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
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyjhjSFL0yo
Folding bikes seamlessly tie in with all transportation modes as they are specifically designed to be compact, stowable and therefore easily TRANSPORTABLE. Easily carried onto trains, planes, buses, trams and other automobiles.There've been many attempts to create the perfect folder, some designs have come very close and have remained in production for decades. The world of folders spans incredible genius tier feats of engineering to terrible examples of dangerously ill conceived death trap folly.Post yours here, or post examples that may be of interest for their engineering genius, aesthetic charm or worthiness of ridicule.
>>2053973>KEEP THE TUBEwhats so great about the seatpost?
>>2054176It's very tall and needs to bump into the fender for the bike to fold correctly.
Literally have a 6 speed brompton on order. After a quick search I see a 12 speed on sale for only 100 euro more, from the same retailer. What do I do, should I exchange it?
I've seen some almost new foldable bikes for dirt cheap in my neighborhood. I'm considering buying one and throwing it in my cars trunk.Will 3 gear planetary hub (shimano neus 3) with 20 inch wheels will be usable for casual riding? I'm not planning to ride more than 50-100km daily.
Do you get a lot of wind resistance on these due to the upright riding position or is the small frame and wheels kinda aerodynamic?
Why did hydrofoils never take off?
>>2055508What if you want to transport a lot across not a lot of water?
>>2055487having a war with an invading neighbor is a good way to get a strong national identity; russia's run by idiots
>>2055545quite the contrary, he knows exactly what he's doing. a strong leader needs an enemy to validate their strength and unite simple people under him, and in absence of one, they have to create one. it's a country of cattle, ran by a mastermind.
>>2055549that doesnt work so well when the tiny country you pick a fight with insisting it'll be your rightful clay again within a week blows you the fuck out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VUQnVSQxcM
Why don’t we fly DC-10’s anymore?
I have a random question to ask, so I’ve been watching videos about cascading failures that lead to crashes in commercial jets. It has me wondering, does the aspect of having so many automated systems inhibit pilots ability to respond to situations where flying the plane manually and technically is demanded?
>>2055272>inhibitAs in, preventing them from flying the plane? None I think except for the MAX crashes. But the fact that they get less time flying manually probably makes them less capable of responding to emergencies.In the end, all of those systems are in place to prevent the plane from entering in one of those situations in the first place; preventive rather than corrective. Safer to not let a plane get out of it's flight envelop.Think about it like this: Does a car with a bunch of safety features prevents a driver from responding in case of an accident? You could say that a professional driver could get out of a bad situation without ABS for example, but it's better to just never let a vehicle be in that sort of situation to start with. Cascading failures are rare, they do happen of course, but having so many systems is what makes the average flight safe.
>>2055272There was a notorious crash in the late '10s of an Air France Airbus that crashed because the pilots lacked basic flying skills due to the high degree of automation. I think it stalled and crashed from a high altitude. I believe training has been altered to put more focus on fundamental skills.
>>2055288>Does a car with a bunch of safety features prevents a driver from responding in case of an accident? Funny you mention this; there was a video circulating of a car stopped on train tracks that couldnt get moving because the door had been opened and modern cars with fully electronic/"fly-by-wire" gear selectors refuse to engage 'Drive' if the door is open
>>2055272half the brown skin thirdworld pilots dont even know how to fly, big commerical planes opperate almost exclusively on auto pilot and the 'pilot' is just there to take the blame when a system fails and everyone dies.
These faggots should be strictly restricted to class F airspace, with well defined dimension and NEVER EVER LEFT OUT, sick and tired of avoiding them. Yesterday while flying a personal Cessna 310 from a buddy of mine and 3 weeks ago on the Dash 8 with the small airliner I fly for. >23 year old co pilot
>>1950147Tucker is a textbook sky cowboy so his days are numbered. Anyways what happened to that retard that did flyby AK-47s and fed seagulls to his prop
>>2041211I just read this entire thread. Good job, OP. You got all the kids on this board saying "cope & seething". kek!
>>2041227based and magisterpilled
>>2027647Robinson doesn't make blimps
>>1954415>give up all your ironworks, steelworks, and manufacturing to china>only hire 80 iq shit skins>durr guess we have to make soldiers fight with hanggliders now lolwe live in a clown world, the rich play with us like children play with videogames.
>>2053984taking a bike on spanish trains is a major hassle
what happened here
>>2055212Dual gauge. Not pure HSR but shared with regular trains.Should have drawn something in the gap.
>>2055173Portugal literally begun by using 1,435 gauge, before it even was an internationally adopted standard, but quickly switched to 1,664 gauge (by moving the rails to the outer nails). Iberian 1.668 is a compromise between Portuguese 1.664 (5 portuguese feet) and Spanish 1.672 (6 castillian feet) gauges.
>>2054048And also the connection between Madrid and Badajoz, presumably via Toledo.
