The two countries with the best rail systems in the world. Which one is the ultimate champion?The two have different approaches. Japan:>excels in HSR and dense commuter service>neglects rural and regional services>mainly private companies focused on profitability>colorful variety of unique trains>no overarching coordination of lines or timetables Switzerland >even levels of service>no neglect of regional services but no HSR>public companies or private companies with publicly concerted service>focus on service and not profitability, highly subsidizedComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
For me, it comes down to something that Japan can't control: the fact that Switzerland's rail network is highly integrated into those of their neighbors is what makes CH win for me.
Japan has better trains.Switzerland has better public transport.
>>2071190Good take
>>2071187>thing>thing, japan
>>2071188>why is a country with no land borders not connected by train to its overtly hostile neighbors??
Anyone here work on them?What's it like?How did you get the job?Is it any fun?How's the actual car amenities? Do you get meals, beds, or is it just a rolling office?
Disasters never have one root cause and neither did the destruction of cycling. But I know some important milestones in the decline and fall:1. COVID 19. Enough said.2. Full suspension mountain bikes. Enough said.3. Reddit. Enough said.4. Twitter. Enough said.5. British "people". Enough said.6. The d-tch. Enough said.7. The state of Utah. Enough said.8. Zwift, Peloton, "Spin Class", and other cancer. Enough said.What were some other key moments?
>>2071010>just as lethal as a carskill issue. just let off the throttle, moron. they would have died on a bike too making an equally dumb maneuver
>>2071013Yes, learning to pilot an e-bike, or really any kind of vehicle, is a skill issue. I'm glad we're all on the same page here.
>>2071016okyay <3
>>1966530>When you lump in the regular average joe cyclist to the stravafaggot cyclists>Lol you bought a Cervelo?Ok, and?>You have a dork diskOk, and?>Lol aero barsOk, and?>That's not the right bike for this eventOk, and?Point is, who gives a fuck what other people think. Enjoy the ride, the weather, the scenery. Who cares what neon spandex wearing faggots thinks. Let them seethe and allow you to live rent free in their heads. Hope it tanks their Strava stats.
>>2071074imagine not riding a Cannondale Dutch Bike with the Dork Disk removed and front rim brakes only. LMAOing at you life from my Brooks Saddle. Enjoy your anal damage from using "straight" bars you fucking homo.
The end of ebike terrorism is in sight. Let's not count our chickens before they hatch, but I'm tentatively feeling hopefully about this. During the time that the last thread was up, hundreds of people were killed by ebike fires. We need to put a stop to this. I just hope they make sure to add prison time for people caught with unlicensed ebikes.
Dindu nuffin "ebike enthusiast" was trying to enjoy his quick ride home.when will they stop the ebike menace? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoZK6Ja2r5E
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>>2071072>hit him on purpose on an ebikelmaohe should have gotten his driver's license so he could have just gotten a 65$ Failure to Yield ticket instead
>>2071071but when cagies do it
>>2071072>orange countyno part of this counts.
imagine being a voltagelet
>>2060775Fucking hell, look at the New Labour years (1997-2010). Yet another thing to add to Tony's rap sheet (more of a rap tome at this point) when the day of the rope comes.
>>2062232Our railroads aren't state enterprises and are subject to market forces. If electrification made sense it would have been done by now. It was tried a century ago and proved uneconomical for freight after dieselization.
>>2070874shut the fuck up you retarded shithead
>>2070874Lol, lmao
>>2071022>>2071039Being less like India is a good thing, I think
>ywn explore the ocean abyss in a private submersiblewhy even live?
>>2068532James Cameron famously had a sub built specifically to explore the Mariana's TrenchJeffery Epstein also had a sub that he was apparently using to go exploring off the coast of Florida to search for signs of Atlantis (I'm not kidding about that, man was autistic as fuck by his own admission)
>>2068401> subs are actually fairly safe, moreso than a car in fact
>>2068582its true oceansgate was a company making objectively shitty subs so they dont really count (imagine if some guy made a car from scratch and the engine blew up killing 4 people, its the same thing). you probably cant name a single other submarine accident. you can probably name people hurt by cars though, you probably also know a few in person. subs are the same as planes here, if something goes wrong probably its a fast death for everyone involved but its also incredibly unlikely. basically, if you get total kms traveled and divide that by total injuries/deaths for both cars and subs youll see that subs harm less people per km
>>2068677I feel the long history of military sub incidents would significantly lower the average. Modern deep-sea subs are safe, historically however they've generally been regarded as deathtraps.
>>2069496its not really fair to consider military deaths. for one thing they arent a fault of the vehicle, and for another they arent fully reported and there are often too many unknown details.if you think about planes probably half of all plane crashes happened before ww2 ended.
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?
>>2069006>technology was good before west coast rent seeking venture crapitalists got their mitts in ityou dont say
>>2069007Usually it's PE that fucks things up, VC is just where retards waste money on juiceros
>>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
Post Your Bike ThreadUrbanism EditionPrevious thread>>2059993
>>2071015>>2070990Gooby pls
>>2070985you need less reach on the frame to accommodate the higher reach of the drop barsor you will have a fucky stem you should have just rented a drop bar bike for a day, or bought one and returned it
>>2070234No, no, no. That bar addition is made out of what? Plastic? If it is you will destroy it with your shifters there. Instead, use some bar ends, and place them in the middle of the handlebar, place the shifter one on each bar end and then tape everything with the same tape used for the handlebar.Also, if your. Fork has a disk brake mount, you MUST install disk brakes (with mtb calipers, so you can keep the front Travel Agent). 26" wheels with disk brake hubs costs nothing, either new or old.I totally approve of this bike.
>>2072444>That bar additionnot him but those things are made to mount multiple doo-dads on, like a computer, bell, light, etc. plus they're aluminum fyi
Frame is too small for me.The old suspension fork had to be replaced and i picked a rigid 700c fork. I can't decide if it looks decent or not.
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.
>>2067257you don't actually know anything about california cleetus
>>2069354the simpsons clip would legitimately be the world if the tech industry didnt exist.
>>2070930It would also mean that the internet doesn't exist so I completely agree
>>2070931imagine a world without social media, all the irl things we replaced with technology (buying things, buying food, etc) still being done instead, no "influencers", no AI. ted kaczynski was right. and technology is the worst thing ever influcted on humanity, infinitely more than nuclear weapons.
>>2070933>Social Media and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
I see you all are intimidated by my obvious superiority
Go back to /o/ you retarded fatties.
>>2067923Crashing is for faggots.
>>2070005>he doesn't know old scooters take a lot of physical capacity to even put on and off the stand
cranking Heat On Beat 2012 from my Princess Auto Baja Chopper as i carve through a corner at a blistering 32kmhhttps://www.princessauto.com/en/212cc-mini-chopper-bike/product/PA0009158890
simultaneously cranking Heat On Beat 2006 from my Electra Townie 2025 (i am using astral projection to RDP in to the copy of Windows XP Embedded managing its BMS through UART)
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.
In Bucharest, Romania, they dont bother to clean the old metros since they will be phased out anway. Its nice going with them while we still have them
they should just paint over the graffiti every few weeks like how they blob more paint onto warships to cover the rust. eventually, the train will be more paint than metal and will thus be impervious to all damage spiritual or physical>>2066466god i wish that were me.
>>2066480I remember one fighter jet that had 500 pounds of paint.
>>2058163For the health of society. Should be armed guards shooting taggers.
>>2058177it's nonsense
my grandpa died and left me a shitload of money, i barely passed high school and no college at alli want to fly a plane and buy one where the fuck do you keep these things and how do i get a license? i dont wanna wait a long ass time can i just buy one? sounds fun
>>2070292Yeah
>>2070502oddly enough if you have >A JOB you see it a fuckton because microsoft office will autocorrect -- to –
>>2070502————————————————————————————————————————————How's this? I'll call it the epic gigaem-dash
>>2070502>>2070531So if he has to rely on copypastaing en and em dashes since his keyboard only has the hardbutton of dash/hyphen, then he isn't AI, is he?Mind blowing, isn't it.
>>2070502what the fuck there are three hyphens-–—.hey my android keybward has all 3
Photos and Advertisements from the early years of commercial flight. Post WWII
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>>2070525>>2070535cool
If I went around in the heaviest most inefficient shoes possible to make a statement, people would rightly think I was a tryhard, trying to show off how strong I was, or otherwise basically see it as impractical, quixotic, or foolhardy. Normal people prefer lighter shoes that are more comfortable and efficient. Especially elderly women, people who aren't fitness freaks, etc.Yet if I do the same with a bicycle, all the urbanists want to suck my cock for being "practical". With bicycles, riding something comfortable, efficient, that doesn't ride like a boat anchor, is tryhard, show-off behavior. The least practical bike is seen as practical down to earth stuff for normals, and the most practical bike is seen as status-seeking show-off sports equipment for the very strong. Casuals belong on bikes that convert most of your pedal input energy into rattlecan noises and heating up the tires. Bikes that are reasonably effective at "bike things" are classified as competitive hobby gear.When did this mentality take root and who is responsible?
>>2070179i know they do, i owned one i can take a picture next time i visit my parents in queens
>>2070179Outside of citibikes being super stiff 25 kilo bricks so that rapscallions don't toss them into rivers for sport, as opposed to floppy steel stepthroughs weighing half that, they are pretty similar indeed. Upright, undergeared and usually undermaintained bikes that go, but just about.
>>2070654They're heavy so they don't break. And the gearing is fine for what they weigh. You wouldn't be able to do much with higher gearing, and the low gears are low enough for most hills. If you're trying to climb fort george hill or something the drivetrain inefficiency will get to you before any gear ratio inadequacies are a problem
>>2070179>>2070651Had my dad take a picture of my old bike, he has it in storage. So I used to ride this, and now I ride citibike to commute, and I feel comfortable telling you they’re very similar
>>2070660>They're heavy so they don't break.lead is heavy. i guess lead never breaks.
>>2070506"Overlay timber enough times" meaning overlap the planking enough? The way you worded it makes it sound like double or triple planking.
>>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.
