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.
>>2064676>20"wheels>titanium >custom valve for hydro cables you have to disconnect and reconnect each time it's a cool piece of engineering, but not anything I'd care to ride
>>2064825>hydro cables
>>2053967Is this any good? Reviews of an identically framed bike are few and poor, but the comments only discredit the delivery service. Anything visually stick out as bad?
>>2065476>twathttps://www.decathlon.co.uk/p/mp/basis-compact-20in-folding-commuter-bicycle-royal-blue/6f00d509-9cae-465b-a705-9e689a38ca0a/c195c1
Would a BTWIN 120 be fine for a 2 mile commute with the occasional 10 mile trip? Shitty roads and occasional flat dirt paths. I don't care that its fucking heavy I just want something I can keep indoors.
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.
>>2065648>Europe, who laughed him out of the roomThis is some NJB-tier disinfo, how exactly did Europe "laugh him out of the room"
>>2065638>USA would be filled with half-assed single lane cuck lanes, that end out of nowhere, force you to take large detours through dog poop and junkie needles hidden in small bush, bump your ass every second due to them being sidewalks or force you to wait behind some middle aged mom and her gremlin going about as fast a joggermy city did this but unironically
>>2065648Europe's biek infrasturcture literally looks like what I just described. The only difference is you're more likely to be honked at for not riding in these shitty cuck lanes there, because cars expect you to do that
>>2065836Ah yes, Europe. That one perfectly uniform super‑country where Portugal and Finland are basically twins and everyone agrees on everything because, obviously, 44 nations are just cosmetic.
>>2065867Yes and you are fully tarriff'd. You are property now! BTFO. Remind yourselfs whose flag is on the moon.
Now that wider tires on road bikes are the default and you can barely even find a rim brake bike for sale anymore (other than at the antique store), how long before Big Cycling realizes there's no more upgrades to sell and if they want to continue selling bikes now they have to promote thin, high pressure tires and turn of the century frames as an improvement (complete with convincing-looking data presented by convincing-sounding "engineers")
2 more weeks
>>2065818use hydraulic disc brakes. they work much better than pincher style rim brakes.
Road bikes have been more than good enough since the late 90s MTB is where any sort of innovation has been madeWhat's next? Uhh full suspension road bikes2.1" knobby tires on road bikes Dropper seat posts on road bikesFlat bars on road bikesNah bikes are fine and have been more than good enough for ages It's the road, infrastructure, and a work life balance to actually be able to travel and use transportation more often and more easily
They're scheduled to blow whistles at around 7am (like 15 mins)
Really testing out the zoom on my shitty phone
Flags
Closest shot I could get through a chainlink fence
Nice job, OP.
Beautiful thread, OP
imagine being a voltagelet
>>2065209The PNW was relatively electrified in the first half of the twentieth century because the railroads there used hydropower.
>>2065209Sounds like we need more NOOKS
>>2065140>>2065209>muh fossil fuelsget new material instead of parroting the big oil buzzword
Can't have High Speed Rail without wireshttps://youtu.be/F-GSWFnOUhchttps://youtu.be/mDAd9HOuqMEhttps://youtu.be/9CyETV3J_JU
>>2060362This map is horrible to look at!Just switch to 25KV, 50Hz AC and call it a day... sheesh!
What would you do in this situation?
>>2064960For you.
>>2063186The weebs are probably worse than the japs in that regard, they're not throwing rocks in from a glass house.
>>2065008Kekaroo
>>2063156>a read light district is not for sightseeingwtf? literally the entire point is to go look at titties, posters with titties on them, titty-themed objects, engage with titty-laden interactive media, and then get really embarrassed with a hooker paying them money to keep lapdancing even though you're gay but don't want to offend the homies who took you out for seeming disinterested or ungrateful. how is the point of somewhere like kamurocho not for sightseeing? you literally go to look at stuff. mostly titty stuff but stuff you look at nonetheless. for that matter the reeperbahn is also for sightseeing, and i have actually been there, it's full of people just looking at stuff
>>2063156tldr
2026/01/16 12:00With the timetable revision in March this year, JR companies will increase the number of Shinkansen trains on the Tohoku, Tokaido, and other lines. JR Central will increase the number of special Nozomi trains during peak travel times, bringing the number of trains between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka to a maximum of 13 per hour. While this will likely increase convenience for business trips and vacations, there are often discussions surrounding the Shinkansen about passenger manners and issues, such as not reclining seats properly or carrying large carry-on bags.On the Yomiuri Shimbun's user posting site, Hatsugen Komachi, a user named "Sobagon," who claims to have used a non-reserved seat on the Shinkansen, posted a topic with the ominous title, "I was forced to give up my non-reserved seat on the Shinkansen."The poster boarded the Shinkansen from the first station and secured a window seat in the unreserved section. The aisle seat next to her was empty. She then left her seat to go to the restroom, leaving her drink and jacket behind. When she returned, two elementary school-aged brothers who had boarded at the next station were sitting in the window and aisle seats. The poster insisted that they had secured their seats first, but the brothers wouldn't give up, so she ended up standing for over an hour.https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/otekomachi/20260115-GYT8T00073/Is it time to end non-reserved seats?
>>2064343Conductors in Japan will generally sell you a reserved seat if you just ask. Only problem is when most segments are sold out, or if you don't carry cash.
>>2064307Fucked up they even got rid of the little smoking cabins on the Shinkansen. Big mad last year when I was there and found out they got rid of them. Not even a big smoker but when in Japan with 800yen packs of elite top tier ciggies I enjoy ripping them. The cuck cubicles for smoking in cities are massively gay too.
>>2065772Smoking is bad for you M'kay.
>>2063822>The aisle seat next to her was empty. She then left her seat to go to the restroom, leaving her drink and jacket behind. When she returned, two elementary school-aged brothers who had boarded at the next station were sitting in the window and aisle seats.Oh no, you didn't have a husbando, and then bad things happened to you?Oh, poor woman!How can I simp harder for you?Women deserve better!!!Those bastard elementary school children riding on the 10,000 yen per ticket shinkansen!
>>2063822>so she ended up standing for over an hour.The bullet train is fast, like a bullet.Why was she traveling to the moon so unprepared?
did you take the comfort pill?
>>2062624>Yeah, I got a nice carbon fiber endurance bike*cracks*>with 32mm toobless *doesnt seal and cooms all over your bike>hydraulic dick breaks*loses all pressure on downhill and kills you*> aero wheels*gets blown off cliff*>The whole thing cost about as much as that hipster frame too.*gets stolen*
>>2065499>tries to shift*battery dies*
I think I am going to get a Winspace SLC now, I was looking at building up a NOS Willier Superleggerra but I'm realizing now, it's going to be a PITA plus I don't want to be associated with the #steelisreal subculture, holy ick what an absolutely insufferable group
>>2065511
>>2062622>it services AT LE SLAC OMG LE SLAC HES SO LE SCIENCE doing it servicesso he's some boomer who wrote a horrific unmaintainable com script for an even more unmaintainable server stack that just fires a 3.3v signal high or low on one pin to fire what is essentially a really big coilgun
I am 37 and got fired from my tech job of 16 years over something stupid. My product manager was mad about it and promises to be a great reference in looking for a new job and I have a security clearance which is very valuable. All that plus my experience I think I can get another similar job pretty easily. However I am tired of tech. I own ~$700k of company stock that I will receive in a year and a half. Tell me how stupid of a plan this is.>sell house for ~$300k profit>use house profit to rent an apartment and pay for flight school>in 1.5 years be probably making peanuts as CFI but can buy a house cash>in a few years be making big bucks again as commercial pilotI also have about $100k of crypto that can be leveraged if need be. Why the hell not?
>>2065759Obviously
>>2065283That's fucking retarded. Get another SWE job and just fly for fun on weekends. You can buy half of a Cirrus Vision Jet for $1.5 million. And with 16 YoE you can probably easily land a $500k a year SWE job.
>>2065761>ou can buy half of a Cirrus Vision Jet for $1.5 million.You can literally buy a demilitarized MiG-21 for 63k. Any techbro claiming to make so much and not being able to fly is simply larping.
No manual will tell you how to fight this battle. Now we find out who's number one.Flying around with ideals in your head is going to get you killed.
That's the deal you made, right? Where will you turn to? Where will you go? We both know how this ends. Fire away, coward.
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?
>>2064266>If a bike is using proprietary or otherwise rare specific parts, I really don't know why you would bother buying it to begin withsays the guy with a gearbox on a fucking bicycle
>>2064273I might have been using the wrong terminology. The actual hub gear hasn't been changed to my knowledge, but the gear selector and the linkages have needed replacement.
>>2064280>I call the things that don't have gears in them "gearboxes"why are you giving advice on this board? I mean ok you're esl but so are half the people here. you can very easily use the same internet you're using to browse and post with to look up these definitions.>fuck it I'll just guessblow me
>>2064286I might not be the best at English, but I am someone who has biked almost every single day of his entire life. I'm not a guru by any means, but I do feel just a bit qualified to give *some* form of advice. Especially when massively overspending on a bike seems to be the accepted and common course of action.My apologies for the poor English, I should have looked it up indeed. I was too hasty.
>>2064235Once, I took my nice bike into the non-hardwood bike store. God what a mistake that was. After taking it home I spent the whole afternoon toothbrush scrubbing every tooth of my cassette and I still didn't get all the disgusting non-hardwood-store grease off of it. Never again. I'll just throw my bike in the trash and buy a new one at that point.
A few years ago people starting referring to certain China wheelsets as not just "the best Chinese wheels" or "the best budget wheels" but simply "the best wheels". 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?
>>2059389>so not "gaspipe" at leastall surly steel is cromo. never understood where the "surly gaspipe" meme came from. maybe it was true in the early days?>the question “Is (Surly steel) Natch just 4130 Chromoly?” Yes. Well. Technically we use SCM430, an Asian equivalent to 4130. Because our bikes are proudly produced in Taiwanhttps://surlybikes.com/pages/some-things-about-our-steel?_pos=8&_sid=01d522485&_ss=r
Attention Sinischizos;You don't need to regularly bump China shill threadsThere are a total of 10 regulars on this board at most and we've seen them alreadyTell the 50 cent party to assign you to a different website
>>2039960that dude looks like my cousin and I laugh every time this thread gets bumped
>>2064293Is a "sinoschizo" pro china or anti? Either way I'm going to bump this thread and all china threads until you learn to like it
>>2061580>Pardus is a Linux distribution developed with support from the government of Turkey. Pardus' main focus is office-related work including use in Turkish government agencies./n/?What did he mean by this?
>Why are you so afraid to fly anon?>You're just going to be in an air-tight cabin seated for several hours 40,000 ft in the air going at 600 mph in a machine being controlled by someone you don't knowHow am I supposed to get over this fear?
>>2064167Planes take off North from John Wayne because everything north of it is just the Irvine and Tustin business complexes and then the foothills. It's not just richfags by the beach, the airport is surrounded by suburbs and bedroom communities from the West, South, and East where UCI is. I can already faintly hear the fireworks from Disneyland from my house every night, I don't need to hear constant plane traffic, I already experienced that when I lived up near LAX
>>2064112>sea travel is highly regulatedIt is because of all tragedies and accidents that happened in the past.
>>2063067I was never afraid to fly, but the last one I start to be scared
>>2063219>it's like being on the bus but statistically less likely to crash or involve you getting stabbed over 3$The comparison I often see cited is: Youre more likely to die in the car ride to the airport than on your flight
>>2063067>You're just going to be in an air-tight cabin seated for several hoursLet the fart-fest begin!
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.
>>2050046add another 0
>>2059941GOOD 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
>>2061472It's a roomette on amtrak, also in the roomette cars there is a regular "not next to the seat" toilet that is ostensibly publicly accessible but the car attendants are really weird about "protecting" it so you're encouraged to use the shitter in your own roomette
>>2049551How can that be when freight is a 1$ a ton?.
>>2061472ackshually indian trains have both western and asian squat toilets
Has the vintage market finally shit the bed? I remember these selling for $400 back 10 years ago
>>2065023well lack of mounting points is the biggest offender for sure but then you also get "tite gaps" that barely fits 25-28 tires, aggressive racer geometry, 90s garbage aluminium and also frame size is difficult to find since most people here are manlets.
>>2065027I see. You want the larger tyres and larger frame size. Might be better to buy a new entry level bike and replace the parts you don't like.
>>2065024I've mismatched shifters before with no consequence so that's probably ok. Shimano standard is pretty uniform as far as I know.
>>2065028yeah I had a choice of getting some new hi-ten mystery steel frame that is practical but even the cheapest one would cost double in comparison to a good vintage bike. I will stock up on a few vintage frames when I see some on sale since in comparison to say 12 years ago the market is very dry now and some of them aged poorly with rust and neglect. Right now the market is full with BSO, electric and used aluminium/ carbon bikes, clock is ticking for practical steel bikes.
>>2065027>tite gaps" that barely fits 25-28 tires, aggressive racer geometry, 90s garbage aluminiumThey are ripe for 650b conversion. Then you get a suprr zippy bike with cushy tires and with room for fenders.
>wears a rolex daytona while driving, just like paul newmanFine>wears a rain coat when it's raining, just like gene kellyFine>wears gym shorts at the gym, just like wilt chamberlainFine>wears aviators just because, just like val kilmer in top gunFine>wears tacticool ballistic nylon cargo pants when working, just like steven seagal in under siegeFine>wears cycling shorts when cyclingWhoa 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!!!!!
>>2058750thanks
Why are there so many poors on this board? If you don't own any of the things in the OP there is something wrong with your life.
It just shows you how small a fan base cycling really has. Everyone who isn't into cycling basically thinks it boils down to who is riding the lightest bike. They know nothing about the rules, the strategy, etc. Among actual cycling fans, just about every one of them has a repro jersey of some sort, and they'll wear it to show they're part of a fan group.
>>2064062I don't have tacticool ballistic nylon cargo pants because those kind of pants are stigmatized in my age group
Cheap watches are based, I have a collection that's 20-something strong now.
