SS United States to be sunk, creating the world's largest artificial reef. RIP to one of the greats.
Bumpo
Okaloosa County officials say the tentative goal is for the ship to leave Mobile this April.
>>2062077>fish here, i love it, please sink more things
I saw a facebook post from the conservancy or whatever the former owners are called now, ebegging for more money, for the museum this time, because apparently the museum isn't GUARANTEED to be happening, just that they received some land or a small amount of funding for it or something as part of the sale/deal.So realistically that funnel is going to rot on a plot of land for decades while they keep milking it all over again.
Coins! A nearby college is machining souvenir coins out of aluminum scrap removed from the ship. Doesn't say if or when they'll be sold though.https://www.getthecoast.com/okaloosa-nwfsc-collaborate-to-produce-commemorative-ss-united-states-coins-from-ships-salvaged-aluminum/
Keep in mind this is for bikes meant to be loaded up. I guess a marketing exec at some point decided kickstands are for poors so no expensive bike can have them now, just like MTBs got stuck with Presta valves. They will literally drill 15+ holes just in case your bike bags use bottle bosses instead of straps, but outright refuse drilling 2 for a kickstand
>>2064516what're you going to lock your bike to? the air?
>>2064940itself, nobody uses anything but ring locks here
>>2055609They spoke about the people we aren't allowed to speak about.
I have a kickstand, frame bag, and a hitch for a trailer. Seems decent for commuting 70+ km. Might get a rack for carrying backpacks as I only use the trailer for shorter grocery trips. Riding with a backpack is sweaty/uncomfortable.
>>2055609Well in my case, there's been a guy re-posting my photos from elsewhere and posing as me, trying to gin up hatred toward me. He sets up scenarios and plays both sides, starting arguments in other people's threads. It's been going on for years... close to 15 now, but he really ramped it up over the past 10. I can't even remember why he's so upset but it has something to do with insecurity and jealousy because he has no skills. It began on /p/.What he doesn't realize though, is nobody else knows I exist or cares in the slightest. You have to admire his dedication though. I could just trip to put a stop to his antics but it's the only entertainment I get around here anymore.
radical edition Resources:https://www.sheldonbrown.com/https://www.parktool.com/en-us/blog/repair-helphttps://www.youtube.com/@RJTheBikeGuy/videosNeutral Support News on Youtubeprevious thread: >>2064027
>>2065506then use those instead and get back to us.
>>2065506304 stainless like that will gall up before even comming close to the right tension.Making nipples out of high-strenght steel will make them way more expensive, and all just so it can be tensioned using dated flathead screwdrovers? I dont see it happening.
>>2065498>>2065503spoke nipples are made of brass because a brass nipple won't destroy your rim when the shop monkey overtensions your spoke and a steel one would
>>2065509Yes that can be the only possible reason
New thread >>2065530
The end of ebike terrorism is in sight. Let's not count our chickens before they hatch, but I'm tentatively feeling hopefully about this. During the time that the last thread was up, hundreds of people were killed by ebike fires. We need to put a stop to this. I just hope they make sure to add prison time for people caught with unlicensed ebikes.
>>2053421Accidents happen. Despite all the regulations upon them, aircraft regularly fall out of the sky.
>>2056101Gosh how terrible! Won’t someone think of the children?
>>2053077Why are males who choose german cars always like this?
>>2064089we could have solved this by regulating brown teenagers instead of bikes
>>2065467SHALLNOTBEINFRINGED
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"?
>>2065432This is what happens when you buy into the "actually my dumpster dive pinarello from 1984 is just as good as a modern bike!" You end up with something ergonomically crippled, stiff as fuck, with 180 PSI tires, that isn't even the right size for your body, and then you bitch about how uncomfortable road bikes areShould have bought the Checkpoint, we tried to warn you
>>2065434jesus christ didn't even have a bike lad
>>2000001it means that I only use my bike to go from A to B, i'm not interested in your culture war bullshit. i swear to fucking god the deeper i got into the cyclist communities the more i realized that you faggots are not that different from the obnoxiously selfish motorists you claim to oppose
>>2065433 #>This is what happens when you buy into the "actually my dumpster dive pinarello from 1984 is just as good as a modern bike!"Aww poor baby you're one of those whiners? Aww I want to hear your other complaints about bicyclesI got a 2014 Domane that's 4lbs lighter than a carbon 2026 Domane, 2x10 works amazing. rim brakes work great >You end up with something ergonomically crippled,Wrong, every single part is so easy to customize and make fit perfectly. Easily swappable stem, seat post saddle pedals bars tape brakes shifters, and everything is how it should be as is. It's great!>stiff as fuck,Yeah at 110 psi for lean svelte me? Before last week, I had never once sat on a road bike before, I'm getting used it. Got 15 miles around the neighborhood on it> with 180 PSI tiresThe guy pumped it to 110psi cuz he weighed a lot more than me, I have it down to 90 psi and that other anon is right, 25mm tires aired up properly can be comfy>that isn't even the right size for your body,Wrong, I'm size 58cm. 56cm too small, 60cm too big. I'm getting used to how road bikes feel. I've ridden BMX, MTB, dirt bikes scooters and skateboards for 30 years>And then you bitch about how uncomfortable road bikes areComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2065474Based af
Cyclists of /n/, do you wear a lot of loud obnoxious advertising logos on yourself when you ride?
>>2063981name even ONE 26 inch tire. ONE. You fucking can't.
>>2064055schwalbecheck mate
>>2064057new-old stock does not count and you are a poorfag and probably colored. 30 inches is the minimum if you want to actually go fast.
>>2063981>in fact most people are still on 26,literally who
>>2063972t. detached from reality
>>2041376 #I took in a 20 year old bike found on the side of the road and bike gave me this. Its just his standards are perfection, nigga foxes bikes all day. He did dial in the two solid gears on a 10 speed that was slipping all the time for free.
>>2045874There is someone in my apartment building who did this. Seeing it in person and also the seat position and wacky angle on the brakes and and such, I think they're just a tiny dude(ette) who did what they could to make a too-big frame work for them.
>>2065322putting the bars backwards for negative reach is one thing, but the picture has the brake levers backwards. and presumably the gripshit backwards, although that may not be a hindrance
>>2065400fair, the one i saw irl has the brakes in the correct spot but im pretty sure the grip shitters were/are indeed turnt flipwise (dumpass)
Space transportation general: Stage Separating into a new year edition. This general is here because spaceflight is increasing exponentially. We are up to at least a launch per week and we are now in the midst of flight testing an industry revolutionizing fully reusablesuper heavy lift launch vehicle.Upcoming launches:>https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/2025-launch-schedule/SpaceX livestreams on Twitter/X:>https://x.com/SpaceXUpcoming NASA operations:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2063286>lunar nuclear reactorgetamap,,,check woble of moon,,,just a few degrees.,,,,athe poles,,,where the water isits just 30 miles from one side to other.,,,30 miles of wire connectsunlight to sun light.,,25 hours a Day!,,,,,deep shade keeps pool of liquid O2 and H2 wet.,pump and shipit!
SpaceX is now shifting their priorities into building a Moon Base - doing so in less than a decade.This proposal from the ISU involves converting a Starship into a lunar base, Skylab-style.Starship’s ~1000m^ 3 of pressurized volume would result in a copious base.
>>2065419They'll no doubt get it done before the scam artists working with NASA with Artemis. SLS contracts can't expire soon enough with how much of a trainwreck its been getting the thing off the ground. That being said, it's also not like Starship is anywhere close to human rated either but I can at least expect progress before the end of the decade
With SpaceX going public Musk can't push all his fantasy ideas anymore. His BS now needs to be reduced to puffery legally permissible by the SEC. He must be really desperate, I figured he'd had enough of the SEC and shareholder lawsuits under Tesla to no subject himself to that same scrutiny for SpaceX.
>>2065426Probably the only way he can compete with contractors like Northrop Grumman and L3Harris.
30 years after Mavic Zap, I finally tried three different bikes with electronic shifting (Rival, Force, and Red/XPLR) and it reminded me of the first time I got my dick sucked. It was alright. I'm glad I experienced it. But the overall feeling was like.... "that's all? that's what all the hype was about?"I am glad it's a thing, I'm glad it's available, I would never tell them to un-invent it. I suppose if you offered to upgrade my current bikes with all electronic I'd probably go for it (might have to think it through first). Overall, it was a disappointment.So what did I miss here? Is Shimano better or Campy maybe, was the problem fookin SRAM? Is it less about the ride and more the long term ownership experience, the maintenance perhaps? Why do people fork out 2-3x the monies over the cost of perfectly good mech shifting? I can't believe I'm even saying "perfectly good (old thing)". I love my hydro dicks, I love my crabon wheels, I would never go back and those were worth every penny, but the e-shifting was a big letdown. Again, it was fine, but just fine. For all the hype I expected to ejaculate instantly.
>>2062736amazing how unracers don't get this. they stubbornly insist that their "normal" (usually, anachronistic and 15+ years behind industry standard) will always be "normal" so any time they need a new bike they buy something that's already outdated at the time they're buying, and then after a few years of not riding (but complaining about spandex a lot), when replacement parts start becoming necessary because their shit rusted out from being chained up in the for years, they're utterly shocked when those parts are niche hipster items and they blame marketing jews and carbon spandex homosexuals for an entirely avoidable, self-inflicted problem. like no shit rim brake 700c wheels are getting rare, anyone with eyes saw this coming years ago and now you're mad? we tried to warn you but you weren't having it.
>>2064909I know right? those fucking unracers! let's post about them in every thread!
>>2064909I built a couple of rim brake wheels (different specs) a year or two ago. I didn't have any trouble finding rims or hubs. velomine is still full of rim brake wheels.
>>2064929oh it's you, the velomine guy. yes, I've perused your site. it's not bad for an index of dumpster dive finds. you should probably buy an ad though.
>>2054387It exists, it's called enviolo automatic. It's a CVT and it's fitted to e-bikes because of the weight/resistance, but it's really nice. You set a cadence and the system auto adjusts the gearing for you.
Are there any actual disadvantages to them? They seem to perform as well as standard bike frames but with the advantage of being easier to mount and dismount without the top bar getting in your way. I know they were originally marketed to women who wore skirts because the top bar on traditional bikes got in the way and exposed their panties but it never quite made sense to me why these weren't just the "default" frame style in the first place, especially since most utility bikes and pretty much every single E-bike on the market uses this style of frame.
>>2046762>se to me why these weren't just the "default" frame style in the first place, especially since most utility bikes and pretty much every single E-bikeManaged to get a free 2025 Trek Fx1 Gen4 Stepthru.Its nice for people with short legs, but its heavier for what a fitness bike should be.
>>2046762>t it never quite made sense to me why these weren't just the "default" frame style in the first place,the "male" style with a higher crossbar is somewhat stronger, which doesn't matter these days, but did when they were being made of pig iron and pot tin or sometimes literal fucking wood, and the entire assembled bike had no suspension and no way to bleed off energy from drops or just being rattled to fuck all the time on shitty roads. these days, it's actually pretty hard to find a non "step-through"(female) frame that isn't some overpriced "performance" model because just throwing a suspension on there got cheap. And it became the norm because there's more people who would reject buying a frame with a high top bar when they wanted a step-through than would reject buying a step-through when they wanted not a step-through. And it's cheaper to build and ship and outfit a million of one thing than to build and ship and outfit 500k of one thing and 500k of another.
>>2059061--------vs/Which do you think is better at countering the air whipping you in the face?
>>2065329is that really "step through"? it's more just kinda tilted backwardsi thought being "step through"/a girls' bike requires that the top bar doesn't come into contact with the seatpost at the same point the rear fork does.
>>2065409Idk dude it's a fucking bicycle, don't get all technical with terminology. Less likely to smack your nuts and easy to dismount and stand over it, all around better. FYI sedan coupe station wagon SUV crossover and are all loose terms with tos of overlap and technicalities that most people don't know about (Sedan means straight roof, there used to be lots of 2 door sedans) and coupe has curved or sloped roof, lots of 2 and 4 door coupés. And wagon and coach and shooting brake, all have their distinctions from carriage days.
Is riding on top end groupsets if you're not a top end cyclist stolen valor? Or is this sour grapes?What groupset would you ride if you could get any groupset you wanted for free, but when/if you sold the bike you would have to price it as whatever groupset you ride now. That is, if your financial circumstances were no different and you were subject to the same "rules" as you currently as in terms of other people judging (because we all know unlimited wealth begets shamelessness), what do you choose?
People need to stop acting like 20 year old record is a flex
>>2050190>reasoned take on urban planning issuesScreeching about parking lots isn't a reasoned take on anything
>>2064017What I actually said was that trees are somewhat nifty, and I don't recall anyone complaining at the time
>>2064022Trees are for faggots. Technology will fix it.
>>2064064is that LCL?
Why is /n/ in general so much more friendly and cordial than other boards?
>>2062879can confirm, i post in /ck/, /g/, /diy/ and now here and the larger the board the more mentally ill. but that's a good thing because the big boards will happily tell you you're wrong even if you're not, and then you will spend a lot of time learning to gather evidence for your opinions, to defend clear facts, and to even prove where you were or were not at a given time.
>>2062889oh no! anyway...
>>2047059>Why is /n/ in general so much more friendly and cordial than other boards?I've been on this site for over a decade and just found out you guys exist
>>2052292It has to transport something. Put some mice in suits and have them ride.
>>2047066as shrimple as that
>mfw cleaning my bice and saw that my 45mm wide knobbies were chewing through my chainstay on my gravel bice for some timeordered some 40mm wide hutchinson overide (currently running 45mm Tundra), scared to ride as not to damage my frame further...the manufacturer said up to 46mm wide...be honest...am I retarded??
>>2063288>>2063099
>>2063288nta but i am not chill at all and i will let you know iti would hope that any similarly unchill people will also have continued and lastingly damaging autism freakouts until the situation is resolved
why did half of this thread get deleted wtf?anyway here is the damage, not nearly as bad as I thoughtwheels and new tires are hanging out in the sun atm, hopefully to loosen up a bit so I can switch them without loosing my fucking mind
>>2064254If you have more than one bannable post in a single janny visit they usually just delete everything from your IP address rather than go through everything
>>2062118let's drift!
I have been on this site for 10 years and I only noticed this board today. Since I'm already here, I'd like to ask a question:Why are train autists so much more hated than other autist brands?
whats the deal with that "how to dragon your train" thing
>>2057957Rails are more comfy simple as
Synthesising here autists like trains as a barreling heavy machine fatalistically determined to wreck cuter objects elicits self-pity
>>2057954>OP claims train autists so much more hated>furries exist
>>2062053
>going uphill>switch gears to that crazy "1" number on my bike I never use>uphill becomes extremely easyWHAT THE FUCK IT WAS THAT EASY ALL ALONG?
>>2064833Its only 2 hours to Trestle but I still havent gone yet. I have to settle for going uphill for an hour or so just to go downhill for 5-10 minutes.But once again I hope you die in traffic after thinking you can "take the lane"
>>2065317I have no doubt you'll take the opportunity to kill me. But I'll die happy and you'll always be miserable so that seems like a good deal
>>2065317>Trestle>2 hours drive for 2,000 feet of vertical risegrim
>>2065009mate you are not making enough torque with your legs alone to care about that. cyclists need to stop pretending that their 9999$ memedale is actually precisely the same as a dirtbike and has to be driven the same waysee also: the countersteering meme
>>2062183
