SHOULD I GET A GRAVEL BIKE OR AN ENDURANCE BIKE REEEEEEEEThe roads around me are potholed and gross
>>2061894You know those little plastic caps on your 3200$ front fork? You can turn them around a little bit to adjust how it behaves on an uneven surface. And if you get a bike that bends in the middle, there's a big gear-looking thing; it's actually threaded and you can turn it to adjust at least one spring. The other may require a screwdriver.
Imagine being too poor to have a proper fixie.
>>2061869Lordy lordy why would you do that?
>>2061910the new caledonia is pretty based tho. Nothing for poorfags tho
>>2061895>>2061874>even in rally racing the most in-depth suspension tuning happens for road tracks because it turns out a sudden 6 inch drop from asphalt to gravel will hurt even a race car pretty badly
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2/2Also you can make connections and fly with randoms in (their) fancy planes. This happened to me out of the blue (no pun intended) a few times).Furthermore students will pay attention and rate your instruction. The better you are, the better your reputation and if "good" students will seek you out. This feels good. >(I know there is still much more training but you know what I mean),you continue training if you go for your CFI-I and MEI, and of course you can get CFI students after a while, all of which mean studying.Realistically the FAA CFI-I is a licence to learn, if you don't have any other instrument experience, so personal weather mins should start high and go down as you gain experience.Plus, you can fly various airplane types. If you started on a BE76 or PA44 and then go to a DA42 this requires some training (realistically if not officially). So, "continuous learning"> if there is any time for life outside of work, if you can even still go to the gym and have friends and stuff.Yes, just manage your schedule carefully which means, as a prerequisite, working for a high quality organization. (or yourself)There are those who will push it to get out of CFIing as fast as they can. However, as with other areas in life, the tortoise invariably beats the hare so if you don't "burn out" you end up ahead. Take the personal time and make space for your own life, even if it costs you a couple months of "senority" - your mental health will thank you for it.
merry GA christmas. I hope everyone either worked or studied today :)
>>2061930You'll be senior one day. Plus holiday pay goes senior sometimes too. I'm senior enough for Christmas off and New years eve/day on, which is the ideal schedule.
>>2061932>ideal schedule.why is new years eve a good day to work? I personally never gaf about it but just wondering
>>2061933Well, for me, I care about having Christmas off to eat a feast with the family, but I don't give a fuck at all about New Years, and around here, Christmas, New Years Eve and Day are all holiday pay. So I have enough seniority to bid Christmas off, and also enough seniority to hold a trip over Dec 31-Jan 1 for the easy holiday pay. Many fellow pilots at the airline agree, they want the easy holiday pay over new years and working it actually goes senior. Ultimately it's just a matter of preference.
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>I show up as bong on /int/Bloody hell
>>2059528ChatGPT says it's equivalent to 25,000 - 30,000 horsepower.A VLCC is in the low 30's, so more or less it could power any kind of tanker.A newcastlemax is in the 20's and even the Valemaxes are in the very low 30's so it could power any kind of bulker.It's enough for any kind of car carrier, the modern ships by BYD and Grimaldi peak at around 20,000 hp.That already covers the majority of oceangoing ships.It's not enough for a large containership, only ships of around 6000 TEU have this size of engine.
Merry Christmas!
>>2061631Many thanks, anon.
Post EOY pay stubs.
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>>2058113I'm pretty sure that 8113 has an alternator built into its turbocharger as a testbed.
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.
>>2058163Vandals should be executed. Of course jewish hollywood promotes graffiti as being artistic even though 99.99% of the time it's ghetto thugs painting gang tags and misspelled swear words all over everything.
because grafitti looks like shit and should be cleaned off and it is only "art" to low life criminals
>>2058177It got removed as a teaching subject, thanks to BLM, and some of the kiddies might be hearing it for the first time.>>2058187NYC has legit concerns about terrorisim.
>>2061920>NYC has legit concerns about terrorisim.Graffiti is usually considered to be vandalism, not terrorism. In case you hadn't noticed, there is a difference.
>>2061922If the graffers are there, the chance that someone else follows them in, or uses what the graff people are doing to find vulnerabilities. And that in NYC's case, this isn't just a theoretical risk. There are definitely assholes with mass murder on their mind around who would glady do that shit in NYC..
imagine being a voltagelet
>>2061086Funny, because high-speed railways need the wire tightened a lot. The wave that the pantograph contacting the wire causes needs to propagate along the catenary faster than the train to avoid contact loss and arcing.I guess the IATR only works at low speed and uses trolley poles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UuLKFxseqQ
>>2060528here in scotland we are putting up wire that's not connected to any other wire so we need to do battery shit to get to that wire but also we don't have that train yet and won't for like 5 years
>>2060873>If electrification made sense, it would be either completed or underway by now.Now I know for sure you're an Amerimutt. Nowhere else are people likely to make such an argument.Overall, electrical traction tends to be cheaper to operate, but requires a higher capital outlay (obviously). This is an attractive proposal for governments in most of the world (as they tend to get cheaper financing than private corps can) but in the US, private corps decided to sell off as much of the electrical traction infrastructure for scrap as they could for a one-off profit. Now they're stuck because they can't bring themselves to invest in reducing their operational costs; the margins are a little too thin for their long-term capital costs and their management aren't very imaginative or forward-thinking (outside of a horizon of the next quarter's figures).
>>2060374Electricity does not transfer well over distance. To electrify the majority of rail in the US you would need powerplants out in literally nowhere. Diesel is very obviously superior.
>>2060528It's very easy to electrify something if you have zero quality or safety standards, yes.
How big can sail boats get? Is there an upper limit?
>>2061627>Probably but it'd be well beyond any practical need for a ship you could think of.Very true, and youd eventually run into some kind of ceiling (or basement) with respect to keel depth such that this hypothetical vessel would be unable to operate in most ports or canal locks
>>2061608Kites. You can anchor them to the hull rather than trying to transfer force through the mast, and takes advantage of the higher wind speeds further up away from the surface.
>>2061717What about using a windmill to generate electricity that can be used to propel the ship?Probably not as efficient as using the wind strictly as a means of physical propulsion but it does allow you to sail directly upwind/otherwise eliminate the need to tack
>>2061717Silly because of the fact that sails work like aerofoils rather than chutes. Because of this, sails can travel windward.
>>2061055>Is there an upper limit?Relative to how big boats get at all? Not really (above a certain size, finding ports big enough gets hard). But you'd probably want to use modern materials and configurations.
>be random fisherman on Florida's St. Johns River in 1980>be on your comfy boat, catching some catfish as your Southern ancestors have been doing for generations >be anchored next to the local train trestle>Amtrak's Silver Meteor service passes by as it does every day>think nothing of it, continue fishing>suddenly a steaming fat pile of shit lads right on your fucking head>before you even have time to react to being covered in more excrement than an Indian swimming in the Ganges, the Silver Meteor disappears into the distance>go straight to the town sheriff to file a complaint>it turns out that Amtrak's Budd and Pullman-built rolling stock that was inherited from other railroads upon nationalization, are all equipped with direct-dump-on-the-tracks toilets that will literally dump piss and shit on the fucking tracks at high speed; and that this is a practice dating all the way back to the first passenger trains that has essentially remained unchanged in over 150 years>judge is no more amused than you are, win the resulting lawsuit easily>literal legal shitstorm ensues as now Amtrak is on the hook for whenever someone gets splattered by human waste from one of their trains>outfitting the entire Heritage Fleet with retention tanks that are periodically emptied at stations turns out to be too expensive, so most of the fleet is sent straight to the scrapyards as soon as they can be replaced>incoming Amfleet, Viewliner and Superliner cars all have to be redesigned from the ground-up to use retention tanks>thus the era of the classical American streamliner comes to an abrupt end>all because of a fucking toiletComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2061790Bathrooms are going to be Achilles heel in long-range train travel. They don't get cleaned until the end of the journey, so basically it's a filthy public restroom by the end, the journey's not short enough where this isn't a big deal, and for most of the golden age of trains they were glorified outhouses.I know sleeper cars are romanticized but I'm not going to have a good sleep until I brush my teeth and take a shower.
>>2061790Did you think these signs were just a fucking joke?
>>2061859The best sleeper cars have private toilets and showers
>>2061868But what if I have to go right now?!
>>2061900Shit in your seat like a real man
is it possible before 2030?
>>2061412the problem here is that 1. no one lives in those countries2. no one has a need to travel to and from those countries
>>2061506No, stealing money for your car misadventure is anti-freedom, commie faggot.
>>2061412I'm excited for this project, even though it will have no impact on me personally.
trains are extremely overrated by pro train shills. they dont nearly bring as much usefulness as people claim. how often is your average person from estonia really traveling 50+km to justify the need of HSR? does everyone just jump on the train and travel 200km daily for no reason? something like tampa to orlando makes more sense not soviet city 17 to city 20
>>2061917>Tampa to OrlandoStupid italians
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?
How would you represent exceptions graphically? At the moment every country writes this word with language and as a foreigner you can't always be sure if it says "except" or "applies only to". Annoyingly, some places don't even use symbols for vehicles it applies to, instead using text
>>2061850Bicycle in a green circle (on a slightly smaller sign than the others).
What if we made the Priority Road sign the same shape as two Yield signs
>>2061850smth like this i made in like 2 mins
>>2056325Quebec is fucking amazing to drive through, even the construction zones are marked clearly.
>free busesCagebros...should I be afraid...?
>>2061891Ours are all on rocks so they're very animated. Zombies are slow and unaware. Where I live, you'd mistake them for being on PCP.
>>2061893Saw a guy on PCP once. Tried to fight a concrete lightpost. Didn't win but did far better than I woudl have ever imagined any human.
>>2061897>Tried to fight a concrete lightpost. Didn't win butDon't tell me you've never even tried to fight a server rack or something like that. I don't even do hard drugs but I've had a lot of moments thinking "If only I had a shaped charge or lifted a little more..." If people like me make enough to take the bus, a couple hobos are the least of your problems.
>>2061888Buses are for if you're too lazy or infirm to walk 3 blocks to whole foods, hence why they should be free. *EW yorkers pay for long distance (more than half a mile) rides (aka the subway) because that's actual transportation. A bus is more like a moving walkway like in airports, the only reason to collect fares is to force your weird calvinist-derived frontier religion that requires that everything be a transaction counted down to the nearest penn^H^H^Hnickel (pennies are woke now)
>>2061914>Buses are for if you're too lazy or infirm to walk 3 blocks to whole foodsIf that's your argument, we should just get rid of them. No point in wasting hundreds of millions on such an inefficient and useless program.
SDJS-034 editionResources:https://www.sheldonbrown.com/https://www.parktool.com/en-us/blog/repair-helpNeutral Support News on YoutubeWatch Yumika (1997) - Nagaremono Zukan (1998) - Shiro (1999)previous thread >>2059551
>>2061848most carbon stems are same weight as alloy unless its integrated into the bars
purolator "can't deliver" my shipment of dragon dildos and bike tubes/tires so I guess I have to just patch them like an animal for now but how do i prevent punctures in the future with only shit i likely have in my house? the tires are real thin and practically bald (hence why I ordered new ones three fucking weeks ago)can't amazon shit in apparently and there are NO dedicated bike shops in my city, ZERO. do i just slip an old tube in there or something between the tire and tubeI've already cleaned the tires and found two big ass pieces of metal and think I got everything even slightly sharp. washed em in and out but they are thin-ass dry weather cruising tires. I have some anti-slip carpet tape, do I just throw that in there or something for now as a buffer until new tires come in 2054>>2061530if someone wants your bike they WILL get it. bike thieves roll around in trucks now and just rip them off to chop up/repair later. the only solution is to park in either very high traffic areas (bike thieves rolling up like it's the world's shittiest heist don't want to re-enact Payday with an angry mob over your 1000$ e-bike, there is a Kawasaki motorcycle ten feet away) or secure areas (personally I work on a military base and don't even lock it when i'm there, plus who will steal my crappy e-bike when there's an also unlocked Silverado Black ten feet away from it)>>2061658>analog bikeme when i cruise with my memefeng BLASTING, hacking boomers n' choomers on the go>>2061676i'd just use some paracord and knotwork (hehe) but seriously, they come with grommets pre-installed these days so literally just run cordage through the holes bro
>>2061856don't need one for my grandpa's bike but thank you>>2061864heard good things about deda, if there isn't any kind of meta for stems i'll just get a cheap one from them>>2061865wait, how?
>>2061905Basically because it uses bolts to clamp and carbon is weak in that respect so it needs more material Like a Deda Zero-Nero carbon stem weighs 145g and an alloy Superleggero weighs 110gIf the bar is bonded to the stem this isn't the case so all in ones are lighter
>>2061905>if there isn't any kind of meta for stemsthe stem meta is just getting a cheap one that fits. nobody wants to deal with manufacturing expensive stems in 5mm length increments and also 2 degree height increments and also 3-5 different bar clamp diameters just to have all of them go unsold forever because nobody is willing to pay the overhead on all of that to save five grams.
It's the most wonderful time of the year, and you know what that means? Time for heritage railways everywhere to shake us down for more money with some Christmas-themed excursions.Post anything holiday trains related. Can be your local Polar Express, Christmas-themed model trains, Rule 34 of Santa Claus shoving a wooden train up his ass. You name it.I'll start off with Niles Canyon Railway's Train of Lights, which I had the privilege of riding in first class of earlier today.
>>2061791This seems uniquely American and I'm curious what the appeal of it is. Is there anything different on the inside, or is it catered with a festive menu, or what? Is it just the same train as usual but festooned with Christmas lights?
>>2061829I'd guess there's some decorations on the inside too, boughs and bows and mistletoe and such.
>>2061829It’s a thing that tourist railroads do to bring in revenue in what’s usually a down time in winter. Some pay the fees for the Polar Express copyrights and others do knockoff “Santa Express” type trains. Lights, decorations, presents, Santa, etc. Some of the big railroads do holiday trains that are mostly a bunch of lights and not intended for passengers but all about corporate image and community goodwill. The Transit Museum in New York runs a train of vintage cars on weekends in December, in regular service and anyone can ride but some people dress up in vintage garb.
>>2061829>This seems uniquely AmericanNein
Toronto likes to think it's LRT fleet is heavy rail so here's a streetcar interior wrapped up for christmas
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?
>>2060456>>2060457>salad is communismamerican education strikes again
>>2060462Characteristics of Rail retard1. Low boiling point2. High pride3. Abnormal obsession with railways, coupled with eco-terrorist/leftist-like thinking
>>2060514Touch grass faggot, you make stuff like this up in your schizo head and think you're onto something. It's no different to any other hobby, I don't make it my personality and neither do most that I've known. You talk about "excess pride" when it's literally a matter of telling judgemental pricks like yourself to do one
By the way, where did this idea that“railway enthusiasts are often autistic”even come from?if you actually Google it, you'll find sites and descriptions pointing out that connection—it's not like there are zero of them.i bet there are papers or statistics on it in psychiatry or something.for example, in other countries, like Korea, there seems to be a derogatory term like“Trainsperger,”and if you search in Japanese, it looks like the word“Railfans”itself has become slang for disabled people.
>>2060514Nothing more conservative than not wasting public money...
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>>2061729honor, i suppose. still retarded as fuck but i guess its basically the same as flixtrain or northern in the west lmao
>>2061729>jewry from jr westmany such cases!
Wet and cold morning at Tazawako today, but Komachi愛 warms the hearts of all.
JR Shikoku has revealed its 3600 Series Hybrid DMU to the presshttps://news.mynavi.jp/article/20251223-jrshikoku3600/
https://www.jrkyushu.co.jp/common/inc/news/newtopics/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2025/12/25/251225_thenameofthenewstationhasbeendecided.pdfJR Kyushu is building a new station near Fukuoka Subway/Nishitetsu Kaizuka station, and thankfully they will name it JR Kaizuka instead of some stupid shit that came up in the surveys like "Kaizuka Gateway" or "Hakozaki Smart City".Also interesting that the filename is in English instead of Japanese.
