These guys passed you on the last big hill before the cafe. Didn't even take pulls. What do you tell these Freds to not seem mad?
>>2052169Tbh I wish there was somewhere I could get a tram to the top and just ride down descending is the only fun part of road riding
>>2057734the reason it's fun is that you've spent like 2 hours in the granny gear to get there so it's a godlike rush of power when you just need to tuck and read the corners and you're basically bouncing off terminal velocity for 15 straight minutes, it won't be the same if you take a chairlift like an MTB hamplanet
>>2057731never heard of a chop shop dude? they sell the useful parts and then just scrap the frames, or at best rattle can it and apply some new stickers>>2030704>flip flopsdon't do this it is COLD outside>the purestrain seethe i can feel radiating off of boomers walking on bike trails and lycras struggling to take corners as I carve through a corner wearing my shitstomper combat boots, instantly achieving five times their terminal velocity on downhills without even touching the throttle or pedals just because my bike weighs like 50kgdont even have a bell on it anymore, the day i rang at someone and they still seethed that they "couldn't hear me coming" was the day i took it off. you walk your dog on the bike path, i will run over your dog. i know they would door me in a second were i riding on the road, fuck them white niggas
>>2030777Lucky trips aside flip flops are the greatest cycling footwear money can buy. I have fully converted.
>>2059709everyone knows riding park is for losers. imagine wanting to be around so many people, its the same reason I can't roadbike your literally just surrounded by people and cars 24/7
This stuff is ancient but I hope that it wasn't posted here before:The construction of the Japanese Shinkanzen high-speed rails, form 1964.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYjFOYLAtoEBoth the footage and the tempo if that of the '60s, so do NOT expect some twitch footage and on point editing. But, I think you all would appreciate it, or - at least - should see this!ps: use auto-subtitles. While at some point it it definitely an 'eh', it is better than nothing.
>>2056769Couldn't remember off the top of my head, so I checked a reference book I have. Basically, budget at the time was very tight. Pretty much every shinkansen line project has gone massively over budget, and with the development of the Tohoku Shinkansen, the cost continued to increase further due to having to develop the line in response to protests regarding noise pollution. A lot of money was also wasted on development of the cancelled Narita line. Although, it was mostly the issues with protesting against noise pollution that made it impossible for them to get any closer to Tokyo at the time. I can't find the pages talking about the development of the Shinkansen in Omiya station, but I assume that it was a combination of protests happening less frequently and more effort put into designing railways to dampen noise and vibrations via walls and viaducts.
Sorry for the necro, OP here, made another thread for the TGV:Please check it out too:>>2057867
>>20241661 year anniversary coming in 2 hours
>>2057975OMG you are right! HEHE, I didn't check for that! :-)
>>2057975Forever Shinkansenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huIahNEnyM4
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/
>>2054920I'd rather live on board a train than an apartment in an abandoned coal town surrounded by AFD inbreds
>>2056728Not everyone is a chai latte drinking hipster from berlin
>>1986079Nomad urban explorer phase in your late teens is all fun and games until your body croaks into your 20's.>>2037430/thread
>>1992774fat titties >>1992458
>>1986079>relying on cutting edge, expensive public infrastructure and tech every day in order to live>minimalist
Elon Musk wishes he was 1/10th as GREAT as this English manlet.
>>2060208YesWhat political bullshit caused the inferior gauge to be maintained?
>>2060108Overthrowing the space transportation business alone is worth more than all other 21st century inventions.
>>2060319This tbqh, I can't avoid smiling at the fact that space travel was taken away from government-employed nerds with inflated egos. Them and the boomer government-embedded spaceship building companies got humiliated. I'm not really mad, NASA is cool, but I got tired of looking at that whole situation with them making no progress and keeping space travel as this mythical once-a-year ritual where the NASA wizards in their white labcoats send some overqualified supermen on a disposable multimillion dollar vehicle into space.
>>2060208Standard should have been 1500 mm. That would be right 0.007” less than 4’ 11 1/16.” Everyone’s equipment would have been compatible with each other regardless of which measurement system they were using. No one needs anymore than that.
>>2060319Probably but it's a bit early to say that.
Cyclists of /n/, do you wear a lot of loud obnoxious advertising logos on yourself when you ride?
>>2058782>>2058783
>>2051816elaboratewhat is that device?is it a surgical tool for skin transplants?
>>2060152>segregatedlol, i love when retards like want to disingenuously appeal to racial shitit's called "separated bike lane" and everyone knows what you're pullingseparating modes of transport when the speed differential can be expected to be more than 30km/h make sensejohn forester is a hack that was worried proper bike infrastructure would remove his ability to ride on roads in group rides and thus argued aggressively against proper bike infrastructure and cycling enablersthis is beyond debate, it provably leads to less cycling usage and more cycling deaths
>>2060326go make more hour long advertisements njb guy
>>2058826I have 30 miles of trails all within 3 miles of biking. There's 100's of miles of trails within a 30 minute drive. Why do you people have such strong opinions about things you've never done before?
If I passed you, don't take it personally. It's because you're slow, weak, and have no stamina. No, don't look at my bike. I could smoke you any day, even you were riding a Colnago Gioello, and I could do it on a $100 BSO from Walmart. Little man, learn to take defeat gracefully. I won, fair and square.If you passed me, chill out dude, you're such an insecure tryhard. You wasted all that money to win a race that only exists in your head. Sure I could have been a pro, still could if I'm being honest, but that kind of thing doesn't interest me, I have nothing to prove to myself. So why should I try to prove anything to others, let alone you? Stop and smell the roses, that's my philosophy.
>>2057284I haven't seen this meme in ages, this must be like 15 years old
>>2057116This is a custom racing bicycle, sir. Designed for competitive road cycling. This bike has a light-weight, space-age carbon frame and handlebars positioned to put the rider in a more aerodynamic posture. It also has micro-shifters and thirty-seven gears, and weighs under six pounds. I won the Tour de Mexico on this bike.
>>2058158what is this quote a reference to?
>>2058158There is an idea of a professional rider. But there is no real prizes. Only middle of the pack finishes. And although I can hide my shame shake the hands of my opponents and maybe you can even sense my watts are somewhat comparable...I simply am not aero
Based. Speedmogging is a virtue.
Post your ride during sundown Post your favorite lights and light setupsDo not: Be a haterTalk shitPost daylight ride photos
cool thread anon, here's mine from todayi got a new taillight (moon cerberus) and wanted to see how it works after dark
>>2058814>>2058907how many lumens are those lights
>>2060008i'm >>2058907front is cyclami x7 set to the dimmest mode at (allegedly) 250lmrear is moon cerberus ru on the dimmest setting also, but it has a "variable lumen system" and i don't remember what setting i used, lowest i think? it tops out at 150lm and goes as low as 5lm
>>2058817Based tenno heika banzai pilled
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The EMUs are out of service. Post your pics here of Queensland Rail service- double imaginary bullshit points for rural/discontinued services
>>2054283>Go to train company website>click "work for us"Here I did the work for you already for one option:https://pacificnational.com.au/content/join-the-crew
>>2049223Make your own board then
Fuck you cunts and your $20 or 25 airport train tickets that shit gave me a shock when i was getting a transport card at the booth
>>2056941>Make your own board then
australian rail is shitwhy different gauges in each state? why do you need to bogie-swap at the border? why couldn't they just use the same gauges nationwide like every other damned country in the world?baka my head
As you guys may know, theres now huge subsidies coming from the WEF or the EU to remove car traffic from city areasits a bit sad because some of these towns and cities used to have extremelly walkable main streets in the early 20th century, beautiful cobblestone pavements, etc, and it was all removed for cheap asphalt when cars became the thing. Now the pedestrian pavement is often just cheap concrete or modern materials imitating older cobblestone. You even see some retarded mayors destroying an entire 19th century park to replace it with concrete and fake grass and it just breaks my soul. How can we conserve and preserve true traditional urban planning and 19th century walkable standards?
I would like to say that the NYC Commissioners Plan of 1811 is one of the best examples of urban central planning EVER.
>>2060164>>2060157Levittown's must largely be a flyover thing, even here in California (a state that's often branded heavily car-centric) I wouldn't describe any of the suburbs here as being Levittown's, they're too broken up by public parks and strip malls within reasonable biking distance, and this is even true for the postwar/post redcar developments
>>2060172People who think California is exceptionally car-centric have never been outside California and think that the movie Grease is a documentary. No offense to you, Anon.
>>2060164This essentially still exists in parts of Europe, just on a slightly bigger scale around the suburban rail lines, and usually it was pre-existing villages which turned into suburbs. They're usually centered around the station with commerce and higher density development near it, then lower density residential areas a bit further away. Sometimes you can even appreciate how there was an original town center and a new center developed around the station.>>2060166He says >central planningbut it's not really what he's describing, which is organic centrality. If you have a place where many people move to for transportation it will obviously become attractive for both commercial and residential development, while further away gets less demand and consequently less activity and less density. With rail transport you automatically get this central point of movement which generates this centrality and consequently varied development, while the absence of it and high car usage generates large swaths of identical development lacking centrality which is essential to the organic urban growth.
>>2060155Suburbs are the byproduct of better transportation methods, the first ever case of suburbanization happened in Amsterdam in the XVIII century as people used boats to commute to their jobs in the city.The modern car centric suburb appeared in the mid XX century as developers, politicians and bureaucrats mixed the ideas of the garden city (low density) with Le-Corbusier urban ideas (car centric city).The result was a new type of suburb where people are isolated from their neighbours and have to use the car for everything.
I was thinking of picking up one of those cheapo Aliexpress carbon forks, but my buddy probably rightfully talked me out of it due to safety concerns.Where should I buy an affordable carbon fork in 26" for rim brakes (in Yurop)?
My Chinesium (alu) fork has made it through customs. I'm so stoked, guys. Only a couple of days left!
Is it really a bad idea to buy $60-80 chink carbon forks on AliExpress?
>>2058082The consensus seems to be: "They're all right if you don't take them off the road." I did not get a first-hand report of one breaking ever, though.
>>2055053hylix sounds like a real brand
>>2052080buy an entire bike off of your craigslist/kijiji/fb marketplace equivalent and drill speed holes in it
TGVs should be orange. Blah blah blah different liveries blah blah variety blah blah I don't care. TGVs should be orange.
>>2057678very fair assessment. blaze orange is a sexy color>>2057680montreal wins again
>>2057678British trains? Should be Rail Blue, with yellow snouts, and with little coloured stripes on the carriages indicating the First, Second and restaurant cars.
>>2057678France used to make the sexiest trains in the world. The MP 89 is still the best looking metro train ever made.
Coast Starlight should be Golden Gate orange Instead it's just a boring amtrak stripe Yo, North American liveries suck. I never realized it before, we always get shitty ad wraps and toned down colors I guess transit agencies don't want to do anything that might make them bad press
>>2060161If you start using unique paint schemes for each service eventually you'll end up with rainbow-era Amtrak again
If buildings in Venice are crumbling at the foundation because of the waves from speed boats, why don't they build deep metro below the lagoon to move people and goods within Venice and to and from the mainland and completely ban boats?
>>2059103if all the houses are sinking, what makes you think a open-faced concrete box wouldn't?
Venice is a meme town. It’s just a giant swampy tourist trap with old buildings in it. The only reason it exists is because a thousand years ago or so the locals would save themselves in that swamp from the hordes of invaders or something. Today it’s just a quirky but dangerous museum. People shouldn’t be living there anyway. They should just evacuate anything of value and let the old buildings slowly sink and return to the sea. Keep the boat tours but don’t let people walk there due to danger.
>>2059308>People shouldn’t be living there anywayEvery year the population of Venice (the island portion) drops by 1,000. Within 50 years the permanent population will cease to exist.
>>2059055>I'm not familiar with the specific geology of the area.i don't know a ton but iirc when you have muddy places like that usually there isn't accessible bedrock and the mud is on top of gravel and soft stone>>2059308akshually it exists because a thousand years ago some rich bankers moved there because taxes were low and power projection onto it was minimal so they then started financing mercenaries and making bank basically being Medieval Blackwater
>>2059111What if you start digging into the bedrock using a TBM from the shore towards St. Mark's Square?
I bought an NJS frame. Does anyone want to make ignorant comments assuming that I have never ridden fixed-gear or that I don't know how JIS standards work or what toe overlap is or similar?Yes, I'll be riding it exclusively on the street.
>>2059932Is your fucking seatpost high enough?
>>2059956Quack
This image may be of interest to anyone who has considered an NJS frame but is intending to drill for a brake
>>2060034based lucky horseshoe
>>2059932Based and duckpilled would post my duck but it's on my motorcycle but it's under a tarp which is under almost a foot of snow
What the fuck is wrong with these mongoloid slackers? They completely underschedule longhaul trains everywhere outside the NEC so almost no one can use them for shorter trips and then wonder why ridership is in the shitter. Each route should be minimum 3x a day per direction.
>>1992023americans do "public" transit wrong on purpose to better shill cars and car-centric infrastrucutre
>>2003433>>1995951Bulk freight actually makes money
>>2018351>he thinks the government is debting itself>never heard of the Rothschilds
Please answer:>>>/trv/2844463
>>2042914Thermodynamics ftw
has anybody noticed how east asia completely kills every other place when it comes to urban planning and public transportation? why is this?
>>2059887>they really aren't.They really fucking are, moron.>>2059887>The perspective is skewed because they callIt does not matter what they call anything. Picrel has no borders whatsoever. It's just a population density heat map of China (and the US, which is included only incidentally because I don't feel like making a new one.)
>>2059970NTA; my understanding is that the rural Chinese small farmer is on its way out. The American small farmer died out during the farm crisis of the 80s and 90s, which explains the lack of density in American rural areas.
>>2059971>The American small farmer died out during the farm crisis of the 80s and 90s, which explains the lack of density in American rural areas.This isn't the explanation.First, lower density in the US isn't limited to rural areas. The cities themselves are far less dense than pretty much anywhere else in the world (especially East Asia). NY City is the only truly dense city in the US, and a few others are somewhat dense (Boston metro, San Francisco). Urbanists like to claim the US is "densifying" as they flood 3rd worlders into the country, waging soft war on China's behalf, but it's nothing like Asia.Second, the effect you describe, while true, isn't large enough to really show up on that particular map. Relative to the rest of the world the US has ALWAYS been less dense.The truth is that the US has just, historically, had an enormous amount of valuable and habitable land relative to its population size and technological power level. Americans had plenty of room to spread out everywhere east of the 100th meridian, where the Chinese (along with most of East Asia) did not, with substantial populations crammed into much smaller geographical areas. In 1850, there were some 400+ million people in China already, vs 20-25 million in the United States.The most substantial migrations in the US in the last 100 years have been from the denser Northern cities and the "Rust Belt" into the south and "Sun Belt." Contrast Buffalo, NY with Phoenix, AZ. This was also coupled with growth of suburbs, so some cities proper may have seen stagnant or declining populations even as their metro areas as a whole were booming. Again this is due to the ease of expanding outward in most of the US. Places like Dallas, TX or Atlanta, GA aren't hemmed in by any major geographical features (mountains, oceans, deserts) and can grow in 360 degrees. It's usually easier, cheaper and more desired to build out rather than build up, and it's been that way for a very long time.
>>2059720Nobody did, unless you think that clearing a handful out of thousands of blocks for a few freeways is "bulldozing the city".
>>2059722Almost all of those lines are still in use today except for redundant lines and spurs to random flyover towns anymore.
