Post your ride during sundown Post your favorite lights and light setupsDo not: Be a haterTalk shitPost daylight ride photos
They aren't even called e-bikers, simply casuals. Cyclists don't ride e-bikes, casuals don't cycle. Since casuals don't cycle, they don't understand what makes them casual. They simply don't "get" cycling. They aren't good at it or passionate about it. They have no perspective beyond being a consumer using a product.Most people are casuals at everything, and are known as NPCs. Not all people on e-bikes are NPCs, but the ones who can't figure out why cyclists treat them differently definitely are; an actual human would know why. I believe our retarded friend here is not entirely NPC-tier, as he already expressed shame and embarrassment at riding an e-bike, which is why he's currently having an emotional breakdown in a cycling thread.
So much for>Do not:>Be a hater>Talk shit>Post daylight ride photosStupid nigger trash people can never lear can they, let alone the bare basics of reading.>>2083406Pay no attention to these fat mouth frothing retards, even though to me it looks like a mtb with extra goodies on it, which there is absolutely nothing wrong with that whatsoever
>>2083524>to me it looks like a mtb>fat mouth frothing retardsngl this level of retardation has to be respected
whole lotta's FUCKING POURS itt
>>2083526What is the point of using pour instead of poor? Is it because you are in fact poor and seeing the word is too much for you? As most things are...
Will America ever get a major high speed rail system?>What will it look it?>How long may it take?>How fast will it go?
>>2083482You guys are making me sad :(But you guys aren't wrong though
>>2083485That's basically true, securing the ROW and dealing the all the crossings (constructing new bridges) plus local opposition will drive costs up so high it becomes unfeasible.>>2083486>they have to finish these projectsNo they do not lol. The future of BLW is especially vulnerable>>2083487>Too bad Musk turned out to be lying about what The Boring Company can do because cheap tunneling would have made all manner of transportation projects economically viableUnironically a shame. What a bust that was. If he'd figured out a real solution it could have revolutionized transportation, both road and rail
>>2083498>No they do not lol.They're already broken too much ground and sank too much into it. It's going to fucking happen even if they pivot to just turning them into overglorified toll roads
the most generous thing I can say is that it's good there seem to be people watching youtubes about the Shinkansen and saying "it would be a good thing to have that here".however, because social media is reality for a depressing % of the global population, this means that they're not interested in boring humdrum yaaaawn stuff like 'material conditions that exist in observable reality', or 'where would your proposed ultra-high-speed triple-decker hyper-maglev-40000 trains be built, and who would build them'. they want to take the Cheng Bing Dong Wu Limited Express from Des Moines, Iowa to Shreveport, Indiana, against the Mt Fuji backdrop, during the sakura bloom season.i'd call it a psyop, but it's not even that sophisticated. just stupid people wanting good stuff but for the wrong reasons
>American HSR
Why do people subject themselves to this in this day and age?
>>2081434It's Aisle or nothing for fellow longbois
>>2081432What if I don't want to tell anyone
>>2081344I can usually get a sleeper for $100 more than basic economy Amtrak ticket when the train isn't crowded, which is about what it costs to fly economy anywhere. That's a way better deal. Last time I took Amtrak though, there was some kind of "issue" that took a whole coach out of service and Amtrak said they couldn't do anything about it. People either had to change their reservation to a sleeper or be left standing in coach, if not outright cancel their trip. I was not about to do that so I paid $300 to secure the sleeper first. And you know what? The sleeper was about 30 minutes delayed out of our station, which was okay. It took the staff about 2 hours to serve dinner, which was absolutely not okay. And at our second stop, we were delayed for 4 hours about 30 minutes away from the city center. Instead of getting in at midnight, I was able to hail an Uber at 4:30 AM to be driven 30 minutes to my home. The sleeper made it tolerable, but this being the second time in a row where there were huge delays means I will never trust Amtrak as a coach passenger.
>>2083458Does Amtrak force you to sit with strangers at meal times like VIA Rail does? I always thought that's rude.
>>2081335Amtrak-chan before she was corrupted
Is riding on top end groupsets if you're not a top end cyclist stolen valor? Or is this sour grapes?What groupset would you ride if you could get any groupset you wanted for free, but when/if you sold the bike you would have to price it as whatever groupset you ride now. That is, if your financial circumstances were no different and you were subject to the same "rules" as you currently as in terms of other people judging (because we all know unlimited wealth begets shamelessness), what do you choose?
>>2083264illegal socks!
>>2038740Sure as hell nothing electronic
>>2083269>looking for a new bike>ask the bike shop guy if this bike is creepy or wet>he doesnt understand >pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is creepy and what is wet>he laughs and says “it’s a good bike sir”>ride bike>its wet
>>2083480you sure youre ok?
>>2083264>My all time favorite groupset is campy record 10good taste.do you ride a lot of track? you have that track buildwhat the FUCK is going on in this thread tho
"Wofür ist das?"-EditionAnything public transport in German-speaking Europe is fair game.
Angeblich wie die Bundespolizei im Auftrage der Deutschen Bahn AG mit Platin-Status-Kunden umgeht:https://x.com/NiklasKorber/status/2110054852890116487Da muss eine Menge schiefgegangen sein - sowohl beim Kunden als auch beim Zugbegleiter -, aber ein gutes Licht wirft das auf die bundeseigene Eisenbahn nicht. Schade.
Bahnhof des Jahres:https://www.allianz-pro-schiene.de/wettbewerbe/bahnhof-des-jahres/ansbach/
>>2083419Some greenery would be nice, otherwise looks pretty clean
>>2083419>they found a nice train station in one of the richest states in germanythat's not newsworthy. call me when they find a nice one in brandenburg or the saarland.the only bad train station i've ever seen in bavaria is munich main because it's 3 end train stations glued together in the least convenient way for anyone changing trains there, and they have neither a bridge nor an underpass to alleviate that.how does a city made of gold and marble have a train station that smells like piss and doesn't work?
>>2083361>mindestens 6000 Euro in einem Jahr fürs Fahren mit der Deutschen Bahn ausgegeben (günstigstenfalls der BahnCard 100-Überlappungstrick)>der Zugchef veranlasst die DB-Sicherheit, die nicht mit sich diskutieren lässt, einen aus dem Zug zu entfernen, weil er das Ticket für ungültig hältWäre wirklich interessant zu erfahren, was genau da vorgefallen ist.
Just saw this Japanese train sim about to come out and it looks pretty kino. Got me thinking about other vidyas that might appeal to regulars here.Some that I enjoy>American/Euro truck simulator>OpenTTD>SimRail>Flight Simulator>Bus boundI never found any cycling games that really scratched the itch, either too arcadey or boring race team management stuff. Would quite like an open world to cycle around, with ability to spec bikes, train avatar fitness and maybe set up some touring or bike packing trips.Feel free to share any more
>>2080761I played TF2 but it was profoundly flawed. The vehicle capacity was ridiculous, and demand way exceeded what vehicles (esp. Trams) could carry. I also don't care for only being able to build double track tram line, I want some nice single track loops ffs. iirc it also didn't have a proper line system (like Cities in Motion 2).If they fixed a few of those things I could get on board. The gameplay was pretty kino. Love the complexity and the possibilities of building nice huge railway networks.
>>2083307>I played TF2 but it was profoundly flawed.Before I read who you were replying to I was incredibly confused as to why people were bringing up Team Fortress 2 in a thread about transport-oriented videogames lmao
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>>2083339tf2 has some of the best train related gameplay if you play pyro and airblast f2ps onto the tracks and maybe hit a chat bind key for something like "shouldn't have been standing on the tracks" every time you land a kill.it's easiest on well, because the map never ends and no experienced player would ever choose to play on that map, but feeding the frontier cart (nicknamed lil' chew chew) is fun too and actually accomplishes the objective if you're into that kinda shit.
>>2083424Sure but koth_rotunda is also one of the worst maps in the game
How in the fuck are they pulling this shit off? These commies are making us look like clowns! What is the reason for this?!
>>2050907lol, that was a nice leadup, only fitting the spiritual successor shits on the few good things that reagan did do and permanently deletes US influence accross the worldNot saying that the alternatives are better (they are worse) but at this point I just cannot respect America as a political actor anymore>>2050902yuurp, make war against those TRANSgetic flies and shit your guts out at pozzed and pisoned argentinian slop-beef or cyclospora salad as you starve tens of thousands of children to death to save pennies on the dime that USAID cost while ignoring the benefits it had so some subhuman sputh africans with diamond mine and uranium mine daddies can rake in more billionsone of them wasn't even cool enough to be invited to the child rape islandGod I feel for the actual humans in America that have to deal with life alongside wretches like you
>>2056275310mph6 seconds search could have posted it yourself for our and your own benefit as you wonderedno hard feelingsit's always a little more than half kmh-->mph and a little less than half kmh-->mph
>>2083412sed 's/\(.*\)/kmh-->mph/mph-->kmh
>>2056275>What's that in normal?500km/h
>>2072967HSR works or not mostly due to geography and where cities are located and where cities are located, at least outside the US, is also usually a function of geography that would tend to help out HSR. cities tended to form in places that are flat, have a good mixture of natural resources, and access to water. this usually results in a place that's pretty good for putting a high speed train because it's flat, the ground isn't too soft, and there's probably already shipping or industry there that people might want to get to or away from to make buying HSR tickets worth it
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>>2080800Not even close.
>>2082300nice doodlebug
>>2082435thanks! i like posting older stuff
>>2079035a modern diesel freight locomotive pulling a 2 section budd diesel multiple unit and what looks like a caboose or a waycar or something?did something on the budd train break and they're doing this to tow it to a shop?
Major problem with EVs:>gasoline tanker trucks have a legal max limit>EV semis are heavier>this means EV semis will have to carry less gasoline>when everyone switches to EVs, more trips will have to be made to transport the same amount of gasolineHas anyone thought about this? It will significantly increase gas prices.
>>2082927"when everyone switches to EVs", well then not as much gasoline will be needed, will it?
>>2082927What is crazy is people think switching to evs is the answer knowing that the you need more batteries due to less energy. So now when we need to replace our ev batteries, we have to do this more often and need more ev semis to haul fully charged batteries. This is why hydrogen is the future. More hydrogen = less weight since it has negative weight = transporting more hydrogen in each semi.
>>2083242Hydrogen is just a trick in order to have the same dependency on centralized fuel generation and a way to tax specifically vehicles. Electric based transportation can't be easily taxed, and you can generate energy through a variety of means. It breaks the monopoly.
>>2082990Then all trucks would have to run by the wire. There would be a long line of them trying to share the wire.Then we would need to put them in a separate road just for them...
>>2083383Just use fiber optic wire like they do in Ukraine.
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.
>>2080150>things almost touching your front tire very cool thank you
>>2083202Counting heads such that it becomes a monster isn't a proper noun? Capitalizing grammatically is the same word and concept. A capital (word) is the head noun and subject of this sentence. The aforementioned conceptus is on obviously greater when there is durable meat implied.
>>2077658>socially acceptable to useWhy should anyone care? Only women care about what is "socially acceptable".
>>2083366You sound like a faggot who still has a kickstand on his ""bike""
>>2083384>faggot calling someone else a faggot
Why is this allowed?
why did some retard start sperging out about bicycles completely unprompted
Because it's only South Africans
>>2080872Because it’s awesome?
>>2080872I love how a bunch of racist whites are seething about this. Safetey culture is white colonalism.
>>2083349as a racist white i welcome each and every way a brown person can untimely kill themself.
Just got one of these.>https://kross.pl/esker-1-0-szary-grafitowy-polyskWhat's worth upgrading?
>>2083285yeah, the geometry is just strange. it is supposed to have drop bars or gravel bends but some exec realized after ten months of meetings that those cost too much or whatever.components are also deeply sus and not really compatible with any normal course of gradual upgrade. basically it is a walmart bike arbitrarily priced at $700 instead of whatever walmart bikes cost now. you're paying for something that needs to be immediately placed in the nearest dumpster, not a single redeeming feature.
What things should I check when buying a cheap second hand bike (less than 100 euros) I will mainly use it for a 15 minute work conmute in a mostly flat terrain
>>2083291>components are also deeply sus and not really compatible with any normal course of gradual upgrade.2x8 claris seems perfectly fine. Can be updated to a 2x 11 easily. Hydraulic discs. It's got through axles and not QRs. Vaguely saying it's got sus components doesn't mean anything if you don't elaborate, you may as well say nothing.
>>2083294>15 minute work conmute in a mostly flat terrainany bike will work for this use case. for commuting I always recommend fenders, if something has them already that might be a good buy, but you can always put them on aftermarket, or if you live in SoCal where it never rains then it just doesn't matter.a bike for longer than 15 minute rides or non flatland I'd recommend multiple gears but single speed is fine for your use case. although you might prefer multiple gears as a personal preference.there is such a thing as a bad quality bike and/or a BSO that should be avoided at any price, or a "good" bike in such disrepair as to not be worth it, but otherwise you could just pick your favorite color.
>>2083294topnigger.ueuo.com has good info on bike typesDont get department store brands, get something from a proper brandWhen buying used, it is likely to need new tires, tubes, brake pads, chain, and maybe cassette. Make sure the tires and pads dont look worn down, make sure the cassette looks in good shape, check for rust, test ride and make sure the brakes and shifting work well, and make sure it doesnt make any creaky or grindy noises
usecase?realistic reliability and chances of failure?
>>2079304lol
>>2079145I... kind of like this?
>>2079147if they'd just make something to mount it on the front end of the hood, it'd actually be nice. they make ones like that for old downtube shift levers, so it obviously can be done
>>2083192The biggest problem is that it uses two cables to shift gears
>>2083197I always thought that you could totally have two trigger type levers one left and one right wherw when you push one the other is pulled and vice-versa unless I am mistaken about how shifting goes on in the hub itselt.Is it so that you need the ends of the cable(s ?) going into the hub/gearbox where then one will grow and one will shrink?If so my idea is useless trash because I assume that a loop of wire goes into the gearbox rather than the ends of the cable(s ?)
Rode this one through most of primary school.
>>2083301Coolest kid on the block
Step aside, plebians, I shall waddle/pedal in on my magnificent silvered steed!Rode this one straight to kindergardenWas more black/grey/silver though, it didn't have the blue/red I believe
>>2083320Later some years dept. store BSO, broke apart @crashTook BSO apart (contributor for interest @bikes+learning to fix/maintain)Then dads unused 90s cheap steel trekking bike (poor frame workmanship visible, misaglignment @dropouts w/ seat-stays)Chain replacement, clean, remove rust and restore, looks like new(this impressed the parents)Convert to single speed;cheapo shifters worn, didn't have needed/enough tools to do wires/housingsOld shifter as tensioner, tried a rusting steel w/a pulley wheel but went backTossed c*ntilevers for V-Brakes*[GET 1st modern good quality+expensive hardtail MTB atp]*Changed wheels and some components onto Peugeot Boston someone threw out (wheelset missing, probs converted to shekels) as geared bike Made rear rack mounting to seat stay bridge robust w/ thicker metal piece & proper concave washers (scrounged together in my teenage brokeness and instilled nerotic hesitancy to spend money)Replaced seatpost QR w/ sleek bolt-typeInstalled matching stainless steel screws (scrounged together)handlebar steel--->aluEventually back to ghetto SS, shifting unfun to maintain @winters + flatnessComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2083321Solid, simple, storied janky but also nice ship o' Theseus w/ cracked fenders- liked getting on itAnd then it got fucking stolenRIP my original first real non-BSO bike of Theseushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsoA_5Es-GQ
>>2083322meanwhile this dude is just letting it hang out and it didnt get stolengotta say, nice to have a trigger shifter for thatpeehaps I will do sth like that for the alu BSO that I built up to replace my dear peugeot
I’ve always wanted to live the mid-20th Century experience of riding a Pullman Sleeper hauled by a steam locomotive roaring through the night and while I have been fortunate enough to ride steam excursions many times and even do an overnight ride on an original Pullman car, I’ve never been able to do them together.Is there anywhere in the world where I can actually still take an overnight train hauled by a steam locomotive? The closest I’m aware of is the modern Orient Express being steam-hauled through Hungary as a one-time thing in 2017 and the Cumbres and Toltec possessing a restored tourist sleeper coach (idk if it’s ever been used in that role).
>>2082764Look at this diesel shunter performing shunting operations.
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>>2082810Oi, you got a loicense for that shitpost, nigger?
>>2082780lmao
Not at all an answer to your question OP but thought you might like the feel of this advertisement.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_hjM35VPnk
