Why does a graffitied train have to be taken out of circulation immediately? How much does it cost in your country to clean up one graffiti piece? In Finland, the average cleanup cost is 600-700ish.
>>2059889Good man. Those pricks need their hands cut off.
>>2061922Americans think anything they don't like is either communism or terrorism. Possibly both.
>>2058163Every train car should be hot power washed with bleach every night, and baking soda blasted on the outside.
>>2065122now im wondering why they dont have drive-thru car washes but for trainsat the terminus just have a big fucking chamber with lots of steam and brushes, it probably wouldnt get off actual painted grafiti but it would do wonders to just make it nice and shiny for the morning
>>2065122Will destroy the glass, rubber, advertising materials and probably stain the steel over time. Environmental run-off must be considered and obviously additional wages to pay the workers. Lots of money (that the west doesn't have) to cover up art
After years of frustration, Toronto’s major LRT projects — the Eglinton Crosstown and Finch West lines — are finally taking shape. The infrastructure is largely in place, testing is active, and the city is on the verge of a real step forward in how people move across it.The Crosstown will finally link east and west through midtown, while Finch West is basically a super streetcar in a poor area of the city. Is light rail still a legitimate form of transit, or were Doug and Rob correct with their subways subways subways mantra?
>>2060743suburban subways everywhere are fucking retarded, hell no jane and finch doesn't need one lmao
>>2058715https://youtube.com/watch?v=Qjp7hqXgInISucketh to its wintry hell
Why are there literal fucking c*nadi*ns on my fucking board, bro.
its here!its openprobably ride it tomorrow because i'm a semi neet
Got to ride Eglinton two weeks earlier before it opened.Rob Ford was right; subways, subways, subways. Surface section is ok, but it needs pre-emption like priority instead of the typical green extension you see downtown.
Why weren't these a thing more often in the heyday of railroads?>gives freight trains an additional source of income>passengers can presumably pay for tickets less since freight trains usually run on slower schedules>allows for mixed trains without the need to pull a coach from regular passenger service>can be coupled to the back of a regular passenger train during periods of high demand, the crew will enjoy the added privacy too>lonely freight train crews will enjoy the additional company>can be outfitted as extra crew accommodation when not in revenue service
imagine the views
here in Chicago I sometimes see a CNW caboose roaming around in active service.
>>2061649>fire regulations for a shipping containerAren't they already pretty fire resistant owing to their all-steel construction? Or do you mean things like installing electrical wiring/stoves in one?
>>2056654blocks your path
>>2056653>>2056654>human trafficking, but not profitable
It is said that if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Are you one of the good ones, /n/? Do people say you're not like those other cyclists?
>>2062326This ironically angers the obese motorist for no valid reason whatsoever
>>2064095>>2062326no need to samefag like that bro
>>2064101no need to be a retard faggot like that bro
>>2028039>all that to get a 16oz coffee......
>>2064123>deep undergrounddwarven coffee...
The San Francisco Bay Area's BART subway system is so financially fucked that it is likely going to be cutting 10/50 stations by January 2027 and 5 more by July 2027, cutting a total of 70% train hours and 25% of the system's miles, while also ending service at 9 PM every day and starting weekend service at 8 AM. Funny how the richest region of the United States with a bunch of Ponzi Scheme tech companies can't fund public transit. Looks like the tech workers and tech industry have ruined yet another thing.
>>2065252BART actually significantly upgraded its safety since covid. Increased police presence when before covid when the system was severely overpacked you rarely saw cops and the addicts were everywhere. Also within the last year they got new faregates at every station that make it somewhat harder to fare evade. But people still do it. My ideal for keeping the fent zombies out would be to get rid of station attendants completely and just have two police officers standing at the entrance of the station at all times. That would deter bums from fare evading, and even ones who try to slip through the officers standing by could arrest them. And without the crackheads, the cops won't need to be patrolling the system, because the crackheads and other fare evaders are the ones causing the problem
>>2065266>My ideal for keeping the fent zombies out would be to get rid of station attendants completely and just have two police officers standing at the entrance of the station at all times.in Montreal the "transit security" are real cops. idk all the lore but i've heard it's basically where fresh hires go to both get experience with the boring parts of policing (lots of paperwork and stops for dumb shit like people smoking indoors or doing graffiti) but also to weed out the tryhard superhero wannabes (since they will quit after a year of telling teenagers to stop writing on things) but also the at least somewhat sane ones have to see the worst of humanity day in day out not committing crimes and have to resist the urge to hassle them until they start some shitin fact one time i got a ticket from a normal ass normal cop in a pretty abnormal incident where i had two dudes draw guns on me on me but the ticket had the STM logo on it. I guess buddy was just out of normal tickets or something
>>2065309>where i had two dudes draw guns on me on meyou owe us a greentext if you're going to tease like that. were you running around the tunnels in a ninja suit or what.
>>2065310I was carrying home an air rifle from a friend's house after drinking too much to think to just disassemble it and carry it in a bag so some karen called the copsi wasnt even on transit, i was walking on the street
>>2065312all good stories start with "after drinking"
GPS used to be fancy, and is now affordableCarbon frames used to be fancy, and are now affordableCarbon aero wheels used to be fancy, and are now affordableHydraulic brakes used to be fancy, and are now affordableWireless shifting used to be fancy, and is now affordableGood tires used to not even exist, and are now available albeit a little expensiveLighting used to be heavy and annoying, now it clips to anything and you can light up the road with something the size of your thumbWide range cassettes used to be unimaginable, now some lazy people are even going 1x because they got filtered by 2x It seems like it's all been done. Seriously, what's left. What else is there to improve? We even got bonuses like thru-axle, 3d printed saddles, internal routed everything, and aero frames/cockpits, which let's be honest, you weren't really expecting were you?Can the cycling industry outdo itself or is it now a plateau of stagnation?
>>2060836Bunnies are not for boiling
>>2056205iunnoman, I am old enough to be your dad and the improvement today of the automatic tranny over the old 4 speed automatics is night and day, sure grabbing the ole fun stick is somewhat nicer under specific circumstances but even in those cases you can get 90% as good user experience with paddle shift mode or whatever equivalent came on your car
>>2058538>The bike is a solved invention,true, which is why every "innovation" is proprietary junk designed to fail in a rent-seeking scheme to make you buy replacement parts every five seconds but only from one (1) "manufacturer" (american grifter whomst is outsourcing to chyna)
>>2065297always kids who say this because they never saw the march of tech or had to deal with old shit for reasons other than making a tortured argument against buying things
>>2065307i work IT in a place that uses a lot of old tech and honestly while it wasn't better, most of the reasons it wasn't better are the exact same sort of "you have to be in our Software-Hardware Ecosystem :)" grift where everything is terrible because one company makes most of it and has no impetus to make it at least always functional, let alone good
What's next in bicycle tech?
>>2058310>an open standard
>>2060682belt drives already came and went. normies decided they'd rather ride around with a squeaky rusted chain than a rubber band that keeps breaking all the time
>>2065264no company creates a new standard with the intention of sharing it with others
>>2065275https://clikvalve.com/pages/licensing-intellectual-propertyyes they do thats the point duh
>>2065264>>2058310>99% of automotive lights are 12v>99% of personal lights are either 5v (compatible/chargeable by USB) or 2.5-3.3v (your usual 2x AA/AAA battery setup)>99% of other small electronics are USB>it's a light, often controlled by one switch or buttonyou actually don't need a new standard for this. You need a power rail, and a control line. Screw terminals and wire levers have been a thing basically as long as electricity has been a thing. All that would have to be done is instead of having everything soldered down, the on/off switch and power hookup have a couple of screws so you can attach your own lines to an external button and power supply, and even then, it's not exactly difficult to modify the average shitty light to do this since they often have swappable batteries anyway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWQ3iLVr-0E>That cylinder is a mass dampener also known as a J dampener in physics.The purpose is to neutralize high frequency low amplitude oscillations.Mass dampeners are currently used in Moto GP and were banned in F1 in the mid 2000s.The mass dampener can also be placed on the fork,above the bottom bracket and as shown on the rear swing arm/triangle on a full suspension bike.have these been used on road bikes yet? i have a stiff track bike fixie, anything that could improve performance or comfort would interest me. i haven't paid attention to bike stuff lately so idk if it has been mentioned on GCN/GMBN yet. GCN has done a lot of videos on tire pressure so i could see them experimenting with tuned mass dampers.
>>2019204Lol just lolYou best thing you could do is sell that single speed shit and get something with gears, and 32-40mm wire tires unless you only ride on glass smooth velodromes, in that case, keep your 23mm ice skate tires. Pros are setting records on 28mm tires now, the world has changed, more rubber is sometimes better. I think XC MTB uses 2.3" now, 2.5-2.8 trail.
>>2058735sir this is a thread about tuned mass dampers
>>2019224Damper. Unless you're talking about making it wet.
>>2019204>have these been used on road bikes yet?yes, you literally posted a picture of such. but it's snake oil, your bike doesnt vibrate at a high enough frequency for such a small weight to matter and in general vibration is mostly caused by external factors like road surface or you being too stupid to maintain your bike properly >>2019229f1 tracks are also flatter than your sister thoughbeit and f1 drivers complain incessantly about road circuits where the asphalt isn't better surfaced than airport tarmac>>2019237this but for my shitty ebike. the 90kg of batteries make me go like 30kmh on the gentlest downhills without doing anything.>>2019396compound bows rule, i own one and it owns in general
>>2060905>ebike owner trying to talk bikesLole
/n/ So, Russians have a freaking tram line with 2 stations in a random village in the middle of nowhere in Crimea just to get to the beach??? Do you have more examples of smth like that? (Not only in Russia). Post here
>>2064893You posted cringe bro
There's a village in Tyrol, Austria with a 1.3km subway.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-Bahn_Serfaus
>>2064916It's just an underground funicular, many such cases!
>>2064915you had two options: (1) say nothing, or (2) say "oh, right, ukraine whatever lol arr rook same"since you did neither, clearly it is you who is being political
>>2064925stop posting cringe bro
What are the advantages of these things as opposed to, idk, a bus?
Monorail does NOT please autism, because it has just one (1) (mono) rail, while other forms of railway have two rails PLUS overhead wires in many cases. Trams even used to have trolleypoles which increase the autistic pleasure they cause.Tram being integrated into the street pleases autism much more than some elevated monorail. Fact!
>>2063758Autism also prefers seeing wheels roll. Monorails could never.
>>2063881Suspended monorails such as the one in Wuppertal can. But the other suspended variants indeed can't.>>2063758Suspended monorail like the one in Wuppertal can swing from side to side and are a nearly perfect design. This perfection pleases other aspects of autism.
>>2057440All are outweighed by one car being able to block it. So until the most vicious possible enforcement on that (which will never happen), buses it is.
>>2065220Trams work just fine in France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Holland, Czechia, Hungary, Australia, Belgium...
>>2063433Head on into a car, bounced off the windshield, walked home.Rode past the same car on another bike ten minutes later and the occupant calling the collision.Bikes are fun sometimes.
i was on a bullet train and i tried to move out of the way of a bullet train going the other direction.>oh shit, i might be dumb.
>>2063632Trying to cross any roads with freeway on-ramps and off-ramps was always fucking AIDs for me, especially since for me the road in question is a bridge that has a moderate uphill gradient so not only am I having to dodge Karens who feel way more entitled to use the onramp than they should even if its passed a pedestrian crossing but I have to go uphill while doing it. Luckily though, it's super easy to avoid since the other road over the freeway just a light down doesn't have onramps or offramps
>>2061591Hit by driver not looking right at a stop sign to join a one way road. They only looked left cause everything is a car....
>going on weekend with buddies, one of them with a pilot license so we're borrowing a DA40 from his flying club rather than driving>flight there uneventful>3 days of boozing later, time to get back>riding in the right seat on the flight back>engine start, taxi, line-up, full throttle>rotation>*ding*>hol'up, I can't remember the plane dinging at us on take-off any other time I flew with him>pilot buddy keeps his composure>check panel>Master Caution on>"anon, is-">raised hand to my face>alright we got a problem serious enough for him not to waste attention talking about it>check panel againComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Hey /n/, what strategies do you use to mitigate ass pain and skin health? I only experience deep muscular soreness on very long rides, but as I get older my skin is getting irritated more often. Painful red bumps crop up and ruin the ride. I hit them with neosporin and cover with a bandage, which works, but I want to prevent them in the first place. I always ride with a clean ass and clean undies, but now those padded cycling shorts are suddenly making more sense. I might even pick up some chamois cream even though the idea always seemed gross to me.Anyway, how bout you? Is your ass chapped like mine? Tips from ass masters would be appreciated.
>>2063281i have never experienced this and i eat really bad, maybe get better underwear or something>>2063292just change diet, do not wear diapers. they will break apart on the narrow seat of a bike and even if they did work and not leak it's not like you won't stink
>>2063151this, but unironically. OP pic is a top shelf brapper
>>2063151Be careful to specify woman, otherwise you might be gay
>>2063281did he die?
>tfw you’ll never have a bike riding gf whose bike seat you can sniff after you two go on a hot sweaty bike ride together, then fetch her sweaty bike shorts out of the laundry to wrap on your face to jerk off with while she showers
Road signs. What do you think of them? Which country does them the best? Would you change anything in the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals?
>>2063206I love UK road signs. I also like those of the French and the Dutch for just doing the job well without being obnoxiously wordy.
>>2022126i feel like ive seen literally all of these in ireland
Look at the warning sign. Why is the black rim rounded in the corners but on the interior only?? Makes the corners look extremely prominent when viewed from close up. Probably the worst designed feature of Japanese road signs. AFAIK no other country with diamond warning signs does this.
>>2023109So I wasn't supposed to be going 120 mph?
>>2063129>HUR
I am currently using a xiaomi smart band 9 to track my rides (so thats GPS from phone + HR from band), I start and end the ride from the band and the app automatically transfers the route, speed and heart rate to stravaI am wondering if I should upgrade to a bike computer cus I am not worried about how much calories I burn nowadays, as I got the idea of it. I just want to know how far I went and how long it took me, and to keep track of cadence so I learn to ride optimallyI have been looking at XOSS G2+ (pic related) with 2 sensors - one for cadence on crank and other on rear hub for speed (rotation)my questions about bike computers in general are:>do the bike computer accessories (cadence, speed, HR) connect to it, or to the phone>does only the bike computer connect to your phone and stay connected constantly, or only to transfer data to strava or an app once the ride finishes?>can I just get on my bike and ride, and the bike computer will then automatically upload my ride to strava once I am done?>can I still use my xiaomi band 9 to measure my HR? will I be able to see my HR on the screen? or the bike computer only connects to HR sensors and not other "smart" devices>should I get a bike computer with an actual screen to show maps/route?>should I even get a bike computer to begin with, I am riding actual gravel and trails, basically exploring my region on weekends and driving 2-3 times to work a week, will the sensors and shit survive the rough terrain?>will my mechanical watch (8 year old skx007) get fucked by the vibrations from the single/double track?Thanks
>>2063827>>2063828What happened to you that you are like this? Did your mother not show you enough love, or did she show you too much love?>>2063859That's still how they work, you'll notice when the coin cell on your hub sensor dies the speedo readout gets really fucked up and will take longer to catch up when you start or stop.
>>2063887You are so fucking poor and retarded it is unbelievable. Don't spend all your SNAP on alcohol and animal cum, you need real food to grow some braincells.
>>2063859>The problem is accurately measuring the circumference of the wheel, any error in that measurement will produce inaccurate numbersThat's a feature, not a bug. Round up the circumference, enjoy the very tiny ego boost.
>>2063926Oh I see, it was your father. Poor guy.
>>2040025same, I also use my phone flashlight as a headlight and it never needs recharging, of course I am lying about riding but how would anyone here know? my dad works for nintendo.
>be American minding your own business in your car>randomly get crushed under a flying deathtrapSomething needs to be done about this
>>2064736>except the rewriting says what you were trying to say better than youYw.>>2064801This was made by some dude 20 years ago to show the divx codex could deliver movie quality video and the promise that smartly implemented cgi would bolster a new age of more democratized film making.....yet here we are.....we get duplas bros tangerine instead....>>2065060What fags who believe in a meritocracy dont realize what they are saying is what they would say right before that: the world is fair.
>>2065117>except the rewriting says what you were trying to say better than youAll you're doing is ignoring what I actually say so you can win an argument against an imaginary opponent. This is the highest form of faggotry and I would greatly appreciate if you'd engage with my actual arguments>>2065060>some random nepobaby playing with his dad's planeInteresting that you presume that's the case, instead of any other possibility which would undermine your line of logic.
It's actually against the law to not get out of the way of emergency vehicles, which this clearly was. Driver thought he had the right of way but physics disagreed. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
>>2065147>highest form of faggotryNo, thats thinking you made any arguments when its just poor attempts at trolling. The ultimate troll is reality. Yw.
>>2065147>Interesting that you presume that's the caseI actually do not think that is the case, that could very well be just some unlucky pilot doing his job. The problem is that you equated his wealth with his contribution to society, and I presented a case where that is absolutely not true, wich is most situations.
