Did indecision cripple Canada's transport industry?
>>2084528I agree that the Arrow is overhyped, and Canada lacked the resources to actually carry it over the finish line independently (hence the desperation for overseas customers).But the speed thing? I don't think that was unique down to the Canadian context, or down to radars. Even if we had the better radars, it was in an era where the speed was appealing as an end in-and-of-itself.This was the period where supersonic flight had finally become as "solved" problem (well, stability issues for the aircraft at low speeds were still a long way off from being solved). So now that there was no longer a speed limit, everyone was trying to push designs as fast as they thought they could.And because these high speed designs were still cutting edge, there was a lack of serious counters for them. Air to air missiles weren't quite fast, long-ranged, and reliable enough to neutralize anything more than trivial maximum speed difference. So there was a serious fear that the USSR would manage to accomplish the same speeds in a bomber, which would fly at a speed and an altitude that quite literally made it untouchable for an aircraft just barely Mach 1. Not matter how far away you detected the bomber and launched the interceptors, you just simple wouldn't be able hit them.And indeed, that was the direction that bomber development went in the 1960's. The issue was that those high-speed bomber designs were also obsolete by the time they rolled out...>>2084564I think you're dramatically underestimating the size of runway these early-era supersonic fighters needed, because their aerodynamics at low speeds were all horrifying. The airbases they would need are no less "dedicated" to the purpose than the missile launch sites.And the airbases still need constant maintenance to avoid that concrete runway from filling with potholes due to the freeze/thaw cycles Canada is famous for. Were you just planning to leave it covered in snow the entire winter?
>>2084595>I think you're dramatically underestimating the size of runway these early-era supersonic fighters neededThe test flew the CF-105 Mark 1 (smaller GE engines) was test flown out of an 11,000 ft runway at what is now Toronto Pearson. The Mark 2 with more powerful Orenda engines would have had no problems. But the program was killed at that point.I've flown in and out of YFB (Baffin Island). Maintenance isn't that much of a problem.
>>2084564>>2084528the classic doctrine isn't "lol if the bombers crash bombs still le boom bro!!!" because even normal dumb bombs with normal C3 in em don't do that. the idea is that as soon as the bombers feel danger, they just drop everything and bail. It's more to reduce weight but once you're dumping ordnance over enemy territory, you may as well arm it too. But even if they were unarmed and just bullying radar operators, they'd still be dropping half-full fuel tanks and dumping the shitters on niggas' hunting lodges.anyway what actually killed the arrow was american competition. the thing was that the US didn't want a competitor in exporting airframes. but even if it had been completed, it would have gone the way of every other interceptor of the time i.e. straight into the fucking trash in favor of CAS planes and multirole fightersthe same thing is happening now to various yuropean jets, and the only thing making the Rafale-E and whatever the neo-Typhoon is becoming mini-Arrow stories for the companies that make them is DJT's shenanegains making other cunts wary of the F35 which similarly gets pushed basically on the basis of "If you don't buy this, we will never sell you anything else ever again" and the companies that pour shit into the F35 also make a lot of other very useful shit that countries actually really do want to buy.it's a very american way of doing things, Microsoft did it, Apple did it, even fucking Bad Dragon did it
>>2084634>even fucking Bad Dragon did itWhat???
>>2084980they bought up e621 and furaffinity to shift it onto their advertising platform, and basically if you wanna shill furfag shit on e621 to the maybe twelve furfags not running an adblocker, you need to shill bd products yourself too thats why they banned loli and some other no-no porn, it was payment processor/ad network stuff. they also use influencer shilling through porn and basically tell them they can't use non bd toys in their videos if they want to keep ad money/keep getting free toys and merch
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>>2082914>no cycling gfI suffer
>>2084115Or if you don't have locking skewers you can take off the front wheel and lock it like the last example in pic related. I usually do that if I'm in a risky area and I only have one D-lock with me.
>>2085074i usually just lock the frame and front tire figuring getting your hands dirty on the chain is usually enough to deter retards who want to steal a single fairly inexpensive rear wheel for whatever crackhead reason, seems to be enough in this homo city
>>2085074good point. I used to even do this with my first bike but I forgot all about it
>>2085075yeah, I'm in a similar city and ride an undesirable bike. so I just have one of those coiled cable combination "gift ribbon" locks and stretch it through both wheels to the anchor, which goes through the frame automatically.I actually do have security skewers, but I lock through both wheels anyway just to signal from afar "these wheels are locked." but because of that, I will lock frame only when I know for sure I'm only locking up for a minute.
Why is /n/ in general so much more friendly and cordial than other boards?
>>2079150>and have (on average) bigger, thicker penises.that can't get up
>bumping an old ass thread on a slow board with nonsenseI do not like posters like you on this forum.
>>2047059>/n/ vs other boards
>>2073849>pick one side only cucks are brain damagedTrvke
>>2047059Because cyclists actually leave the house and touch grass
fuck electronic drive trainsfuck ebikesfuck 32"fuck >26" on mtbsfuck 25mm+ on road bikes (unless riding cobbles or gravel)fuck droppersfuck tubelessfuck constant new bb standards, in fact fuck all threadless bbsfuck boa shoesfuck mixing carbon fork with steel framefuck power metersfuck the industryfuck you if you disagreeliterally the ONLY good changes/trends/etc of the last 30 years are fat bikes and disc brakes, and disc brakes mostly only belong on mountain bikesthanks for listening
>>2082566these fucks are incapable of not speedinf and being recklessi dont want technical limitationsthat is just govenmental tyranny against all because of the fewI want speed limits and forved confiscations (and auctioning) of offenders vehiclesThis has proven extremely effective against retards abusing and being reckless with e-scooters in Austria and Switzerland respectively
>>2082884yeah, fuck sram gxp especiallybearings got gritty and craky after under a year when i replaced that expensive piece of shit with an oem partfuck you srami will never buy something from sram again and will have no lack of disdain for shimano eitherthe chinks arent better eother necaise its chinsy shit (even worse than sram/shimano at times, buyer beware)the only thing one can do is simply stubbornly going a few yeats behind amy trends and using old and proven tech
>>2079641>steel poverty bike unc brake take I bet you look that too
>>2079641fuck carbon anything
>>2079641Based, and Sheldon was a real nigga
NEW SOIFACE JUST DROPPED
>>2085033Thanks for the photo drop RGSanon! I’ve followed the route from Ridgway to Durango and have fond memories of smoking a joint in the cab of #74 when it was in a Boulder park.
Soul vs. soulless
>>2084890Before sodium we had mercury, yeah
>>2084106>Placing fluo anywhere near anything else; above, even...It's the absolutest shitest lightest everest
>>2084889Back in the day there was an "arcade" here that had dozens of old pinball machines, and when I say old, I mean old even then, like 40s', maybe 50s', you know, the smaller wooden ones with 5 balls.Anyway, later, when they got videogame machines, one of them was Asteroids, and that one had a vector crt, though it was b&w.
>>2084106cfls are fluroescent u retard , thats what the f is FOR
>>2079994Modern streetlights make the city look like an office building, they're so harsh and unnecessarily bright and probably fuck up animals and everybody's sleep quality
Does anyone else love good bike stuff but hate how much moralizing has gone into what bike parts/standards are socially acceptable to use?I miss the good old days when the most controversial thing in cycling was not am I a mean judgmental asshole for having something even $1 more than the worst possible piece of shit death trap BSO, but rather, whether you should eat bananas before you ride, or how much water you should be drinking. Can you imagine how much better things would be if we focused on things that matter like whether it's stolen valor for a 50 year old cyclist to date a 25 year old cyclist? Most of all I want misguided luddites to fuck off to the netherlands and stop shitting up a perfectly good thing. There is literally nothing wrong with dicks, crabon, aero wheels, lycra, extremely bright lights that blink, and stuff like that.And furthermore you aren't making things better for cyclists by performatively hating people who enjoy cycling. You're always going to be the annoying faggot who should get off the road (or get off the sidewalk for some of you). Even if you scream how much you hate Castelli gear as you bleed out on the pavement underneath some karen in her SUV.
>>2083202Counting heads such that it becomes a monster isn't a proper noun? Capitalizing grammatically is the same word and concept. A capital (word) is the head noun and subject of this sentence. The aforementioned conceptus is on obviously greater when there is durable meat implied.
>>2077658>socially acceptable to useWhy should anyone care? Only women care about what is "socially acceptable".
>>2083366You sound like a faggot who still has a kickstand on his ""bike""
>>2083384>faggot calling someone else a faggot
>>2083384yes
If you brake, you don’t win.
>>2084982nice.what does the sign say?
>>2084983driving motorcycles or snowmobiles is verboten
>>2084984yeah, you might crash lol
A/n/ybody use these? I was waiting at a bus stop this morning and someone whizzed past me in one. Any anons recommend them?
Stop highjacking this thread for your superfluous politics or other vehicles, i wanna hear stories of people nearly killing themselves via these lil crotchrockets
>>2082559you forgot the ultimate con of """monowheels"" (unicycles)>you look like a clown
>>2084944sure when you're standing and riding slow or you're dressed like a faggot. this is just something you don't care about once you're riding. most people that have a reaction are either perplexed or excited when i ride by.another con i'll add is repair/servicing. expect to do it all yourself since shops are extremely limited
>>2085003imo the motocross armor on a unicycle going 9001kmh has become so ingrained into the culture that it looks goofy, but somehow less goofy than people doing it in jorts and safety sandals>expect to do it all yourself since shops are extremely limitedm8 that's fucking everything these days, despite all the strides with right to repair there's no fucking repair shops for goddamn anything anymore, even independent car mechanics are dying
>>2081966Can't you just roll it like a wheelbarrow?
>covid happens>city closes highway and makes it car free>covid ends>city opens highway to cars just for weekdays>2024 election voters vote 55% in favor of turning it permanently into a park>car brains get mad>2 years later car brains put up ballot that undoes it>support for the park has only increasedAnyone else excited for the fallout?
>>2085005Based.
>>2085005>Take public transport>Even once>Not in thirdiestanYeah, no.
>>2085013NTA; I'm going to assume you've never commuted via rail transit in your life, therefore, your opinion is invalid.
>>2085014NTA but I used to commute by rail daily in SF.
>>2085015Nice.
> this cyclist shows up> he slaps your gf's ass while riding his bike> he turns his head back and stares at you while he rides slowlywhat do you do? you have the choice of one vehicle to get into in 2 minutes
>>2078023not happening because he would lose wattage doing so
>>2078023I don't have a gf meaning that the ass he slapped and stare he now gives me means that he marked her as our rape target. Afraid of the cyclistrapist I am forced to join him in the release of this time of sexual emergency.
>>2078023ride next to my girlfriend and kiss her while grabbing her breasts
>>2080996peak sigma
>>2080996not happening because it would wreck his KOM
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?
>>2084896>cities generate the wealth while everyone else just uses it improperly You wouldn’t know the means of production if it slapped you in the face.
>>2021119gross.I'm hoping we'll get a chainring that expands as it rotates faster, like those little weights in a moped cvt
>>2020833Making recumbents affordable. Also I'm sure that cruzbike doesnt have the resources to find optimizations like the big racing companies. I wonder if they'll get too fast for double diamond riders to ignore
>>2021097all of these things now exist and are all bad and ass. you monkey pawed us
>>2021767>quill stemsi seriously dont understand why they ever left. fork tubes you can adjust literally one single time BY CUTTING IT WITH A HACKSAW are dumb as fuck, it's some shit a hick would do in his garage after welding up his own frame, not some shit major manufacturers should be making. modern stems are a regression
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?
>>1962645You allowed your sport to become politicized. And more about pissing people off whom you dislike rather than trying to make it better for yourself.
>>2002298Jonas worked in a fish cannery before becoming a pro. He’s completely and autistically obsessed with cycling in addition to be being a subhuman troglodyte with disgusting fish lips. Having to watch them sickeningly extend from his horrible visage to kiss the sticker of his family on his bars every time he won a stage in the giro was terrible. You’re probably thinking of Remco Evenepoel, who was a lower level footballer before becoming a cyclist.
>>1962812This and living in my suburb has never made this easier. More bike trails and paths every year. More bike lanes. More share the road signs. More motorists either being a cyclist of some kind or knowing one themselves and therefore being more careful with cyclists on the road. Cars blocking intersections will back up to let you through. Sometimes brainlet cagies will literally stop and hold up all traffic to let you go, which is as funny as it is annoying and mostly unhelpful.It’s better than ever and I won’t pretend otherwise.
>>2001365>no, you shouldnt be able to take up a whole lane when you go 10 mph up a hill. go take your lycra wearing ass to the bikepath.my city unironically made it illegal to do otherwise. all the bike paths dump you out at ridiculous hills that conspicually do not have a path for that bit, then the path resumes where it's kinda flat. it's incredibly gay and no one likes it except for tradie wagies taking their "ebikes" (actually just a straight up sit-down car battery powered scooter they've had in the shed since 2003) on bike paths (who also no one likes, but we have at least come to terms with)
>>2084563>Cars blocking intersections will back up to let you through.please do not do this. the safest way to maneuver around a vehicle will always be to go behind it. do not reverse on city streets unless you're trying to park or are getting out of the way of something about to smash the front half of your car
Why are hovercraft still more of a curiosity and not widespread? I wish they were, they're rad
>>2084894doesn't the skirt wear out quicker than tires and it's super expensive? I think that's why, iirc
>>2084894The regime in which hovercrafts start to outperform regular ships, completely other modes of transport start becoming preferable compared to water-surface-based transport.
Fuel efficiency I guess. They have their uses where water is full of gunk that would get stuck.Then there's noise and comfort in having a giant-ass propeller right behind you.
>>2084894very expensive, fairly slow, amphibious are irrel to most people's >USE CASE, and it gets btfo by waves (which exist anywhere where a boat is practical or fun)
>take job interview>"Do you have Reliable Transportation?"How do you explain that your bike is "Reliable Transportation" in the High Figgies Job Interview?
>>2076309Your testicals will be fried by the massive electric field between your legs. I wouldn't risk it.
>>2081004Can't use these without it knocking my front disc brake out of alignmemt. No thanks. My bike goes in the disabled section. We both depend on wheels to get where we are going, cripples. Not that you ever see one.
>>2084791wow a bootleg Honda Elite
>>2084855have you considered actually tightening the bolts
>>2076284I can do the route via bike in 20min +- 1min or I can take the car and do it in 20min +- 20min depending on traffic + parking.
