>ride bike on road>those stupid selfish cyclists disrupting traffic>ride bike on sidewalk>those stupid selfish cyclists trying to run over pedestrians>advocate for bike lanes so everyone gets their way>those stupid selfish cyclists wasting our tax dollars making everything about themselvesThere are jackass cyclists like there are jackass motorists and jackass pedestrians. Yet we get the hate because we’re trying to be both economically and environmentally efficient while getting to places as soon as possible?>t. a cyclist who uses the sidewalk because there are no bike lanes, people hardly use sidewalks, and i don’t wanna risk car accidents
>>2078695>>This means you must be fascist since Hitler rode bicycles!Is this even true? Didn't Hitler invent freeways and founded Volkswagen? Isn't that why we used to have a resident schizoposter that called all cars gas chamber and spammed threads with really bad AI generated memes? What ever happened to that guy anyways?
>>2078558because it's exclusively a leftist position to invent grievances and participate in oppression/virtue signaling olympics which is all cycling discourse ever is.
>>2078699And there it is. The memory erasing pipeline in action.Anon. Listen closely it is urgent. Stay as far away from combustion engines as possible and do not breathe in the exhaust.
>>2078710Odd again! For everyone I know that is more involved in cycling than just occassionally getting around states that issues like ableism, public health, readiness, resilience, operational independence and similar issues are the key motivating factors.
>>2078699Once again, the left can't meme. Because learning history just makes you far-right... whatever that means.
What's next in bicycle tech?
>>2076628>cablesholy shit your so fucking POOR
>>2057728lithium batteries for every bicycle
>>205772832 inch wheels, i just got a new gravelbike and it's already outdated :(>>2057859tires that are too wide have an aero penalty though>>2060682belt drive should really already be the standard for single speed urban bikes>>2072866alfine is 90% efficient, derailleur is 99%. that's almost a 10% loss. which might not sound like much but it adds up, especially when you're going uphill or against the wind.
>>2057728Total obsolescence.In the U.S. anyway.>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/30/bike-lanes-defund-trump-administration-dei
>>2078370The numbers you give paint an incomplete picture.There's a linear component and a component proportional to power when it comes to drivetrain losses. It follows that only at low power you get bad efficiency, literally when it doesn't matter. At 300W the picture is different.According to data I have a singlespeed with a dead straight chain is roughly wastes 6W/200W or is 97% efficient and interestingly does not get much worse if power drops to 50W only, where it wastes ~1.6W/50W.Deraileurs of course depend on gear selection, just like the single speed depends on chainring and cog size but additionally cross chaining. On average 8W/200W or 4W/50W (!).Alfine 11 reaches very close to the deraileur systems efficiency in gear 1 and gradually worsens towards 11, where 26W/200W go to shit. 5.5W/50W in first and 11W/50 in 11th gear.This makes the Alfine 11 perform quite well, it certainly benefits from the chainline. Even more so you get the best efficiency when it matters: High wattage, low gear, climbing loaded in a headwind. We are talking about a difference of 1 or 2 W in the lower gears. This is under lab conditions. Meanwhile in the real world, aside from the chains condition, a sealed unit will perform consistently over weeks of travel and 1000s of km without regular care (something I at least can not realistically or dont want to provide on long trips).So, a couple of watts: The difference is on par with a dirty chain (~4W). At average pace this difference is equivalent to ~0.2 km/h.It's equivalent to half the difference between a butyl and either a latex tube or tubeless setup (~ 8W for 2 wheels). It's a fraction of what wrong clothes, more upright position, wrong tire pressure etc. cost you or to put a nunber on it: The difference is as low as 2% which at speed translates to 0.007% difference.Personally I love deraileur bikes but for daily, business and travel IGH wins. >t. daily and touring on the best drivetrain known to mankind: SG-C3001-7
An entry level new bike, that is agreeable to ride, not dragged down by antiquated standards like QR, that you won't regret buying, nor immediately feel the urge to swap out half the components because of cut corners, cost approximately USD $1500 at standard retail prices as of late 2024, give or take a few hundred (depending on the finer details).Now, the prices are going to go up by at least 20%, and the smaller independent brands are going to go under as only the largest players will have the spare cash to ride out the sudden loss of consumer confidence. The most interesting and original bike products will simply disappear from the market permanently until the next wave of prosperity (which may be entirely concentrated somewhere far away and foreign, so that only the wealthiest of your peers will be able to import and use such goods).How does that make /n/ feel?
>>2077629>>2076021>>2050785the C96 (and its chinese knockoffs) has an internal magazine, and thus eats clips.
>>2076016I hate to admit it but it ironically is, every correction makes the system more efficient. Mass layoffs are basically society correcting itself and cutting off "needless weight" in order to survive, every living organism has a similar internal mechanism
>>2077648That's like saying a heart attack is the circulatory system correcting itselfAn actually efficient system would have enough liquidity where mass anything would be unheard of. The problem is that the system is set up to make things illiquid because systemic shocks that are a natural feature of this illiquidity will be fixed by unconditionally bailing out the wealth holders and letting the labor side of the market "just deal with it"But we've got it set up so that your health care and retirement security are tied to not taking the risk of moving to another job, so people hang on far too long and then get purged, and we get growing masses of permanent underclass living in tent cities and you people will be like "just buy more money poorfag commie" while supporting infinite giebs for the people who caused it
>>2071954Uh oh stinky! Jannies deleted the original post, so here you goNapoleon captured Berlin in 2 weeksHitler captured Paris in 6 weeks (and Denmark in 1 day)Japan captured Singapore 70 days after Pearl harborTrump spent 100 days not being able to capture a strait then capitulated to giving Iran cash
>>2078696Weren't you the same retard that got banned from /his/? Are you now here doing your totally organic iranposting?
>Name is literally "Pog Car">Is known primarily for cycling Who the fuck write this shit?
>used to be the pot belge>now it's Pogačar
>boeingthis is beyond parody
>>2077651Lol maybe Boeing should hire competent workers instead of gay black Indian women
tfw u think the engine pokaz wiecej but it just damaged -_-;;
>>2077651Passenger had his caucasian made seatbelt on. He wasn't going anywhere.
He was partially sucked out like his body was outside the plane and they had to pull him back in
>>2077686>fan blade decides Fan blades aren't sentient. They don't decide to do anything.
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.
>>2076937Damn you’re not even good at armchair psychoanalysis. Do better
>>2076936boomers are allowed to ride their literal mobility scooters in the street, why can't I?
>>2053316You're likely replying to an AI slop post generated by grok
>>2076936im gonna start doing thisthe dentist will learn to fear the 2smoke
>>2050007Just as ridiculous as saying everyone driving a car behaves like an asshole.So just how fat are you? Be honest.
> solves bikepackingNothing personal kiddo
>>2078231maybe just use it and be happy about it. It's not like you want to discuss it.
>>2078241I don't want it lol. I bike pack on a 90s piece of shit mtb with a huge front triangle.
>>2070980are there any reputable 26"-wheel steel-framed bike manufacturers?
>>2078421Stridsland but I wouldn't give that guy a dollar. Surly. Crust but what they're asking for the bikes is a ripoff. There's magic components that made their wizard frame recently. Honestly if I had to buy a new steel 26er I would have one custom made by Marino out of Peru. They started off manufacturing frames for some brand that went under and they just kept going selling their own stuff. You got choices of tubing, everything from 4130 to Reynolds 853.
>>2070351Some saddles mutilate your ass if you're unlucky but I guess for some it doesn't matter anyway kew
Lets recommend each other literature specifically about the design and engineering behind your favorite locomotive or piece of rollingstock.
Cool story bro
>>2077291Nigger what the fuck are you talking about ?
Bitch lol
>>2073789https://advanced-steam.org/ufaqs/porta-papers/some of Livio Dante Porta's works are on the advanced steam site. The site buy the people who proposed the 5AT.
I've always been a big fan of the Canadian Pacific C-Liners and their 38D 8-1/8 opposed piston engine. I haven't found a book that goes into their design and construction and inspiration, and trials and tribulations. I do have "Constructed in Kingston" but while detailed about construction it doesn't really go into it's design. The best I've found is the 2-part series in Trains magazine (March-April 1987) which I bought when it came out. I bought a couple actually. The author worked at F-M and he goes into decent detail on the design and concept.If anyone knows of any other book, let me know because as far as I know I have every book there is on them.
Due to a labor union strike the busiest train system in North America is completely shut down https://longisland.news12.com/2026/05/17/lirr-service-suspended-on-day-one-of-historic-strike/4loTlXtTUwBPvTZquC1dIhLIRR workers in the striking unions have a median/average salary around $131,000–$136,000 (highest-paid railroad workers in the U.S.), with total compensation often exceeding $200,000 including benefits. Many top earners make over $250k with overtime. https://www.newsday.com/long-island/transportation/lirr-pay-highest-wages-deovhmtu
>>2076069realFor every overpaid locomotive engineer there's 2 overpaid managers, DEI officers, HR, etc. But they get no mention in media coverage. >t. employee
>>2073942>Americans are crab bucketWe literally donate the most to charity than any other western nation
>>2073628We should not give in an inch to union goons
>>2073665You're a commie piece of shit
>>2076069Lmao you sound mad as fuck. I am cracking up at the mental image of you, a scrawny pale incel getting bullied by middle aged fat black women, it's pathetic giwtwm. All I need in life is to have a government job in an office full of aggressive 55 year old black women who are significantly stronger than me and take full advantage of the implication to bully me with total impunity and call me racially charged pet names as a "joke" and drag me into the coat closet and sexually assault me when they need to relive some stress and I'd lose my pension if I don't show constant gratitude and subservience to all of them at all times and sometimes they'd take me home for the night for some pleasure and pretty soon I wouldn't even be able to get off without thinking about getting pegged in the unisex handicap accessible toilet by my strong black woman boss, you really need to touch grass incel it's 2026 do better
The great debate
>>2076278Planes don't need parachutes, they can glide. Using a parachute gives you far less control than simply being able to perform an engine-out landing. Imagine if you panicked and threw the parachute only to find out here are power lines directly underneath you and there's literally nothing you can do about it. If you simply looked for a proper landing area within your glide range instead you could've avoided such a scenario. A parachute if anything is just the manufacturer admitting their plane is shit and that they don't trust the engine not to die in a bad circumstance.
>>2076324you have 0 flight hours and it shows
>>2076324>Imagine if you panicked and threw the parachute only to find out here are power lines directly underneath youHas that ever happened in the entire existence of the Cirrus CAPS system?
>>2071623did you know my boy springer?he installs radios or some shit there.t.umd grad
>>2076339There have been zero car crashes involving me during my entire existence and I still wear the seatbelt. Checkmate, atheist.
(Reposting something I found online:)Things that happened faster than California's high-speed rail project (390 miles/32 years):China's entire high speed rail system (30,000 miles) took 15 years from breaking ground to passengers riding trainsThe entire city of Dubai went from barren desert to gleaming metropolis in 30 yearsiPhone 1 through iPhone 17 (18 years)The Internet (32 years)For what Newsom is spending on this ridiculous train to nowhere, he could:Pay for 200 L.A.-to-San Francisco limousine rides for every person in California.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2077572China is still a developing country so they have less red tape to go through, similar to the USA in the early 20th century or Japan in the 1960s-1970s.
>>2077498>We're building something so amazing that it will take us 50 years to finish! You just can't understand how amazing we are!
>>2072182Seems like many of the gov projects where there's zero accountability, where money bloats up, where government has to keep spending money to make the company profitable, etc. If its failing and has been failing for 30+ years, it should be scrapped. The execs sued, and jailed.
Why can't America get https://x.com/JRUrbaneNetwork/status/2078691711799452134?Why cant we ask how much trains cost? How efficient trains are? How often its being utilized? Why cant we allow private companies to compete and build? Why does only government get control over it? Why cant we do better? Why are we not allowing others to do better?
>>2078057People discuss the costs all the time. For passenger use, trains have a niche where they make sense. Problems come in when train obsessives want to force everyone into that niche. Private companies can never work because they can't acquire the required right-of-way without making use of the government's power of eminent domain. For most, we already have done better with the Interstate system and plentiful airports. No idea what you mean by your last question, though I suspect that answer is still the need for eminent domain.
>Carries your ass from Berlin to Stalingrad while loaded with MG42s and Panzerfausts>fags on /n/ still think bloat like gearing and suspension forks is somehow necessary
sus forks are bloat.gearing would have gotten him there faster.
>>2077550many NATO forces are experimenting with full sus e-bike cavalry THOUGH
>>2077550enter the Swiss Army Bicycle
>>2077550you forgot to mention the detail. where the rider of this bike mostly relied on either supporting logistics or requisition. Both of which (You) don't have realistic access to.This explains why the bicycle could affors to be highly unpractical in comparison and waste significant space on trash like 'nades.
>>2078183i wonder why they dont just use sliding dropouts
Steam is having a train game sale for the next week and I figured this would be a good place to ask for recommendations.I really liked Truck Sim and I played a similar game called Train Life: A railway sim but that game has been long abandoned.Are there any other recommendations for train games? I prefer the more simple/arcade like sims where you don't really have to mess to much with the controls or shunting. I also own Derail Valley but I don't know it's not really clicking for me, though I think I need to give it another shot.Anywho train video game discussion and recommendations thread.
>>2078150I have been having a lot of fun with railroader recently, put a couple hundred hours into it. If anyone else has played it post some screenshots
we already had a thread >>2074034there are some recommendations there
lol, Big Boy caused a "mass casualty event"https://www.readingeagle.com/2026/07/03/delayed-big-boy-arrival-106-degree-heat-lead-to-mass-casualty-response-in-berks/>Several thousand spectators — plus more than 900 excursion‑train passengers — converged on the station at 3501 Pottsville Pike for Thursday’s appearance of the historic locomotive. But as the Big Boy’s arrival was delayed more than an hour, temperatures climbed to 106 degrees, creating hazardous conditions for those who had already packed into the viewing area.>With more than 100 people requiring on‑scene medical care and 35 transported to hospitals, unified command declared a mass casualty incident to bring in additional resources. One patient went into cardiac arrest and was successfully resuscitated before being transported.Some other articleshttps://www.readingeagle.com/2026/07/02/big-boy-no-4014-locomotive-makes-historic-stop-in-berks/https://www.readingeagle.com/2026/07/02/big-boy-no-4014-locomotive-rolls-through-berks-photo-gallery/This is near my home town, I would have gone but I don't live in the area anymore
>>2077454Got 'em: >>2077540
I used to live in Strasburg and I got to see 4014 every year. Shit was so cash. Head down 36 about 10 miles and watch it steam past at ahout 45mph coming west from Bennett. Fucker shook the ground. Now I live out east and I need to get up to Staunton and watch 611 cruise by out of Shenendoah.
>>2077292>live near a historic B&O bridge >tfw Big Boy don't want to cross it
Got to see the Big Boy today
does anyone have some good recs? i don't like the concept of electricity in my bike. picrel is sold by several sellers on amazon and aliexpress but i'm not sure who's the OEM.
Someone made an analog one a few years ago but it was ANT+ I think or BTLE or whatever
>>2078009The only way you can have RPM and speed measured by the same dial is if the model is locked to a specific wheel diameter. Different wheel diameters have different relationships between RPM and speed, and you need completely different gauge markings.If it didn't claim to display RPM on the gauge, I might not have noticed, but it's 100% non-adjustable/tunable.>5,000 m / hr divided by (400 RPM times 60 minutes in an hour) = 2083 mm per revolution>2083 mm per revolution = 66.3 cm wheel diameter or about 26 and 1/8th inchesHope that exactly matches your bicycle and you don't care about things like tire wear or inflation pressure.
>>2078014i don't care about rpm if it's the wheel's rpm. now if it can somehow measure the pedals's rpm (cadence) that's a different story, it would be like the rpm gauge in a car.
>>2078015im like 90% sure these are just third shift/b-grade qa fail units off of motorcyclesthey probably work fine but after looking into them myself a few weeks ago it's a lot of cabling and weirdness that's probably not worth the SOVL of a mechanical gaugeif you dont want a battery operated thing you could try to figure out a stator/rotor setup to do it without needing a battery like engines use for their timing and tach but that might lose you enough energy to magnets that you can feel it>>2078014good models have a tuning screw and you can probably just replace the faceplate with the actual numbers on it. it should always measure RPM accurately (that is what it is actually measuring, with a little spring loaded clutch thingy right at the axle) but you can figure out that function for RPM to actual wheel speed and sharpie in new numbers on a piece of paper you stick to it>tire wearyou're losing max like 2.99mm before your tire is unserviceable junk>inflationjust keep your tires inflated??Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
