In which we discuss the Bikelighting culture (Fahrradbeleuchtungskultur) of our countries.Here in Germany, because of the Danger, it is not allowed to have a blinking Taillight. This is also the Reason that all emergency Vehicles in the World have blinking Lights. By attracting other dangerous night Vehicles to crash into the Ambulance, instead of the civilian Vehicles, it spares Drivers in smaller Vehicles, where the Occupants are less able to administer emergency self-Aid. This is the Consequence of what we call a „high trust Society“; our culture of Politeness dictates the most Risk to the most capable Roaduser. The same Expectation is extended to Police and Construction Engineers who are paid more for occupational Hazards such as a blinking Light.Do you have a Law about blinking Bikelights in your Country?
>>2053772Most lights seem to be garbage, not just in bikes, i general.But more so on bikes. The problem is Most average people don't see light very well.And you can't covince me otherwise.You see, for average people to see a light, it needs 2 things.1 - VERY bright, like brighter then the SUN2 - big, how big? Well traffic lights are very big?At least bigger then most of the shit lights on bikes.I would probably try a Front light (brighter) on the Back of bike.https://shoprealitybikes.com/products/giant-recon-hl-1800Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2055209Thats nice, and even if it causes trouble (maybe not recommended.It would work pretty well.Where do you find something like that?https://www.nightprovision.com/products/ps1200-police-bike-light-set-1200-lumens-xm-l-t6-led-with-red-blue-strobeThats what i found.
>>2056905If you buy an american taillight not a shitty german one, $45 from a legacy brand like cateye or nite rider will be blindingly bright at 10 meters and impossible to ignore at 100 meters. The reason you think taillights suck is that you bought a gimped Busch & Muller taillight from some hipster store that cost $100 and is barely visible when it's 5 inches from your face because of german laws
>>2056827nah. i see you fuckers out there at night using LED road flare strobes as bike lights.
>>2057205>i see you
I am a railway fan from Moscow. In my free time, I make videos of trains, subways, and transportation. Ask questions about my activities, and the transport of my country, stereotypes, in general, everything that is interesting, I will try to answer.
>>2055187Last year they announced they're selling the only built station of Omsk metro with a starting bid of 2.5 million dollars, but it doesn't look like it went anywhere.
>>2055187>>2055223Every time I see the word "omsk" I think of this one troll guy who called a FSB operator and asked him about the thing in tomsk and they went back and forth a few times about whether it was omsk or tomsk and anyway the FSB inadvertently leaked some info but I forgot what it was
>>2056846https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwvA49ZXnf8Thanks for reminding me about this
>>2036639Can you still go from Moscow to Beijing with a train? I heard they scrapped the service during covid
>>2056880I don't remember it being navalny, crazy. I thought it was just some random troll.
hongcouver getting some china ferries…elbows up?
>>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
>>2046273So?
>>2046182are they auxillary invasion ferries?
This thread is for talking about railways, and things related to railways, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - that means we're all about big intercity trains, modest rural trains, long freight trains, trips, tracks, trams, subways, stations, you get the idea. Trains are cool.If you're planning a journey, take a look at the nationalrail.co.uk/ journey planner - tell it where you're headed from and to, and it'll show you your options before handing you over to a train company so you can buy a ticket. Doesn't matter which train company, they'll all charge the same price for the same seat on the same journey. Overseas visitors - trip.com and thetrainline.com are your best option.Here's a few links:~New rolling stock currently on order, listed (trainlogger.co.uk/units/)~A Visual History of Railway Rolling Stock in Great Britain (gaelan.me/br-stock/)~The Man in Seat 61 (seat61.com/) - easily the best rail travel resource out there.~Geoff Marshall (youtube.com/@geofftech2) - likes trains. Mostly harmless.~Jago Hazzard (youtube.com/@jagohazzard) - London train history. Ditto....and some cool 'open data' stuff:~Realtimetrains (realtimetrains.co.uk/) - live train timetables: ideal for keeping on top of ETAs and platforms.~Openrailwaymap (openrailwaymap.org/) - not quite 'Google Maps for railway infrastructure', but close.~TIGER (https://tiger.worldline.global/home/) - live departure boards.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2057755>Genuinely makes me wonder if they could replicate that success by introducing this concept to other large cities.If someone manages to unclench the iron fist of the Treasury and stop the ORR from goldplating everything and dithering for decades, then maybe.
>>2057741The Orange Army marches on. WCML trains back running again.
>>2057860Leeds is a prime example.Largest city in Europe to not have a metro/light rail system. It needs a tram system pre-metro that can be upgraded into a metro like Tyne & Wear. Trams can deal with pretty steep gradients so Leeds shouldn't be an issue.Manchester, Birmingham & Glasgow could benefit from a proper metro. Sheffield needs another link to Manchester (not Woodhead) and a proper commuter rail service.Additionally, a rolling program of electrification should be followed, and make it a legal requirement to meet _x_ stk per year so the Treasury and government can't cancel easily.
>First EMR Aurora train will enter service this December>https://news.eastmidlandsrailway.co.uk/news/a-new-dawn-breaks-as-emr-confirms-first-aurora-train-will-enter-service-this-december>Transport UK and EMR confirm first Aurora from new £400 million fleet will begin running this December>New trains provide more seats, modern, spacious interiors and enhanced accessibility features>The state-of-the-art Hitachi Rail built fleet will transform the experience of customers as they travel on the Midland Main LineLong awaited indeed: if memory serves, the current 222s are being handed straight over to Lumo for their new Stirling-London service, beginning next year.
HOLY FUCK
>>2058312just keep an eye on ADSB
>>2058312The wing hit a bunch of oil storage tanks before the fuselage smeared itself across a half mile of junkyards, that's why the initial fireball looked like one of those novelty pyrotechnic displays they do at drag races and stuff
>>2058104>A300 Impressionnant/impressive
>>2058377What happened to all the packages on that plane? UPS better have updated the tracking at least to indicate it's either on the debris field or incinerated and lost.
>>2058377>UPS 1354>Controlled flight into terrain due to pilot error and pilot fatigue - Airbus not to blame>UPS 2976>Boeing/McDonnell Douglas dogshit designed and maintained airplane crashes once moreAre you pretending to be retarded or you’re genuinely a retard?
I currently have a very basic one that came with the bike (pic rel). It's at proper height so I get zero pressure on the perineum, but if the terrain doesn't require me to get up every couple of mins, I quickly get sore sit bones. I wanna do some touring (min 50 km daily) so that won't do. So, I measured them bones and set about finding a new one.Thing is, I have zero experience with other saddles and have no clue what to look for. It seems like saddles under 50€ aren't worth looking at, but it also seems like I'll have to buy multiple either way until I find the right one. It baffles me that saddles go up to 300€ and there's never a way to try them out. Am I just supposed to waste money until I luck into one that fits? Is there at least a flowchart?
>>2055820no you will be replacing your face.
>>2057065the reason for the dramatic downward angle is mostly due, as you already suspected, to a lack of proper know-how about these things. that said, it rides just fine, with the caveat that i should stay seated without moving so much, something that i have trouble with currently. i'll readjust it according to your suggestion.>>2057697i'm about 1.2k miles in so far and maybe its because of the colder weather and what that does to (chromoly) steel but the creaking has ceased.
anyone using sqlab saddles?
>>2057727Yeah. I've tried way too much different shit (SMP, ISM, old Cobb, Aliexpress 3d printed) and I have pretty much settled on a 612 for my drop bar bikes and a 610 for my mountain bike. Definitely some pressure on the sit bones but none anywhere else, so that seemed like a fair trade. When I bought according to their width measurement chart it felt like I was constantly falling forward; I went up a width, then two, and got more comfortable each time. Not a whole lot of fore/aft adjustment.
>>2057713awe yes the ol, the oil has stopped leaking from my differential it must have sealed the leak repair method
is the dart silver line /n/ approved? it’s scheduled to open in october
>>2057370>>2057372>>2058388I don't understand why you chose to dig in your heels over sound walls. Most people don't like noise, whether it's from an industry, a highway, or a train. Do you really think you are doing your side a favor by chastising residents who want a modicum of peace and quiet? Please stop being your own worst enemy.
>>2058390do they get mad their neighbors mowing their lawns too? if you live in a suburb or city noise is guaranteed. trains really arent that loud unless you live with a window fronting the track. also if you can get used to the sound it will never bother you again.
>>2058438There you go again being your own worst enemy. Telling other people to get used to it and making up straw man arguments isn't a solution and will lead people to stop taking you seriously.
>>2058445>There you go again being your own worst enemy. Telling other people to get used to it and making up straw man arguments isn't a solution and will lead people to stop taking you seriously.
i now commute on the silver line three days a week it goes:home->bike->silver line->bike->workand its so comfy guys
Why does a graffitied train have to be taken out of circulation immediately? How much does it cost in your country to clean up one graffiti piece? In Finland, the average cleanup cost is 600-700ish.
Did a bunch of you just find out about broken windows theory because of me?
>>2058163Funny thing is, the Romanian Bucharest Metro authority actually encouraged people to graffiti up some ancient-ass rolling stock. They figured out it was way cheaper (read: free) to get vandals to paint the trains for them.
You can barely see out of the windows on most renfe trains
>>2058163I assume because they can not guarantee that the graf artist hasn't fucked with the train in another way (severing lines, tampering with equipment etc) so they need to clean and inspect before being put into service. I've never tampered with a train after painting it but some wilder crews will intentionally break shit. I love metro graf. unofficial, unpaid, illegal penetration testers that show how pathetic modern day metro security is. Imagine having 30+ mins of unrestricted access to mass public transport carriages if you were a bad apple. Unthinkable
>>2058187It would be interesting to have pentesters and metro writers make a presentation for something like Defcon, but a lot of people would get mad after that. There's so god damn many layers to this it's unreal. Emergency brakes, literally stalking for 2+ weeks in bushes for worker and guard activity, looking at timetables.. I hope one day there'll be something like I mentioned, but the secrecy will die along with it. On the other hand, people have been doing this since the 70s in some way shape or form, it'll just get more complicated for those in the sport
Are the wingy bits on the butt important?Why wouldn't you just stop when it was on the ground?
>>2058278boss will kill me if i crash helicopter, and if boss gets blood on his hands he'll kill my family too so i'll kill myself and helicopter in crash and keep boss's hands clean
>>2058282Based and bootpilled
>>2058272Nah, that part is just decorative. The pilot was probably drunk.
>there's a helicopter about to crash and the retard is filming a fucking panoramaAlso he didn't fly so good.
>>2058281My assumption is that they were unaware of the tail situation.But why not land immediately and assess the damage... no idea. Just Russian things.
Is there still a fixie subculture anywhere out there, or am I showing my age? Im still enamored with the whole “fixie punk” aesthetic. Considering jumping back on social media is there are still people doing this. But I realize its a niche subculture from the early 2000’s thats been made fun of since day 1.
>>2056333>Just look at what they took from us Man I wish I just hadn't been socially awkward and beta as fuck when I was literally surrounded by women like this most weekends.
>>2040047real nigga
Single speed sucksFixed gear really suckI'd like a bare bones beater 7 speed cruiser or rigid MTB for my roads and easy trails. 12 gears minimum imoI considered making this fit 2" slicks but I really need to be able to drop the seat. I need more gears. Need front and rear brakes. Why make life hardYo fuck 4chan and this captcha shit man fuck this place I'm out
>>2051979yes cause you live in a passover shithole that leeches culture out of other areas ten plus years later. The interesting thing about small town people is how they've likely never met someone actually intelligent so they don't know how small their brains operating space is like the rest of us who have bumped shoulders with someone who is 145 iq
>>2054377>>2054376so riding fixie is one of those things that requires a trust fund
Have you ever thought about paying the ferry man BEFORE he got you to the other side?
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?
>>2058227>he thinks bikes are ridden on sidewalks
>>2058228There you go again, pretending to be something you're not
>>2058228its so weird for a single fat woman to have a picture of an attractive and married womans hand typing on saved to their PC
>>2058228anonbikes are ridden everywhereon bike lanes, on sidewalks, inna woods and on the roadfuck, i ride my bike in my apartament building, it has a long corridor from my door to the elevatorbike is universal transportation, if you can walk you can ride
>>2058409>if you can walk you can ridecheckmate
Post road network gore.
>>2058354>Trying to transport cargo by rail here in Germany is completely absurd for anyone that isn't some large chems corp or other such facility and thus you have heavy trucks splitting roads everywhere at over-proportional rates.It's not much different here, and with very few exceptions public transit agencies don't move freight, that's up to the actual railroads. I'm not sure how it works in Germany, are passenger and freight handled under the same transportation company? In the US, increasing public transit funding and building out a big passenger rail system won't affect truck volumes.>>2058355That looks like a brand new roundabout without signage/striping put in yet but still, how stupid can you be
>>2058364>In the US, increasing public transit funding and building out a big passenger rail system won't affect truck volumes.Neither would it here because access and regulation for rail makes it financially and organizationally impossible for private companies to transport shit via railAnd building rail hubs or even a fucking 300m bit of railway is infinitely harder legally than a bit of paved road for trucks which it fucking shouldn't be but it do beIncreasing hydrocarbon scarcity will have to do what myopic boomer retards refused to
>>2050288It's fixed
>>2058396Surreal how russians are still stuck in the "let's pump the city full of ten-lane highways that'll surely solve traffic" mindset.Then again traffic obviously wasn't going to be solved by that half-assed "central diameters" scheme.
Tallship bros, we're so fucking back.
back from where? i didn't even notice you were gone, i completely forgot about you
Hello guys (and that one girl who is here).OP from >>2024166 here.Found another old gem, in this case from TGV. French language? Check.Strange music? Check.Sensual start with a woman voice? Check.Also: absolutely interesting footage.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VTfoSltNRIThis one in English, but with old footage:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHqZ6PjZ7voComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2057867It was very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
>>2057867SNCF archives are awesome.Have the 1955 record that started it all, complete with goats, stilts and unhealthy train on rail and train on OHL violence.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJzJl7jMYMw
>>2058016that IS a find! :-)
I have one about the TGV-M in english:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kg74ut6SNU
