Anyone else feels like absolute shit after crashing? it's not even the pain of it it's just the faith in your ability slowly dying inside. When I was younger it was whatever but now it feels like someone chipped away a chunk of confidence.
>>2063446having ridden motorcycles before I ever started road cycling, the one rule that was drilled into me and lives with me any time I'm on something with two wheels is that you do not ever mix inputs and fully brake before the turn, or you're gambling with your life
>>2059306>I almost wonder if the brain goes into a crash analysis mode going over the incident and figuring out subconscious solutions so it doesn’t happen again.this is a well recorded phenomenon and is literally the mechanism behind PTSD
>>2044901Never been depressed by it. More like seething rage.Because first bike crash was when I was a 12y.o. kid riding my bike, car speeding through out residential area, I stopped just in time to not be hit by the car but I went to the ground getting scrapped up pretty bad and the car crunched my bike.He tried to sue my mom for it, for supposed "damage" to his car. Mom had to go to police who told him off and the whole thing was dropped. Second time was last year an eBike rider doing over 30mph in the sidewalk (where bicycles are allowed) was paying attention to his phone, and despite my best effort to avoid him, he crashed into me and destroyed my bike and left me bleeding nd wounded in the grass ditch and he ran away.
>>2069419and then everyone clapped
it happens to the best of us. is it dangerous to ride a bike when you have dementia?https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xUt8R_fasdI
MD11 edition
I became a pilot to get chicks and now all I do is fly, read about flying, and get stressed out about stage checks and checkrides.
>>2069303>in the last thread they were saying rotor guys were so much more skilled etc,Not my experience with them in airline operations. I had RTP FOs at the regionals and at the ULCCs. They're great guys, humble people and always appreciative of advice but they're terrible in jets. Never flew with one I wouldn't want to fly with again. I totally get it, if you stuck me in a helicopter I'd be completely fucked.
>>2069240Congrats, now get ready to learn. I just upgraded to CRJ CA, I'll see you on the line.>>2069329>>2069303Very hit and miss IMO. Couple were great, most were average or slightly below, and I know a couple who didn't make it through training.
>>2069240Is it pretty much assumed these days that anyone who gets hired agreed to the contract? Spoken to a few people that feel they were auto-rejected once they declined to sign it.
>>2069430What are people not wanting to sign? Because it's conditional?
>Less than a week left until shutdown>Only a decade run>Only one line completed out of several proposed>Underperformed despite a Union Station connection and being in one of America's best transit citiesSo, what went wrong here?
>>2068944>Its urbanists only real crime. Its just romanticism about old pictures that makes the fixate on streetcars. Totally irrational compared to buses.There's another thread on streetcars/trams already, but it's not just romanticism. That being said, I didn't know DC had a streetcar and I don't understand the purpose. I think streetcars can make sense in midwestern cities and other places in the US that are in the process of revitalizing their downtowns. They can be a piece of the puzzle, and the investment in permanent rail transport is a signal to business and real estate developers that the city is committed to that area for decades to come. This incentivizes those developers to build infill businesses and apartments along the streetcar line, which increases urban density and thus increases overall tax revenue for the city. As for the DC streetcar. I don't really understand it. They already have a great subway system. They have what I assume is an effective bus system. I guess the streetcar connects parts of the subway system above ground that weren't easily connected before? I like streetcars, but they really only make sense in certain contexts, and I'm not sure this was a good one
>>2068944Obama-era American planners basically treated streetcars as a cargo cult and ignored all the best practices implemented by French planners.
>>2069341?Street cars have no advantage over regular buses and have massive negatives...
>>2069418They have two advantages over buses:>They are technically trains, therefore scratching that particular autistic itch >They have that old-world soul like New OrleansBut yeah, other than that buses mog streetcars into the dirt.
>>2069418Installation costs are higher, running costs are lower. You throw a bus on the scrap heap after ten years while the streetcar goes through a mid-life refurbish after thirty. The killer is often about who pays for the asphalt the buses tear up.
Why are trainfags obsessed with HSR when 99% of mechanized passenger travel is local.
>>2068851because you can use HSR to extract commuter rail upgradessee CAHSR paying for Caltrain electrification
flying is a humilation ritual
>>2068851>the thing isnt a thing cause it isnt a thingMeans nothing. Completely irrational futuristic jerk off is the only reason plane travel every got off the ground.
Autism and mental illness (redundant)
>>2068851Most aren't, it's dumbfuck leftist voters who are obsessed with HSR because European countries/Japan/China have it (without thinking about the reasons these countries have HSR).
Do you sit in the cuckstoel?
>>2068273Wouldn't work, jeets are racist to toilets.
>>2068313What is it with streetshitters and feces?
poopensharten
>>2068002It's a coveted item so free only 1/10 trains on busier lines. In particular train-filling is a weighing of expected free volume (which requires experience unless done greedily) so most bet on it.
>>2069423In spite of this one was snagged
I saw there's threads of any kind but not for the most important part of the bike, the seat.So this it will be a /bsg/ Bike seat generalTell me your most comfortable seat, because I got a shitty standard one that break my ass
>>2065659>>2066024>>2066084>>2066089>>2066186Always considered these saddles as being something more for fitting women's fanny flaps
>>2069134good luck with your prostate
>>2065694I picked up a saddle like this at the thrift store for $3My God it's the worst fucking thing ever, after just a short ride my lower back was killing me and I constantly felt like I was going to fall off.
>>2065659mine was stolen, I replaced it with a smaller, crapper one from my previous, much older smaller bike, eventually just lost the spirit for it at all and left it to rot. then took it to be serviced years later and they tried to charge me double so I followed bad advice and just left it with them for scrap.never had a bike since.my whole life is like that
>>2065667Akshually you use your legs and core to support your weight on the bike and the saddle is only there to look cool
Road signs. What do you think of them? Which country does them the best? Would you change anything in the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals?
You've all seen a green right turn arrow but have you seen a green forward arrow on a T-shaped intersection? Admittedly here it's a bit pointless because it never seems to go outhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6oGH0HfgmU
>>2022126>Australia >"Slow children"Slow everybody more like...
>>2066244>when the road signals are more complicated than rail signalsNever really stopped to think about how crazy these blinkers all are. No wonder there are so many road deaths here
>>2069410Not complicated at all desu
>>2069411You're an autist who memorizes geoguessr metas and argues about chainline efficiency on a zamboangan sugarcane rat farming cuneiform tablet. You are not the average operator of a motor vehicle. The average operator of a motor vehicle has trouble differentiating between the gas and the accelerator on a car that shifts its own gears. We do not need to make signals any more complicated than necessary.
Has the vintage market finally shit the bed? I remember these selling for $400 back 10 years ago
>>2064999third world shithole or post soviet second world shithole?
>>2065022it's obviously a replacement cassette which is black OEM.
>>2067366These Cannondale haters have no idea what they're talking about. Loved my r800.Which CAAD?
>>2067404canada so both
>>2065030are those escort names in your tabs?
imagine being a voltagelet
>>2067194>N-no uThirdie comeback.
>>2067196I'm not the one who refuses to explain himself and resorts to calling everyone a foreigner!
>>2060365>electric trains powered by poop burning power plants
>>2060374Only some commuter railroads are electrified. Even then, there is little interoperability. In the New York area there is:>12.5 kV overhead to the Northeast>25 kV overhead to the West>Hot-side-down third rail to the North>Hot-side-up third rail to the EastThe railroads weren't built by a common authority
>>2060374we have in NYC, the only place that matters
Is this feasible? I currently operate a tram/streetcar here in an American city. I speak Spanish, but am pretty rusty. I'm starting to get sick of life in America. I've lived in Spain for a semester in college. I don't miss it like crazy, but I'm just bored with the American way of life, the quality of the housing, the women, the declining power of the dollar. Would it be possible for me to move to another country and get a job operating rail transport? In the USA, to drive a tram/trolley/streetcar you don't need any kind of special license, you just go through a training period with the company. It's not like being a bus driver where you need a CDL B license. Is this possible for rail? Could I move to Spain or Mexico or Brazil or Argentina and drive streetcars? Do they drug test? Are there countries where they don't drug test for rail?
>>2069396pic unrelated, it's an AI image I generated to represent my disdain of springing the clocks forward for daylight savings time
fuck off we're full
The third anniversary of the deadliest railway crash in Greek history is in a few days so I figured I'd make this thread.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempi_train_crash30 years ago, dozens of trains daily serviced many greek cities, today, only one line is operational, linking the two biggest cities with just two trains a day. This is a combination of Greece having a very car-centric culture, the population concentrating in these two cities to the point where the countryside is all but abandoned, and powerful inter-city bus companies lobbying against trains.Infrastructure is severely outdated, since funds for upgrades are embezzled between officials and the private company owning the railway since the 2017 so even if there was demand, the system just couldn't take it and a lot of the disused lines would have to be essentially rebuilt. Do you think there's any way rail in Greece can be salvaged?
why run trains when the government has already built roads everywhere?
>>2066522Cause trains are cool and cars are the devil inshallah
Trains are way more energy efficient compared to cars and trucks, safer and don't cause congestion on highways and cities when run regularly. They can be surely salvaged as long as a serious private company acquires the infrastructure and makes sense to use it for commuting.
>>2066522Because the roads and drivers are awful. In rural areas, they are de facto treated as 4 laned to let impatient people pass.
>>2066520RIP Grekos
How do these large cargo backpacks compare with a bicycle trailer? I need to haul 100kg of cargo on a bicycle
>>2067317thats correct nobody did, there was debate over if the responders are DYELs, and what anon may be carrying, but no one did dimensional analysis, and pointed out that the density would be greater than or equal to water
>>2067351If somebody believes they can ride a bike with 100 kg on their back, they won't be convinced by appealing to their sense of specific gravity, they're just delusional.
>>2067438My gf is 105kg and I've ridden a bicycle with her on my back, on the handlebars, etc. It can be done.
Use backpacks to carry diesel fuel.
>>1957568Put the pack on a trailer to make it easier to carry, you're welcome :)oh yeah +1 to bump limit :^)
Should pets be allowed on public transport?
>>2067066just get some riekers bro, 50-150 €
>>2066896In Western societies, yes. Having pets is an important part of our cultures.
>>2066896Allergies rule out general transportation. Trains can have dedicated space for them.>>2066901God I hate The Dodo.
Pets > children > niggers
sex with creatures should be not just legal but REQUIRED on public transport
Space transportation general: Stage Separating into a new year edition. This general is here because spaceflight is increasing exponentially. We are up to at least a launch per week and we are now in the midst of flight testing an industry revolutionizing fully reusablesuper heavy lift launch vehicle.Upcoming launches:>https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/2025-launch-schedule/SpaceX livestreams on Twitter/X:>https://x.com/SpaceXUpcoming NASA operations:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
America won
>>2069319They're part of the program, they could have gotten them to share
>>2069322Checked
>>2069342Their contributions will be part of the Commercial Payload Services Program where they're not being cockblocked by 16 year old ULA contracts.
The San Francisco Bay Area's BART subway system is so financially fucked that it is likely going to be cutting 10/50 stations by January 2027 and 5 more by July 2027, cutting a total of 70% train hours and 25% of the system's miles, while also ending service at 9 PM every day and starting weekend service at 8 AM. Funny how the richest region of the United States with a bunch of Ponzi Scheme tech companies can't fund public transit. Looks like the tech workers and tech industry have ruined yet another thing.
>>2067262>this reduces mortality rates by about 100%lmao. If a cop has you in close quarters and wants to kill you, they won't use a gun. They might sodomize you with a baton or put you in a chokehold for the duration of a Pink Floyd track, but the gun is not coming out.
>>2067345Your virgin eyes aren't ready for this website, kid
>>2067301If you nuked San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and greater Los Angeles, the entire world would be better off. Imagine how much better society would be without all the tech companies ruining the planet and the fabric of society.
>>2069346https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG3uea-Hvy4>>2067257it is well known that the state of california causes cancer.
>>2067257you don't actually know anything about california cleetus
