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?
>>2068949>every individual device has to have its own battery because bike manufacturers and cyclists are too stupid to figure out a wiring harnessIt's the only way to do it. If you're so smart, maybe you should figure it out. You'll be a millionaire if you can connect both a bike computer AND a headlight/taillight set to the same battery.
>>2068223>front engine rear wheel drivethe bike industry is full of wrenchlets who dont even ride
>>2068223the main reason THEY dont do this is that it counts as a motorcycle in north america, most of yurop, and industrialized east asia, so at that point just get a proper motorcycle or sit-down scooter. actual mopeds (as in purpose built motorized pedal bikes) are still popular in southeast (tropical) asia and russiaalso the two stroke died because it doesnt pass emissions regulations, and four-strokes are just physically too large to put in a normal bike frame. also four strokes arent useful below a certain displacement (150ish cc and smaller they just arent worth compared to a big 2-stroke) so again may as well just make it a shitty baja bike, but at that point it is essentially a motorcycle and the pedals are vestigial, so may as well stop pretending and just design and sell it as a 200-250cc motorcycle even in markets that would have allowed small displacement 2 stroke mopeds since at that size it's either it's a 4-stroke that is too small to justify its complex structure or a 2-stroke that is too big to comfortably go on a push bike anymore
>>2071002Can't they just put a small turbine engine in it? I know they exist and they work in other vehicles
>>2073262saar white man cannot be allow to see our high technology saar
>>2068605Yeah
>>2070451>4m wide bike path can support nearly infinite bike traffic,not when it's nice out and the dentists get out there and slow everything down by riding their 5200$ bike right in the middle at Two Miles An Hour
>>2069712>Making nitrocellulose based smokeless powder at home isn't exactly all that difficult,when someone tried to bomb a DNC office during the jan 6th shit a bomb specialist had to go on record "AKSHUALLY"-ing the autist's attempt at doing this because it is in fact quite hard to make high enough quality gunpowder to do anything useful and is only the realm of hobbyists because simply buying it is so fucking cheap but requires so much inexpensive but unfamiliar to normies manufacturing equipment that you would have to be a moron or an enthusiast to bother making it at hometurns out you dont just mix the ping pong balls and horse piss in a bag, you also need to use a sieve and have a proper drying oven and shit that internet weirdos somehow always seem to miss
>>2069752>no need for the acid,>bacteria growth, That's not what the acid is for.
>>2068605Sailing.
This thread is to discuss anything and everything related to chopper style bicycles. I personally find them really cool and do not understand why do not people want these.
>mexican containment thread
>>2072970They are stupid to actually ride, and bike cranks usually cheapen the look hard. They should make more of them with batteries hidden inside the tubes.
>>2072970looks not only uncomfortable and inefficient but incredibly cringe. if you want a "chopper" that's just a la-z-boi with an engine, get a real HOG>>2073012Harley Davidson literally got "back" into bicycles briefly after realizing that they are totally incapable of capturing a customer under the age of 69 and even they didn't be so cringe
>>2072970I bet this thing weighs at least 50lbs
>>2073177It bout 70
HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY YOU GLORIOUS MOTHERFUCKER
314 then
314 now
>>2070057Its ugly as sin. If you are gonna be around for 50 years, dazzle me.
>>2072911
>>2072911DELET
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
>>2067019>>2067013bombardier isnt real
>>2067073What did she mean by this
Based mapThey really need to reactivate the old train lines. Traffic out of Mexico city is terrifying
They never even finished the line from Cuautla to Chilpancingo and then to Acapulco...
>>2064673They can get away with tren maya because the only people living in that area are click language prehispanics with no political power, so they can just lay down a ROW through people's ancestral home and who's going to stop them? The rain god?
/i/ - /vp/ just kicked off, we'll be up in ~40 minutes. Watch at isthisliv.com/stream or if you can't make it the VOD will be up at implying.fun hopefully within a day or two.
Well, our first match might have been a narrow defeat, but we'll be playing /i/ shortly.Do (you) like drawing trains?
The final match of the group stage vs /vp/ kicks off in exactly an hour (we're the first match of the day). A win guarantees us through to Summer.
Ro16 just started. Thanks to a decisive victory over /vp/, we made it through and will be playing the third game of the day against /lgbt/. Theoretically it should start about two hours from now, but it'll probably be a bit later, especially if either of the previous matches goes to extra time.
Congratulations to /vmg/ for winning the Cup. /n/ ultimately finished in 12th place. If you missed it, the entire competition is now uploaded to watch at https://implying.fun/26sbc/We qualified for Summer, which will begin on July 10th. Until then, you're still free to suggest any new players, kits, audio or whatever you'd like to see added to the team.
> Fargo 32 is for riders seeking a drop-bar mountain bike with the new 32er wheel diameter. Available in the fall of 2026, in either a steel or titanium chassis, the Fargo 32 maintains its Salsa DNA with an abundance of cargo mounts, an off-road touring tuned geometry, and clearance for 32 x 2.4″ tires.It's. Happening.
>>2072369And to add another thing>pic relatedKill yourself
>>2072370everyone admits that hydros are higher performance but you're a retard if you can't "modulate" cable brakes and an extra 70cm of braking distance is well worth 180$
>>2072390That wasn't the point. The point was that they are not as much of an improvement over older standards than the proponents of hydros would lead you to believe they are. Also that 180 dollars could have been spent on 18 innertubes, which have a real world benefit that is immediate and not marginal like 70cm braking distance.
>>2072155Your feet only need to reach just past the axle for pedalling. You could theoretically have 60" wheels if you wanted.
>>2070774cool >32" tires>wtb horizons with shitty puncture protection and feels like biking though dry sand
What are the advantages of these things as opposed to, idk, a bus?
>>2057440They are shit, the blind can't see them and the deaf can't hear them
>>2072939Man, we got a philosopher over here.
>>2072880 Just by being electrical, they have lower running cost due to having less moving parts than the bus.
>>2073066They don't have total lower running costs irl though. Buses are cheaper until you reach a critical number of users on a set corridor
>>2073066>they have lower running costYou are legitimately out of your mind unless you're including some kind of bullshit carbon emissions cost in that calculation
I might be making a terrible mistake but I've been researching moving to Chicago because of a job opportunity. I'm also determined to go carless before year's end and there's no where else in the Midwest I can do that comfortably.I understand there's some bike infrastructure but it's been ranked as one of the least safe cities to bike. The L seems decent by US standards though they're a little poopy and your odds of getting shot aren't concentrated in any area like other cities (it happens everywhere in Chicago). What does /n/ think of Chicago transportation-wise?
>>2068292Saint louis is soooooooo much worse than chicago>>t. lived in both
Public troonsport is hell
>>2069183you are statistically more likely to die in a car than die on public transit. "omg niggers will rob me if i take the train" is a spook and it's not like niggers can't drive by or carjack you either
>>2073048i have personally been robbed, i was wearing a golden cross and some dude ripped it and got off the train before i could do anythingto be killed seems like a stretch, you would have to be as unlucky as that ukranian refugee who got murdered by that schizophrenic nigger or maybe someone throws you on the tracks
>>2069183 I feel like I'm not allowed to talk about crime with fellow leftists sometimes.its funny cause the leftist states have the least amount of crimeyou think there is any drug smugglers in china? or that there is any robbing in the DPRK?
So close and yet so far from being a decent high-speed rail line.What can be done to make the Acela and the Northeast Corridor better?
>>2070150you literally do have that problem and it is a skill issue on your part if you don't know how the site works and you're getting hysterical over it. exif stripping has been a thing since like 2009 when someone doxxed himself by accident. you will see it from time to time in threads where people phonepost, which has been the prevailing method of posting for a good 10 years now.and before you accuse me of phoneposting, note how autocapitalization isn't taking place, and many non-dictionary words are in my post. that is generally a pretty good clue that the person is using a clackity-clack old school keyboard.if you have any other elementary technology questions, please just consult chatGPT or grok or whatever the kids like these days, because I've had my fill of spoon feeding noobs today
>>2070156>and you're getting hysterical over itYou typed out 3 paragraphs but I'm the hysteric. Lol. It is a skill issue on your part though
>>2070169>typing is hardconfirmed for zoomzoom
>>2070141Why should he have to? Why shouldn't shit site not be shit?
>>2070156fucking christ
MD11 edition
>>2073987I know some part stockists (mostly in EUrope where they are fairly common). The mechanic at my airport does only Tecnam (which I dislike vehemently) and Cirrus (outside of budget, and again not my first choice), but at nearby airfields there is Cessna, Piper, Velocity, Liberty/Discovery (then again, good luck on parts), Progressive Aerodyne, Icon, Lockwood, Comp-Air, Socata, Beechcraft and one guy who works on antique/classic types, specifically. (No Mooney, surprisingly).I did a little more reading on the Tampico and figured that I might call the Socata people to see if they do those (and maybe Rallyes, though you are right on mechanic and part sourcing). I liked what I saw from the cockpit and heard that it is more stable than a Grumman and better visibility than a Cherokee. I will probably settle for a Cherokee, but I am really curious.
>>2073990I would check insurance costs on those too. With repair costs, insurance might be prohibitive. I would just snag a Cherokee honestly. The market is a little soft right now, definitely room to negotiate. Most are sitting on the market for 6-12 months, at least here in the US, not sure where you are. I bought a Cherokee 180 just a few years ago for 80.
ANOTHER female FO leave for UAL. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>2074001I did some more research:Turns out the Tampico is slightly cheaper than a Cherokee to insure. Not enough for me to care about ($100-200 less on average). Annuals cost more, but again, not by much, same with engine overhauls. The two seem to balance each other out in terms of pricing, really, with the Tampico only really edging the Cherokee out in initial purchase price, especially for lower time airframes.It doesn't seem prohibitive at a first glance. I think the next step is to talk to people who have owned one.
>>2074168How many weeks was she at your shit ass carrier?
>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??
>>2068426And it seems like every year consensus on the sweet spot changes
>>2070352because tires get faster every few years
>>2070353and yet you keep getting slower. hmmmm
>>2062118How do you not check this sort of thing? Yes you're fucking retarded. Also tire sizes don't actually fucking mean anything. You can have 3 different tires from different brands. They will say 2.1" , 2.3" and 2.5" and they will all be the same size. But seriously how the fuck do you not notice that?
>>2070374>inchesngmi
Can someone explain what the fuck cyclists mean when they say "countersteering"?I understand it as either>initiating/assisting a lean into a corner by turning the wheel to the outside of the corner, necessary on particularly heavy motorcycles >leaning into the corner only a little but turning the wheel to the outside slightly, keeping your contact patches aligned to to the direction of travel but the bike not, used for bowing over or other high-speed constant rate long turns or fine adjustment on straightsboth of these apply really only to motorcycles and even trying it on a bike makes no damn sense since you can literally just lean with your bodyweight and turn the wheel where you want it to point. wtf are these 10kmh fixie riders talking about when they insist on namedropping "countersteering" every five seconds?
>>2071776staying straight is actually simple infact you're advised to stay straightish to do a series of micro turns instead of one big turn
>americans need to come up with a "technique" for something every kid picks up intuitively they first time ride a bicycle
>>2071793
>>2071628>>2071258>>2071226I drive my bike no hands and watch the handlebars, counter steering doesn’t happen, it’s just something youtubers say
>>2073004Based observational neanderthal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnKUwr2Lj7o?feature=share>car comes around blind corner on wrong side of the road>still people in the comments are blaming the cyclist for not slowing downI've seen motorbikes parked at the lights been hit head on and still people will somehow not blame carswhat's the most egregious example you know of a driver not being blamed for causing an accident?
>>2070312i saw one once of a guy who stopped his car, busted out a shotgun, and fired at a peloton three times. he didnt hit anybody so all he got was charged with discharging a firearm in city limits and ordered to take anger management classes
>>2070312most of the comments are dunking on the illegal overtake though
>>2070323>You can't maneuver when ur going 30mphSo he's extra retarded
>>2070312He did weirdly turn into the car last second....but what suprises me is your suprise. People arent people (creatures of reason). They are giant babies that "i want" and all reason warps around that like a blackhole. They live in a fantasy world of cheap fuel and heavy machinery and hate when a non-pos reminds them of that. There is your jury.
>>2070323maybe *you* can't, but non-retarded people can.over 40 is when it starts to get dicey for me, but there was a hill on a busy road that I used to do it regularly anyway.
Elon Musk wishes he was 1/10th as GREAT as this English manlet.
>>2064937And what an eden its become...
>>2064937Oh dear God! :-O
>>2064937And yet they invented "road trains" (tractors pulling multiple trailers).
>>2064937nothing annoys me more than mixed gauges, especially within one countrythe whole world should use 3m hitler gauge
>>2070099Why do they act like its so tough to retrofit to a single standard? Are the ties matched to the track somehow?
