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>>2065267>The week of indoc as a "boot camp" is a complete fucking joke, you'll have a harder time trying not to laugh in the face of the retarded 20 year old on a power trip screaming at you.I had to look this up. What the fuck is this place? Is this where stolen valor forma del Navy SEAL people go once they get enough tickets piled up and figure they should actually try going to sea? You have to wear a fucking 80s muhreen uniform to do some casual surveying? What is going on hereHere in canuckistan we've got "maritime colleges" too, but they're just normal ass community college tier engineering or administration courses but ocean-themed. Literally just "Electro/Mech tech but you learn about sewage dumping laws"
>>2065327>>2065267>>2065261https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlFEbGHnMIQim fucking dying i wonder what the rate is for grads appearing in hyper cringe bodycam videos getting arrested whilst standing at "parade rest"
>>2065327All maritime academies require you to join a regiment if you're there for the license, some take the larping more seriously than others. Great Lakes is probably the most chill out of all the schools. They got a new commandant at SUNY so they've been cracking down like yelling at you if you're wearing a hat indoors.
How's the food?
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.
go out and do some centuries
>its rained that much recently my bso forks are filling with water>when i hit a bump or compress the forks the water starts flying out of them High quality H20 suspension kek
>no /drt/ for entirety of winter>nice day out practicing skid stops with fixie>I'm wastedis this going to be every start of the season?
>>2065196>Got a few miles in after work on Friday, the trails are still muddy.>Go again on Staurday and its like the entire state decided it was time to go to the mountains.>Packs of trail runners everywhere>I have to park a different trail head than normal and then bike over to the mountain side I like>The paid parking website is crashing>Got to meet some nice mountain bike girls and got a number
nah i'll just keep using my ebike to commute to work
The unusually warm February weather has got the side streets and alleys to an appalling state. Glare ice with random shallow ice ruts. Even with studded tires on my fat bike it isn't easy going. Hit one of those ruts and the tire slides off sideways. Cooler this week so the roads probably won't improve.The main roads and paths are mostly bare pavement which isn't great with studded fat bike tires either, noisy and slow. Maybe I'll take the mountain bike out and try to avoid the glare ice spots.
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
>>2065345I mean, I have looked over things twice now and found nothing other than the handlebar stem having a little play in it, but that's it. I'm trying to figure out if there even is a problem but there's zero chance I can find a completely smooth floor to ride on to test that.Maybe someone will know what I mean when I say this: You know how you can sit by a PC for years and years and then suddenly one day you think it doesn't sound quite right and it turns out you were hearing the bearing in one of the case fans start to fail? I have that right now but for my bike. The goal's been to narrow down where I should look for the 3rd time because blindly looking wasn't getting me anywhere.
>>2065345>>2065365https://files.catbox.moe/h1rqbe.mp4Is this the culprit? Is it easily fixable?
>>2065395that's not good.from your video, I can't tell if the cones holding the bearings inside the hub have come loose, or if the spokes are loose (I suppose it could be both if you're particularly unlucky, but it's likely one or the other)in other words, is the source of the wiggling the axle running through the hub, or is that tight and are many/most/all of the spokes loose?both fixes require special tools (though inexpensive) , precision, and patience, but getting the spoke tension right all around the wheel is an extra layer of autism.the links in the OP will show you how to fix either, but you may want to take it to a shop.
Why do people run smaller disc up front than in the back? Like, if the read brakes warrant 200mm discs, why use only 180mm for the front?
>>2065395Your spoke tension is 0 Need to get those tightened
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"?
>>2059331>they sent us over 500 grams of cocaine in the last year aloneThat’s nothing. Nick Rekieta, his whore wife, and his whore side piece went through 500 g of coke together.
>>2000001>im not yuppie scum/threadWhy did that take a year and half?>>2000073Demand million dollar over/underpass, cause you wont walk 20 feet on your 20 mile ride.
>>2000001>I'm not a cyclist, I'm just a person who gets around by bikeI don't ride like competitively, I just get around town on my bike.
>>2012089what about fags in black spandex
>>2065397those are just Metal Gear enjoyers
(continued from >>2035254 )Let's discuss bike tires here.>pic related currently using>27.5 x 1.60 (650b x 40)>1000 miles in>pulled a few glass shards out>extracted a broken glass bottle shard that was wedged 6mm in the tread at an angle>no punctured tube>no flat>rolls great>doesn't weigh as much as a Marathon Plus or Mondial>installing them wasn't too bad eitherWhat's your daily driver? Do you run tubed or tubeless? General thoughts, experiences of tires you've ran with?
>>2065394Did you get the right size?
>>2065404Idk I wear 34 x 34 jeans, 6'0" 190s, long arms. Large MTB frames fit me best. 1 XL was a bit stretched. Mediums are cramped. First road bike, yeah feels weird af4chan is so wack fuck these captchas I'm out of here
>>2065404Totally forgot to say it's a 58cm
>>2065401Thanks man I'll look into these
>>2065390>underbikethat road is fucking immaculate compared to where i live
Mark my words, horses will make a comeback as the superior transport method.
>>2056982Make New York Shitty Again!
>>2060658
>>2062356I might a horse if it was possible to know that she enjoyed it too
As far as I know, horses don’t have kill switches other than a slightly too big of hole to stumble on.
>>2065114such reactions are INCREDIBLY well recorded
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.
did you take the comfort pill?
>>2065096Chill out, they are more normal than you. When people see them they assume nothing, when they see you they assume you are a rapist on probation.
>>2065063You know why I asked the question. Don't pretend.>>2065067Are you saying the guy in that pic is a poser? I think his nuts are getting free cbt everytime he swings a leg over his bike personally.
>>2065367I don't like brooks memes because they are too soft and need care. I personally prefer turbo.
>>2065374for long rides nothing like concor, excellent spine support
>>2065109well THEY are wrong. i am a rapist and OUT FREE due to INADEQUATE LEGAL DEFINITIONS allowing me to engage in CLOACAL CONTACT and i think that guy (in >>2063257 ) LOOKS LIKE AN ASSHOLE (the man you just posted is a bit of a cutie tbqh)
Mexican railways thread? The government of Mexico is trying to bring back long distance passenger routes and building light rail in the Mexico City metropolitan areaRailway history in Mexico is actually very interesting. They used to have a national railway company called FNM after they nationalized all the railroad companies in 1908, until the 1990s when they privatized it. >Isthmus of Tehuantepec railway - three lines >Buenavista to AIFA airport to Pachuca intercity railway>Texcoco to La Paz light rail >Costeno, Jarocho route revival>Mayan Train
holy shit mexico is such a cringe and cuck shithole nowadays>uuhh no we can't just run locomotive-hauled trains on ancient train lines at 50 km/h>we need gay DMUs and modernize our rail lines before running trains>we'll have train service on select lines in a few years maybe>only daytime trains tho we'll have no sleepers for our 12 hour lines>hackshually we won't have long continuous lines just sections>and especially for tourists like tren Maya which has dark rooms for buttsecks because only fags ride thisat least back in the day it was a kino badass shithole>ancient steel cars bought 2nd hand from US go brrrrrr>busted up loco spewing black smoke straight from hell>3 hour delay zero fucks given also the train engineer is drunk>runs trains literally everywhere even to fucking cuernavaca and oaxaca and all the way up to the border>overnight trains with sleeper car if you aren't a poorfag
>>2065371Homophobia aside I agree with this take for the most part. There is nothing wrong with tourism per se but "trains for tourists" is signing up for failure
>>2064770That is precisely the point of trains. The sparsely populated parts of mexico are like that because of lack of resources in the immediate area and the cost of transport. Building rail to those areas immediately gives developers an incentive and means to build there.
>>2065393>Homophobia asideEres un maricon?
>>2065407Building proper train lines reaching to the urban areas and industrial districts and having affordable passenger services towards other regions and cities of the country, tailored to serve the working population will incentivise development.Building meme trains for tourists, with stations far outside the cities only reachable by car and going between tourist hotspots instead of population centers and industrial areas ,and with overpriced services tailored for sightseeing instead of the working population will not.Most of Mexico did have rail coverage. Even in the less developed south trains reached the Isthmus, Mérida in Yucatan and Oaxaca. Now the government isn't looking to re-establish extensive passenger service, at least not in the south. They're just building meme lines.
What would you do in this situation?
>>2064975my city has six broad categories of waste and about 20 subcategories that need to be separated. there are four pickup days per week for the different categories, you're supposed to put waste out before 7am on pickup day, not the night before. in reality all of these rules are ignored and people put everything but bottles and cans in combustible, whenever they feel like it
>>2064960For you.
>>2063186The weebs are probably worse than the japs in that regard, they're not throwing rocks in from a glass house.
>>2065008Kekaroo
>>2063156>a read light district is not for sightseeingwtf? literally the entire point is to go look at titties, posters with titties on them, titty-themed objects, engage with titty-laden interactive media, and then get really embarrassed with a hooker paying them money to keep lapdancing even though you're gay but don't want to offend the homies who took you out for seeming disinterested or ungrateful. how is the point of somewhere like kamurocho not for sightseeing? you literally go to look at stuff. mostly titty stuff but stuff you look at nonetheless. for that matter the reeperbahn is also for sightseeing, and i have actually been there, it's full of people just looking at stuff
Can they become applicable for the air equivalent of trailer car? Can they help people flight in slow but somewhat more comfy travels? Or is it a pipedream?
>>2065173I was on this shit in middle school
>>2065173Nah, don't think that they will ever enter into any use except tourist excursions. They're just too slow. I'd like to ride one though. I always end up missing my local hot air ballon festival
>>2065191Maybe for some people it can be a luxurious alternative for living, like an rv or sail ship.
>>2065173Did you see the tethered train ones thread here little while ago?
>>2065207No.
>>2041290there is literally nothing wrong with this except for that he (or you) at some point came in it
>>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)
Just think... we could have been exploring the stars by now...
>>2065249I live along the yellow line, I transfer to the blue line for work. It's a nice subway. Does anyone ride the purple line though? It seems entirely pointless.
>>2065249>the blue line still ends at Franconia-Springfield. It needs to cross the Occoquan at minimum.
>>2065249Mass transit systems should be designed where people actually go, not just arbitrary colored lines on a map. The Washington METRO was designed to get from people from the more suburban areas to the inner core of the city where the tourism and governmental offices are.
