WTF did I buy?Bought a 520i E34 touring that has been allegedly and mysteriously engine swapped with a 2.5 liter M50.But I think the seller is either lying or wrong.The block isn't attracting a magnet, and it has a DME MS41.0. Also the headers look m52.The valve cover, engine cover and intake looks like M50 though.Is it possible to build a frankenstein-m52 with m50 valve cover and intake, but use m52 for the rest? Maybe trying to hide the engine swap from TÜV?Also should I be mad or excited for that?I'm also trying to figure out the actual displacement, because obviously the seller's word is unreliable.More pictures coming.
>>2053719>Wasn't the M50 header used on M52s to gain more power since they weren't restricted?By tuners, I mean.
Most interesting thread on /n/
>>2053379the metal valve cover and oil filter cap are clues
Seems like OP abandoned the thread. I think it's a M52TU with a 2.5L M50 intake header it's a common tuning measure with these motors.
>>2053381Everybody on /o/ rides the bus, though.
>throw away the based PE because gas will be cheap forever and freeway is big>have to rebuild it again not even 30 years later because gas is fucking expensive and the freeway clogged to shit>It's not even as much track or usable as PE because public owned rail is slow and shitI hate post WWII America so much it's unreal
No reserved-lane for trams is what really killed it I thinkOnce the volume of cars began increasing on the roads after the war, it really damaged the avg speed of PE's routes
>>2052724Definitely, even on Washington blvd with all the retards, the based blue line moves along nicely because people can't stop on the tracks, the thing still stops for lights but it never gets stuck because it was built with cars in mind, people didn't think about cars in 1904 when PE was becoming a thing
>>2052186>No A/C in CA where it's hot as shit>city infrastructure never made to accommodate it because private rail>stuck in traffic with cars because it had no right of way when street running>nothing in the way of platforms so people stood in the middle of LA streets to get hit by cars when getting on or off>have to climb onto the train so fuck you if you're disabled in any way, and try not to eat shit getting off>38 mph at the fastest when it did have right of way and you were averaging 13 mph overall>basically unsustainable from the beginning because it's not publicly funded and was originally the draw to land the creator wanted to sell to developers before doomping it all and walking away because he new>never maintained anything or got new rolling stock because it had no money because people weren't riding itIt's a shame, but it is what it is.
REE I don't want your stupid plaque and monument, I just want the based red cars to get from Santa Ana to LA with
>>2053978Stop reminiscing and just build it reee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWQ3iLVr-0E>That cylinder is a mass dampener also known as a J dampener in physics.The purpose is to neutralize high frequency low amplitude oscillations.Mass dampeners are currently used in Moto GP and were banned in F1 in the mid 2000s.The mass dampener can also be placed on the fork,above the bottom bracket and as shown on the rear swing arm/triangle on a full suspension bike.have these been used on road bikes yet? i have a stiff track bike fixie, anything that could improve performance or comfort would interest me. i haven't paid attention to bike stuff lately so idk if it has been mentioned on GCN/GMBN yet. GCN has done a lot of videos on tire pressure so i could see them experimenting with tuned mass dampers.
>>2030334Hope you don't mind the late answer, yeah they still do. I ordered a new fork for my 2016 Time bike after a crash that left the original one damaged, they noted that it was Aktiv upon seeing the pictures I sent to the Time guy over email and he offered to manufacture an Aktiv one on command instead of selling a normal replacement fork for the bike for the same price. It was on order though, they don't do it for the new bikes that are coming out. I do think it's a great technology for stability but most importantly hand comfort over a multiple hours ride
>>2048004That's really fucking cool
>>2048004What the fuck. I want a time so bad bros
hambini and mapdec both like time, but hambini doesn't like mapdec, does that cancel itself out?
>>2019204A tuned mass damper is not a J-damper. J-dampers were developed in F1 to combat the same issues tuned mass dampers intended to solve, however they go about it differently.
I had this romantic daydream of taking a train ride somewhere and just enjoying the view and exploring a new placeYesterday I actually did it, I took a 2 hour train ride to a random city near me and it was disappointingThe train ride was boring and had no scenery besides trees and houses, and the actual city was the same as anywhereI normally use trains to get around but using trains for fun was just ass
>>2050004HEY I'M RIDING THE RAILS HERE
i only do this in holiday like italy or spaintook the train to monaco along the ligurian and provence coast, and from castalnuovo di garfagnana to luccaand took the tram from benidorm to deniaall three were very scenic routeswould NEVER take a train here in holland, those are just for commuters
>>2050258Yeah but what is there even to see in holland except marihuana bars and brothels
Sucks how they put up those anti-noise barriers, which blocks out most of the view. It looks worse IRL
>>2053344same stuff there is to see in all countries, just a bit different
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.
>>2046153>What doesn't kill you makes you strongerI've seen the nearly killed and that couldn't be more wronger.
>>2046153I remember being a child
Had my first cartwheel-crash today. Was trying to be cute and turn sharply by leaning my steed an extra 20 degrees, but I accidentally hit the front brake and walla. (somewhat sideways flip)My brake levers and handlebars got very unaligned in the process, whereas I was okay within the hour. Did my bike take the brunt, or did my youth (<20) protect me?
>>2044901broke my ribrolled around on the floor wheezing for a whilepicked up my bike and carried it to a safe placesat there and like pushed my rib back into the right placethen pushed my deraillier into the right placerode homecried on the sofathat was a almost a year ago now im ok but my rib still feels funny and im a lil spooked on my bike sometimes but i didnt let it stop me ridingi learned that in skateboardingride the pain away
nightride,,,leaningin the traps wayback to see the stars,,darkroad,,maybe if i look hard can see the Andromida Galaxy,,,,its righthere in Pegasis,,,mayb>WWW,,what?WWWHAM!,SLAM arms up over the back of SUV?!!,,,scrable fall onto bike in a heap,,,small squeakinig sounds for help,,,wondering were the car came from.,,how didit getme so easy?,,so quiet?,,im in the gutter?,,,did i justhit a Parked car?.,,,,shhhhheit.,,,gathereckage,,,front wheeltaco,,,limphome.,,,,GF"WHAT HAPPENED?!",,,'bebacksooneedshower.
is the dart silver line /n/ approved? it’s scheduled to open in october
>>2053182Do Dallas Cucks really? Even in Miami the crack heads on the train are rare
OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT>https://www.keranews.org/news/2025-09-12/dart-silver-line-start-date-dallas-transit
Opens on Oct. 25 and free to use through Nov. 8
>>2053433bro what do you drive you gotta tell me
new system map
Haven't EV buses essentially rendered trolleybuses obsolete? They have all the benefits of electrification with the flexibility of ICE buses, lower infrastructure costs, and cities don't have to deal with the visual pollution caused by trolley wires.It seems to me that the only places for trolleybuses in the modern era are extremely cold and hilly regions, where the battery of an electric bus might not be able to keep up.
>>2053881>The only reason that doesn't look like total cyberpunk dystopia is because it's not a cyberpunk dystopia just a city with some wirescrazy
>>2053885If it was America or China it would look like a back alley from Blade Runner.
>>2050075You're 100% correct. At a glance, they are indistinguishable from the wires that hold up christmas lights (but sit dormant most of the year) in a lot of other cities.
>>2050238>Wow, we don't have to maintain trolley wires anymore! We're saving so much money with these electric buses!>The roads are suddenly being pummelled into oblivion! How could this have happened?
>>2053881The grey office building and rainy night already add a lot to the cyberpunk.Still needs neon ads though.
We need walkable cities
>>2053647>no ballsHe has the balls to confront them and not get stabbed.
>>2052681whatever test
>>2053716I can confirm I've had rides where a crackhead was looking for any excuse to pounce, like a feral animal triggered by the slightest movement
>>2052935the problem with me moving there is im a manchild who lives with my parents and posts on r/fuckcars all day instead of improving my career prospects, so I cant afford to move to the city center. if my dad wasn't such a piece of shit who wanted me to get a job and move out i would live in a new your sitcom, have friends and a girlfriend.
>>2053474I did 3.5 hours a day for some years because I didn't want to move and really wanted the job. It's managable but annoying.
"Wofür ist das?"-EditionAnything public transport in German-speaking Europe is fair game.
>>2053448yup, everybody likes Emil the elk, but he's starting to overstay his welcome
>>2053295Würd schon einen nehmen. Was letzte Preis?
>>2053295I thought they would use them for spare parts for the OG ICE 3 BR403s. you would need to overhaul the whole traction system, not really worth the money.
>>2053914>not really worth the moneySo you think, they'll ultimately end up at Bender?
>>2049393>So why don't the trains in Baden-Württemberg, the second richest German state, work as well as those in Switzerland?Don't know about switzerland but in BaWü there's a new company running their own trains every few km which might overcomplicate things.
https://media.amtrak.com/2025/08/amtrak-nextgen-acela-debuts-on-august-28/>A new era of high-speed rail to begin between Boston and Washington, DC>WASHINGTON – All aboard the future of East Coast travel! Starting Thursday, Aug. 28, customers can travel on Amtrak’s NextGen Acela – America’s high-speed train – connecting the Northeast Corridor between Washington, D.C., New York City, and Boston.:)
>Roughly 7 hours from Boston to DCWhat a joke
I hate this ugly hook nosed piece of shit. Just keep the old ones.
>>2052647>I hate this ugly hook nosed piece of shit.turn your monitor on
>>2052647I hope Amtrak and NS never get rid of PRR Position Light signals.
so how are they holding up in service? didn't hear much about teething problems.
What is the intent behind statements like "I'm not a cyclist, I'm just a person who gets around by bike"?At a surface level it is obviously meant to (proverbially) throw other cyclists under the bus, but to what end? Would it somehow appease the anti-bike people if the person "blocking traffic" didn't agree to be referred to by the word "cyclist"?
NJBtards all seem to think that modern bikes that aren't a heavy clunky piece of shit are just for racing dentists or that sophisticated yuropeans only ride clunky pieces of shit, but if you look at what the commuting cyclists in europe ACTUALLY, ride it's only the 60+ grannies and twee "dark academia" larpers you see riding those rust barges, most actual commuters have bikes with modern comforts like wide range cassettes and drop bars. Tourists see the town square is filled with rusted up pieces of trash and conclude that's representative of the bikes that people ride when in reality it shows you which bikes people DON'T ride. Look at the bikes people are actually riding if you want a realistic sample set. Guaranteed at least 1/3 of them are closer in spirit to a 2025 Madone than to a rusted out Peugeot with a coaster brake, at least for able bodied adults who aren't trying to look like Amelie.
>>2051605agreed. At my last job odds just made it such that my whole departement arrived by bime so I fit right in. Most were on flat bars. But:All dailies frames were alloy, everyone had decent brakes, often disc even, everyone had indexed gearing and so on. Ofc me and a few other bike nuts would, from time to time, ride a bike to work because it's a meme or fun to ride sometimes.But 99% of time everyone just arrived on what you'd call a commuter / hybrid / roadster / city bike whatevs.None of that hipster shit thats terminally locked up outside of the radically left bar.
>>2000001if you wear lycra, you're a cyclistsimple as
>>2051738And by extension, if you wear $900 worth of "I'm not one of those judgmental cyclist pricks" cycling clothing, you're not a cyclist, you're just a regular guy who happens to ride a bike (which happens to cost about $7000 while being as slow as a $250 BSO but that doesn't matter, what's important is showing off that you're neither a poor loser who rides a BSO nor are you an asshole tryhard who enjoys things, you're better than EVERYONE which makes you morally superior and nonjudgmental)
>>2002894>thing, usa :(>thing, Europe :)
Post payslip
>>2053542>>2053546They just had to load them sideways...
>>2053723thiswhy the fuck don't they
>>2053466Is this one of the ports which switched to all automation operation during the Biden era?>https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106498
>>2053874https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh4I7f5qydo
>>2053874>>2053875The ports of LA and Long Beach are among the busiest ports in the world and were consistently ranked as being among the least efficient because it was slow to automate compared to other ports in East Asia and the Middle East. You can cry about Biden and your retarded partisan politics all you want but if Orange Man did this you'd be fucking praising him for taking steps to improve American port infrastructure while owning dem port worker union commies always on strike. You MAGAs are intellectual poison.
Confess your sins, /n/.
>>2044975Followed by the scraping skipping noise of the chain shifting under tension.
>>1985790Mobility scooters
my car is a NA 2.5l inline 6 that I rev to 7000 (without cats)
considering strapping a handlebar bag onto the integrated bar/stem of my full carbon road bike so I can carry a film camera and art supplies
>>2053857one of those fuckhuge bikepacking seat bags would probably be better. keeps the weight off the handling and looks better imo
girl cabin editionPrevious: >>2017914
>>2053513It's only chartered by ZIM. Owners are Norwegian.Originally ordered by Germans who fixed the ship to ZIM for 7 years BUT extremely front loaded with most of the money up front because they didn't trust ZIM. Then sold to Norwegians who kept the charter.
>>2038090>What could possibly ago wrong here>billions of gene manipulated fish escape after a crash and dillute the natural gene pool forever, spreading instable genetics and diseasesThanks China
>>2051200>Sometimes things will never be the same no matter what you do...I need to finish the formation but it's not easy
>>2053512Good video here. This guy knows his shit.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEg8EvG9o4w
Has anyone gone to any mm academies? What's that experience been like if you have and do you recommend it?
>rechargeable>compact, yet seats up to four>doesn't require nearly as much road infrastructure>probably doesn't even require a driver's license>fast enough to travel most towns in a few minutes>could easily be automatedWhat is stopping cities from buying a fleet of these things and renting them out like Citi bikes?
>>2052996I see these all the time in very insular neighborhoods (rich enclaves and/or islands). There's enough room to get your kids to soccer practice or pick up groceries. But you have it backwards. These vehicles should be default use because they're cheap/low maintenance and you'd offer car/truck/van rentals for those occasional long-distance or hauling situations.
>>2052990>glorified golf cart
>>2052990get a golfcart instead, they are cheaper
>>2053102>>2053341https://youtu.be/pcVGqtmd2wM
>>2052990
