What would be the impact of just banning cars from the roads every Sunday, and letting people freely ride their bikes, walk down the roads, letting children play in the street?Emergency vehicles would be exempt obviously.I am not really anti-car, but surely 6/7 days of cars completely dominating the streets is enough?
>>2080740I walk or take public transport the majority of the time but own a car just for when I need to drive over to one of my friends houses and public transit would either take twice or long or doesn't run late enough at night for me to get back.A rather annoying part of car ownership (that nobody tells you until you buy one) is that the car battery slowly drains over time so you are forced to go for a drive once a week just to keep the car alive. It also needs to be a longish drive to charge the battery up enough, and short trips cause your engine and oil to build up condensation so you have to drive for long enough to get the engine up to a hot temperature as well, around 20 minutes.I love having a car when I need it, but it is quite annoying that I only need to use it once or twice a month but am basically forced to put it on the road for half an hour each week.
>>2080963>Annoying part of car ownership is that the car battery slowly drains over time so you are forced to go for a drive once a week just to keep the car alive.Use a battery tender.
>>2080538I pay taxes to pave the roads so I'm going to use them whenever the fuck I feel like it, if you want to be car free go to a park and let your kids run/bike around it.>N-no but I'm entitled to the streetWrong, goodbye.
>>2080928yea, horrible time to be a cycling advocate
>>2080972nah, you'll use em when we say you get to use them. :)
Old thread from 2023 finally hit bump limit >>1955863New 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.
>>2080918 >T. filtered by a clutch pedalYou are not a driver
>>2080918you still don't get it.having to be in charge of what gear your vehicle is in *improves* your situational awareness. and, you don't randomly put yourself in speed situations you don't anticipate and control.you're not qualified to have an opinion on this until you can competently drive both manual and auto shift. and once you can, the answer is self-evident. it even helps you drive auto since you actually understand what the auto shift is doing.but you can't, which is why you think it's some kind of extra chore.
>>2080958>filtered by a crank starteryou don't even own a car>>2080960>having to be in charge of what gear your vehicle is in *improves* your situational awareness.>why doesn't anyone give medals for juggling to people balancing on a beam>doing two different things at once should make it easier to focus>inb4 i pretend that fiddling with the clutch is actually the same as focusing on the road and tracking traffic againdo i need to inb4 twice? just repeating this drivel while seething at superior technology from your bus seat isn't an argument.
>>2080977but they do give prizes to people who can drive better than everyone else. guess what type of transmission those people use?I drive manual and automatic. it's really obvious which one is more under my control.you don't know how to drive manual (or at all) and therefore you're just making stuff up and getting mad about it
>>2080984>but they do give prizes to people who can drive better than everyone else>goalpost moved from "it improves situational awareness" to "racers use it"i guess you always drive with a helmet on too, because that's what racers do in their reckless competitive driving, right?not to mention that even the manual transmission race cars use sequential gearboxes rather than your clutch stick shifters.>you don't know how to drive manual (or at all)you're literally an anticar lunatic screeching at them from your parents' basement.
Comparative Classification of the Modern Recreational Cyclist though Consumption and Subculturehttps://www.sheldonbrown.com/https://www.parktool.com/en-us/blog/repair-help/Previously thread >>2079062
>>2080974why are you so mean? is it because you have multiple DUIs and have to ride your bike to work laying roof shingles all day?
>>2080973>Merlin 5Isn't that a cross country bike? Why are you looking at down hill tires for a corss country bike. Get some continental race kings. If you really are worried about traction get a mountain king front tire.
>>2080975No its because you are retarded and trying to buy dh tires for leisurely slowfat le grabel rides fuck off retard
>>2080982I dont know what half those words mean.I am looking for new tires for my mountain bike. but please, continue goal keeping.
>>2080973Get the cheapest cross country tire from Specialized
Post ITT things you never see. People on public transportation are usually ugly, poor, or otherwise undesireable
>>2080938yeah, he didn't mention they are also brown
idk man
Idk cant relate i keep seeing 10s on public transport but ig im just from Europe
>>2080969>anon's 10 pictured
>>2080978lol Chris Farley is always good for a laugh. Look how goofy he's being here!
SS United States to be sunk, creating the world's largest artificial reef. RIP to one of the greats.
>>2077172it's never gonna happen, is it?
>>2021031>>2057183Ocean liners are inefficient because they're designed for luxury and go too fast. A proper modern ocean liner would be a few times more efficient than taking a plane, but only for people who can work remotely while onboard. You have to think of it as a real form of transit and not a vacation.>but they have to eat They have to eat whether they're on the ship or not.
Are they ever going to sink it?
>>2016134brown
They called it the unsinkable thread
One of these is a gravel bike.One of these is a road bike.What is the difference, exactly?
>>2080828banging shit back into place with rocks is a staple in any sporthttps://www.pinkbike.com/news/video-jack-moirs-trailside-wheel-repair-from-the-finale-ligure-ews.html
>>2080836incredibly based and i cannot even think of a troll post in response. this is the true will of the species
>>2080829People will just do stuff to do stuff. Fixies are fucking awful bikes for commuting but it became a trend anyway and everyone was riding one regardless of how suboptimal it was for them. Same thing here, people are just going for a look.
>>2080836>he broke the fucking rock beating it on the rimflawless.my old repair manual's advice on rim repair was "never say die" and explained how you could acceptably bend back a rim over e.g. a curb as a roadside repair.
Got the stem for the build. Am I cool yet?
thoughts on Alto?https://www.altotrain.ca/enpersonally I think it is a shitty project, deeply political and cynical. the timeframe and expense estimates are massive and no real work has been done yet, as is typical for North American HSR.I am all in favor of HSR on the Quebec-Windsor corridor, it makes sense, however as someone who doesn't live in one of the major cities it NEEDS to be supplemented with a good regional service. Unfortunately there is zero political will for that in Canada right now since most of the entire country's population lives in one of the big corridor cities, and the areas outside of it are very conservative and don't give a shit about rail.I think it would make much more sense to focus on improving Via first, giving it its own trackage and improving the quality of the existing corridor services. But Via seems to be coasting by on what they have until Alto comes to kill off their core business - and then what will happen to Via's non-corridor services, or indeed the parts of the corridor that Alto doesn't cover?And there is a massive political operation surrounding Alto to where all criticism of it is heavily suppressed and strawmanned. Although it's not hard to strawman given that most of its opposition is retarded nimby farmers throwing a fit even though we have no idea where the tracks will actually go through yet.But yeah, it's so political that they have routed it through specific cities just because they are tossup ridings and the LPC wants to win votes in those areas. What a mess.
I will be traveling to Moab in October and want to do some mountain biking.I have the stamina to ride for 7+ hours, but have never done so at elevation or in the desert heat.Besides making sure my bike in good condition, what else do I need with me to go on some of these rides?are flats common? do I need spare tubes? Whats a good water carrying setup that isnt a camelback or backpack? i hate thoseWhat trails can you recommend as a good starter to get my bearings in and get used to the environment. I want to eventually do a difficult trail.There are soooo many bike paths around Moab that I have no idea where to start.
> this cyclist shows up> he slaps your gf's ass while riding his bike> he turns his head back and stares at you while he rides slowlywhat do you do? you have the choice of one vehicle to get into in 2 minutes
>>2078146>NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER
>>2078146>word salad
>>2078114The worst girlfriend I ever had was an adult virgin. Extremely low libido, bad at sex, introverted, and just watched a bunch of instagram reels
>>2078023>what do you do?Be forever grateful towards that bold stranger for magically conjuring a girlfriend into my life, simply with the swipe of his hand. (T_T)
>>2078140whoa cool it with the deadnaming.
Lets see them again for the hundredth time.
>>2080954if for no other reason, nobody will think you're some kind of pleb with an adjustable stem on a ti bike
>>2080955People will think you're some kind of pleb for not recognizing a redshift stem.
>>2080936are those campagnolo discs?
>>2080957Well spotted, yes
>>2080936Mmmm silber bice
A 17-year-old German teen has been living life as a modern nomad, leaving his parents’ house to live on trains and travel all over his country.While most 17-year-olds are only just beginning to consider the idea of leaving the nest, Lasse Stolley has already been on his own for over a year and a half. Convinced that his school studies were already behind him, he convinced his parents to allow him to leave their home in Fockbek, Schleswig-Holstein to embark on a unique train-hopping adventure. It took a lot of convincing, but they eventually agreed, and for the last year and a half, the German teen has essentially been living on trains, traveling all over his home country, working as a self-employed coder during the day, and sleeping on night trains at night.“I’ve been living on the train as a digital nomad for a year and a half now,” Lasse told Business Insider. “At night I sleep on the moving Intercity Express (ICE) train and during the day I sit in a seat, at a table and work as a programmer, surrounded by many other commuters and passengers. I travel from one end of the country to the other. I’m exploring the whole of Germany.”He gave into his wanderlust in 2022, selling most of his possessions and packing what was left in a 36-liter backpack that he has been carrying with him ever since. Minimalism and resisting the urge to acquire new stuff are an essential part of his lifestyle, as he needs to take everything with him wherever he goes. It’s not always easy, but he has found a way to make it work.https://www.odditycentral.com/news/german-teenager-left-parents-home-to-live-exclusively-on-trains-for-the-last-year-and-a-half.htmlhttps://www.businessinsider.de/leben/bahncard100-17-jaehriger-lebt-seit-jahr-2022-in-den-zuegen-der-bahn/
>>1986079based and Fastman pilled. Does he use X230 or X220?
>>1986079>He gave into his wanderlust in 2022He's been living on the same train in the same country for years. That's not wanderlust, that's just homelessness.
>>2051902
>>2077244Only grills experience wanderlust
>>2079141>what dead fish smell? your probably just gay
Silly /n/ things that happened to you.In high school my dad was messing around with his air compressor after school. He offered to pump my tire up for some reason, and I agreed. So this guy starts pumping my tire up and walks away and does some other nonsense and he blows my tire up. He never learned how to replace it so eventually he just threw it out one day, and I had to walk to school for a year afterwards. Never have an actual sperg as a father bros
>>2080946you were old enough to be in high school and you didn't just figure out how to replace a tube yourself? were you in special ed or something?
When you see itPrevious: >>1781074
new thread:>>2079035>>2079035>>2079035
>>2079036I like this one thoughbeit
>>2079052but the image limit is reached, there's nothing more to see, it had a good run
>only days away from being four years oldwe made it so close
>>2079129There was a Rock Island thread that lasted even longer.
I’ve always wanted to live the mid-20th Century experience of riding a Pullman Sleeper hauled by a steam locomotive roaring through the night and while I have been fortunate enough to ride steam excursions many times and even do an overnight ride on an original Pullman car, I’ve never been able to do them together.Is there anywhere in the world where I can actually still take an overnight train hauled by a steam locomotive? The closest I’m aware of is the modern Orient Express being steam-hauled through Hungary as a one-time thing in 2017 and the Cumbres and Toltec possessing a restored tourist sleeper coach (idk if it’s ever been used in that role).
>>2079017Driving a train through lonely countryside seems a lot more appealing to me than it should
>>2067924This may no longer be the case but I do recall reading on some travel blog about 10 years ago that the La Trochita offered overnight accommodations for tourists. The train itself would remain parked in the yard overnight but passengers could set up bedding and stay in the coaches.idk if this was a formal ticket or just something they did on the fly when hotels were overbooked.
C&TS sleeper has been bandied about as possibly being rented out for overnights up at Osier or Cumbres station, but I don't think anything concrete has been planned.
>>2080929Same. Best I could get was staying in the telegraph office just out of frame to the left in this photo>>2079017 overnight. For that night, I was the lonely telegraph operator waiting for a ghost train that never came.
>>2080945I think that opportunity was arranged by either Farrail Charters or Pete Lerro.
A thread to talk about this integral component.Along with tyres a saddle is perhaps the most impactful upgrade you can make to a bike in terms of delivering immediate and noticeable improvements to comfort and ride quality.I'll kick things off with a Brooks related question. Can anyone identify picrel?It has B66 Champion stamped on the side, and is fitted with the old fashioned sprung dual rail system. However, the B66 has a width of 205 mm, whereas this saddle is 175 mm. More like a B17 on top. A conundrum indeed.
Anyone have any experience with SQLab saddles. Really want to get a 612 active 2.1 and a 611 infinergy active 2.1 for a road and backpacking rig respectively.
No one cares about saddles. Shitsux
i like this one from marinit fits me just right
>>2080363My understanding of the Brooks naming system is that each number corresponds with a distinct intended use case. B66 is marketed as a wider saddle specifically designed for a more upright cruiser style riding position. The wider platform being necesarry to accommodate the hipbones in a riding position that is the result of handlebars being placed above the height of the saddle.175mm width is wholly unsuited to such a riding position. There are no records of Brooks ever making B66 saddles in anything other than the logical 205mm. A conundrum indeed.It could be a prototype or one of a limited run, which they have been known to produce from time to time when toying with new ideas. It looks to me like something from their 'unique' line, where odd combinations of features were often toyed with in an experimental fashion. Some of these saddles were in fact truly unique, as in only one was example made, and many were incorrectly stamped.
>>2080948Could also be one of their 'Unearthed' saddles, After a load of assorted and non conforming saddle tops dating back decades were found in storage, they converted them into a collection of one off saddles and sold them to the public. One thing is certain, OP's saddle ain't no B66.
