https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/britt-allcroft-thomas-the-tank-engine-dead-b2673177.html
>>2029762Would have
Disasters never have one root cause and neither did the destruction of cycling. But I know some important milestones in the decline and fall:1. COVID 19. Enough said.2. Full suspension mountain bikes. Enough said.3. Reddit. Enough said.4. Twitter. Enough said.5. British "people". Enough said.6. The d-tch. Enough said.7. The state of Utah. Enough said.8. Zwift, Peloton, "Spin Class", and other cancer. Enough said.What were some other key moments?
>>2018633nobody needed lawyer lips either
P*destrians have gotten massively worse. Even when their head isn't buried in their phones they just act like total zombies now and are completely unpredictable and oblivious. It never used to be like this, like yeah they were always kind of retarded but 8/10 times when someone heard free-wheel clicking as you pulled up behind them, they would move to one side and when walking where there was cyclists they used to be at least conscious of the fact there are cyclists around. Now I have people yell shit at me when I go past them without ringing my bell, totally ignorant of the fact that when you ring the bell they jump rapidly in an unknown direction like a fucking spastic and increase the chance of me hitting them 300%.Also groups of fucking pajeets, mob of 10 of them were occupying an entire cycle lane bridge like 3 metres wide jabbering away in their revolting tongue while playing some shitty Bollywood music from a Bluetooth speaker. Seriously considered just plowing into them at full speed.
>>2020276Ur a good guy
>>2020276>and leaving them for meWhat do you do with all those bikes?
>>1962645bullshit. cycles "died" coz they were worse than cars, busses, trains, motorcycles and walking when it comes to transportation and now with e scooters there literally 0 use case for cycling expect for recreation>>1962676also this
Well, it didn't pass, obviously, but it could have in an alternate reality.
>>2029132>Is Toronto really that shit nowadays? ... in the late 80s to the early naughties. I really liked it, more than NYC even What's gone wrong?In the late 80s early 90s Tdot had grit. It was nyc-lite. Now it's gone soft and had all it's subcultures stamped out of existence by an overreaching authoritarian government replaced by expensive consumerist pursuits and paid for manufactured experiences with the population unaware because a third of them are immigrants who never knew any better and most of the rest have their reality papered over by the mainstream media who tells them what they should want because the government funds the msm using our taxpayer dollars to the tune of $100,000 per month or something like that to say what the government wants them to.
>>2028292Theyre now saying eglinton and finch lines will open this summer. I think they will be welcome improvements to the system, however I feel eglinton should have been proper subway rather than trams. Finch will be okay as a tram. Although I used to live in ottawa when the new LRT opened and downtown it feels very much like a subway, maybe eglinton will have a similar vibe
>>2029132Toronto is a good city, it just lacks depth and lasting character that older cities have. I live in the east end (old city) and I appreciate all the different neighbourhoods and local cultures across the city. However too many newcomers are diluting the established neighbourhood vibes
canada is a shithole and deserves what it gets
This is now a /Toronto General/New budget documents reveal Finch and Eglinton lines to open by summer. Will these lines even be game changers, or are they just more streetcars?
t. 2022 Marin Alpine Trail E2
>>2030791$10k for a plastic bike that will be dust in 5 years.
>>2030633Would you count a runner to be a true cyclist if they used an exoskeleton to power their legs? They're mopeds, and that's fine, but don't pretend you're doing something you're not
>>2030832You pedal, therefor its a pushbike
>>2030832Would you count a runner who had springs on his legs to be a true runner? What's the line between crutch and enhancement? Is MTB with suspension a crutch or enhancement?
>>2030633On modern mtb geometries yes, but even so not by much, the the chainring and especially cranks will always protrude much lower.Also if youre hitting rocks and trails like that you should also know mid drives are not only proffered for the extra torque and power they provide but also because they lower the center of mass and they are also "sprung weight" much like the rider's weight. the motor weight is absorbed by the suspension along with the riders weight unlike a heavy hub motor that is not sprung weight and messes up balancing on a bicycle. i mean you can still ride on the street and stuff but if you going to be hitting rock gardens and trails like you said you might as well know that.
This build costs at least $4,000 but will perform like a $500 hybrid. Why is this allowed?
>>2028016not anon but surly is the most 'normie' of the steel hipster brands, and could fit wide tires before lots of others, seems pretty reasonable to want one.inb4 90s mtn bike meme
>>2028067It was mostly a joke, and I guess there are people who want bikes to match their black car.
>>2028070>people who want bikes to match their black carisnt that the people who want a black specialized tarmac?
>>2023492>paying more than 1K for a bikeokay
>>2027806basically, the cancer that killed cycling
I have a question for all you gentlemen who love aircraft.I live in Asia and work in the army maintaining aircraft.I would like to obtain an American A&P license and make it my job.Would military maintenance experience meet the requirements for A&P?By the way, my current maintenance qualification is only available to the military.I am also thinking of using the ASA eBook as my A&P textbook, so I would appreciate it if you could tell me how you studied.
What entitles you to come to the USA? Wow you can follow instructions and wrench on a plane. Literally an associates degree level of skill and a certification people get almost accidentally across the general aviation world.It’s just not a scarce skill set, despite what the airlines (who also profess a non-existent pilot shortage) say. You won’t get a visa and nobody is going to hire an ESL for such a safety critical job.
I'm not going to move to America just because I'm qualified to maintain American aircraft.It's a qualification that can be used even when I'm not in the US, and I'm hoping to do business with privately owned aircraft such as business jets in the future.
>>2029776It works in other places besides the US but iirc, EU/UK needs EASA/JAA which isn't transferable, you'd need to test and do everything over. Also military experience counts but YMMV, you'd still be forced to do learning hours under FAA requirements.
Here we go boys. ATC training starts in June. How fucked am I once I obtain my controller license? What should I expect?
>>2030361Can you pass psych and drug screens? No offense not common on 4chan
>>2030361in my country i got sent to an airport in the middle of nowhere for 3 years and had my funnow im in an international airport, short shifts but shit can get hectic and very stressful in less than 20 minutes since we handle flight schools and vfr and ifr traffic at the same timeim doing a lot of night shifts nowadays which leaves me with a shit ton of free time but ill probably be mentally dead by the time i hit 40
your job could be replaced by an AI in an instant
>>2030500brother, the airline industry is notorious for slow adoption of new tech. Most airports use stuff in the '80s. Even if an AI were good enough to replace controllers you'd have to somehow convince 190+ ICAO members to follow you. Not to mention AI would cause a 100% pushback from unions?
>>2030361You NEED to study and practice with your classmates. Goin it alone is borderline impossible. Non-radar sucks partly because the row instructors are all on their 3rd divorce except for Radar Bob who was chill. When you get to Radar get your scan down so you can build a picture in your head of the scenario. Get ready for 3 years until you see a Saturday off too. Scheduling for the year is done by bid with seniority to determine order. It's not a job known for work life balance so make sure you let work (and school to a lesser extent) stay separate from home to some degree. You get to retire with full government pebsion early for a reason and it's only stressful until you git good. >>2030500Is actually retarded and no, AI ain't coming for this one any time soon. The FAA will certify AI control instructions about the time they address the rampant alcoholism among ATPs and Controllers alike plus >>2030755>t. Washed out a couple years ago because classmates wouldn't study abd probably have undiagnosed adhd.
A lot of people are convinced that rail could never work in most U.S. cities because we have too much sprawl, but it's more complicated than that.Transit can serve *residential* sprawl perfectly fine. What it can't handle is *commercial* sprawl.
>>2030622Austin is not super sprawled, you're retarded.
America WILL have modern rail lines and I will keep handing out fivers to hobos to set fires along the planned construction sites until I get it.
>>2030622>taps the sign
>>2030805>not adjusting for urbanization and and densitylollmao evenSwitzerland is 29 btw
>>2030539everyone who pushes for busses and trains and shit wants everyone else to live in a pod in a gun free zone with no cars or guns so billionaires like musk and gates can own all the land
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/
>>2023420You're only mad because he described (You)r own behavior to the t
>>1986079grim
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>>2017735I can no longer see helicopter shots of stroads without thinking of the west hollywood shootout
You're at the cyclist cafe when this lady compliments your orchid collection.What do you do, /n/? Oh and she's 163cm and 49kg, all slow twitch.
>>2024532There are 10 images in the thread and I couldn't find anything like that, have you considered seeing a psychiatrist?
>>2024534The OP photo tardo. here you go I hope you enjoy your sadomasochistic murder rape joke.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/world/europe/austria-cyclist-abducted.html
bump because why not
>>2024552She was neither raped nor murdered.
>>2030790probably an LLM hallucination, nowadays they're struggling with lawyer-added pre-prompts allowing the to make inferences from a URL but not actually load the link
These faggots should be strictly restricted to class F airspace, with well defined dimension and NEVER EVER LEFT OUT, sick and tired of avoiding them. Yesterday while flying a personal Cessna 310 from a buddy of mine and 3 weeks ago on the Dash 8 with the small airliner I fly for. >23 year old co pilot
>>2022603There's been some.
>>2022728That looks unsafe
>>2024936It doesn't look unsafe enough
>>2024938needs moar mast bumping amirite? then you can blame the pilot for something that only happens in it. blimps are safe though.
>>2012270you don't need power at all to stay airborne, just clever usage of updraftselectric motors are small as fuckhttps://openppg.com/shop/paramotors/openppg-sp140/this one weighs 13 kgso someone who weighs in at 70kg can pack this and 7kg of batteries to give him more freedom between updrafts and when they're flat he's still as efficient as someone who weighs in at 90kg in an unpowered paraglider
Solo Rides EditionPrevious Edition>>2001874
-35C today so I've decided to tackle the task of using my GPS traces to geotag the photos I've taken while riding since 2013. I'm using a Linux program called Geotagging which works well. But I need to limit how many images / gpx files I work with at once and not click anything while its updating or it can crash. My camera clock also drifts a minute a month so I need to keep applying corrections as I go. At one point in 2024 the clock was out 53 minutes, then I must have updated it. For a year and a half after I switched cameras in 2016 the clock was off by exactly a month.I apply time corrections by finding a photo taken at a known location and subtract time until the pin is in the right spot which aligns everything for about a month at a time.
>>2031158why dont u have a headlight or a stoplight?isnt being seen from far away a benefit on a trail
>>2031290shut up, mom
body slammed a kid today because they were too locked in playing football in the middle of the street, they were running towards me so I tried my best to not hurt them, damage was 3 fingies and a scraped knee, just hoping it wont take too long for the fingies to heal.
Anyone have one of those bike trainers from Wahoo? I haven't ridden in months, I just got burned out, but now the urge to ride has come back. The problem is it's consistently below 32F outside and i aint tryin to ride in that shit. I was considering getting a trainer and maybe Zwift and seeing how it goes but that's a lot of money to drop on something to find out it's shit.
QOTT: 1) If you could travel on any ocean liner in history, which would you choose?2) Aesthetically, what do you think is the best looking liner?
>>2022885Lusitania has really grown on me over time
They took them from us
>>2022885Literally the titanic. >Inb4 such a bland and boring takeMost aesthetically beautiful ship and interiors. I also Like the 3rd Rotterdam (picrel). I think a lot of the old ocean liners with clipper sterns look very nice.
I also love the design of the rmmv oceanic(unbuilt, dismantled on slipway) I wish it had been built, it looks way better than the Queen Mary.
I do Like the Normandie but I think it’s a bit overrated imho.
When you see itPrevious: >>1781074
>>2020801I heard it was pictures of a serial killer
>>2030442nice
I wanna explore the east coast and take amtrak cascades around the country
Riding Amtrak sucks shit if you’re a light sleeper, I could not fucking sleep for more than a few hours. I’d recommend driving around America using the interstate highway system instead. Then you can at least fucking sleep every night.
