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Ginga has a guest book in the lounge now, new from last year, cute.
JR East will build a new diagnostic trainset to replace the E926 East-i in 2029, the E927 will be based on the successor of the E6 Series and has improved monitoring equipmenthttps://www.jreast.co.jp/press/2025/20251007_ho02.pdf
>>2053944what makes Japan fun is the variety. Literally hundreds of train companies with different philosophies, completely different rolling stock, operations, uniforms etc.. Korea has mostly nationalised rail, so it doesn't have that fun variety.The disadvantage of Japan is the variety means every single company does things differently. Thankfully at least now with IC cards the fare usually gets calculated automatically. >>2054915Seiji Maehara was responsible for the Haneda airport expansion and internationalization, which he forced through when he was MLIT minister. That project took years but is now bearing great fruit. Sadly he rarely gets the credit for it, because the results can only be seen a decade later.
>>2055637https://tabiris.com/archives/ofuku-haishi/On March 14th JR companies will abolish discounted round trip tickets and continuous tickets(A to B via D + B to C via D). You'll still be able to simultaneously buy two separate tickets at normal fare.I'm hoping that stopovers will still be a thing by the time I go to Japan again next year.https://tabiris.com/archives/tokyo-homedoor/JR East will install platform doors on Tokyo Shinkansen platforms by 2028, presumably in preparation for their autonomous operation plans sometime in distant future.
What could I expect w*rking as a seasonal transit operator for the winter season in park city?Split shift?
>>2054836You will have an erratic schedule
>>2054864In Park City? Nah, too rich and white for that.
>>2055208>>2054836Yeah, makes it even more dangerous because for them other folk you have a visual cue to be on your guard.
>>2054836Boy, if they put you on a split shift, do not take the job. It is not worth it.
>>2055258All my home berries hate split shift
Why are trainheads so obsessed with the arbitrary distinction of "high speed rail"?Especially in America where we barely have any passenger rail in the first place. Sure it would be nice to have trains that go fast, but wouldn't you rather first have any trains at all? Insisting that all new passenger rail be "high speed" just makes it exponentially more expensive to build and less likely that anything will ever happen. See picrel.
i think the obsession with "high speed" rail is just weebs jealous of the shinkansen. most people dont travel enough to make high speed rail worth investing into, but there definitely should be better freight and normal passenger coverage
>>2054512Local passenger travel needs to be ironed out in the U.S before intercity passenger travel because most trips are made locally. It would've been a much better investment to invest in the LA Metro than CAHSR, many more trips are made inside the metropolitan area Although I think it's a shame that Acela doesn't have its own dedicated HS viaducts>>2055616The reason why CAHSR exists is because of the busy flight corridor between LA and SF and the overcrowded airports.
>>2049449>if you're just going to have to rent a car once you get off.>He thinks this doesn't apply to airportsLol wut?
>>2055639>CASHR existsIt exists as an organization, not anything functional. It exists the same way the U.S. Space Force exists. I doubt that the airports are overcrowded since France had to shut down flights to make their HSR work
>>2055639>LALAX is a dogshit airport with abysmal design and will never not be congested because it is designed in a fundamentally stupid way. idk about SF's airport though but it's SF so it probably sucks
>live in small city>main road through town is 4 lanes>city removes one lane on either side and puts in a bike lane>cyclists still ride on sidewalk>traffic has now doubled and gets horribly backed up several times a daywhy are you fucks like this
>>2055575>on foot>driveyou should be hit by a car, preferably a big and heavy one.
>>2055577roundabouts are cancer because they make navigating them absolute ass without a responsive navigator. trying to count turns while moving along the curved lane along with other cars and wondering if it's the right misery. meanwhile it's impossible to fuck up navigating an intersection, you either go straight, right or left and you can always check and plan it beforehand so you can actually pay attention to the road when you're in the middle of traffic rather that trying to find the right direction at speed.roundabouts need to be color coded according to the cardinal directions so you can put a compass on a dashboard and instantly know where to go.
>>2055575>"20 minutes by foot">driving
>>2055577Its le traffic calming curve :)
>>2055579>compass on a dashboardmotherfucker are you amish or something? who the fuck uses a compass while driving? you know we have GPS now right?
Not a single fucking shop in Ontario wants to touch electric stand-on kick scooters for any reason. I'm not going all the way to Toronto to fix a single wiring issue that killed the throttle after driving through an ankle-deep puddle. Google keeps bringing up Durham E-Bikes Sales and Service which specifically says in their website "SORRY WE DO NOT SERVICE STAND-ON KICK SCOOTERS". What is with these things that make repair shops so scared of them? With how popular they are getting there are gonna be a LOT of angry stranded scooter users when they start breaking down.
bike chads keep winning
e-scooters are for faggots in the first place, e-bikes only recently got good enough to not be purestrain cringe. even if they werent theyre 90% proprietary junk and parts that are non-serviceable by nature (control boards, batteries, solid rubber wheels, etc)get a real vehicle>>2048433modern e-bikes are basically just a way to get an electric moped without needing a license and anything that lets me skirt licensing laws is beautiful
>>2055236I'm not sure if Amish women should be called ChadsIt doesn't feel right
just chuck it in the landfill and get another from wherever the Uber Pajeats get theirs
Buy a bike like a normal person you retarded faggot clanker jockey.
Share your daily rides, post pics and stats. Complain about hills and mosquitoes.you do actually ride your bike, right anon?old thread >>2045380
fountains are shut off during cold seasonfirst ride with the uswe race 2 and i really like it thing does not move and allows me to still use the jersey pockets
>it's another "anon has nothing to do on a beautiful weekend so he goes on an aimless 20-25 mile bike ride for an hour or two just to be out of the house" episode haha gee it was great biking past all the families, friends, people with children, eating at restaurants, walking the streets together, doing stuff at the park, and living their lives happily while i was complete self-congizant how im the autistic retard biking alone through town
>been NEET-mode for a few weeks now>go ride my bike on some weekdays for a few hours through town just to do something>feel weird biking at random weekday hours because I should be working >see people around town, wonder what their story is shopping or walking around in the middle of the afternoon like me>bike past my old schools (still live where I grew up because I'm a loser), sometimes when school is getting out of session like 3 pm or so>see all the kids and see the classrooms and structures I remember, and get memories of back when I was a somewhat happy kid and wasn't a miserable loser
>>1999701fuck you
Last week a grill asked me if I wanted to ride together some time. Totally random, I couldn't believe it was happening. So we exchanged numbers and I texted her later. No response. So it's another weekend riding alone, as was my destiny. If someone doesn't interact with me, they can get a false impression, but inevitably after a brief interaction, they realize I'm not normal and should be avoided.She's probably out having fun with normal people. Smiling and being happy. It comes easy to them.
>do an outdoor hobby on weekday nights in the fall and regularly on weekends year-long>im the only person who doesnt have a car to go with, so i just use my bike and subway to get around>draw attention to myself being "the bike guy" from all the people who see me and recognize me>takes me multiple times longer to get to/from the hobby because of biking and/or subway rather than just driving, but hey, at least its more time being out of the house, even on weekday nights it means getting back home after 9, 915pm instead of 8-815pmwhat a sad existence
>>1999701there are currently 0 women experiencing something like this
I currently have a very basic one that came with the bike (pic rel). It's at proper height so I get zero pressure on the perineum, but if the terrain doesn't require me to get up every couple of mins, I quickly get sore sit bones. I wanna do some touring (min 50 km daily) so that won't do. So, I measured them bones and set about finding a new one.Thing is, I have zero experience with other saddles and have no clue what to look for. It seems like saddles under 50€ aren't worth looking at, but it also seems like I'll have to buy multiple either way until I find the right one. It baffles me that saddles go up to 300€ and there's never a way to try them out. Am I just supposed to waste money until I luck into one that fits? Is there at least a flowchart?
>>2055260Or you could be a hardcunt and deal stock saddle.
>>2045669good ole B17that's what I ride
>>2045783High bars and a low big saddle do help to keep you upright and able to see. I put picrel together old person bike for my mom to ride with me on gravel. She was using my other gravel bike but would wander all of the trail staring the front tire and end up unable to operate the trigger shifters or know what front chainring to be in. This fucker keeps her vertical, is a 1x and had a twist shifter. It weighs like 46 pounds but that will help her get in shape lmao. I'll take off the suspension fork and square taper bb to save some weight.
>>2046081Coolest bike on the board. Are those sickers or did you write all that? Also, have you heard for spray and forget? It'll clean ur siding.
>>2055129yeah. the fork itself is made of chromoly steel, which is not something that snaps or breaks. what's the issue, and why should i hand over money to surly when this fork is working perfectly fine? it rides 20-30 miles a day. the tire is still on backwards thoughbiet.
British government announces new free bicycle program for all interested residents!https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jm3wxvlkjo
we need to invent exploding seatsif you don't unlock the seat and it senses that the bike is going somewhere, it'll let you go 200 meters and then castrate you with gunpowderit'll emulate natural selection, if all of us buy boom seats, bike thieves will not reproduce, and in a few generations evolution will create humans that are predisposed to not taking shit that isn't theirsit's for the betterment of the world, 50 grams of sodium azide at a time
>>2055601Based and redpilled but then if the technology will become too common it can be used by evil-doers as well. It's a reap what you sow kind of situation
>>2055610>evil-doerswhy, polearms tipped with bike seats will be our first line of defense against riot police
>>2055592shut up and get mad about uhhhhh um
>>2055597>They are talking about bike racks at urban train stations. People are going to be coming-and-going all the time, causing tons of motion alerts. Are you retarded? Guy comes to the police: "hey my bike [picture] got stolen from rack 12"You find a time when the bike was there. Then skip to when it's gone. Now back to when it was there. Then to where it's gone. Boom, timestamp found.
Although I set out some preferences for the last one I ended up settling for literally anything to do with Britain. Those preferences about foreign exports and rare diversions remain in place but otherwise post what you like as long as it fits the broader requirement
You guys suck
At least there isn't that stupid ass restriction on image quality anymore anyway
>>2054395Double cursed
>>2055593And now for a palette cleanser in the form of this photo of a Pacer enjoying the majestic Canadian Rockies
>>2055593Here's a version that actually isn't cursed
Need it or keep it?
Reminder that Seattle could've had a BART like system and the Feds would've paid for 2/3rds of it but retarded fiscal conservatives voted it down multiple times in the 70s. The funding then moved to Atlanta to fund MARTA The project's name was Forward Thrust
>>2049487Needs to be expanded yesterday. Seattle is a traffic hellscape and the buses get caught up in the car gridlock, because it's a death spiral where transit takes forever to get around so more people drive so traffic gets worse so public transit takes even longer so even more people drive... The light rail is running in a dedicated track and won't get caught up in the fucking car traffic, giving people hope. There is no reason Shitattle can't have NYC level trains. It has the density if only because the water forced all the development to be restrained and thus dense. Shoutout to the Bellevue mall owner for being a fucking dick. There's also no reason that the trains can't go everywhere from Everett to Olympia. None. In a rare case the development in the sound region is almost a straight line and YET there's no train system. And don't say just take Amtrak because the amtrak gets delayed by an hour because some yoofs are out in kent playing on the god damned tracks and the cops take forever to show up because they're too busy eating donuts. Just equip the amtrak with a snowplow and mow the little bastards down. It would be better if we could carpet bomb everything south of yesler.
>>2050111King st station is walkable to all of downtown including the ferry platform. The issue is the large number of gronks congregating in the area. It's a slum. ID and pioneer sq should be the most beautiful and desirable area in the city and yet they're overrun with tents and needles and off leash shitbulls. Every fucking gronk has a massive pitmongrel so you get random maulings in addition to random stabbings. >>2050137Recruiting/temp firms. The job market is pure ass but the microstudios make cost of living affordable. The caveat is it's too expensive to own a car in the places you can get the microstudios (cap hill etc) because the cars get stolen all the time. my coworker has had her car stolen 4 times in 6 years. And yet the jobs are a bunch of boomer retards who will discriminate against you if you don't have a car because they all live in the suburbs with houses they bought 20 years ago for 3 chickens and some pocket lint that are now worth 1.5m. With no job experience you can look at amazon warehouse, but you need a car to get there, and it doesn't pay enough to afford to upkeep a car. I truly hate this place.
>>2055389>Reminder thatWho cares
>>2055329Vancouver CMA has <2.7 million. To >>2055324's comment though, Montreal CMA is bigger than the Seattle metropolitan area. Still much better coverage/quality of service per capita though
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?
>>2030631What are you saying? It looks to me that it take a higher force to achieve the same deflection as aluminum. Plus aluminum allows a greater cross section as compared to steel yielding a stiffer tube by weight anyway. Steel will never be as stiff as aluminum from its limited tube designs and heaver total weight to compensate
>>1976567If anything, Roadies should be psyched about the developments in the last decade. Tons of people got into biking because of the pandemic, realized they enjoyed the fundamentals of it, but spent like 5 minutes engaging with the culture and realized that it's super fucking gay and weird, and then swapped their wheelsets to gravel and changed over to that. So now there's a fuckton of money pouring into biking overall, but you still get to keep your section of the hobby pure.
>>1962645>weird thread about how much an oldfag you are in le cycling werld>doesn't mention e-bikes being a problemhuh?
>>2055617ebikes are not cycling
>>2055618What about conversions where people take a cheap 500$ walmart mountain bike and throw a hub motor on the front and then call themselves "bike commuters"?
hongcouver getting some china ferries…elbows up?
>>2055435Hey, we made some decent ships back in the wooden era!Though that was mostly because Europe deforested itself and literally could no longer make ships fast enough with what was left...
>>2055435picrel were made in quebec and while they're fucking useless to the military, purely as ships they're perfectly okay and the few glaring design fuckups were the result of government meddling (and not even that important, like what exact material to make non-water ballast out of, and adding a bit of extra length that impacted handling slightly but also added a bunch more cabins)>>2052184have you ever been to victoria? its population is made up of abbos, military people who are utterly transient, and retired boomers. of course everything is retarded>>2046338the idea is if you buy local, it makes local jobs, and increases economic velocity. it's basically a way to do stealth welfare; instead of just paying hobos who will just spend it on crack, you fork over the cash to Irving who will then employ the hobos who will still buy lots of crack but also be emboldened to do things like rent property or eat groceries and otherwise participate in the normal economy, which in turn requires they pay taxes. its kinda like a pyrimid skeem
>>2046273Based, can't wait for Canada to become a Chinese province so it will finally have proper infrastructure.
>>2055505>the idea is if you buy local, it makes local jobs, and increases economic velocity. it's basically a way to do stealth welfare; instead of just paying hobos who will just spend it on crack, you fork over the cash to Irving who will then employ the hobos who will still buy lots of crack but also be emboldened to do things like rent property or eat groceries and otherwise participate in the normal economy, which in turn requires they pay taxes. its kinda like a pyrimid skeemI am aware of the economic arguments like this. I actually have an undergraduate economic background. Which is precisely the reason I say the arguments are retarded.Paying the hobos the money straight up will cost less than your elaborate stealth-welfare program. Especially when you consider how much the Irving clan that owns the corporations are going to skim off the top before it gets to the hobos. And the money stolen by the Irvings will not be going into the economy because they will just put it in overseas bank accounts.The only reason we don't pay the hobos straight up is that it has bad optics. Hobos look dirty and don't make for good photo ops compared to the Irving clan. And if you start giving money to some of the hobos in Nova Scotia, the ones in BC start to notice and get uppity, and there are a lot more hobos in BC than in NS.
>>2055588true but remember that the irvings will either kick back the money or have a politician driveby'd as appropriate if they dont do it that way whilst BC only has namby pamby film studios and techbro startups who do not enjoy such power
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
>>2050151Bikes are like dogs. Putting them on their back is the ultimate humiliation.
>>2050161>his dog doesn't like to roll overNgmi
>>2047836This setup actually makes sense on pure road bikes. I got a 2017 allez with literally 0 mounting points. It's a good setup for summer road touring.
>>2046974>external cable routingSoul.
how did so many posts delete
Theoretically speaking, if I was an entrepreneuring billionaire and I wanted to bring back one of the great American passenger trains (Super Chief, California Zephyr, Panama Limited, Empire Builder, City of Los Angeles/San Francisco, 20th Century Limited, Broadway Limited, Powhatan Arrow, Coast Daylight, etc.) to run on a regular basis (let's put it at at least two times a month for a start), which option would be more feasible from an economic/technical/legal perspective?1. Acquire all of the surviving rolling stock (sleepers, dining cars, dome/observation cars, baggage cars, etc.) from the original consist from private owners, heritage railways, and museums, as well as matching surviving locomotives (can be from ones different railroads since thousands of functionally and aesthetically identical EMD F and E units were sold to all Class I railroads). Renovate them as necessary to make them FRA-compliant, obtain waivers wherever possible. Put them into service as a part-luxury train, part-mobile museum.2. Commission the construction of a replica consist. Building entirely new streamlined cars from scratch, designed to match the internal and external appearance of its original as much as possible, with changes only being made when it's literally required to make the car FRA-compliant/modern user friendly (updated wiring, HEP, power outlets at seats, WiFi support, replacing wooden paneling with MDF paneling etc.). Motive power consists of custom-built Siemens Chargers designed to resemble the original E and F units (streamlining, bulldog noses, matching paint schemes, etc.) as much as legally possible.1/2
There just aren’t enough wealthy boomer train autistes to make this feasible. There’s these luxury cruise trains in the Canadian and Colorado Rockies but their primary clientele isn’t foamers. You can take short rides on vintage equipment at rail museums, or just get drunk or high enough on Amtrak to imagine yourself in the golden age of rail travel.
>>2011902>>2011903Option 2 if you want longevity
>>2048155Thank God this baby got preserved
>>2053389This thread's been up for over a year and most of the replies are just you bumping your thread. Not much interest in it. Let it go
>>2053390nta but I've ghost bumped it a couple of times
