>*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
>>2052871Fixed by front pannier racks.
the thing with cargo bikes these days is you have to pretty much have a car-sized garage space but not only that you have to have concrete anchors and heavy chains because it's far easier to steal than a car, while approaching a car in replacement value. on top of which, cops don't take theft seriously if it's not a car. so why bother?
>>2062037or thinking you need a rolex to tell time there could be dutch bike tier pipe iron cargo bikes which will get the job done on flat land and low gear
>>2042821Having 4 kids means you're either totally broke or you're drowning in money, and they don't look very broke
>>2046287SNIFF SNIFF SNIFF!
My city is cutting bus routes starting in 2026, so tell me me/n/, do you ride bus routes for fun?
>>2064006>another tranny shill bump 1+ month inclocking in a full shift today?
I had fun riding random routes when I was in a new city for college and sightseeing all the neighborhoods
>>2064010You need to leave.>>2064097On foot is still better.
I took the bus the other day because all the overhead signs changed to "delays" simultaneously on the subway platform, I didn't stick around to find out why
>>2058540No, but that's an interesting idea. I'll ride metro routes for fun.Milwaukee needs a metro system. I want to live there but my autism prevents me from living in cities that don't have metro trains, and from living in parts of the city that aren't covered by said metro. Because I like riding trains, you see.
How do these large cargo backpacks compare with a bicycle trailer? I need to haul 100kg of cargo on a bicycle
Bicycle trailers are good now?
>>2013907Yes. They didn't carry 100 kg on their fucking backs though. >>2064246Better than OP cavemannning it up.
>>1957568Sars?
>>2056025>stunt pegs don't exist
>>1992727archieluxury, now that's a blast from the past, wasn't he connected to some guy who did a sexpat murder
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.
>>2044907>there's a steel plate for water drainageit'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 placeyou'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
> 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 shreddedComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2063446>my wrist is still pretty janky a lot of the time. At least it doesn't click and pop anymore whenever I use it.What's the Dr saying about it? Was there a problem with the cast or something?
I feel like I'm quite lucky. I'm not as big of a rider as many of you, but I've put on 3000-3500 miles a year for nearly a decade on purely commute road riding. I'm pretty much always riding on a busy street and quite frequently at night. Sure there's lots of bike lanes but sometimes it's just a shoulder next to the car traffic, or needing to cut across car lanes to get into the bike lane, etc. And I have literally never had an accident. Never been hit by a car, never fallen off the bike, nothing. Sure I've had a few close calls with cars, and once I had a deer bolt out in front of my on a torrential downpour and got so close to t-boning me that I could hear its hooves on the ground passing in front of me.. if it had tboned me it probably would have destroyed me and the bike. But yeah, I don't know if I'm just lucky, or a safe rider, or what.
>>2061270cagers will never understandhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa4qpLos3xs
Have you ever thought about paying the ferry man BEFORE he got you to the other side?
>>2059259>>2059048imagine getting railed by a monster like thatsex with that creature!!
>>2060590lewd
>>2058431I'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 :-)
>>2059048is it full of eels?
>>2058431Not only thought but actually done, several times, as one needs to buy a ticket before boarding.
Does anyone remember that story when the French built faster high speed rail by being sloppy than the Japanese did by being meticulous?Supposedly (or so I've heard) the story goes that the Japanese wanted to build high speed rail but they were unable to make their trains go as fast as in France. Turned out that the problem was that in typical Japanese fashion the had meticulously placed their catenary poles at equal distances from each other, which when the trains reached a certain speed speed allowed a resonant frequency to propagate through the catenary which caused problems with power delivery to the train. Meanwhile the French had been more sloppy and put up their catenary poles at varying distances, which inadvertently eliminated the problem with propagating resonant frequency since each catenary section had a different resonant frequency.Does anyone have a credible citation for this story? Or is it just a myth?
>>2064777You'd be the first person to find anything in Belgium pretty.
>>2064512>Shinkansen (Japan): When Japan first designed the Shinkansen in the 1960s, engineers were aware of catenary oscillations. They used tensioned, multi-span catenary systems, optimized for their speeds (~210 km/h initially). They did not “fail because they spaced poles evenly.”
>>2064512That's bullshit>>2064745>it is not at all hard to make the rolling stock go fast, it's what's on the ground that limits how fast it can go without derailingA bit of an oversimplification. While wheel/rail contact and bogie dynamics are not fully mastered sciences, making a train go fast goes further than adding power and streamlining it.>yuropoorean thinking on this is to make the trains go fast, and make ad-hoc improvements here and thereNo? Aside from the yuropisonecountryism, that vision only really applies to historical British high speed rail (ie: not actual HSR. HSTs are lovely but at the end of the day there's nothing special about a DMU doing 125 mph) and similarly early Italian line upgrades to run tilting EMUs at up to 250 km/h (actual budget HSR). Both also had to build actual high speed lines from scratch to break 300 km/h.France and Spain are fully comparable to Japan, high speed lines have all been built as such and in the case of Spain with a similar track gauge incompatibility.>>2064760Aside from a weird episode a decade or so ago of some northeastern region of France running TGVs on regional services for job saving reasons, all TGVs run part of their trips on high speed lines, 80-90% of them to or from Paris (with a few trains a day going around Paris, linking Lille to Lyon, Marseilles to Nantes, etc.). They are not a "convenient connection for the smaller French cities", they are a way to get to Paris fast, if you need to go to the regional capital or the region next door, just get a cheap regional train.And regarding your map, it's only HSR between Massy (on the Paris side) and Rennes or St-Pierre des Corps (or only to Le Mans if you're going to Nantes/Le Croisic/Les Sables). France just took advantage of the lack of track gauge or power supply incompatibility with their low speed network to run TGVs on them, aided sometimes by minor works to bump the regular lines to 220 km/h
It's a simplification but the principle is correct.Shinkansen catenaries are more complex, so they can use simple pantographs for better noise control.European catenaries are simpler, but instead they use more complex pantographs.Notice how little the wires move in Japan compared to in France:https://youtube.com/shorts/Pvrk5r65DFc?si=2LmP5NZ9u-_rI0djhttps://youtu.be/eSTZug3TiII?si=mtKOObQJ4cKG4Ypf
>>2064814I think he's referring to the 500+ km/h speed recordß. But another theory is that Japan was already developing their maglev.Rumors say France went 500 km/h with the TGV in order to send a public message that maglevs weren't necessary (even though it's a single run opposed to a daily operation)
I 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 toThen I learn about countersteering and I'm wondering if I've been riding wrong my whole life
Everyone ITT is now manually countersteering
>>2062618You know he means single track.
I just lock the rear wheel while leaning and enter a sick drift, and maintain balance with my body weight alone.
You don't really notice yourself countersteering until you're riding around pedestrians, you may do it instinctively and not even notice but they notice
you can feel countersteering very dramatically if you're really close to a wall or the edge of a road its like you want to turn away but are being magnetically being pulled towards the thing you want to turn away from that's because your brain can see the danger zone of not having enough space for countersteering
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?
>>2056672Rupert you cute little motherfucker!
>>2057259>cats actually enjoy their fulfilled lives where I liveHoly shit, they are airline pilots?!?
>>2056672Why not just take him on your bike?
>>2057259Just chain them to the radiator so they can't get in trouble. Like Christina Ricci in cat form.
>>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
Amtrak has spoken
KYS twitterspammer
Imagine if America had a Thomas. That's what public transport needs, a friendly face of it that isn't just dubbed euroshit.
>>2065166>full autist infiltrationMy god, the cause is more doomed than ever.
>>2065166Is this stealth marketing for the Airo? The interior looks so bad, it's all cold millennial gray. They should've picked up more brown and gold hues for the interior to contrast the exterior.
Can they become applicable for the air equivalent of trailer car? Can they help people flight in slow but somewhat more comfy travels? Or is it a pipedream?
>>2065191Maybe for some people it can be a luxurious alternative for living, like an rv or sail ship.
>>2065173Did you see the tethered train ones thread here little while ago?
>>2065207No.
I've been waiting on the dynalifter for twenty years. It's not happening. I'm sad.
>>2065450They should make it in a military budget version. That might make it applicable for future civilian use as a civvie version or a second hand military equipment,like warbirds or even hueys..
A 1990 Motherfokker 50 crashed yesterday but no one died.Based old plane
https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/fokker-50-overrun-mogadishu-beach
>overrun the 2-mile long runway>lucky enough that its low tide>have a flat, draggy surface to slow you downyeah
What the fokk!!!!???
>>2065590what the h*ck
Just think... we could have been exploring the stars by now...
>>2065249Mass transit systems should be designed where people actually go, not just arbitrary colored lines on a map. The Washington METRO was designed to get from people from the more suburban areas to the inner core of the city where the tourism and governmental offices are.
>>2065402Honestly, the metro is almost the only good thing about living in DC. It's clean and punctual compared to other metros. We also have a lot of good Salvadorian food, but those places tend to be in the hood so I only get them when I got some guys with me.
>>2065249What's the problem here?
>>2065554It’s not reality.
>>2065382Purple line is stupid yeah. Even people in the centers should just be given bus routes or trolleys or bike lanes/parking to the train.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKVyT4nkofghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4FsDtgIKgM
>>2064004So dont have anything except bikes. Got it.
>>2064780>Putting a small bike engine as a generator would greatly improve flight time and sustained peak powerso would adding a fixed wing and small aircraft engine
>>2065217holy esl
>>2064780LmaoLol even
>>2060009There is a pretty obvious solution/improvement to those things.Foldable wings that you deploy when you get high enough instead of keeping wasting massive energy on the rotors.It's like birds, they flap the wings only to get high, but then just ride the winds and keep it easy.
If i take a class that teaches about boat repair at community college.I can afford to repair a boat.
>>2054274Thought about seasteading?
>>2054274Do you want one because of the implication?
i want to build a wood dory for whitewater rapids
>>2055627beater bike chads keep winning>>Prop aircraft need a nicer house than the one you live in to not melt in the rain (or just get towed away)is this the only problem aren't they also expensive just cover it with a tarp
>>2054274that really depends on what kind of boat. a simple dingy (sails or motor) doesn't require that much work if it's stored properly out of the water and you don't go around hitting shit. something with a bunch of plumbing and electrical bullshit is gonna be more of a hassle but still doable if it's stored out of the water. wet or dry storage plays a huge part in how often it'll need to be maintained and how difficult it'll be, especially if it's stored in salt water. otherwise maintaining something like >>2058711 shouldn't be any more complicated than maintaining a motor scooter, riding mower or any other simple thing with a small gas engine
Ocean liner fans rejoice! The Queen Mary reopened for hotel guests in May and in June, I had the privilege of spending two nights on board. I'll be uploading my album of the ship over the next few days and discussing the history of the ship that I learned while onboard.
>>2054639It was used to lob 1900 pound shells at a renowned wine producing region of lebanon in the 1980s
>>1938375Ok GAYwhat's it like to be GAYDo you like taking dick up the ass GAY
>>1956400fuck you, sicophant. you aren't that politician, you aren't winning.
>>2055193did you look through it yet?
>>2064012im looking through it right now thank yousurprised the thread is still up, just came here to bitch about aviation desu
