Post your favorite or most used train station or bus stop.Once a year or so I like to start this thread, it usually ends up pretty interesting.
>>2076745I heard in some old porn, Montreal has the best whores. That true?
>>2076745Vendome does look like ass above ground but it's absolute kino inside.
>>2076745Do you guys still have phone booths or is that an old photo? if so are they just urinals for crackheads? I can't imagine too many uses for them nowadays.
>>2077177There are still a few kicking around Montréal because the telcos are too cheap to rip them out. These ones, however, are gone.For whatever reason, OP decided to post a picture of Vendôme from 2007-06-06.
>>2077591A whopping 115 when it was new, not 115 today. Also flight was canceled this evening, too hot. Instructor barely made it over the trees and couldn't make pattern altitude with a girl student onboard. I miss the cub already.
>>2077457tfw in D side training right now at my facility and it looks like i'm gonna pass but fuck is the last section getting tough
>>2075151Good looking, looking good
>>2076056We use pallets and its way better.
>boeingthis is beyond parody
>CFM-56 fan blade decides to fly off breaking the window>hurr boeing bad durr
I assume the beoing shills are going to find a way to blame this on indians, gays, women, or black people
i can't believe the black indian gay women would do this bros...
>>2077651Lol maybe Boeing should hire competent workers instead of gay black Indian women
tfw u think the engine pokaz wiecej but it just damaged -_-;;
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.
>>2061928To be fair, it's impossible to spend over a month in NYC and not fantasize about killing at least a hundred NOO YAWKUHZ>>2073276Hmm, yes, such "art" our culture is so much richer for having some overgrown schoolboy's doodles on vital infrastructure
>>2058178I know the old Romanian stock was graffitied to shit, but that sounds dubious. I swear those things weren't made of metal, maybe plastic or whatever Trabants were made out of, so I don't know if they needed paint.>>2066470They've been phasing those out for 20 years, I remember the first time I saw one of the new Bombardier ones, heard a weird klaxon and saw it rolling in on the other line. What lines do the old ones still run on, M4?
>>2075405 >M4I think so. Dunno if they finally scrapped them.
>>2065347>Will destroy the advertising materialsOY VEY
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.
/sabg/ spurgeout about bikes general
Im more of an assos guy myself
Do you guys think Fred Armisen did a good Durianrider impression?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pe7jtFvMYAI wish we had the good kind of food rider here and not reddit narwhal rider
>>2077658>but hate how much moralizing has gone into what bike parts/standards are socially acceptable to use?What?
What is it that makes a BSO a BSO and not a Bike? Can a BSO be elevated to Bike status with upgraded components?Is the term BSO throw around too liberally to even be taken seriously anymore?
>>2077440I'm an MTB guy so I can actually point to some stuff that makes that a BSO. -The long, straight head tube is a big one, it makes it effectively impossible to upgrade the front fork, and judging by the style of stem it'd be hard to install better bars too - and those ones are comically high and forward, ironically making it appropriate for someone with ape-like proportions.-The seat tube looks like it'd be difficult to put a dropper in, especially because there's almost certainly no routing for a cable.-It's a 2x or 3x drivetrain, which is obsolete for MTBs, and there's a good chance the bottom bracket isn't a common size that would allow you to swap to a more modern drivetrain. -It's QR front and rear, which makes it difficult to install better wheels or anything related to them and is arguably dangerous on an MTB with disc brakes, especially on the front.-Good luck getting a replacement derailleur hanger when you bend/break it. I mentioned dated geo in my early post, but really I guess I'd say that dated design in general is a big sign, and that's basically a poorly made copy of a bike from the early 2000s and if it conforms to any standards it'll be ones from back then, and even when stuff is available in those sizes it's usually just OE replacement, as I learned the hard way when I tried to modernize an actual good '90s MTB a few years ago.
why did i check this thread after i brought my $400 LTWOO-equipped BSO
>>2077690we told you not to buy it in the other thread and you bought it anyway, dumbass
>>2077690looks perfectly cromulent to me
>>2077703>anon teaches me a wordDoesn't happen very often. Many thanks.
Mechanical perfection.Why do coastercucks, rimjobs, or mech dicks exist when you could have picrel?
>>2076869Hydros are poorfag cope with zero modulation.
>>2076874>>2076894>>2076917I hate you niggers like you wouldnt believe.
>>2076944funpost your preferred archaic braking method thenfor me, it is DRUMS
>>2076847Name even one bike that uses this
>>2077701Stop feeding the trolls.
It is said that if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Are you one of the good ones, /n/? Do people say you're not like those other cyclists?
>>2028005it's called a wet dream.
>>2068082There was a radio show on NPR that did a piece on this if that's not too woke/anti-white
>>2069948NPR doesn't exist anymore grandpa
>>2068079National driver here: truer words have never been spoken. Only the public self policing and reporting plates of offenders is the only hope. Police are goofy, clumsy janitors and at a 10,000 to 1 ratio effectively dont exist. Only hiccup is nearly everyone would get their license pulled, cause as youve said: it everyone. So we should start with the bottom 10% of drivers per year. If thar doesnt scare these morons into stop playing hotwheel track, who cares, de-motor everyone.Great way to start private ride share buses.
>>2076076>de-motor everyonebit barbaric thoughbeit?
Just the other day I rode the new Brightline train. It was really nice, modern, and for once it's faster than going in your car.U.S. will never be like Japan, or like Europe, but its the closest thing we got.How does /n/ feel about this new train in Florida?
>>2073975From my personal experience, while it is nice, it is in no way worth that amount of money. My greatest gripe with it is however the way in which it overcoddles the passenger. What do you mean needing to be guided to the boarding area? Is this an airport? Can't I just wait on the platform? How retarded do you think your customers are? Is a regular check-in via NFC pass or ticket with direct access to the platforms too simple?
>>2074121>How retarded do you think your customers are?it's not just america, it's fucking FLORIDA. even if you remove "Florida Man" memes, it's still full of snowbirds, DUI riders, boomer retirees, and other such n'er'do'wells incapable of reading basic signage or standing in a queue line
>>2073975Florida should be abandoned. It would be uninhabitable with air conditioning.
It kills idiots, so that’s fine by me.
>>2073975Brightline West STILL hasn't even finished the damn parking garage for the station. I suffer.
man biking up hills sucks ass
If the reason biking uphill is worse than walking is because you can reverse unlike walking then why don't we make wheel that can only spin in one direction for bikes?
>>2074511>e bike intensifysor really just walk, its faster, and it gives the legs a break.briddy much need 1.43 meters of development to even bother with biking uphill.>>2075580wear padded shorts, the pads are kept inline with your body.main problem with seat shapes / profiles is having to sit in the same spot.padding too soft will just take pressure off your sit bones and put it onto the soft parts.if a seat is too wide your gracilis muscle will just carve into the padding over time.>>2075587quit cycling, before it obliterates your knees, wrists and lumbar.
>>2074517>>2074529tfw I have the same bike as biden
>>2074511This bike is good for climbing hills. I've ridden one for seven years, and I will never need to buy an electric bike.
>>2074529Try finding a photo op of a US president on any other bike brand. They are literally a lobbyist.
Rec me bikes similar to picrel: Giant Attend CS 1 (which i am having a very hard time of finding)>hub gear>perfect diamond frame (slightly downward-sloping top tube is acceptable like picrel)>rim or disc gears>front suspensions>that cargo thing behind the saddle
>>2077607>pinion model is expensiveare you retarded?
>>2077610anon, i just checked. the bike costs like 5000 EUR
>>2077611No shit. If you're poor better stick to alfine
>>2077607did you pick their most expensive model to make a point or do you think they all cost like that? the pinion gearbox is extremely expensive but they make a lot of bikes with cues etc that go below €1000
fuck iti bought
They're the definition of cattle class. They're slow, expensive, and you're sleeping in a tiny room with total strangers. Any sleeper route can be better served by a low-cost airline, and cheaper to boot. Sleeper trains made sense in the 19th century when they were the only option, but they make absolutely no sense today.
>>2075867Where was this? Sounds lile something maybe from eastern Europe.When you have a private cabin you can lock it from the inside so that not even the conductor can get in. I think the shared cabins as well, though you'd be at the mercy of some other passenger being in cahoots with the thieves.
>>2069203>They used to make Rolls Royces where you could take a dump through the floor of the carNo they didn't, that was basically a one-off for royalty because due to safety considerations stopping for toilet break could be difficult. It also didn't just plop onto the road but had a waste tank.
>>2075907>eastern EuropePoland, several years ago if not more.
there are actually good sleeper tho
>>2055909Indians are obsessed with trains
"Wofür ist das?"-EditionAnything public transport in German-speaking Europe is fair game.
>>2075163>railway liberalization just means the profitable routes are taken up by private businesses while govts are stuck with the unprofitable ones>essentially privatization of profits and socialization of losses>all the while infrastructure management becomes completely inefficient because it's separated from operations Another great success for the EU
https://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/bahnverkehr-in-deutschland-steht-wohl-weitestgehend-still_ab0abc9d-5926-4c53-8f48-74198aaa5b43.html>running software updates outside the deepest night...which makes me think that explanation is bullshit.Just how fucking brittle are DB InfraGo's systems anyway?The last large-scale outage before this one was due to some "activists" cutting two cables.
>>2076672I don't even know anymore, man. At this point, I wouldn't put it past DB to roll out a nation-wide software update on a weekday evening with a bug of critical severity either getting overlooked or not being tested for at all.In any case, DB should count their lucky stars that this didn't happen on a friday afternoon.
>>2076802DB has no lucky stars.They are ultimately steered by politicians and politicians don't know shit.Every single field in which the state has critical influence goes to shit. Always. No exceptions. For the responsible managers effectively never end up taking responsibility. They have nothing to fear.I have no inside view of DB's IT, but there is no way, there were no concerns raised regarding running an update (or "key component switcharoo") like that.
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Post your ride during sundown Post your favorite lights and light setupsDo not: Be a haterTalk shitPost daylight ride photos
>>2058814is it a dumb idea to ride my bike on the road at night in the middle of the country? I wanna start riding to work but when I get done it's like 10pm
>>2073782I do this. Keep a tight schedule so you see mostly the same people, and be visible with a good tail light. Consider using two for redundancy. Maybe avoid Fridays when the drunks are numerous.
>>2073614I found a plethora of knives on a bike path. I like to collect hobo stabbers :)
>>2073782yeah, country drivers are usually worse and more often drunk. however there is less traffic overall so it evens out. but still, get lights. and as tempting as it is to get gorillion watt lumenblasters, they dont actually make you harder to hit
>>2075927
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?
>>2050785that is the magazineit's internal, non detachable
>>2076021clip
>>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
