What does /n/ think of tomorrow's upgraded, more inclusive bike lanes? Cagetrolls will hate this, but I for one think it is perfectly reasonable for bike lanes to be open to any vehicle that doesn't have an ICE or require a Class A CDL to operate legally. What's the point of bike lanes if nobody is going to use them!??!?
>>1988874hello saaaar
>>1988889Do you have me confused for a SWE
If I catch you driving in my lane you son of a bitch you son of God I will pull you out of your car and deliver you to demons
>>1990824All roads are car roads.https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1713856257541994.webm
>>1949121Holy shit. Will this result in dead cyclists? How and what can I do to support this and make sure it passes? Also once this passes what kind of ICE or minimal hybrid vehicle could I build to legally be allowed to use this lane while still maximizing my space and comfort? I'm thinking something like picrel could be killer if I could get it to run under the proposed regulations. Imagine the age of DOT private Bikelane highway Kei Cars.Yeah, I'm thinkin' based.
>be airbus>do nothing>stay winning because your only competitor can't build anything except a rehash of a 60 year old design that keeps nosediving
>>1992675If jumbos are making a come back then why did Boeing just stop manufacturing the best plane they've ever offered?
>>1990074>Can't build plane>Can't build engines either
>>1990074P&W GTF series has problems across the board, and it's not a problem isolated to Airbus. A big part of the reason Bombardier had to unload CSeries was the delays and technical problems caused by the P&W GTF, which was CSeries' sole source engine. Embraer E2 is also having problems with P&W GTF. Mitsubishi's termination of the SpaceJet program was also at least partially attributable to the P&W GTF.
>>1992675No one wanted them for ages and it wasn't viable as a freighter so airbus canned them
>>1990201DIE and BRIDGE... Basically far too many browns and blacks being hired based on skin color instead of actual qualifications based on colorblindness and suitability for the position cratering profits and QA.
Why are you destroying the environment with your discount bargain bin chinese carbon wheels with no warranty, when you could be saving the environment with the revolutionary new FusionFiber™ that come with a lifetime, no questions asked replacement coverage for the original owner? Sure it costs about 3x as much but think of the moral superiority it gets youThe only problem is it's made in Utah which is full of crazy people, which kinda negates the moral superiority, I'd almost rather send money directly to the CCP at that pointAlso discuss wheels and stuff
>>1993371Yeah and Trek's isn't actually the best in the business, but it's better than some, and it's nice to be able to just walk to the Trek shop and get it taken care of right there.Unlike say Mavic where you hunt for a Mavic AD and they call Mavic Americas and Mavic Americas calls Mavic in France and six weeks later Mavic in France gets back to Mavic Americas who gets back to your AD who tells you to fuck off because it's user error.
>>1980769so the absolute mouthbreather that shipped my bike torqued down the front wheel bolts harder than I can remove. If I try to loosen with a wrench the whole assembly moves, and if I use two wrenches, one side will loosen but then I have no anchor point to undo the otherside, how to do I loosen the second bolt?
>>1993421I have no experience with BSOs, but perhaps you could adapt the cassette lockring technique which is to put the two levers in near-alignment, and then "squeeze" as shown. Both facing the same direction with one of them leaning against a step or something. This probably doesn't make any sense but I don't have an ipad so I can't draw it.
>>1993432that did the trick, cheers
>>1993263Thanks. That's really helpful.
bicycles should be fun colors, not boring solid colors
>>1992905Completely? Or cut it into some shapes and sprinkle that shit over the frame so I don't have to take the whole bike apart
>>1992905I'm such a sucker for holographic and color changing stuff. You bet I'm a millennial, back in my day holographic meant limited edition
>>1992916If you got something that didn't completely clash with the colors of your bike, I can see covering only half of the bike working. Say, top/head/down tube.
>>1992596silver chain and cassetterainbow ones even
>>1992596If it's aluminum, strip the paint off the frame and polish it
Last thread hit bump limit>>1912751Spring is coming, get the winter stuff when it's on sale. Except people from Argentina, for you, get the summer stuff when it's on saleAnyone use winter-specific road or MTB shoes? I've been depending on overshoes for too longDiscuss bike apparel. Engage in catty tribalism between "lycra lout aero fred" and "practical normal not-a-cyclist' (actually still marketed to cyclists but with reverse psychology) apparel. Boast of your metric century (not a real century) wearing just jeans and a t-shirt. Conveniently, there is no strava of it but it totally happened I swear!>>1912751
>>1991946>>1991947heh, i live in fl too and have been using some el cheapo sunglasses of unknown origin for years. but ok i was wrong, with the tint it brings non polarized to $32 over $45 for polarized because tinting is included. it's just the lenses themselves that are $16 vs $36. but no uv protection? dunno. i would assume my current ones don't have that either so i guess i probably won't notice a difference.
>>1991944Depends on your environment and riding conditions, I don't have a pair of polarized prescription glasses but I used to have a set of polarized Oakleys that blocked a lot of glare reflecting off car windows and glossy paint on clear high brightness days. It's useful if you're sensitive to glare.
>>1991948>but no uv protection?OH, i'm retarded and can't read.
Anybody got experience making/using vinyls on their helmet? Mine is carbon fiber so Idk how it will interact with adhesives?Any tips for placing them?I got some designs I wanna work out while I wait for the state to answer whether its legal or not (Europe so laws are weird sometimes)
>>1991944Polarized are dumb for general use, if you're a sailor or something fine, but for ordinary land use they cause more problems than they solve
New Apartments EditionDiscuss transportation, zoning and walkability improvements in your city or nationwide.
>>1993407I'll sooner trust a petro shill than a green fanatic. At least petro shill stands behind something useful for society while the latter is just a malicious retard that was enabled by it.Greenwashing shit to sell is the standard practice among the green movement anyway, it's only natural that it would also be used against it.
>>1993408Yes it is understood that you never question your own behavior. You don't need to announce it. Anything you do is, by definition, the right thing to do, no matter what those dumb libtards say. That's just how it is.
>>1993409>wah wah waaaaah reeeeNo u, go back to seething about functional societies in your tranny discord you obnoxious crybaby.
>>1993410And here we are back to "no u", I wonder where I've seen this before...
>>1993411We've seen it in your previous post, and the one before that, and so on. No wonder you felt familiar.
Hi /n/, thoughts on package drivers? UPS package car driver here
>>1955377Did you start as driver? If so, how'd you get that lucky?
that unwavering confidence of the screen-based workforce, even in the face of ai. also much of blue collar shit is of questionable greater purpose. I long to just grow food and humans, at the expense of what feels like all social standing. the market demands distractions and brutal ethical compromises
>>1954756getwinning.
Summtrust.
Do you enjoy any /n/ games, like city builders and tycoons?>picrel OpenTTD, the best transportation gameIf not a game, what software would you use to make model junctions and rail systems? /diy/ has solidworks, autocad, etc. Unironically a dumb game like OpenTTD seems to be the best option for exercising what you learn in your hobby, at least for free (so, not including real model railways.) It's also just fun as fuck.
>>1993210
And of course there's the grandaddy of them all, OpenTTD. On most modern systems it's infinitely scalable, although the limitations of its ancient engine can sometimes be frustrating.
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>>1993210er, rolling line exists
>>1983700trully big maps not megalomaniacs but really fucking huge ones it wont happe cause of the graphics engine they use but i would love to have a 50x50 km map to play around
Still the most noble form of transportation is to be carried around by others, walking yourself is for plebs. Show us your palanquins then!
can palanquin carrying be a good workout or no
>>1990837yes, it is a great workout.
A woman who is in a sexual relationship with an aeroplane has revealed that she travelled abroad 30 times in the last year just to spend quality time with her lover.Sarah Rodo, from Dortmund, Germany, found love on her first flight with a Boeing 737 - after an unfulfilling attempt to date humans.Since then, the 23-year-old has also 'met' 60 figurines and three larger models who she considers part of a 'collective being' that she is dating, and so she often refers to her lovers as one.Keeping up a relationship with an object requires real commitment.The avid jet-setter is so loved up that she has booked 30 mini-breaks in the last 12 months just to be close to her original beau, the Boeing 737.Despite their many trips together, Sarah, who identifies as objectum sexual [having a sexual or romantic attraction to an inanimate object], is heartbroken that she's never been fully alone with her partner.Sarah said: 'I'm proud to be objectum sexual – it's a wonderful sexuality, the only sad thing is that I can't be alone with a real plane.'I flew a lot in the last year to be with the Boeing as often as I possibly could, I took about 30 flights and always combined it with a city trip or vacation.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>1992903will those fit in her vagina though?
>>1992903you just know
>>1992902That's necroplaneia!
>>1896887>Hangar 17
>>1913665Love is always wright
This thread is for talking about railways, and things related to railways, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Trips, tracks, tickets, trains and stations, they're all good - making up rules is boring so let's just be normal. Questions are, of course, most welcome.If you feel like travelling, head over to National Rail Enquiries (nationalrail.co.uk/); tell it where you're leaving from and where you're going to, and it'll tell you how you're going to get there; then it'll hand you over to a train operator to buy a ticket. The golden rule is that it doesn't matter which train operator you buy a ticket from, as they'll all sell you a ticket from anywhere to anywhere, for the same price. If you're a visitor from overseas, your best option is probably Trainline (thetrainline.com/) - they charge a booking fee on top of the ticket price, but they'll accept just about any payment card. There's also trip.com/, who are apparently a 'thing' with overseas students: I've not used these myself, so please speak up with any thoughts.Here's a few links:~The Man in Seat 61 (seat61.com/) - easily the best rail travel resource out there.~Geoff Marshall (youtube.com/@geofftech2) - Likes trains. Mostly harmless.~A Visual History of Railway Rolling Stock in Great Britain (gaelan.me/br-stock/)~Realtimetrains (realtimetrains.co.uk/) - live train timetables: ideal for keeping on top of ETAs and platforms.~TIGER (tiger.worldline.global/home/) - live station departure boards.~Traksy (traksy.uk/live/) - live signalling information.~Openrailwaymap (openrailwaymap.org/) - railway infrastructure, mapped.What's happening?~Phase One of High Speed 2 (Birmingham-London): hs2.org.uk/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>1991983a sore bum lol(and also the Parry People Movers, quite possibly the oddest-looking 'what if the DLR was a proper train' set out there)
>>1991827'Waterloo' rhymed quite conveniently with 'vindaloo' for the Fat Les song. Must be counting their blessings they're not having to find a rhyme for 'St Pancras'
>when the Eurostars pass each other
>>1991915why do I only learn about the pissed-up posh totty AFTER these things happen. why do you keep things from me, anon
https://www.railmagazine.com/news/2024/04/25/labour-launch-plan-for-rail>Labour launches plan for rail>Shadow Transport Secretary, Louise Haigh will outline plans to pursue the creation of the Great British Railways (GBR) body which it intends to be led by “rail experts” rather than Whitehall. However, the plan also includes the creation of a new passenger watchdog, the Passenger Standards Authority.>But the creation of GBR is one part of Labour’s plan, as Haigh will also announce a clear move towards public ownership of the nation’s railways, by aiming to bring government passenger contracts once they expire into the public sector within its first term of office, reversing privatisation by the end of 2029 at the latest. This it believes will prove better value for money for the taxpayer than buying operators out of their contracts early.Announced at Trainline HQ, and made a point of saying 'yes we're keeping the name'. Mixed feelings.
Winter is coming, or rather, it's here.What now?
heh, they just painted over the DB logo. still better than the shitty shüttels.
>>1991187Glück auf, Kollege.I'm working at the various Austrian tunneling projects, but I'm only on the surface, so I'm at less than 3k net.Oh well, at least my house cost me only 300k net, so it's all good.
>>1989717>new railjet in Munich today. first answer is immediately badmouthing the new train,Well, if the old railjet is anything to go by, that probably is warranted.Sure, the red and black color scheme on the outside looks great, but damn, are they an ugly, dimly lit and uncomfortable dungeon inside. IC and ICE are miles ahead in comfort and look and feel.>>1992142Wait, what? ÖBB finally has proper carriages? I'm still mad the that Frankfurt-Graz EC now isn't done by DB anymore but by ÖBB. While not as bad as the railjet, their IC carriages suck too. And they're generally even more disfunctional than DBs oldest IC ones.>>1991916Neat. Less space, but more privacy. But yeah, no. At least not without a thorough cleaning at every stop. because you know…>https://www.youporn.com/watch/15846520/auf-einer-fahrt-mit-dem-ersties-zug/
>>1991916>compartment, Deutschlandmeh>compartment, Nipponomg, sugoi
>willkommä in dütschlandminuaturenwelt gave a brochure in Bernese dialect, which I had trouble reading. just use standard German for all things written when referring to Switzerland.also kek that the ICE is named after the city of Hamburg that doesn't even have a Bundesliga team. they might have one again next season but not the HSV lol.
pedals with clips or without?
I have clips on my road bike and combi pedals on my randonneur / dro-bar commuter. I like being clipped in, but it makes me less likely to get off the bike and appreciate the surroundings. So clips if cycling for sport, flats if you're travelling slow / sightseeing etc. :))
>>1993261*Clipless not clip, fuck this terminology.
clips and clip"less" are cages for the feet, that's why you see it almost exclusively on race-ist undercover cagers. Meanwhile my feet live free from race-ist gottagofast propaganda
>>1992114pinned flats
>>1993294pinned flats sucknubby rat trap style pedals are good because you can move your feet around easily. retention failure is largely a skill issue.
I've been debating selling my car for a bike and I want to know what you think /n/. All my life all I've ever owned are cheap ass big box store bikes and I thought that's just how bikes were. I thought the expensive ones at bike shops were just for hardcore riders. Well, I decided to check one out as there are several in my town because riding is quite big here. Well, I don't need to tell you guys how much better these bikes were. And it had me thinking.I'm a tubby broke neet. I need to save more money and get in shape. I can get somewhere around $7000 for my car, enough to get a really solid bike and have plenty extra. I want to know if anyone has ever done this. I've thought about it for several days, and the ONLY reason I can think against it is "driving is easier". There are bike paths and lanes everywhere in my town. It snows maybe 2-3 weeks a year. Grocery store is a 5 minute bike ride away. Has anyone done this before?
>>1990891how many times are you going to post this image from a shithole like sanfransisco in every thread? go back to /o/
>>1990910the thing is a car isn't really "free" even if it's paid off, maintenance, gas and insurance are gonna be hundreds of dollars a year if not over 1000
>>1990805I didn't say I wanted to put my feet flat on the ground. You said that. So I'm not gonna bother with the rest of your post since you didn't bother with mine.>>1990910Damn so /n/ has their own version of "3k civic" guy.>i can't understand selling my car to purchase oneYou might not do it and that's fine. But if you bothered to read you would understand it. Thanks to those who were helpful but the shitposters are here so I'm out. Cheers
>>1990910yea and while youre at it you can make a decent pair of shoes out of cardboard boxes and twine, only an idiot would pay for brand new shoes
Bumping because op is actually trying to live the /n/ life instead of trying to impose his control freak mentality on others by corrupting the law and turning it into power armor for rapacious developers, like the average yimby urbanist
How many spare wheels do you keep?
What do people do with ruined spare wheels? I left out two on the street that had bent rims, broken spokes. They disappeared within an hour. Nothing special about them btw. I figure someone might be out picking them up for the scrap metal.
>>1982363>take a room that's 97 sq ft>now imagine that its entire volume is occupied by 26 inch wheels>and that's just the wheel room, most of them dont have tires on>there is another room of the same size that is stacked to the roof with 26 inch tires>>1982399>like 300 wheels on itthats pritty much an annual if not bi annual triphundreds of bikes per year go strait to scrap, maybe about 1/4th of them could be fully restored if you had enough people to fix them, and anyone actually willing to buy and use a bikeid estimate you'd need 10 people and at least 2000 square foot of space so you can organise things and dont have to climb mountains of trash
>>1990590(in nz) scrap steel is about 20c / kg scrap allum is $2 / kg (good prices, often it's half that or less). Rims are around 400 grams The hub shell is maybe another 100 grams. Those are allum. Spokes and the axle parts are steel. So you cut all the spokes and pull the hub apart and you have about $1 of scrap metal. The reason to do it is to acquire cups, cones, straight axles, and spacers to repair or modify other wheels. Having a lot of spacers from junked cassettes is also helpful for SS conversions. Cutting the spokes etc makes storing the scrap neater. And hopefully your metal recycler doesn't notice the steel eyelets on allum rims and say it makes all your allum dirty. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>1990505>>1990510>>1990521
>>1990603But do any of those parts even fit on a non-BSO wheel? I thought nipples were different for good bikes.
