Seishun 18 Kippu EditionOld Thread: >>2035672
>>2073926jr central doesn't need your custom while jr hokkaido and shikoku do
Oh...that's gore of my comfort character...
>>2074348NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>2073883>https://tabiris.com/archives/suwarail/For what it's worth, all Kansai area trains have cross seats which are actually numbered and salable as reserved seating. What I find truly offensive is JR West selling some bench seat trains as Ure-seat which should be a crime
https://news.ntv.co.jp/category/society/ctb058acdd52f5424d821188343005fe06>Meitetsu Hiromi Line to be discontinued between Shin-Kani and Mitake stations due to annual deficit of approximately 200 million yen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKzuHZoRguYBitter, smug failed bike shop owner lectures everyone on why his entitled customers were the real problem and why you really do need a new $3k carbon road bike instead of just a chain and cables for your old steel beater.
>>2074512I honestly haven't been able to sit through any of his videos to see his technical skills so I believe you. He's just so unlikeable.
>angry commie bugman chases you out of his shop for walking in with a walmart bike then goes out of businessvs.>cheerful guy with a successful and growing business happily takes your money to fix your botched DIY repairs on your halfords shitheap and compliments the paint job while he's at ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahF2vsuX49w
>>2074590he seems nice but>I DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT THE ISSUE IS BUT LETS GET ER ON THE STANDnigga the client came in with a complaint. otherwise you wouldnt have his bike. what was the original complaint
>>2074627gears don't work, innit
>>2074647i would simply ask the (L)USER if they mean they cant shift, or if the gear isnt moving properly on the hub, or whatif its just>gears don't work, innitticket closed; gear appears to still have corporeal form, no fault found
I see you all are intimidated by my obvious superiority
>>2062842they're designed for jeets
>>2069824Money please.>>2067952I basically want the "scorpion" blocker unit, but for a scooter.>>2070008Amen. Tell people to stop doing it.
>>2074565theyve looked the way they do for several decades, predating jeetpocalypse by 30+ years. jeets suck but you have a terminal derangement syndrome
>>2074585jeets weren't born yesterday either
>>2074635ok you got me, honda is definitely turning all its domestic engineers creative energies towards appealing to shit-bathing retards who can't afford their products and only buy locally produced knockoffs instead
What's next in bicycle tech?
>>2057728>What's next in bicycle tech?Brake by wire.
bicycle that instantly seizes completely solid if you ever try to service iteven cleaning it will have to be done at an Accredited Dealership
>>2057792but it already exists, alfine hubs
>>2072854Deere bikes. Ferrari already has a bike.
>>2072892BMW could pull it off
Post some Low Cost Carrier (LCC) experiences. Personally, I've never had any positive ones and avoid them whenever possible
>>2069336i want to go to japan really really badly. its gonna be so awesome. i wanna go this august once i get my paycheck and summer job ends. please guys reccomend stuff for me to see there, im thiking of going to sapporo or something cuz its so hot in august
>>2072310its okay i flew frontierim still upset, my family is in orlando and spirit could get me there for $100 round trip through most of the year other than major holidays. frontier was $90 lga to mco and delta was $100 mco to lga when i flew this weekend
Flew on a Song airplane on a Delta flight after the latter reabsorbed the former but hadn't rebranded the aircraft yet.
Ryanair is the peak airline, O'Leary should have a monument in Brussels.
>>2072332As it should be. Effectively a sparkling review. Expect to get blown?>>2072355Take a boat. Really earn it.
What would you do in this situation?
>>2063425No. They all carry bags with them and take their trash home
>>2073914No shit Jap politics took a hard right turn the moment they got introduced to the concept of pajeets.
>>2062901Feeling very comfy right now
>>2073981Keeek
>>2073981getting sounded by the noto peninsula
a daring synthesis
there nothing ever happens, if two trains collide. They are crashed and exploded like a boom.
I will never not see "SEPSIS" when I see SEPTA
>>2066616Considering MARC is probably going to expand to Delaware, is more of this possible in the future?
>>2072288Fuck. If there were another example of delaware being a non state...
Post more different trains forced to work together
> I need to ride a bike > i dont know how to ride a bike I need to ride a bike I dont know how to ride a bike > I need to ride a bike > i dont know how to ride a bike I need to ride a bike I dont know how to ride a bike where do i start with riding a bike
Once I was biking with my young son and some pig cop pulled us over and was like "do you know why I pulled you over?" and I was preparing to explain to the kid later that as soon as you stick your neck out an inch some cocksucker is right there to knock you down but then she said "because you're wearing a helmet, good work" and then she wrote him a ticket for a free ice cream cone.
>>2074532Still pretty condescending. Was she recording for TikTok?
>>2074535Doubtful, it was at least 10 years ago. It was a good act on her part, I aint mad, just a little surprised she would troll people like that.
>>2074419>Do schools in America not give mandatory biking and road safety lessonsno.next question
>>2074419no. and no such thing in canada too. i dont think mexico does it either. though in grade school often a cop will visit a classroom and give a general "don't be an asshole on the street" lecture and it usually includes biking etiquette
The fundamental problem of any form of public transportation is the other people you're unfortunate enough to be forced to spend time with. Prove me wrong.Pic related
>>2066317On a motorcycle I can go wherever I want whenever I want.Using public transportation I'm forced to adapt to its operations. This its fundamental problem.
while I don't particularly enjoy buses I think it's still worth having them just for children/elderly/drunks/disabled pplanyway, it's been like 10y since I last rode in a bus but the biggest problem was not enough buses on the line and buses being stuck in traffic behind the cars, not the schedule or the people
>>2074497Spoken like a true lefty....>who wants to keep people marginalized and away from them....
>>2074527>/pol/ inserts a political angle to an honest post based off of actual experience every time. just stay in your cornfield.
>>2074559>inserting social/political bs where it doesn't belongIn his defense, you painted tranny flags on the crosswalks.
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
>>2074104There is no solution
>>2065659redpill me on the brooks c17
>>2065778>proud of being a sucker
>>2074104Recumbent.
>>2074543overpriced hipster bullshit. I'm sure it's nice and everything, but so are a lot of saddles
Why did hydrofoils never take off?
>>2072101Cost to operate is usually cope. Slight design modifications can deal with most of those easily.
>>2044074Square cubed law prohibits scaling to multi kilotonne sizes. Bad weather (any sea) would require a tens of kilotonne scale, and likely need an unfathomably strong hull to resist constant wave action hitting the hull at speed.Worse, cavitation of the hydrofoil onsets around 50knots, destroying L/D; not much faster than a highspeed displacement hull.It’s disappointing.
>>2072560Maybe they could make an articulating hydrofoil, like an aquatic centipede, so the big ocean swells can't break it.
>>2072101They chew through fuel at 3 times the rate of other ships, which is their only real operational disadvantage. Aside from top speed, their other advantage that doesn't get discussed much is that they can lean into turns so their maneuvering circle is a lot smaller than ships in the same displacement class.The Navy wanted to decommission their hydroplane cruisers primarily because the role they ended up in (drug boat interception) is something they wanted to get out of. So they invented a lot of technical and operational reasons why they didn't want to keep their fleet operational.It was all an indirect excuse to try to push that specific job onto the Coast Guard.
I drew a boat that has a bilge keel with winglets, elevators, 3 rudders with a center to get prop wash for turning at stop, and a M bow that blends with the bilge keel.The idea is to get a semi-displacement hull that can plane past hull speed at like 15 knots. Bermuda sloop with a genoa for solo sailing capability. I would also have electrical winches for auto-pilot Would it work? I don't know. Drawing is incomplete cause I need to learn all the parts of sail and lines, and layouts.But the keel would be filled with foam to decrease displacement and so would the keel canards, Also the boat could rest on it's keel at low tide so it would need to be structurally strong like an arch to support 5,000 lbs. I would have ballast above that and use a double hull construction where the inside hull has access panels and filled with foam.I want a ocean voyaging sail boat that can sail itself autonomously and do so quickly.
Old thread from 2023 finally hit bump limit >>1955863New thread. "Cycling infrastructure" is harm reduction. But not in the way you probably think. The anti-bike crowd considers riding a bicycle on public roads as an offense against the interests of motorists. An so, they wish to create infrastructure to reduce cycling (harm). Yes! Those who advocate for "separate but equal" are (whether they admit it or not) working against the interests of bicycle users:-The American Automobile Association strongly supports bike lanes-Countries that place responsibility on car drivers have 70-90% fewer fatalities per billion km traveled by bike. This is of course beyond the pale, drivers must always have total immunity. But hey, look, green paint! We solved safety!-The true purpose of bike lanes is to neutralize the opposition by corrupting the discourse. Don't support bike lanes? Then you must not care about safety!-Bike lanes have a curious pattern of appearing where they are superfluous, and vanishing as you approach potential traffic conflict zones. This way, when you get run over by a dump truck making a turn, it's your fault! You shoulda been in the bike lane that wasn't there!In conclusion: bike lane activists hate cyclists and want to eradicate cycling as a form of transportation.
>>2069013>>2069023glad to see you totally ignored the other posters point while replying too him and then go on to immediately make an adhom attack.
>>2064086>Road for the roadies, bike lane for the commuters.Very much this. Separate traffic by speed, not vehicle type.
>>2069067nah imma just buy an SL8
I saw John Forester at a book store in the Bay Area once. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my browsing, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen copies of "Roads to Ride: A Bicyclist's Topographic Guide to Alameda, Contra Costa and Marin Counties by Grant Petersen and John Kluge" in his hands without paying.The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.When she took one of the books and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each book and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
>>2070736There are different rules for royalty.
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
>>2074459i have never heard a real life signal engineer and from what little i understand, modern signalling is more to say "I'm on time for the section of track my company reserved 8 months ago" than "I am reserving this section of track right now"also dont quote me on it but i *think* satisfactory trains will run even without signals and happily collide with eachother if you fuck up the timing. BUT they are also very hands-off and will pathfind on their own with no way to override unless you build extra train stops and add them to their timetable. i dont know much about satisfactory trains because they are basically never necessary and dont really fit the scale of the game very well. the devs themselves have basically admitted that they only added them due to complaints from autists and never planned anything around them, and have been more recently showing more love to truck transport (even the title screen for this Experimental build is a lavishly decorated city street type scene instead of the usual 'nature spoiled by a big prison-orange machine' vibe they used until now)
>>2074462>At least in the US, each railroad has its own signalling scheme and rules.They really don't. There are two methods: speed signals and route signals. Speed signals are being phased out.
>>2074484I meant that each US railroad sets its own signal rules. A larger authority didn't make them all adhere to a master signalling plan. It's further complicated by the signalling mechanisms and rules of the predecessor railroads that make up modern carriers; e.g. ex-Southern territories have different signals and rules applicable to them than ex-PRR territories at NS; ex-Frisco lines have slightly different rules than ex-ATSF lines at BNSF. Over time they've been standardized or changed to be more similar within their own company.
>>2074496Those are nice platitudes that you have, but do you have any facts supporting them? Do you know how to read any signal system?
>>2074498Yes, I worked for BNSF on ex-ATSF/SLSF/CB&Q lines and did interchanges onto the NS, CSX, UP, and KCS (before it was taken over). Within BNSF each division can have its own slight variations of signal rules because of legacy signaling from the predecessor lines, all of that was in the rulebook.
>public transportation sucks>decide to buy a bike>nice.jpg>want to go to neighboring cities 50-300km away>no trains>buses suck asswhat do you guys use for transportation for longer distances in a third world country? I can't take my bike if I intend to carry stuff around because I live in a mountainous region.It takes 4 hours to travel 100km by bus here. Should I just buy a motorcycle or something?
>300km>farHow fat are you, OP?>>2070070>>2070074>>2070082>>2070085>>2070091Kill yourself.
>>2070085>klr650hes best getting whatever shitbike is common in his country for the easy spare parts. maybe a thirdie honda or royal enfield>>2070162>300km isnt farthats about the average distance a tour de erance cyclist can go per day, and it takes them all day to do so. how long does it take you to go 300km in one ride?
50km is no biggie on a bicycle but it's getting towards the practical upper limit
>>2072238>>2070162>how long does it take you to go 300km in one ride?bumping
>>2074493Strong headwind or really strong headwind?
Are all carbon bicycles in 2026 made in the same building by the same guy and he just slaps a different logo on them depending on who placed the order?
The ones you can afford? Pretty much. Unless you're riding an appleman or a calfee it's probably made by quest composites in GREATER CHINA
>>2071873Yes and no, for budget carbon that's exactly how it is but for higher mid tier options the frame design is made independently then sent to another independent manufacturer, usually the same one who produces low end slap a name on it frames. High end options design and manufacture in house. You can skip the branding and order a slap a name frame directly from a manufacturer but quality control becomes a gamble depending on price point
>>2071873Bike frames are a low barrier to entry potential sideproject for an large number of carbon layup firms that each serve a narrow industry like aerospace, sail, automotive as the core customer.
>>2071873yeah thats basically all consoomer goods these days. only different is what shift the chinese factory was on when it was made
Almost yeah
