Keep in mind this is for bikes meant to be loaded up. I guess a marketing exec at some point decided kickstands are for poors so no expensive bike can have them now, just like MTBs got stuck with Presta valves. They will literally drill 15+ holes just in case your bike bags use bottle bosses instead of straps, but outright refuse drilling 2 for a kickstand
I have a kickstand, frame bag, and a hitch for a trailer. Seems decent for commuting 70+ km. Might get a rack for carrying backpacks as I only use the trailer for shorter grocery trips. Riding with a backpack is sweaty/uncomfortable.
>>2055609Well in my case, there's been a guy re-posting my photos from elsewhere and posing as me, trying to gin up hatred toward me. He sets up scenarios and plays both sides, starting arguments in other people's threads. It's been going on for years... close to 15 now, but he really ramped it up over the past 10. I can't even remember why he's so upset but it has something to do with insecurity and jealousy because he has no skills. It began on /p/.What he doesn't realize though, is nobody else knows I exist or cares in the slightest. You have to admire his dedication though. I could just trip to put a stop to his antics but it's the only entertainment I get around here anymore.
>go downtown>Lock bike on rack>forget to put kickstand down>hours later>remove lock from bike rack >forgot kickstand wasn't down>bike falls over onto the hard concrete >now paranoid of potential scruffs in the frame and a bent derailleur hanger>mfwhow do people without kickstands deal with the constant risk of their bikes falling over?
kickstands are pointless
>>2065528meds
A 17-year-old German teen has been living life as a modern nomad, leaving his parents’ house to live on trains and travel all over his country.While most 17-year-olds are only just beginning to consider the idea of leaving the nest, Lasse Stolley has already been on his own for over a year and a half. Convinced that his school studies were already behind him, he convinced his parents to allow him to leave their home in Fockbek, Schleswig-Holstein to embark on a unique train-hopping adventure. It took a lot of convincing, but they eventually agreed, and for the last year and a half, the German teen has essentially been living on trains, traveling all over his home country, working as a self-employed coder during the day, and sleeping on night trains at night.“I’ve been living on the train as a digital nomad for a year and a half now,” Lasse told Business Insider. “At night I sleep on the moving Intercity Express (ICE) train and during the day I sit in a seat, at a table and work as a programmer, surrounded by many other commuters and passengers. I travel from one end of the country to the other. I’m exploring the whole of Germany.”He gave into his wanderlust in 2022, selling most of his possessions and packing what was left in a 36-liter backpack that he has been carrying with him ever since. Minimalism and resisting the urge to acquire new stuff are an essential part of his lifestyle, as he needs to take everything with him wherever he goes. It’s not always easy, but he has found a way to make it work.https://www.odditycentral.com/news/german-teenager-left-parents-home-to-live-exclusively-on-trains-for-the-last-year-and-a-half.htmlhttps://www.businessinsider.de/leben/bahncard100-17-jaehriger-lebt-seit-jahr-2022-in-den-zuegen-der-bahn/
>>2058074the chai latte hipsters are less likely to murder you as part of some weird initiation rite
>>1986463I don't imagine he's on the same train all the time, he probably swaps trains and hangs around at stations too. I did something similar on a trip from germany to italy. Spend the day exploring the city, spend the night on the train.
>>2042250That's counting heat, utilities, food etc.
>>2037455I disagree
>>2064859>the chai latte hipsters are less likely to murder youUnless you get their pronouns wrong
>learning spanish>start drinking heavily>day labour at Lowes>get into 4mm, 5mm, 6mm hex specs>boss wants me to adjust his handlebar
>>2054700You need thinner tape probs
>>2060755Yes, that makes it easier
>>2047004It's used as a scribe to carve a tag into the seat
>>2045557>get into 4mm, 5mm, 6mm hex specsImpressive
Graffiti is for low life losers. Carving your tag shit into a public toilet seat is a whole lower level of low life loser holy fuck I hate people like you
Hey guys I love when school busses are repurposed either for USA van lifers or as public transit in other countries like MX, Nica, Guatemala, etc. SO I saw this and took a picture to share with you all I love the green color.
>>2051821Isn't that a french mail truck
>>2051793if you drive fast enough you can hydroplane just above the surface of the water
>>2058086Sheldynne Browne said that's impossible
>>2062297Who is that? She sounds hot
>>2064793some vtuber I think
What the fuck is wrong with these mongoloid slackers? They completely underschedule longhaul trains everywhere outside the NEC so almost no one can use them for shorter trips and then wonder why ridership is in the shitter. Each route should be minimum 3x a day per direction.
>>1992029>>2043515When I was a kid my grandparents lived in Montana so I would take the Empire Builder from Seattle out there at least once a year. Board in the late morning, get a comfy meal in the restaurant, sleep in the bunk bed car, wake up in the early morning to my grandparents picking me up in their random tiny town, extremely comfy desu.Regarding the monorail, I had a job in highschool where I actually used it to commute from downtown to Seattle Center lol. I can’t imagine it gets used much for work.
>>1992023Amtrak is mid, but the local transport in my area going east to west is even worse. If I wanted to travel from Santa Rosa to Sacramento directly by public transit, my only choice would be Amtrak. The county bus line that used to go between Sonoma County and Napa County was canceled in 2018. So the only bus that goes from one to the other is the Amtrak bus. It's slow and costs more than the local bus did, but now it's the only bus on the road. If it didn't exist the only option for public transport would be to travel to San Francisco (bus or train and ferry), then to the East Bay (BART and bus) to board for the train to Sacramento. Marin, Sonoma, Napa, and Solano Counties all have over a million people in total but there is no public transportation system going east to west. It isn't Amtrak's fault the local transport systems have such a hard time bringing people to their train stations.
>>2062712That's the problem with just about all rail based mass transit, it goes in and out of a big hub but there's no "periferico line" so to speak
>>1992023Why is a round trip from NYC to Delaware 200$? Who knows, god is dead, Amtrak is all that remains. Death to this nigger company genuonely
>>2064866is that too high for you, or too low?
I want to strangle every single big buck roadie fred and especially every single downhill-bike-in-a-park pomp who rides around just to do chainsaw sounds with their bicycle's very very expensive hub. "Give way, the asshole is coming!". Like, if you wanna make motorcycle sounds, get an actual motorcycle. A Harley actually sounds cool. A freewheeling bicycle sounds supremely annoying, and also means you are a weak shit who is not pedalling. Fuck you, go ride into a river.
>>2055804nta but ever since normies found out there's such a thing as a urinary tract infection credential, "passed urinary tract requirements" came to be accepted as a sign of quality even though all it really means, in testing terms, is that the bike can go off a 5 inch curb ONCE, with a 150 lb rider, without instantly breaking. that isn't likely to be an issue if you're buying regular builds from regular brands like trek and giant, but if you're really chasing the boutique weight weenie shit you could realistically end up with a death trap that was never designed for more than one race, maximum 5 inch curb, maximum 150 lb rider. I don't know about you but I fully expect my bikes to take more than that kind of abuse, even though I'm a shorter than average seething manlet who weighs next to nothing. you can imagine what an average weight person would have to worry about.
I pack all my hubs and freewheels with grease. If I hear anything but tire contact noise I become a dangerous individual.
>>2064838on the subject of tire noise, has anyone else had the experience of riding through a pool of lanternfly vomit, and the rest of their ride the tire noises are INSANELY loud?
>>2038727I use my driver's license(suspended)
>>2064840bump
Mark my words, horses will make a comeback as the superior transport method.
>>2065971SNIFF
>>2057192>horses have to start having penis inspection stickers like cars get registration and emissions checks
equineed,,,my herd,,,,gone.,,,ithoughthis would beasy letting them go.,,missmy friendsomuch.,,,,,thisto will bedone.,,manup.
>>2066228That's not how periods or commas work, you fucking imbecile.
>>2066327welcome to/n/, newfag
>dropping someone off at the airport>can't tell if "Arrivals" means I'm arriving to drop them off or they're arriving to get picked up>go to arrivals>was supposed to go to departures
>>2065587The passenger is departing the car, and these are drop off only areas
>>2065585Depending on the time of day I'll drop someone off at arrivals or pick them up at departures if it means skipping a long line.
>>2065600>board says my train is leaving on Track 9>count the rails>mfw my train is actually leaving on Tracks 17 and 18
>>2065940lmao
>>2065940kek
Who is the US flag carrier?
>>2063920This one
>>2063911Delta is the best and it's not even close.American feels like a budget airline>lol we're too cheap to put screens on the seatbacks so just use your phoneI've flown airlines in Mexico that had nicer planes than American.
>>2065851>American feels like a budget airline>>lol we're too cheap to put screens on the seatbacks so just use your phoneHas American stopped beverage service in cattle class? Last two segments I was on there was no service, not even Main Cabin Extra.
>>2063911Delta>United>>american>butStar alliance>Skyteam>>oneworldUltimately depends on where you live and where you like/want to go.
That One Trip bloke made a huge difference.Maybe Pan Am was it.
did you take the comfort pill?
>>2065511
>>2062622>it services AT LE SLAC OMG LE SLAC HES SO LE SCIENCE doing it servicesso he's some boomer who wrote a horrific unmaintainable com script for an even more unmaintainable server stack that just fires a 3.3v signal high or low on one pin to fire what is essentially a really big coilgun
>>2062979I never trust people who use framebrags that mount to the bike like that. I bought one once and it rubbed against my thighs. >just wear jeansNo
>>2065775>getting this triggered by someone having a job other than burger flipper at amazonwhat is wrong with you
>>2066250which bag? they all look like they would be annoying a bit of the time but none of them would hit the thigh
Why did hydrofoils never take off?
>>2062562have you seen how much vodka they drink?
>>2059691>>2055476>>2059705> zigger's cope
>>2044074Never got past V1
Cos PWCs are cheaper and more fun (they're like the motorcycles of the waterways)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_7xc2Lvun0
>>2044074Requires too much power/mass and the speed gained doesn't offset the efficiency of a large slow cargoship.
>>2064784Knew I'd miss it. This board is too slow to pick up on something that only lasts a half hour before it's too late.
absolutely
>>2063195always have.
>>2066211>For decades, the Pennsylvania Railroad and its successors offered game-day service to all Army–Navy games in Philadelphia using a sprawling temporary station constructed each year near Municipal Stadium on the railroad's Greenwich freight yard. The service, with more than 40 trains serving as many as 30,000 attendees, was the single largest concentrated passenger rail movement in the country.That's pretty impressive desu
>>2066211That’s an epic lineup of GG-1s
What's the co/n/sensus on FACTOR bikes? Is it worth the extra money to get world class Israeli engineering?
>>2066210overpriced influencer bikes.
>>2066213That is a Factor.
Dylan Johnson LARPGear doesn't really matter on human powered machines
How are the trains in South Korea? And is there a culture around them as well like Japan?
Stockholm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJCCDYbK0Gc>>2064524It's finehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLKN_Rmb39IBut there are lots of cars
>>2064524>>2066219I'm never going to watch your vlog. Buy an ad
Why are they so hated?
>>2066127this desu senpai
>>2066016because they act like they're hot shit on the road and online yet behave like pic rel the moment they touch your door with a knee while cutting you off and never fucking stop.
>>2066133I worked with them for years.Completely unprompted:>I'd b-bike but xyz non-excuse
>>2066137Who says that? Average cagie?
>>2066016The ones that are really hated are those that are basically cager-attitute in lycra. Most people aren't like that, but the people who are really hack everyone else off.They'd be entitled dicks if they were in cars. They'd be entitled dicks if they were in planes or boats. They'd be entitled dicks if they were on goddamn pogo sticks. But it happens they're the entitled dicks on bikes.
