I love mountain biking, ill thrash anything on a trail idc, but fr why do they put handlebars so far forward it hurts everyones back i guarantee, i stole the handlebars from my mums ancient commuter bike and the steel connecting bit for the handlebars from my dads old race bike which is like twice the weight of his new one so neither of them mind. then i put a rack on it and a pannea bag which is actually just a 20 year old traddie bag, it desnt make noise its perfect and it still rips on trails why tf do people may 1000 dolars for this shit? ive got no idea
>>2071280>steel connecting bit>giant anarchy symbol I mean, I suppose I'm with you in spirit but hoo-boy
I wish I had single track like some of you have. All my green trails look like pic related in the woods with a gorillion hairpins blind turns.
>>2071342my trails are hills with pumps and jumps, australian terrain is funky a
>>2071320You think you're so spicy? I had pancakes for dinner
>>2071280ew...
Everyone who can ride should have one bicycle. For the times where it works. eg. when gas is expensive as ass.A casual mama bicycle should work fine.
>>2068884Single cylinder dualsport, and like I said I live in the mountains, so it's even slower than it would be at sea level.
>>2068717What about the shoulder being filled with tire popping debris (for a vehicle that is much worse to get a flat on), that cars produce, then beat onto the shoulder with much hardier tires, is a "skill issue"? You think real life is excite bike?
>>2071451>waaaa I suffer from Cluster B mental disorders the car tires are going to explode waaaaa!Skill. Issue.
>>2068889>why is the counter to literally everything being bad in the usabecause people are tards and the real answer is it's not even that bad
>>2071463>and the real answer is it's not even that bad and isn't worth "fixing"
Seishun 18 Kippu EditionOld Thread: >>2035672
>>2071137>em dashesThe mark of the AI.
What are those "blinders" on the sides for?
>>2071307I'm fairly certain it's a measure to reduce damage in collisions.
>>2071307I think it's to limit the space between coupled train sets on the platform, so there's less space to fall on the tracks.
>>2071307There was an accident near Kobe in 2010 where a woman fell into the gap between two coupled trains as it was departing and died. Several companies in western Japan(JR West, Kintetsu, Osaka Metro, I think someone else too but I forgot) started installing these guards to prevent that.
Thinly veiled e-bike containment thread.I bought a Tern Orox to prepare for the Australian madmax fuel apocalypse. Did I fuck up? What else should I have looked at for a cargo hauler with decent range and the ability to ride poorly maintained outback roads?
>>2071392i 100% ride my ebike specifically because i refuse to get jewed by the local constabulary and gendarmerie to get a license and registration and insurance etc etc. ebikes let me ignore the law entirely and that's beautiful
>>2071418Based ruler breaker. I got my ebike registered at town hall as my green "business" vehicle so all the work and upgrades were tax write offs on it now. Cagers stay mad.
>>2071056>>2071390>"Why are Millennials killing the automotive industry!?" the boomer asks, sobbing over his iPad displaying the front page of MacLeans, mere minutes after voting "Yes" on a proposition to add a seventh layer of provisional licensing that prevents any new driver from driving during the day, night, with passengers, without a chaperone, any vehicle heavier than 20kg, any vehicle with not exactly four wheels, zero demerit points available, requirement to acquire and display a "NEW DRIVER" sign that also displays the driver's full name, address, and contact information, and imposes a mandatory 6000$/yr surcharge to their insurance payments, payable directly to Social Security
>>2071421Actually I left out a fun detail which is that the extortionate "driver who didn't have insurance" rate is promised to go down if I agree to install a tracking device in my vehicle that has like, an accelerometer and shit, so they can figure out if I drive like shit, and I guess also develop an AI model to install in future automotive factory firmware to send directly to the insurance companies so they can tamper with rates in real time based on how much your car lurches around and exceeds speed limits, I assumeBasically, we are all criminals, but we can get good boy points by accepting even more surveillance (I have nothing to hide so what is there to be afraid of!?!?)Needless to say I will not be doing that, I'll just pay the extra like a retard. I may be a retard but I have my pride and nothing can take that away unless you're a cute girl and you offer to peg me in which case disregard what I just said
>>2071428i'm a big fat mutt but will peg you with a dragon dildo
What is the intent behind statements like "I'm not a cyclist, I'm just a person who gets around by bike"?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 "blocking traffic" didn't agree to be referred to by the word "cyclist"?
>>2069139you and i are opposites but in a fun way>pathologically follow the rules of the road because cars can kill me without even noticing>don't wear a helmet>wear bib shorts under a normal cotton tee because they carry a bunch of shit and they're convenient>don't ever announce myself to pedestrians because 90% of the time when I say "ON YOUR LEFT" it's some retard that will look to their right while diving to the left and I fucking hate all of them>luv me carbon but hate Terk and hypebeast fred frames>my daily driver is a carbon bike with Di2, lmao>eventually it will explode at 30mph and kill me>love the idea of crits but i'm a fat retard>carry a gun in my bib shorts
>>2069139>>saw a tweaker randomly cross road from the sidewalk, at an angle, 10 ft from the crosswalki see this shit constantly but you cant get mad at them. they are legitimately tweakers with zero awareness of the world around them or even themselves. they are on their way to get One More Hit, please understand
>>2069145>people shouldn't wear triathlon gear while participating in a triathlon on a closed courseYes. Being good at things other than watching vtubers is very cringe! Mediocrity is good!
>>2000001I just don't want to be associated with obnoxious lycra clad biker dads
>>2071358It's really just this.
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.
twocars,,,wouldhave Crashed.,,,,imade my choice.
>>2069883>I had a repaired front tube fail*Did you put the orange part down?
>>2045580my worry is becoming a vegetable for the rest of my life due to a brain injury, rather than straight death
mylife,,,withoutrike.,,,,Jesushelp me., the strength to just heal.
>>2044901>got a new bike>commuting it to work, bout a 6 mile ride with 2 miles on actual roads and the rest in a greenway>few weeks into my new commute, it rained>ride through the main roads just fine>there's a wooden bridge section in the greenway that's still wet from the rain>immediately crash the SECOND I get on it>chain is off the sprockets>trying to get it back on, cut myself on the sprocket>walk it off the wooden bridge and get forward to the next paved section of the greenway>ride it back to work, but I'm in pain and my hand is bleeding>lock the bike at the rack at work, uber back at the end of the day>never bike commute againThe bike is still sitting at the office garage, the tires have deflated, there's cobwebs all over it, and I can't even look at it without feeling shameful. Wast of money, I never should have dreamt that I could do this properly.
Why is /n/ in general so much more friendly and cordial than other boards?
>>2062879>My main board is >>>/sp/don't you hold the record for "most mentally unstable" person? didn't y'all have someone stalking a tripfag for MONTHS just based on posting style?
compared to what literally the most garbage reddit tier board
>>2062222This is true, I rode public transport for a few years in New York City and I was forced to eat the bugs and own nothing by the knockout game
This thread is old as hell. >>2067017>>2062879>>2047103>>2047067>>2047066All of these. And more adults. I bet the average age of this board is past 30. Also, I'm pretty sure the mindset that makes someone interested in transportation topics makes you a bit more socially liberal (rather anons want to admit it or not) and therefore or a bit more "agreeable".
>>2062213Cigars are ok if you never plan on having sex ever, or if you are in a situation where the consent of your sex partner is optional, but the stench will permeate everything in your body, your clothes, everything you own. Odor wise they are like 10x worse than cigarettes.
What would you do in this situation?
>>2069495Timmy got mogged by the Bharat Bvll
>>2067452>>2068054> 3rd world invasion> spic languagebut anon, you are the thirdie
>>2063113Common courtesy? It's my seat I paid for it I'm going to recline it with or without your permission.
>>2062901Call me whatever you like, I'm not asking permission to recline my seat.
>>2070711Arhentina es white though?
How do these large cargo backpacks compare with a bicycle trailer? I need to haul 100kg of cargo on a bicycle
>>2067351If somebody believes they can ride a bike with 100 kg on their back, they won't be convinced by appealing to their sense of specific gravity, they're just delusional.
>>2067438My gf is 105kg and I've ridden a bicycle with her on my back, on the handlebars, etc. It can be done.
Use backpacks to carry diesel fuel.
>>1957568Put the pack on a trailer to make it easier to carry, you're welcome :)oh yeah +1 to bump limit :^)
>>2067542>My gf is 105kg
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.
>>2051893I would plap both of these canadian daytime tv type anime characters. based USA doing something right for once
>>2066193I mean it kind of is empty though except for that one narrow line straddling the kazakhstan/mongolia border
>>2055036>7.1 Surround Rail
>>2067566Yooooooo
>>2055104lewd
hey /n/ this is my cat rupert i was thinking about taking him on the bus to see the sights of the city but i couldnt find any rules on it, do you know if can cats go on busesi have a cat carrier but would he be allowed out to see out the window?
>>2056672>>2064014how do people take cats out like this aren't they worried that the cat will panic and fuck off in a random location never to be seen again
>>2065597They do, but you don't see pics or videos of the ones who do because the owners are embarrassed
>>2056672Sex with this creature.
>>2067340Meow means meow
>>2065597
yeWax or Oil?What do YOU like better?I don't wanna listen to the youtube silca shills
Nothing beats the original bike chain lube.
>>2066642I use drip wax, it usually lasts ~300km.I wax the chain at the night and in the morning it's rock solid.No marks on your hands and no cleaning needed
I just put a huge blob of vaseline on there. Take a good shot-sized chunk and run the chain through it right in my bare hand. Feels good man
>>2067296I just cum on my chain
>>2066071It's more about the stretched out chain shifting on its own t b h
Can anyone tell me why shipping is more efficient than rail? I thought water has more friction than air
>>2070808They can and do. Even loaded containers are relatively light. You might think you're an expert on tugs and barges, but you obviously don't know shit about railroading.
>>2070808With distributed traction string-line derails are less of a problem than before when all locomotives were at the front of a train.Still happens sometimes
>>20708086,000 feet is on the shorter side of stack trains. 7,000-7,500 was average for the line I worked on. BNSF started running 10,000 foot stack trains on the transcon from LA to Chicago 20 years ago and they're probably longer now.
>>2070808they do, the only reason they dont go higher than 2 is for tunnels and bridges (and sometimes the containers/cars themselves)
>>2068745>Cargo ships are typically manned by IndiansJust feed them an occasional bridge and they'll be happy.
>wet icy late winter / early spring forest gravel road>fwd corolla with unstudded tires>can't see much around sharp corners, blind hill up>logging truck right behind, getting closer and closer, going fast> reach uphill, see this road cleaner tractor across the bottom of the icy hill, it's stuck and can't get up the hill nor get out of the way>oh shit>luckily manage to stop by driving off right side of the road to get traction on snow>logging truck barely stops before sliding down, pinning me behind the truck and the tractor
ganked a guy with a train going 60mph
>>2062906hes gonna say it
>>2061738Cringe
>>2061607heh
go out and do some centuries
Lunch time drink in a park
>>2071178SOVLalso great lock holder
>>2071183Thank you. Necessity is the mother of invention.
Different bike different park
First puncture of the year, first on this bike, spent 25 mins looking for my fucking valve adapter after it fell on the grass
