
| {"text":"can confirm, i post in /ck/, /g/, /diy/ and now here and the larger the board the more mentally ill. but that's a good thing because the big boards will happily tell you you're wrong even if you're not, and then you will spend a lot of time learning to gather evidence for your opinions, to defend clear facts, and to even prove where you were or were not at a given time. |
| textHow big can sail boats get? Is there an upper limit? |
| textWhat about rotors? There are several ships which use them. Can those sail upwind? |
| textiirc Flettener Rotors work best when sailing upwind but need to be powered, so are more for providing modest fuel savings rather than 100% of the propulsive power like youd get with a more conventional sailing rig |
| textThe problem with sailing ships is that you can't stack containers on the deck. They would have to be xbox-huge to offset that drawback. Technically, it's not that big of a deal, but practically it will cause some issues. Upper limit is dictated by the layout of harbors, bridges, etc. |
| textthe Earth is only holding the future of sail back |
| textThat’s a huge bitch |
| textWhen you see it Previous: |
| textI'm pretty sure that 8113 has an alternator built into its turbocharger as a testbed."} |
| {"text":"oops, the first miss that I noticed. Otherwise, very impressive!"} |
| {"text":"Have you ever thought about paying the ferry man BEFORE he got you to the other side?"} |
| {"text":"S.E.P. Leave enough toys to keep those left behind happy."} |
| {"text":"imagine getting rolled by a monster like this"} |
| {"text":"imagine getting railed by a monster like that sex with that creature!!"} |
| {"text":"lewd"} |
| {"text":"I've been in this boat hundreds of times. It's an absolute beauty, and has these extremely long benches, I would sleep in my girlfriends lap every morning, and enjoy the slow rocking of the ship. It's in SEA, and travels to the islands :-) |
| textWhy does a graffitied train have to be taken out of circulation immediately? How much does it cost in your country to clean up one graffiti piece? In Finland, the average cleanup cost is 600-700ish. |
| textAh yes ahmed now that we have followed this graffiti artist to a train yard that spans for block and blocks openly we can complete our duty to allah and make the pigs pay by writing our names on the containers! you're such a pussy just say you're scared and shutup |
| texti've never heard of it by that name but it's pretty well known that it's a thing. people even joke that you have to keep bathroom stalls clean because once the first child draws a little stick man in there, it's fucking over conversely, if you get some particularly talented vandal to just do a huge mural, vandals are less likely to write over it, and sticker-bombing stuff or even hanging shitloads of flyers is a good way to at least keep vandalism PG/limited to further being just people slapping stickers for their home businesses instead of scribbling GAIUS WAS HERE AND IS NOW A HOMO WITH HIS BEST BRO AULUS. and again many cities have designated tag walls specifically to contain vandalism/reduce hood nigga nonsense since even hood niggas seeing a well done mural of a local pop star or something wont tag over it (much) |
| textLOL. Flex more, toy bitch. |
| textGood man. Those pricks need their hands cut off. |
| textAmericans think anything they don't like is either communism or terrorism. Possibly both."} |
| {"text":"If I passed you, don't take it personally. It's because you're slow, weak, and have no stamina. No, don't look at my bike. I could smoke you any day, even you were riding a Colnago Gioello, and I could do it on a $100 BSO from Walmart. Little man, learn to take defeat gracefully. I won, fair and square. If you passed me, chill out dude, you're such an insecure tryhard. You wasted all that money to win a race that only exists in your head. Sure I could have been a pro, still could if I'm being honest, but that kind of thing doesn't interest me, I have nothing to prove to myself. So why should I try to prove anything to others, let alone you? Stop and smell the roses, that's my philosophy."} |
| {"text":"have a \"get rekt\" saddlebag sticker that provokes freds they overtake I draft them and when they get tired overtake them again lol"} |
| {"text":"okay, great, proud of you, but who tf asked?"} |
| {"text":"I'm not in a race, I'm just trying to get my groceries home, or enjoying my ride to work."} |
| {"text":"don't bother judging others' pace unless you're riding with them. never know the split they're taking between pace and distance"} |
| {"text":"i am doing 10k to work at 4 am and i'm still drunk from yesterday and havent eaten a real meal in three days. i do not care if you pass me |
| textThe end of ebike terrorism is in sight. Let's not count our chickens before they hatch, but I'm tentatively feeling hopefully about this. During the time that the last thread was up, hundreds of people were killed by ebike fires. We need to put a stop to this. I just hope they make sure to add prison time for people caught with unlicensed ebikes. |
| textI own an ebike but also am an active arsonist. What's the problem?"} |
| {"text":"In olden times arsonists were publicly burned alive once captured. The townsfolk would drink tankards of ale and engage in much merry-making while dancing to the shrieks of the arsonist, the teeth would later be pried out from the charred corpse and given to children as charms. Shame we can't do this to ebike people |
| textall that to basically say no u!111 |
| textwhy are lolberts and /pol/tards obsessed with the vaporwave-adjacent \ and yet so incapable of actually capturing it properly |
| text30 years after Mavic Zap, I finally tried three different bikes with electronic shifting (Rival, Force, and Red/XPLR) and it reminded me of the first time I got my dick sucked. It was alright. I'm glad I experienced it. But the overall feeling was like.... \"that's all? that's what all the hype was about?\" I am glad it's a thing, I'm glad it's available, I would never tell them to un-invent it. I suppose if you offered to upgrade my current bikes with all electronic I'd probably go for it (might have to think it through first). Overall, it was a disappointment. So what did I miss here? Is Shimano better or Campy maybe, was the problem fookin SRAM? Is it less about the ride and more the long term ownership experience, the maintenance perhaps? Why do people fork out 2-3x the monies over the cost of perfectly good mech shifting? I can't believe I'm even saying \"perfectly good (old thing)\". I love my hydro dicks, I love my crabon wheels, I would never go back and those were worth every penny, but the e-shifting was a big letdown. Again, it was fine, but just fine. For all the hype I expected to ejaculate instantly."} |
| {"text":"he doesn't know the entire point of those hanger-less electronic shifters is to have it in a standardized position against the wheel so that you don't need to adjust anything, you can just shove it in there and it'll shift out of the box. there's a reason there are no hanger-less cable derailleurs, it makes no sense."} |
| {"text":"It makes sense that smaller penises experience less pleasure."} |
| {"text":"this looks completely unmaintainable"} |
| {"text":"A bike is only as maintainable as its market share"} |
| {"text":"there's a reason there are no hanger-less cable derailleurs, it makes no sense. Eagle 70 and 90 are both full mount mech derailleurs. Direct mount has nothing to do with electronic shifting and the reason we aren't seeing more full mount groups is because SRAM doesn't let other companies fully utilize it. Even if you dislike full mount UDH is a great thing because it forces all manufacturers that want to use SRAM groupsets into using the same derailleur hanger. |
| textfat titties |
| textrelying on cutting edge, expensive public infrastructure and tech every day in order to live minimalist |
| text\ has always been a way for rich people to quietly brag about their liquidity and stable cash flow |
| textYou laugh, but this is peak efficiency: whenever he's feeling peckish he can just squeeze some milk out of one of his mantits instead of having to buy an overpriced snack on the train."} |
| {"text":"this thread has been living on a train for the past one and a half years"} |
| {"text":"SS United States to be sunk, creating the world's largest artificial reef. RIP to one of the greats. |
| texthad they actually let us take it back to the clyde it probably would have been restored. look at ps waverley and mv hebridean princess which i see moored in full working order often. heck, sometimes i'd argue they are more reliable then the fucking mv glen sannox iv"} |
| {"text":"do fish really even like these artificial reefs? they are dumb animals with no brains. is it possible for a fish to be trapped in a maze of corridors it's whole life? or maybe they get stuck? |
| textfish here, i love it, please sink more things |
| textIn response to the impending sinking, the New York coalition has taken legal action, filing a lawsuit to halt the process until federal agencies can assess the situation. Although the lawsuit was dismissed for lack of standing, advocates remain determined to seek federal intervention. The \ Facebook page is a fucking goldmine. |
| textyeah it turns out the stuff that grows on it is tasty and it provides cover from larger predators who dont fit in all the little wire raceways and pipes and shit |
| textDo you guys ever have conversations with other people on public transportation, or try picking up girls there? yet another day riding the subway sharing a car with plenty of cute girls, normal looking guys, and never make conversation with anyone to try to make friends or get a date it's been like this nearly daily for 10 years even see the same people getting on and off at my same stop, they live near me, and still never speak to anyone"} |
| {"text":"I get it a lot less now that I wear big headphones"} |
| {"text":"last week of December another year riding the subway pretty much every day another year of not speaking to a single person on my ride There’s a pretty young woman with resting bitch face who I see almost every day, sometimes in the morning but frequently in the evening returning home. We live at the same stop. We are on the train for nearly half an hour together. We frequently are even on the same train car. We were both on the train this morning, day after Christmas, when it was pretty sparsely filled. Despite how awkward it would be given we see each other for months and never speak, I Could have struck up a conversation based around Christmas how her holiday was, doesn’t it suck we have to work today when so few people do, talk about living in the same town, etc. Instead what did I do? Walked to the next car and sat there the whole time I’m sure this girl has never even noticed my existence on the train, yet almost every single day I notice her and kick myself how I don’t talk to her. She doesn’t seem to have any visible piercings or tattoos like is common in my area. Probably a relatively wholesome girl. And yet, nothing. I swear riding the subway make me even more miserable"} |
| {"text":"I do this too. It's also good to wait outside for a while and check they are ok by looking in their house with binoculars. |
| textLiterally just have Game and this isn't a problem. Read some Neil Strauss."} |
| {"text":"I'm a Londoner so talking on public transport would get me executed, but a few weeks ago an older woman with an Australian accent walked up to me on the train platform and started talking about how cold it was and how she was surprised I was alright in just a hoodie. We had a little chat about cold tolerance and Australia (I've got relatives there) before the train arrived, we waved to each other as we boarded and then went silent. It brightened my week."} |
| {"text":"What the fuck is wrong with these mongoloid slackers? They completely underschedule longhaul trains everywhere outside the NEC so almost no one can use them for shorter trips and then wonder why ridership is in the shitter. Each route should be minimum 3x a day per direction."} |
| {"text":"Please answer:"} |
| {"text":"Thermodynamics ftw"} |
| {"text":"have you decided yet?"} |
| {"text":"When I was a kid my grandparents lived in Montana so I would take the Empire Builder from Seattle out there at least once a year. Board in the late morning, get a comfy meal in the restaurant, sleep in the bunk bed car, wake up in the early morning to my grandparents picking me up in their random tiny town, extremely comfy desu. Regarding the monorail, I had a job in highschool where I actually used it to commute from downtown to Seattle Center lol. I can’t imagine it gets used much for work."} |
| {"text":"Amtrak is mid, but the local transport in my area going east to west is even worse. If I wanted to travel from Santa Rosa to Sacramento directly by public transit, my only choice would be Amtrak. The county bus line that used to go between Sonoma County and Napa County was canceled in 2018. So the only bus that goes from one to the other is the Amtrak bus. It's slow and costs more than the local bus did, but now it's the only bus on the road. If it didn't exist the only option for public transport would be to travel to San Francisco (bus or train and ferry), then to the East Bay (BART and bus) to board for the train to Sacramento. Marin, Sonoma, Napa, and Solano Counties all have over a million people in total but there is no public transportation system going east to west. It isn't Amtrak's fault the local transport systems have such a hard time bringing people to their train stations. |
| textI still don't get countersteering, I've been cycling all my life and I don't think about \"oh I have to move the bike to the right to turn left\", I just naturally follow the path and move the bike and she moves exactly how I want her to Then I learn about countersteering and I'm wondering if I've been riding wrong my whole life"} |
| {"text":"It's no use. I literally took a bicycle dynamics / physics course in uni but anons ITT will instead insist on their infantile intuition about it. |
| textEveryone ITT is now manually countersteering |
| textYou know he means single track. |
| textI just lock the rear wheel while leaning and enter a sick drift, and maintain balance with my body weight alone. |
| textThat cozy, old school cabin photo of a Delta Air Lines L1011 TriStar from the 1980s is getting people talking for one simple reason: it looks roomy. Wider looking aisles, big overhead bins, and that warm lighting that makes the whole cabin feel like a different era of flying. Delta's own history of the L1011 explains why it felt that way. The airline called it \"high, wide and handsome,\" noting a cabin about 8 feet high and 19 feet wide, plus wider aisles and large entry doors designed to make boarding and deplaning easier. Delta's first revenue L1011 flight was on Dec. 15, 1973 from Atlanta to Philadelphia, and the airline ultimately flew 70 of the type, the largest L1011 fleet in the industry. Delta retired the L1011 in 2001, after decades of domestic and international flying, including transatlantic and transpacific routes. And over time, the industry shifted hard toward efficiency and packing more people into each flight, especially after U.S. airline deregulation in 1978 changed how airlines competed. Looking at this cabin, you can see why so many travelers say, \ |
| textThere is a famous economic answer for this: 1) Government dictated pricing, all prices were set so high that it was \ making (above average returns), and airlines only competed on service 2) When airlines were deregulated, prices fell rapidly such that flying became common place and affordable for everyone. For a country as large and spread out as the US, this was the desired social outcome as the government promoted transportation as a public good 3) With prices competitive, planes were \, firms merged until it reached a natural monopoly number, and features priced accordingly 4) The ultimate proof in the pudding is empirical evidence over the past 40 years that shows air transportation becoming extremely affordable (compared to historical prices), almost everyone can afford to fly, and flying is no longer a luxury or once-in-a-lifetime experience. If you don't like the race to the bottom, simply pay for premium cabin. Premium cabin prices today mirror what similar service cost way back when, regardless of name."} |
| {"text":"be a clown who picks some budget airline for being 25 $ cheaper wonder why flying was different in the past"} |
| {"text":"300 for NY to LA Christ thats cheaper than taking a bus"} |
| {"text":"Yeah, and it's actually a bit conservative. You can go from NYC to LA for significantly less if you don't care about the actual airport you go out of. There's a reason Greyhound is dying. |
| textabsolute kino interior |
| text*combines the aggressive solipsistic entitlement of an exurban helicopter parent SUV karate lessons karen with the sanctimonious humblebrag better-than-you instagram mentality of a childless upper middle class urbanist in your path (literally in your path because it's in your physical path being as expensive and space-hogging as an actual car, while being as slow and annoying and needy and pointless and \"look at me\" as a dutch bike, in everyone's path) in your path* *heh, nothin' personnel kid, as in, look at these kids of mine that I am effectively using as human shields, so give me everything in return for nothing or you're a monster and I will have you cancelled for not buckling immediately and catering to my massive sense of entitlement, kid* When did cargo bikes go from being a crusty, get-it-done, no-nonsense niche improvised delivery tool for reasonable humans, to being the single most punchable conspicuous consumption fashion accessory in the history of wheels? Also, cargo bikes hate thread, and yes I took my meds thanks for the reminder though |
| textnuts |
| textWhen did cargo bikes go from being a crusty, get-it-done, no-nonsense niche improvised delivery tool for reasonable humans, to being the single most punchable conspicuous consumption fashion accessory in the history of wheels? Cargo bikes have always been more expensive, the attitude you describe is probably more of the heavy \ push that really started a few years, using cargo bikes as some sort of gotcha when someone talks about when you need to carry something beyond yourself and whatever you can carry on a milk crate tied to the back of your bicycle; yet no one seems to show you theirs or anything beyond stock pictures on flat, even surfaces. |
| textThat's like saying \"rolexes were always more expensive\", nah, you could buy 20 rolexes for the price of a cheap new car back then, now for the price of a new car you can buy one, if you suck off your AD's wife's boyfriend once a month for a year first"} |
| {"text":"and yes I took my meds thanks for the reminder though You might need a higher dosage."} |
| {"text":"Fixed by front pannier racks."} |
| {"text":"If i take a class that teaches about boat repair at community college. I can afford to repair a boat."} |
| {"text":"Unlike those other modes (bicycle notwithstanding) you can actually find a car thats cheap to own and run- hell you can buy a Chevy Cavalier with pocket change. Cheap to Insure, good on gas, parts still available or easy to find at the pick-and-pull and you can wrench on the street or a WalMart parking lot- all things that dont apply to boats or aircraft."} |
| {"text":"What necessities should I include Shipbuilding expertise should be the first thing, I'd imagine |
| textThis is one of the most canonical questions where the answer is: \ Boats are stupid expensive. |
| textAs a matter of fact, the origin of that quote was in response to someone asking JP Morgan the price of his yacht. |
| textI was thinking of picking up one of those cheapo Aliexpress carbon forks, but my buddy probably rightfully talked me out of it due to safety concerns. Where should I buy an affordable carbon fork in 26\} |
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| {:I don't need car insurance or a valid license\" people get their fair share of the federal government"} |
| {"text":"No one is stopping you from travelling. Get out and walk, fatty. Operating heavy machinery requires specialized training and licensure though, and you don't need to be in a machine to travel. |
| textsoverign citizens by nature don't believe the government is even real, let alone want to be a part of it if it is. sorta like how moderate republicans don't really protest to get what they want because they are pro peace and order by nature despite all being armed to the teeth |
| textI don't own a car because I don't need one, I wear aged cycling hats, have a beard, helmet mounted mirror, a rack on a vintage steel bike and slow my roll generally. I tend to piss off freds and make them risk their lives overtaking me because they MUST go faster and then simply draft them to annoy them even more. you mad? |
| textHey guys I love when school busses are repurposed either for USA van lifers or as public transit in other countries like MX, Nica, Guatemala, etc. SO I saw this and took a picture to share with you all I love the green color. |
| textmhmm. |
| textThat's why cults use them to transport their members"} |
| {"text":"Isn't that a french mail truck |
| textif you drive fast enough you can hydroplane just above the surface of the water |
| textSheldynne Browne said that's impossible"} |
| {"text":"The San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway (reporting mark SDAE) is a short-line American railroad founded in 1932 as the successor to the San Diego and Arizona Railway (SD&A), which was founded in 1906 by entrepreneur John Spreckels. Dubbed \"The Impossible Railroad\" by many engineers of its day due to the immense logistical challenges involved, the line was established in part to provide San Diego with a direct rail link to the east by connecting with the Southern Pacific Railroad lines in El Centro, California. the railroad has a checkered history, with periodic disruptions in service to rockslides, storms, fires, and derailments, and has never been profitable the line ceased being used in its entirety decades ago and has been bounced around by owner to owner ever since at present, only a fraction of the line in San Diego, Mexico, and Campo is actively used, with the rest being left to decay Here's my questions: 1. Were the \ issues inherent to the climate and terrain, or more so the technological/economic limitations at the time of its construction (the railroad was built with anachronistic infrastructure such as wooden trestles)? 2. If funding could secured, would it be possible to rehabilitate or even rebuild the line in its entirety using modern engineering techniques to negate the hazards that plagued its previous incarnations? 3. What services could be provided to make the line economical, or even turn an actual profit? Obviously there's tourism, Carrizo Gorge attracts thousands of tourists a year (many of whom come to gawk at the ruins of the railway). I recently found out that the Mexican portion of the line is used to host the Tijuana-Tecate Tourist Train (pic related, several gallery cars that were originally intended for it but ultimately left unused) and has proven quite popular. But I'm also wondering industries could be served or even if a US-Mexico commuter service would be feasible (ignoring current diplomatic issues) |
| textwill have to go through customs inspections, twice, just to reach their destination. Check out the big brains on Brad. It's not like similar things don't happen between the US and Canada with no customs checks required. Most people on /n/ are completely fucking clueless yet pretend to be total experts. |
| textThe real money-maker in railroads has never been people, it's been freight. The real money maker in highways has never been people, it's freight. |
| textWhat point are you trying to make here |
| textNobody would want to use an ancient ass ROW that dips into Mexico. |
| textSo the coaches got shunted there, had the tunnel collapse, and the owners just went \ and left them there to rot? Yes |
| textscreenshot is from GTA4, I don't think it belongs on /v/"} |
| {"text":"it belongs on either /v/ or /o/, not /n/ but also yes, it is realistic and in fact pretty tame, there are choppers far more crazy than that one"} |
| {"text":"Honda sells a factory chopper called the Fury, so yeah it's realistic. I'm not going to go into shit flinging fight whether a factory stock bike can qualify as a true \"chop\"per, choppers can be anything you want them to be"} |
| {"text":"Pretty sure it's supposed to be a americans choppers style bike since that show was popular at the time |
| textis the dart silver line /n/ approved? it’s scheduled to open in october |
| textdart has funding issues now |
| textchecked videos and ridership looks pretty low, less than 10% full |
| textmight lose it's two easternmost stops"} |
| {"text":"They could build their own privacy walls"} |
| {"text":"NUMBER UP"} |
| {"text":"I have been on this site for 10 years and I only noticed this board today. Since I'm already here, I'd like to ask a question: Why are train autists so much more hated than other autist brands?"} |
| {"text":"Characteristics of Rail retard 1. Low boiling point 2. High pride 3. Abnormal obsession with railways, coupled with eco-terrorist/leftist-like thinking"} |
| {"text":"Touch grass faggot, you make stuff like this up in your schizo head and think you're onto something. It's no different to any other hobby, I don't make it my personality and neither do most that I've known. You talk about \"excess pride\" when it's literally a matter of telling judgemental pricks like yourself to do one |
| textBy the way, where did this idea that“railway enthusiasts are often autistic”even come from? if you actually Google it, you'll find sites and descriptions pointing out that connection—it's not like there are zero of them. i bet there are papers or statistics on it in psychiatry or something. for example, in other countries, like Korea, there seems to be a derogatory term like“Trainsperger,”and if you search in Japanese, it looks like the word“Railfans”itself has become slang for disabled people. |
| textNothing more conservative than not wasting public money... |
| textwhats the deal with that \ thing |
| textWhat was air travel like before 9-11? |
| textMoslums were a mistake. |
| textMe too, man. Tha captain was really nice. |
| textNot as shitty as today but still shitty. Before then I used to catch rides in the jumpseat but that all ended in 2001. |
| textI'm very sorry you got deported, anon, but the law is the law."} |
| {"text":"I got my picture taken in the cockpit I used to walk onto the tarmac and up the stairs that was pushed up against the plane I also flew as an unaccompanied minor Got a free pack of playing cards Took home a neat small plastic cup Airline food was a thing sometimes even on four-hour flights Lines got way worse after 9/11"} |
| {"text":"Theoretically speaking, if I was an entrepreneuring billionaire and I wanted to bring back one of the great American passenger trains (Super Chief, California Zephyr, Panama Limited, Empire Builder, City of Los Angeles/San Francisco, 20th Century Limited, Broadway Limited, Powhatan Arrow, Coast Daylight, etc.) to run on a regular basis (let's put it at at least two times a month for a start), which option would be more feasible from an economic/technical/legal perspective? 1. Acquire all of the surviving rolling stock (sleepers, dining cars, dome/observation cars, baggage cars, etc.) from the original consist from private owners, heritage railways, and museums, as well as matching surviving locomotives (can be from ones different railroads since thousands of functionally and aesthetically identical EMD F and E units were sold to all Class I railroads). Renovate them as necessary to make them FRA-compliant, obtain waivers wherever possible. Put them into service as a part-luxury train, part-mobile museum. 2. Commission the construction of a replica consist. Building entirely new streamlined cars from scratch, designed to match the internal and external appearance of its original as much as possible, with changes only being made when it's literally required to make the car FRA-compliant/modern user friendly (updated wiring, HEP, power outlets at seats, WiFi support, replacing wooden paneling with MDF paneling etc.). Motive power consists of custom-built Siemens Chargers designed to resemble the original E and F units (streamlining, bulldog noses, matching paint schemes, etc.) as much as legally possible. 1/2"} |
| {"text":"or just get drunk or high enough on Amtrak to imagine yourself in the golden age of rail travel If you take the Piedmont service between CLT and RGH, you can ride for 3 hours in 50's era coaches. Put on a suit and tie to complete the feel and it's like stepping back in time with the very dated interiors and comfy large seats with ridiculous leg room."} |
| {"text":"I know you jest :("} |
| {"text":"Why didn't you just post an update itt? |
| textEvery time you bump your other thread I'll help you out by bumping this one too"} |
| {"text":"different anon"} |
| {"text":"Why weren't these a thing more often in the heyday of railroads? gives freight trains an additional source of income passengers can presumably pay for tickets less since freight trains usually run on slower schedules allows for mixed trains without the need to pull a coach from regular passenger service can be coupled to the back of a regular passenger train during periods of high demand, the crew will enjoy the added privacy too lonely freight train crews will enjoy the additional company can be outfitted as extra crew accommodation when not in revenue service |
| textall that trouble to be slower and less flexible than a bus. however, consider: passenger containers on a container ship. |
| textimagine the views |
| texthere in Chicago I sometimes see a CNW caboose roaming around in active service. |
| textThey'd have to be custom anyway, for fire/safety regs. Ideally they'd be stainless and aluminum too since accessing the inner walls for corrosion maintenance would be impossible. Making them insulated would be easy. |
| textfire regulations for a shipping container Aren't they already pretty fire resistant owing to their all-steel construction? Or do you mean things like installing electrical wiring/stoves in one?"} |
| {"text":"SHOULD I GET A GRAVEL BIKE OR AN ENDURANCE BIKE REEEEEEEE The roads around me are potholed and gross"} |
| {"text":"You know those little plastic caps on your 3200$ front fork? You can turn them around a little bit to adjust how it behaves on an uneven surface. And if you get a bike that bends in the middle, there's a big gear-looking thing; it's actually threaded and you can turn it to adjust at least one spring. The other may require a screwdriver."} |
| {"text":"Imagine being too poor to have a proper fixie."} |
| {"text":"Lordy lordy why would you do that?"} |
| {"text":"the new caledonia is pretty based tho. Nothing for poorfags tho"} |
| {"text":"even in rally racing the most in-depth suspension tuning happens for road tracks because it turns out a sudden 6 inch drop from asphalt to gravel will hurt even a race car pretty badly"} |
| {"text":"Disasters never have one root cause and neither did the destruction of cycling. But I know some important milestones in the decline and fall: 1. COVID 19. Enough said. 2. Full suspension mountain bikes. Enough said. 3. Reddit. Enough said. 4. Twitter. Enough said. 5. British \"people\". Enough said. 6. The d-tch. Enough said. 7. The state of Utah. Enough said. 8. Zwift, Peloton, \"Spin Class\", and other cancer. Enough said. What were some other key moments?"} |
| {"text":"I could care less. As long as it's one less car on the road. |
| textMy town is putting in an ordinance to ban bikes on sidewalks and streets unless your a child. There will be bikes allowed but only from 11 am to 3pm and late evening. Also parking your bike anywhere on city property/sidewalks is now illegal Cops are being aggressive about it and impound bikes. You know so actual working, contributing memebers of society can do things like commute to work, pick up groceries/kids and overall be a functioning memeber of society. I hope this administration will turn the screw on bike culture. My town is one of the most bike unfriendly places and im glad, get these fuckers off the streets. Its clear when people ride a CHILDS TOY and become |
| textyou can ONLY go where we built you a special \ John Forester was right |
| text100% of cyclist deaths will be children Based. |
| textyou're just a huge faggot"} |
| {"text":"retards don't wait for the barrier to go up/light to switch get run over by a train What's the problem here exactly?"} |
| {"text":"based"} |
| {"text":"God forgive me for saying this but I hope Siemens wins, Alstom cannot into FRA crash requirements given the absolute clownshow that was the Avelia Liberty. Plus they're fugly |
| textthe old lady one had me thinking maybe some people can just have a blank mind and ignore their surroundings without meaning to. like how plane crashes are a bunch of things going wrong to create the catastrophe most of the time. for example train crossings look the same at the beginning and end of the cycle. just red lights and the same bell ringing tones. maybe they can make them more similar to stoplights. after the end of the train crossing the red lights can turn green for example and play a different sounding/speed tone. you can also add another set of lights on the opposite sides of car travel to give more visual signs to not go through. could also make crossing arms twice as wide |
| textFlying is far easier than driving |
| textLanding though? |
| textthere will always be a pi- |
| textgreasing down a 172 is something done thousands of times every day by retarded teenagers and alzheimers incare patients. |
| textIf Dreamstar brings back the Lark, it would be a good stopgap measure until CAHSR Bakersfield-Palmdale opens in the 2040s. The Coast Starlight sucks, nobody wants to spend 12 hours in the middle of the day going from Jack London to LA Union in a train with no wifi 9 am to 9 pm. Stuff the economy cars with reclinable seats, put all the crying babies in one car, dim the lights, and let me sleep 9 hours to LA Union Station for under 100 dollars. They're not going to be able to achieve their stated goal of 2026. There's an equipment shortage and they won't be able to get everything in place in time. Even if they only run the service during holidays when airports are packed and airlines raise their prices it will still be a boon to travellers as long as the price is cheaper than a flight"} |
| {"text":"California is planning so many expansion projects it's insane SMART to Cloverdale BART to Livermore, eBART to Brentwood Capitol Corridor going back to precovid frequencies Caltrain to Watsonville, Salinas, (theoretically) Santa Cruz and Monterey ACE-Valley Rail which I haven't read about yet CAHSR IOS done in 2032 hopefully, Pacheco Pass tunnels done in 2038 allowing CAHSR trains to run to 4th and King, which will change real estate in the CV forever. A bunch of Metro expansions in LA that I don't really know about BART to Downtown San Jose/Diridon What's up with that? Did transit agencies come into a surplus during COVID and begin a funding spree? They sure aren't spending it on homelessness that's all I know"} |
| {"text":"Dreamstar They're not going to be able to achieve their stated goal of 2026. It's never going to happen, as was said in your previous thread about this shit"} |
| {"text":"Or you could have posted an \"update\" in this thread instead of now having 3 threads about the same shitty \"service\" that won't ever happen |
| textHow do these large cargo backpacks compare with a bicycle trailer? I need to haul 100kg of cargo on a bicycle |
| textBased Aldi cargo mission. I was considering getting a trailer or racks to carry water bottle cases + multiple bags of groceries. Not sure which I should get first, but it seems like the trailer can be removed/mounted quicker for when I'm not carrying much."} |
| {"text":"Almost a decade ago I hauled 4x50lbs bags of mulch using a trailer, I finished the job but bent the hitch. I straightened the hitch but it snapped while hauling nothing. I had a bad experience with trailers but I had the shittiest garbage tier trailer, if you're going to get one get a good one. It's kind of why I swear by front racks now. (Rear racks are another story) A 24 bottle water pack is about 25lbs, the limit of a strong front rack is 50lbs for lighter duty and 75-100lbs for heavier duty bikes, depending on setup, wider bars help steer, wider tires help handle the load. A trailer is for over 100lbs and will cost 2-3x of a front rack maybe more. An empty front rack doesn't effect handling that badly and a trailer adds so much inconvenience to what should be the most convenient tra/n/sportation option. What effects front racks the most is significant aero drag from a big bag, foldable one is nice but a rigid has advantages, just get stronger lol |
| textHow do you think that bag compares to something like This ? (keep in mind, it's a couple layers, and some THICK reinforced canvas, and you could throw an extra heavy duty outdoor xxL garbage bag in as well to add another layer.)"} |
| {"text":"I really like packing weight on my back but I've heard most hate it because of back sweat, which is a legit problem for me too, even in winter, but it doesn't bother me too much, I ride long enough each day I can find 15 minutes to air out my back and shoes. The problem with that pack (as well as the one shown in OP) is the low quality shoulder straps and no back support, bad straps will make even 20lbs feel painful and a back support is really helpful for hauling over 50lbs"} |
| {"text":"Confess your sins, /n/."} |
| {"text":"Transportaically speaking, as a teenager i didn't care about my own life. I would ride my bike without paying attention. A couple times i almost got run over by a car because of this. |
| textbuild a Girandoni-style rifle do it |
| textbased |
| textI buy watches instead of bikes nowadays. |
| textI gave away a bike. |
| textPost your shitbikesssss |
| textNew project shit bike for next year. On the trainer this winter. Can anyone figure out the year? |
| textbased UAE-based virtual cycling platform enjoyer |
| textFree is best for beginner. My trainer is only good for 6% and 600 watts. I can barely manage that for more than 5 seconds. |
| texti also am a UAE-based virtual cycling platform enjoyer, started two weeks ago |
| textThis is the faggiest post I have read since 2013 |
| textA few years ago people starting referring to certain China wheelsets as not just \ or \ but simply \. This year, Winspace released the T1600, a CDM (Chinese Domestic Market) product that costs more than a Madone or a Tarmac. It's UCI approved right out of the box (though you may need to tape some lead weights to it to get it to pass the weight restrictions). Western buyers need not apply, though they no doubt will try. Western brands were folding right and left before the iron curtain 2.0 was raised, now the \"tiro de gracia\" has been fired and big companies like Trek are going to go bankrupt because their supply chains have been cut off by Import Substitution Industrialization, a popular third world development tactic pioneered by visionaries like Pinochet and Galtieri. Is this the end of the western bike era? Will tomorrow's dentists settle for nothing less than Chinese bikes on 100% Chinese groupsets? |
| textIt's frustrating because I prefer the look of rim jobs but a decent set of rim brake alloy wheels is like $1000, I can get a better set of carbon wheels for less"} |
| {"text":"DT Swiss finally came out with carbon spokes, for like $4000 lol. And they're heavier than the China rims. |
| textgaspipe surly with QR dropouts and cable disc brakes, that's a nice bike though it the tubing is swaged tubing without a seam, so not \"gaspipe\" at least"} |
| {"text":"why can't I get a fucking pardus here in Canada |
| textWhat about the some road grime shreds my breaking surface Or i can’t stop as good as my aluminum rims The mental gymnastics rim brakers go through |
| textAfter years of frustration, Toronto’s major LRT projects — the Eglinton Crosstown and Finch West lines — are finally taking shape. The infrastructure is largely in place, testing is active, and the city is on the verge of a real step forward in how people move across it. The Crosstown will finally link east and west through midtown, while Finch West is basically a super streetcar in a poor area of the city. Is light rail still a legitimate form of transit, or were Doug and Rob correct with their subways subways subways mantra? |
| textIt's true, the White people there are less self-hating and more protective of their heritage."} |
| {"text":"more protective of their heritage. Most all the things that we associate with Canadian culture are from Quebec, including (but not limited to): Maple Syrup, Hockey, Poutine, Tuques, Bilingualism (duh), Skidoos, Fucking natives and/or fucking them over and learning them some Christianity, and William Shatner"} |
| {"text":"Yeah, because Anglos have been brainwashed into rejecting their heritage and merely consoooming for generations. The only people I see flying their actual flag in this country are Acadians. Everyone else just flies the Canadian flag as if it represents anything other than compliance."} |
| {"text":"suburban subways everywhere are fucking retarded, hell no jane and finch doesn't need one lmao |
| textWelcome to Juarez city... now look at pic related Cargo train runs right through this buys intersection en el centro. So if you need to get somewhere sometimes there's a massive cargo train in your way preventing you and making you LATE. How do you fix that. Not only that it's dangerous. There are no \ it's just hopefully uou don't get hit by the train |
| texta big fuckin trumpet interchange. demolish all housing and commerce within a mile to make it fit |
| textwhat am I looking at here, why is there a giant wall of dirt? |
| textit's to catch stray south korean 737s, should they choose to overrun any nearby runways"} |
| {"text":"And that helps pedestrians how?"} |
| {"text":"Postan my old folder of /n/ images since I found it on a usb drive in a drawer. These are circa 2009 I think."} |
| {"text":"What do you think it feels like to ride?"} |
| {"text":"Good to see you, dude."} |
| {"text":"2008 wowzers, I went on 4chan for the first time that year."} |
| {"text":"Total shit like all early DH bikes."} |
| {"text":"I saw you today, kek. Won't name the road but the initials are F H. Near C H Place. |
| textThese faggots should be strictly restricted to class F airspace, with well defined dimension and NEVER EVER LEFT OUT, sick and tired of avoiding them. Yesterday while flying a personal Cessna 310 from a buddy of mine and 3 weeks ago on the Dash 8 with the small airliner I fly for. 23 year old co pilot |
| textIt's always been like this"} |
| {"text":"I HATE THINGS THAT DOESN'T IMPACT MY DAILY LIFE Ok schizo |
| textpeshay studio set 1996 vibes |
| textGod man I cannot wait until I can afford one of these. As someone who spends all of their time on /b/ and knows nothing about transportation (bikes, cars, etc) this is my dream vehicle. I dont care if its more dangerous than a car. |
| textHow is this guy alive? First one or two videos I watched, I thought he was just going for (You)s but they just get worse and worse. The only way this makes sense is if he has terminal cancer and he wants to die riding a bike and not in a hospital bed. |
| textYou can die just falling over in your clips, it's not common but it can happen"} |
| {"text":"Highly competent rider. Crazy, but competent, talented even."} |
| {"text":"outside of a peloton or getting hit by a car, there's not much risk of life-threatening injury at those speeds. the only mechanical failure that can kill you on a short, slow descent like that is a chainsuck. keep your drivetrain moderately well adjusted and it's about as likely as getting hit by lightning."} |
| {"text":"that is a very large cemetery"} |
| {"text":"I think I'd die of embarrassment if that happened |
| textWhat's next in bicycle tech?"} |
| {"text":"average commuter these days is dropping $7k on a tricked out e-cargo \"bike\" anyway so using a ridged plastic belt to crank a 3-speed hub is fine, no one will sweat harder, they'll just need to recharge more often it's time we just accepted that pedaling your own bike is going to be for tryhard fred homosexuals who prance around in a spandex g-string on their fragile s-works bikes that don't even make you go faster, kind of like how cars that you can shift yourself that don't have mandatory telemetry sending real-time penile plethysmography data to palantir are now seen as a horrendously quaint antique for eccentric loners"} |
| {"text":"What's next in bicycle tech? KERS |
| textHonestly I don't see why they don't just put the whole cassette in the front and the \ is just a spring-loaded arm that only moves on one axis. 99% of crappy off-the-rack bikes never have all their gears used anyway. Literally just make every bike a 3 to 5 speed and call it a day. ESPECIALLY if they're electric or pedal-assisted. Though speaking of, I saw a thing on hackaday of someone using \"electric transmission\" -- the pedals crank a dynamo, and the wheel has a motor. You crank the dynamo, the motor on the other side moves. Only a very small battery more as an extra big smoothing capacitor than anything. It's probably horrendously inefficient, but now you don't have to deal with a derailleur, I guess."} |
| {"text":"This doesn't seem dangerous at all. |
| textTweels, or solid tires will finally be practical with deep travel or active suspension. Reverse trike front fork kits with baskets and low slung batteries effectively making them bakfeits. Canopies.....somehow. maybe just for the bakfiets with a Kermit Muppet caper puppet on the pedals like some mock rickshaw. KERS or standard braking recovery. Super fast charging. Essentially every innovation or cars but goes 10 times further cause of leanness of bikes. Nerds wank on about Tesla plaid, but dont think about dragging 3 empty seats....best we get it old 911 conversions for half the weight, but where is the electric cabin motorcycle that is a 1/4 of the weight, therefore fixing the charge time, and making toxic mining of rare earth's 4 times more efficient. Or micro turbo diesel front wheel kits instead of a castrated motorcycle (moped). And of course the inexcusable off the shelf upgrade that never comes: all stainless bearings and chain for zero maintenance. Cost preventative and planned obsolescence in a tens of thousand dollar car, real world beater in a bike that never breaks."} |
| {"text":"They're the definition of cattle class. They're slow, expensive, and you're sleeping in a tiny room with total strangers. Any sleeper route can be better served by a low-cost airline, and cheaper to boot. Sleeper trains made sense in the 19th century when they were the only option, but they make absolutely no sense today. |
| textI just don't understand what is so much better about a train terminal, atleast an airport has amenities, The average train station if your not in literally a megopolis (new york, phili, boston) is a shite building with benches from 60 years ago in a town that requires a car to get around so you have to take a cab to the airport to rent a car."} |
| {"text":"Yes all the codemonkeys do, if you have any sort of intelligence you get scouted for like a 10 year 100 million pay package at FAANG."} |
| {"text":"That is repulsive. AMTRAK? Wtf? Once was driving, I got food poisoning and had to stop and shit repetedly from detroit to chicago. That would have been handy."} |
| {"text":"add another 0"} |
| {"text":"GOOD FUCKING JESUS CHRIST ALMIGHTY WHAT IN THE FUCK. If this isn't in India(because it would be a squat toilet with hardly any borderings and be more open for everyone to see/smell/worship/bathe) This is beyond fucking repulsive, this is how you give everyone ass parasites, gastro&other bacterial flus,hepatitis,tuberculosis&fucking dozens of other illnesses. That will spread like AIDS at a pride event across the train in the span of 48 hours. SRSLY what the fuck is the story &or context to this. OH but its a small cuck cabin there is a door its perfectly fine and the lid is a perfectly ok table. This is literally worse than fucking prison in the shu under 24hr lockdown. That shit is 4-8X the size than this. Why add a private shitter in a tiny ass 6 foot cuck cabin just why. What company would think this is ok. J U S T imagine youre on this train and you see two people in their tiny cuck cabin, they walk out. You bust in and take the most awful of shits making sure to stuff the shitter first so it cant flush. Leave quick as fuck and wait nearby devilishly for your reward. Only for staff to tell them SIR YOU CLEARLY DID THIS TO GET A FREE UPGRADE WE'RE REPORTING YOU TO HQ. THIS IS ABUSIVE TOWARDS STAFF IF YOU RAISE YOUR VOICE AGAIN WE WILL STOP THE TRAIN AND CALL FOR RAIL TRANSIT FEDERAL AUTHORITIES TO REMOVE CHARGE AND ARREST YOU"} |
| {"text":"Why do Americans tolerate this?"} |
| {"text":"ICE will basically hire anyone physically capable of driving a motor vehicle and squeezing the trigger of their service weapon"} |
| {"text":"\"felon\" in the US could mean you had too many unpaid parking tickets THOUGH"} |
| {"text":"Anyone of these people could be a terrorist"} |
| {"text":"sex with creatures is still legal in most of america so they will tolerate anything"} |
| {"text":"Idiot cowards. Everyone, everywhere always."} |
| {"text":"Keep in mind this is for bikes meant to be loaded up. I guess a marketing exec at some point decided kickstands are for poors so no expensive bike can have them now, just like MTBs got stuck with Presta valves. They will literally drill 15+ holes just in case your bike bags use bottle bosses instead of straps, but outright refuse drilling 2 for a kickstand"} |
| {"text":"If I see a rack like this, I park backwards between the slots and use a kickstand to hold the bike upright. Now ponder for a moment a situation where you don't have a kickstand. |
| textI park backwards between the slots why |
| textNo point locking the front wheel, that isn’t what they want to steal anyway. |
| textthat's why you get a cable or long chain and lock the front wheel and the frame. that isn’t what they want to steal anyway. crackheads and hobos will steal fucking anything, they steal bike seats if they're on quick releases |
| textcable lock Yeah I don’t think we’re having the same conversation but have a great day anon |
| textIf steel is so great, why do the companies that make the best steel tubing in the world use carbon for their forks? If steel is so great, why do the finest steel bikes in the world use carbon forks? It seems to me that steel has an aesthetic value that cannot be substituted by anything else, but as a material for building bikes, its value decreases the more that is demanded of a component. |
| textThe tubes are thicker. |
| textNo, the stiffness of a normal alu frame comes from the greater diameter of the tubing. You can achieve the same diameter with steel but it’s very heavy unless you make it so thin that it isn’t durable enough even for single use. It’s a function of a design (that happens to play to the material’s strengths) not a function of the properties of the material. These concepts are genuinely beyond most people so even if it took you until this post to understand you’re still ahead of the average |
| textno it's actually because the tubes are thicker Yeah okay."} |
| {"text":"An increase in outer diameter or an increase in wall thickness will BOTH increase the stiffness, but increasing the outer diameter adds about 2.5x the stiffness as adding the same amount of mass to make the wall thick instead. You can run into buckling issues if you go too crazy with the outer diameter/thin walls though."} |
| {"text":"steel is stiffer tard got BTFO"} |
| {"text":"I am a railway fan from Moscow. In my free time, I make videos of trains, subways, and transportation. Ask questions about my activities, and the transport of my country, stereotypes, in general, everything that is interesting, I will try to answer."} |
| {"text":"I am watching a cozy 7 hour video of russian trains"} |
| {"text":"NTA. Yes, those are not going away."} |
| {"text":"why are you russian"} |
| {"text":"I've heard about russkie anarchists/antifascists sabotaging a bunch of railway infrastructure to hinder the war effort against ukraine. how much of a thing really is this? are people aware of it and does it cause real problems? |
| textFirst post. I think OP is below 7 or above 70. But here's a bump hoping for world peace, and you guys getting back into my video games."} |
| {"text":"turkish C-130 crashes in azerbaijan"} |
| {"text":"name one military cargo plane that isn't 50+ years old There is but one. |
| textA400? |
| textThere are but two. |
| textKawasaki C-2? |
| textThere are but three. |
| textyeWax or Oil? What do YOU like better? I don't wanna listen to the youtube silca shills"} |
| {"text":"wax all the way oil always grinds against the chain whenever you go out, it gets mixed with dust and other elements and destroys the chain in no time wax on another hand will always stay clean, I leave for ~300 km before re-waxing oil was a painful experience and had to change the chain frequently or keep cleaning it every now and then (only to end up buying a new one)"} |
| {"text":"I used to use PTFE but I'm looking for an alternative because of the health and enviornmental hazards. I'm leaning towards parafin. Also include your riding conditions, you fucks. I'm in dry desert. Wet vs Dry condiditons. |
| textPTFE and parafin are not the same one is a base, the other an addetive |
| textpor que no los dos? |
| textdrip wax is fool proof (except for initially stripping the chain to bare metal). and it prolongs chain life by a large margin vs oil/dry lube. |
| textIf all children's (geared and break-pad) bikes were banned and everyone rode fixies (adult bikes), then we wouldn't need any of the polarising debate over 'bike infrastructure'. We wouldn't need to slow down traffic through cities or dig up roads and pavements, everyone would be a lot safer and bikes could flow freely among cars. Is it finally time for governments around the world to ban geared bikes (at least for people above the age of say, 10) and give up on the idea of seperate bike and car infrastructure, letting all modes of transport to flow freely among eachother?"} |
| {"text":"I used to be gas/o/holic in the 00s with a manual FC and S13 back in the day, I now ride fixies and yes it's the manual of the bicycle world. The motorcycle equivalent is carbureted and no abs/tcs. \ the real answer is more road feel for better man-machine connection |
| textit's less parts/cables you need to buy how fucking poor are you"} |
| {"text":"i hope he died"} |
| {"text":"Saint John Forester says you need 7+ speeds, so you need 7+ speeds. Fixies are toys for hipsters and brokies."} |
| {"text":"It's a totally effective brake It's a shitty coaster break. Fixed gear cx is a thing. Pretty much."} |
| {"text":"I'm visiting India rn and the difference between the level of air travel conduct in North and South cannot be overstated. On my flight from Canada it was all Punjabis and it was fucking chaos. They didn't care if you had your belt buckled, kids wandering everywhere, no sense of personal space, people playing music from their phone. But I had to get a connecting flight down south and it was completely different. Well-dressed, polite people, minding their own business, actually apologising in decent English if they need to get into the aisle or step on your shoe or something. The whole Gangetic plain gives this subcontinent such a bad rap"} |
| {"text":"Now compare the experience of working with north Indians vs. south Indians. I'm from Brampton and I've worked with a lot of difficult people from different backgrounds, from Guyanese to Jamaicans to rednecks from rural Ontario and crackheads from Kennedy and Queen, but average Punjabis make the absolute worst colleagues, bar none"} |
| {"text":"Fees get paid, no one questions."} |
| {"text":"aye fair enough. but even parking lots will boot your car if you just leave it there for weeks on end even if you pay daily"} |
| {"text":"Going for the banana gets us all hosed, and we don't even need to get hosed anymore because we stop the impetus in its tracks Heh, stupid monkeys. |
| textshould i go with a flight on a 737-700 or an erj-135/erj-140/erj-145 |
| textNever going to fly on this. Fml. |
| textPost flight number |
| text0.....0 |
| textI have flown on both the BAe version of that and the Avro version. Have also flown on an IL-62 and L1011. Flew on a Pan Am 747 SP too. Am I cool yet /n/? |
| textThat's a 732..."} |
| {"text":"Would anyone ever want to buy these books? It's a bunch of shit from wild swan. They cover how to paint a model locomotive, how to assemble locomotive kits, and scratchbuilding locomotives. Its all british steam locomotives mind you. It's a mix of currently in print and long out of print books. I don't want them anymore. |
| texti mean you haven't even identified the books in question i suggest going to second-hand book websites and seeing what the books in question have sold for"} |
| {"text":"I'm also angry, but for me it's stereotypes of dwarves in fantasy. Elves can live in space or grow butterfly wings or whatever and no-one blinks an eye but as soon as you say \"Dwarf\" it's a drunk autist who lives in a cave. |
| textShut the fuck up you retard. You know exactly what I fucking have. I don't need to spell it out for your dumbass."} |
| {"text":"yeah"} |
| {"text":"Old thread from 2023 finally hit bump limit New thread. \"Cycling infrastructure\" is harm reduction. But not in the way you probably think. The anti-bike crowd considers riding a bicycle on public roads as an offense against the interests of motorists. An so, they wish to create infrastructure to reduce cycling (harm). Yes! Those who advocate for \"separate but equal\" are (whether they admit it or not) working against the interests of bicycle users: -The American Automobile Association strongly supports bike lanes -Countries that place responsibility on car drivers have 70-90% fewer fatalities per billion km traveled by bike. This is of course beyond the pale, drivers must always have total immunity. But hey, look, green paint! We solved safety! -The true purpose of bike lanes is to neutralize the opposition by corrupting the discourse. Don't support bike lanes? Then you must not care about safety! -Bike lanes have a curious pattern of appearing where they are superfluous, and vanishing as you approach potential traffic conflict zones. This way, when you get run over by a dump truck making a turn, it's your fault! You shoulda been in the bike lane that wasn't there! In conclusion: bike lane activists hate cyclists and want to eradicate cycling as a form of transportation. |
| textget yelled at by a karen once a month or get plastered by a truck 500 times your weight if you can't decide which one between those to choose you deserve what you get, simple as"} |
| {"text":"If you think a gun will help you with your road rage you're in for even greater distress and disappointment. |
| textThere's a huge difference between carrying and brandishing you clickbait addicted faggot."} |
| {"text":"this is why you dont just brandish it, you open fire"} |
| {"text":"I'm having a difficult time deciding on what I'd enjoy most for a weekend/overnight fishing trip boat. I've kind of broken down my wants but its still kind of difficult reliable enough to run trouble free for 6 month stretches 500 naut. Mile range purchase price below $20k space for a full week aboard with 4 people total if needed So far my 2 top choices have been a bristol with a skeg rudder and fin keel, or a small bertram flybridge like a 28 or something close. Anyone have experience with either sailboats or offshore fishing? I've only been out a few times on a center console which was great to fish off but pretty much only had some bench seats to sit on and had next to no cover from sun."} |
| {"text":"A good amount of smaller boats can be had below $20k. If you're plugged in with other boat owners, you can come across people who have more than enough money but no time or space and just want to get rid of their boat, and in those cases you can find really good deals, especially for sailboats. Free sailboats are never great, but you can find people getting rid of $30k sailboats for $5k just cause they don't have the drive to list it anywhere or deal with people and just want it to go to someone responsible. Boats are always gonna cost money, but with enough diy know-how, you can have a decent, reliable boat for the same as an older sports car."} |
| {"text":"a three hour tour.. a three hour tour... so comfy"} |
| {"text":"Buying them's the cheap part. I'm tired of this myth. I bought a $15k sailboat (30 ft) two years ago and outside of moorage fees I've spent like $400 on maintenance and repairs, and that includes buying a polishing machine and servicing the sails. If you buy a good boat and take care of it, I really don't see how it can cost these huge figures people are talking about."} |
| {"text":"I wan't to go, pick me! I can pull pots really fast I can keep the bung from getting smoked in a mutiny I can safely operate any vehicle except helicopter |
| textit's mostly shit like marina fees, how expensive \"marine grade\" consumables are, and first time buyers being like i bought a boat! yayy it was only like 5 grand, that's less than a car!! FUCK i dont have a trailer and need to buy that FUCK it wont fit in my garage i need something built for it FUCK i need all kinds of weird cables for shore power FUCK i need to buy radios and epirbs and all kinds of safety shit FUCK i need xyz because I'm an idiot and didn't do my research same shit happens to people buying their first car. they get a 300$ used corolla and then wonder why they pay 5400/mo in insurance and spend 300$ per week just on engine oil |
| textbulldoze land stolen from natives build railroad on stolen land use trains to take natives to residential schools ffw modern day run bomb trains hauling millions of gallons of oil through native reserves dw bro we care, see i painted it orange for u |
| textLove that pic. A calm soldier standing his ground against an italian organized crime cigarette smuggler masquerading as an aboriginal. And as a bonus: cowardly hides his face. C-liners are my favourite diesel locomotive. |
| textDo they need more space and money to get drunk on/with? |
| textopen illegal casinos, sell drugs, firearms, cigarettes, alcool, etc to everyone including minors. Thats actually based though and reminds me Im due to drive up to the Rez to top up on Backwoods and Tomahawks |
| textCanadians are truly the most powerful zoophiles on earth. |
| textalcool frenchie spotted |
| textI think the states whose population don't care about public transit (Dallas, Houston, etc) should get stripped of their federal transit funding and be rerouted to fund the existing transit/infrastructure in Chicago, New York, Boston, Philly or DC."} |
| {"text":"How can anyone vote for a thing that hasn't been a practical reality in 50+ years? Also my unit (like most owned by individuals and not multifamily developers) isn't subject to any rent stabilization laws, not that I object to those laws, since large landlords are cancer"} |
| {"text":"What new rail in Texas? The DART line no one will ride? The Chicago Red Line extension will probably generate more ridership than the entirety of public transit in Texas"} |
| {"text":"It's a civil preparedness issue only. There is nothing in the constitution about a right to cheap oil. There is no bigger commie in the history of the world than the happy motorist. |
| textThere is no bigger commie in the history of the world than the happy motorist. The irony of a communist urganigger accusing everyone else of being like him isn't lost on me."} |
| {"text":"wears a rolex daytona while driving, just like paul newman Fine wears a rain coat when it's raining, just like gene kelly Fine wears gym shorts at the gym, just like wilt chamberlain Fine wears aviators just because, just like val kilmer in top gun Fine wears tacticool ballistic nylon cargo pants when working, just like steven seagal in under siege Fine wears cycling shorts when cycling Whoa wait WHAT NOOOOO YOU CAN'T DO THAT YOU TRYHARD WHAT IF SOMEONE THINKS YOU'RE LANCE ARMSTRONG AND YOU WOULD HAVE TO TELL THEM YOU'RE NOT A PROFESSIONAL RACING CYCLIST THEN THE UNIVERSE WOULD EXPLODE NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"} |
| {"text":"quality post to bump this thread with you twat"} |
| {"text":"also anyone who buys bill gates reasonable richman act is stupider the those who believe warren buffets charade."} |
| {"text":"you mean the people who are like \"actually warren buffet eats mcdonalds so the reason you're not rich is you don't eat low quality garbage\"?"} |
| {"text":"No I mean the people who believe his I still live in the same house and overall lower lifestyle projection mcdonalds breakfast included. Yes he still lives in the \"same home\" that he had expanded to over 6 thousand sq ft."} |
| {"text":"thanks"} |
| {"text":"How do you react when you see a landwhale approaching your seat?"} |
| {"text":"I assume everyone is always saying mean things to their friends about me. It only matters if they say them to me directly. I promise I am mentally well."} |
| {"text":"That a completely unself aware whinge about not designing the world around a hyper minority is imminent."} |
| {"text":"As a society we're doing a piss poor job of finding a reasonable middle ground between gratuitously mocking and humiliating fat people, and giving them candid feedback on the negative impact that they have on other people (and themselves) for not taking care of their disease. It doesn't help anyone to be a dick to them and make them all defensive and non-compliant, but all the people promoting this healthy at any size bullshit need to be charged with some kind of crime, and if none exists a new law should be passed making it one."} |
| {"text":"If they're not losing weight from stress and aren't ashamed to show up at the convenience store then we aren't mocking and humiliating them enough. |
| textStress makes them just landwhale harder, the reason ozempic works is it completely rewires their internal reward system. You can't berate a fattie into becoming less of a fattie, they're fat because being fat is how they cope for everything |
| textbe American minding your own business in your car randomly get crushed under a flying deathtrap Something needs to be done about this |
| textJust a bit further and that prop would have gone right into the driver. |
| textI'd be okay with it happening a lot more often tbqh two birds for one stone kind of thing"} |
| {"text":"were the engines stalled? how do you NOT hear a plane"} |
| {"text":"It’s on the pilots to avoid the traffic on the road. It’s not a runway. There is no way the car could have seen the airplane to avoid it."} |
| {"text":"Little planes are pretty tuff desu I don't know why but in my mind I imagine it just folding up into a ball on impact |
| textWhat is the intent behind statements like \? At a surface level it is obviously meant to (proverbially) throw other cyclists under the bus, but to what end? Would it somehow appease the anti-bike people if the person \ didn't agree to be referred to by the word \"cyclist\"?"} |
| {"text":"the usa has no sweet crude oil left, wars are being started around the world so you can have cheap gas. Isnt it weird how biden dipped into the reserves when Saudi jacked up opec prices, then oct 7th happened, and then suddenly prices went back down again? Weird huh? Yah sure, I'm insane. Im cuh-razy, cookoo. |
| textNo you see the reason we have to invade venezuela is that they sent us over 500 grams of cocaine in the last year alone |
| textTo evade being labeled a yuppie, market polluting tourist, stealing yet another \ thing from real people. |
| textthey sent us over 500 grams of cocaine in the last year alone That’s nothing. Nick Rekieta, his whore wife, and his whore side piece went through 500 g of coke together. |
| textYeah, he got railed. |
| textHow in the fuck are they pulling this shit off? These commies are making us look like clowns! What is the reason for this?! |
| textThey hated him because he told the truth |
| textnice digits |
| textwhat conclusive proof do you have that only 100 people died. You are basing this off accident statistics in the being moderately reliable for the last 80 years. |
| textAre you implying there isn't an active organ harvesting operation in china?"} |
| {"text":"americans do mass transit (among other things) badly on purpose to \"prove\" that these things MUST be in the hands of private industry alone so that number go up"} |
| {"text":"You can tell this guy is smart because he's explaining it in a tone of voice like he's telling a toddler he needs to pull his pants down before peeing and I'm just not following at all the first thing to understand is it's power preserving because the product of voltage and current is a power and anything that's passive in the electrical domain is... oh but there's 2 analogies and the first one that's about 2 and across variables and series connections and topologically identical and ground is a datum voltage and... |
| textLol just lol You best thing you could do is sell that single speed shit and get something with gears, and 32-40mm wire tires unless you only ride on glass smooth velodromes, in that case, keep your 23mm ice skate tires. Pros are setting records on 28mm tires now, the world has changed, more rubber is sometimes better. I think XC MTB uses 2.3\} |
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| textAnyone good with old bikes? I intend to buy this one (auction website) for 20 bucks. First i wonder what the brand on it is because i have no clue. Second, it has been stored for probably decades inside. The gearing feels fine, no rust there and i can feel some oil gunge there. |
| textEven just finding matching tires and tubes can be challenging on these old things. If you have the space to have it sit around while you try to come up with enough motivation to fix it up, for that little money, go for it. |
| textIt'll be so much work and money to restore that thing that you may as well just get a dipshit fixie cruiser off a rack in a store. If you get that for 20$, you'll already be spending more money than it's worth on a couple cans of paint, a couple tires/tubes, and maybe a new seat and still have an absolute abomonation of a ride."} |
| {"text":"No , because the frame doesn't even have brake fixing spots somewhere or other essential components. |
| textthe frame doesn't even have brake fixing spots somewhere It's a coaster brake. |
| textlol |
| textElon Musk wishes he was 1/10th as GREAT as this English manlet. |
| textYes What political bullshit caused the inferior gauge to be maintained? |
| textOverthrowing the space transportation business alone is worth more than all other 21st century inventions. |
| textThis tbqh, I can't avoid smiling at the fact that space travel was taken away from government-employed nerds with inflated egos. Them and the boomer government-embedded spaceship building companies got humiliated. I'm not really mad, NASA is cool, but I got tired of looking at that whole situation with them making no progress and keeping space travel as this mythical once-a-year ritual where the NASA wizards in their white labcoats send some overqualified supermen on a disposable multimillion dollar vehicle into space. |
| textStandard should have been 1500 mm. That would be right 0.007” less than 4’ 11 1/16.” Everyone’s equipment would have been compatible with each other regardless of which measurement system they were using. No one needs anymore than that. |
| textProbably but it's a bit early to say that."} |
| {"text":"As you guys may know, theres now huge subsidies coming from the WEF or the EU to remove car traffic from city areas its a bit sad because some of these towns and cities used to have extremelly walkable main streets in the early 20th century, beautiful cobblestone pavements, etc, and it was all removed for cheap asphalt when cars became the thing. Now the pedestrian pavement is often just cheap concrete or modern materials imitating older cobblestone. You even see some retarded mayors destroying an entire 19th century park to replace it with concrete and fake grass and it just breaks my soul. How can we conserve and preserve true traditional urban planning and 19th century walkable standards?"} |
| {"text":"I would like to say that the NYC Commissioners Plan of 1811 is one of the best examples of urban central planning EVER."} |
| {"text":"Levittown's must largely be a flyover thing, even here in California (a state that's often branded heavily car-centric) I wouldn't describe any of the suburbs here as being Levittown's, they're too broken up by public parks and strip malls within reasonable biking distance, and this is even true for the postwar/post redcar developments |
| textPeople who think California is exceptionally car-centric have never been outside California and think that the movie Grease is a documentary. No offense to you, Anon. |
| textThis essentially still exists in parts of Europe, just on a slightly bigger scale around the suburban rail lines, and usually it was pre-existing villages which turned into suburbs. They're usually centered around the station with commerce and higher density development near it, then lower density residential areas a bit further away. Sometimes you can even appreciate how there was an original town center and a new center developed around the station. He says central planning but it's not really what he's describing, which is organic centrality. If you have a place where many people move to for transportation it will obviously become attractive for both commercial and residential development, while further away gets less demand and consequently less activity and less density. With rail transport you automatically get this central point of movement which generates this centrality and consequently varied development, while the absence of it and high car usage generates large swaths of identical development lacking centrality which is essential to the organic urban growth."} |
| {"text":"Suburbs are the byproduct of better transportation methods, the first ever case of suburbanization happened in Amsterdam in the XVIII century as people used boats to commute to their jobs in the city. The modern car centric suburb appeared in the mid XX century as developers, politicians and bureaucrats mixed the ideas of the garden city (low density) with Le-Corbusier urban ideas (car centric city). The result was a new type of suburb where people are isolated from their neighbours and have to use the car for everything."} |
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