SDJS-034 edition Resources:https://www.sheldonbrown.com/https://www.parktool.com/en-us/blog/repair-helpNeutral Support News on YoutubeWatch Yumika (1997) - Nagaremono Zukan (1998) - Shiro (1999)previous thread >>2057027
>>2059733Big tire good. Fenders bad. Simple as.
>>2060736Wha why not both?
>>2060715you don't use thick grease or oil on your drivetrain because it'll pick up every bit of grit and grime from the road and stick, then you're running all that shit through your drivetrain causing faster wear. you can get regular 3 in 1 oil anywhere for cheap
>>2060700claris works fine for me, as for fenders you have types that wrap around the fork like sks raceblades. >>2060736>Fenders badnotice how you didn't take that pic in the rain
new thread>>2060795>>2060795
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>>2058137Thanks doc
>>2058137Thanks for the daily dose.
>>2058136can planes fly backwards?
>>2059312yes but only when upside down
(continued from >>2035254 )Let's discuss bike tires here.>pic related currently using>27.5 x 1.60 (650b x 40)>1000 miles in>pulled a few glass shards out>extracted a broken glass bottle shard that was wedged 6mm in the tread at an angle>no punctured tube>no flat>rolls great>doesn't weigh as much as a Marathon Plus or Mondial>installing them wasn't too bad eitherWhat's your daily driver? Do you run tubed or tubeless? General thoughts, experiences of tires you've ran with?
>>2060566I'm asking more specifically about Rene Herse or Challenge tyres between 32 and 36mm.
>>2060551cst is budget maxxis
>>2060575yes
>>2060513holy shit
>>2060513people really need to start asking not if they can but if they should
If BOAT stands for "Bust Out Another Thousand," what does PLANE stand for?
>>2057695PLANE stands for:PfixLitAgainNtonEy
If you can afford the asking price:Probably Lacks A New Engine
>>2057748PotsLfArouble,NsuallyEerious
Blow itOut yourAssTony
>>2055838Personal Lucre Annihilator (Noisy Engine)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKVyT4nkofghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4FsDtgIKgM
>>2060013And bikes are /toy/s
>>2060009What failsafe features do these things have? Parachutes would probably only be good at altitudes above 100m no?And you cant glide down like a helicopter in case of an engine failure.Are they literally deathtraps if something happens at 10-50m?
why are zoomers and techbros so OBSESSED with the quadrotor form factor? what was wrong with one big rotor and a cyclic/collective control? >>2060052>Are they literally deathtraps if something happens at 10-50m?yeah but so are helicopters
>>2060009Those are pretty cool but I still would rather have sex with a woman with a human vagina
>>2060067>why are zoomers and techbros so OBSESSED with the quadrotor form factor? what was wrong with one big rotor and a cyclic/collective control?Quadcopters are more responsive and easier to control because they allow you to remove unnecessary control surfaces and replace larger single rotors with 4 smaller rotors that don't carry as much momentum. The only reason they haven't been feasible until recently is because they generally need flight computers to maintain stability >yeah but so are helicoptersHelicopters can autorotate on engine out though so they can still potentially land safely, I don't think quadcopters can do this though because the rotors are too small
Folding bikes seamlessly tie in with all transportation modes as they are specifically designed to be compact, stowable and therefore easily TRANSPORTABLE. Easily carried onto trains, planes, buses, trams and other automobiles.There've been many attempts to create the perfect folder, some designs have come very close and have remained in production for decades. The world of folders spans incredible genius tier feats of engineering to terrible examples of dangerously ill conceived death trap folly.Post yours here, or post examples that may be of interest for their engineering genius, aesthetic charm or worthiness of ridicule.
>>2053973I rode a six speed for years in very hilly terrain. You just need to know the quirks they shift great.
>>2059544the folding bike cannot carry as much weight as fixed frame bikes (is much weaker) therefore it is important to stay under the bike's rated weight limit (rider plus bags) for folding bikes. Fixed frame bikes, no need to pay attention to this.
I'm trying to buy a "20 inch single or double wall solid axel screw on wheel rim brake" for the back wheel of my folding bike. It's a piece of shit bike so I don't want anything super expensive, looking to spend about £40 or less - UK.I wouldn't even recognise one if I saw them though, and I barely understand from looking at pictures. Is there one on Amazon I could get or something? Double walled would be preferable as I hear that's better, but not if the price difference is big.
>>2053977hate to shit on your piss parade but plenty of white collar geezers commute by brompy where I work
me and my bro took the same length 20km road and both of us ended up needing at least 1.5x the time google maps estimated it would take. (my) 20" folding bike is slow bs
Anyone 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.
>>2060346Even 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.
>>2060343It'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.
>>2060346 No , because the frame doesn't even have brake fixing spots somewhere or other essential components.
>>2060591>the frame doesn't even have brake fixing spots somewhereIt's a coaster brake.
>>2060591lol
Elon Musk wishes he was 1/10th as GREAT as this English manlet.
>>2060208YesWhat political bullshit caused the inferior gauge to be maintained?
>>2060108Overthrowing the space transportation business alone is worth more than all other 21st century inventions.
>>2060319This 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.
>>2060208Standard 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.
>>2060319Probably but it's a bit early to say that.
Post your ride during sundown Post your favorite lights and light setupsDo not: Be a haterTalk shitPost daylight ride photos
cool thread anon, here's mine from todayi got a new taillight (moon cerberus) and wanted to see how it works after dark
>>2058814>>2058907how many lumens are those lights
>>2060008i'm >>2058907front is cyclami x7 set to the dimmest mode at (allegedly) 250lmrear is moon cerberus ru on the dimmest setting also, but it has a "variable lumen system" and i don't remember what setting i used, lowest i think? it tops out at 150lm and goes as low as 5lm
>>2058817Based tenno heika banzai pilled
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As you guys may know, theres now huge subsidies coming from the WEF or the EU to remove car traffic from city areasits 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?
I would like to say that the NYC Commissioners Plan of 1811 is one of the best examples of urban central planning EVER.
>>2060164>>2060157Levittown'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
>>2060172People 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.
>>2060164This 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.>>2060166He says >central planningbut 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.
>>2060155Suburbs 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.
TGVs should be orange. Blah blah blah different liveries blah blah variety blah blah I don't care. TGVs should be orange.
>>2057678very fair assessment. blaze orange is a sexy color>>2057680montreal wins again
>>2057678British trains? Should be Rail Blue, with yellow snouts, and with little coloured stripes on the carriages indicating the First, Second and restaurant cars.
>>2057678France used to make the sexiest trains in the world. The MP 89 is still the best looking metro train ever made.
Coast Starlight should be Golden Gate orange Instead it's just a boring amtrak stripe Yo, North American liveries suck. I never realized it before, we always get shitty ad wraps and toned down colors I guess transit agencies don't want to do anything that might make them bad press
>>2060161If you start using unique paint schemes for each service eventually you'll end up with rainbow-era Amtrak again
