Do you wear a helmet while riding your bicycle?
>>1960158yes. I'm a smart person and am worried about losing some iq points from bumping my noggin. same reason I never took up boxing despite knowing I'll love it
I talked to an old biker who used to be a part of motorcycle clubs. He said the helmets only keep your head safe and not the rest of you and he rather just die than be paralyzed.
I wear a full face bicycle helmet on the street because I have seen people crash and absolutely fuck their jaws up When I ride in the city (ie on the island of manhattan) I wear a mesh short with armor in it also, I just put it under whatever I’m wearing
>>2052265or he could stop being a retarded boomer, ditch the leather jackets and assless chaps, and wear actual motorcycle gear?
>>1960158ive been riding since i was 10 or so, nearly my entire familiy would go on bike rides at least a few times a year, and i could probably count with my fingers the amount of times i wore oneWhat's the point of wearing a helmet if i dont plan on crashing? i use mountain bikes and barely ever surpass 20kph anyway, im not a road racer that wants to spend 3 hours a day bothering tired car drivers? when both me and the car drivers will enjoy ourselves more if we go to routes where we dont have to cope with each other
>free busesCagebros...should I be afraid...?
>>2053359Fighting corruption is not an excuse to do what liberals are doing.We have numerous advancements and methods to crack down on cop corruption, like body cameras.This is mostly an excuse for Soros lawyers to turn criminals loose on the streets and literal retards like you keep falling for it again and again. Then you cover your eyes and plug your ears and act like "welp there's nothing that can be done" when a repeat-offender homicidal maniac stabs a random innocent white Ukrianian refugee to death on public transit.
>>2053362Rather disingenuous argument after your people just got done deleting half the federal government using "corruption" as an excuse, please do try to lecture me about incrementalism though, I'm sure you totally believe the things you say and it's not just another cynical attempt to own the libs
>>2053365Looks like you've just given up any pretense of caring about public transit or crime and have just gone full-on partisan aggro and are trying to change the subject.I don't even want MAGA to be "my people." I always considered myself a moderate liberal. The problem is that the "left" and Democrats have been completely overrun by morons like you, completely bereft of common sense and out of touch with reality.
>>2046129If you allow people who would attack the bus driver for asking a few dollars fair more access into the bus then who the FUCK wants to take the bus anymore?You do not live in the real world. The real world actual functional solution is to get these fucking animals out of the buses so normal people don't have to be worried about safety and so the system doesn't have to worry about fare dodging.
>>2053369asserting that corrupt and unaccountable policing makes crackdown on general violence based on the likely loose and flexible law changes that would permit the kindof retaliation many people would immediately like to see against psychos in transit settings target the wrong people isnt unrealistict. nta authority
Things you think are cool edition Resources:https://www.sheldonbrown.com/https://www.parktool.com/en-us/blog/repair-helpNeutral Support News on Youtubeprevious thread:>>2051108
>>2054130a package of hacksaw blades is only a couple bucks. wrap a rag or tape on one end for a handle. put masking tape over the part of the tube you're going to cut and mark a straight line on it before you start
>>2054131If the steerer is metal you're better off using a pipe cutter Also if it's carbon wear a mask
>>2054131You think I've got a vice built into the kitchen worktop?
>>2054140the saw blade is straight. hold the fork firm and get it started, once you get a channel cut it'll keep itself straight. I'm trying to give you solutions and all you do is complain
>>2054140stick your erect dick into the end and make the cut. try not to lop your cock off or you'll be riding fixed fr
The end of ebike terrorism is in sight. Let's not count our chickens before they hatch, but I'm tentatively feeling hopefully about this. During the time that the last thread was up, hundreds of people were killed by ebike fires. We need to put a stop to this. I just hope they make sure to add prison time for people caught with unlicensed ebikes.
>>2028734Found the fatty.
>>2037420Wow, lots of fatties in this here thread.
>>2053621>>2053622Go to the gym, poorfag.
>>2048524Based scooters cleaning up the ecosystem, two nuisances at a time.
>>2053330Dunno why people are making this so complicated. Just put a speed limit.>But I'm a cyclist and I want go to fastSo do motorists. Speed is dangerous. Everyone is safer at lower speeds.Otherwise, there's no problems with these bikes. Hell, force people to pay 20 USD for a little plaque at the back if you want regulation.
Pretentious French bullshit.
>>2051670>you can not deflate themdud you have finger(nail)s, right?>>can not blow upyou will need a pump anyways so you have a pumpnot pro Schrader, let alone anti presta. But your arguments are pretty retarded and make almost zero sense.I just wish they made good universal pumpheads. Most of my bikes are presta or regina but I need extra pumps for the other bikes and extra heads or adapters for the floor pumps.Also you all just admit regina valves just mog. It's a shame you hardly find tubes with them anymore. I should start to consider vulcanizing them they're that good.Look good. Always have your valve cap. Even the valve cap looks good. All the advantages of presta. Even better when it comes to security.
>>2048593If European Union had existed 50 years go these would be banned, like all those different bullshit phone chargers connectors 20 years ago got banned.
if these valves are so great why do tyres lose pressure over time
>>2053449Air is very sneaky like Bill Clinton and both have been in and around Epstein island for a long time. Its not the valves that leak so much, its interns.
>>2052839>If European Union had existed 50 years agoIt did though?
How do these large cargo backpacks compare with a bicycle trailer? I need to haul 100kg of cargo on a bicycle
>>1958035>carrying 100kg >in your pants pocketsJesus Christ the people I share this fucking imageboard with.
>>1982671What's your setup? My Pelago rack is only rated for 40lbs and I doubt it could even handle that because it mounted a little wonky on my fork...
>>2000420This is the kinda bike you end up with after messengering for 10 years and are done with all the messenger culture aggro track bike nonsense.
>>2001255Who do you work for?
>>2046356And if you don't use these pronouns you can get in serious trouble. Clown world. Reminds me of The Greengrocer's Sign.
As the title says, just post British trains. A bonus would be export trains (whether built for other countries, 2nd hand, or that country simply copying a design from here) and diversions (especially a train making an appearance at a station it otherwise never would)
>>2052195What's the cushioned bit on the dashboard? Incase you need a little nap?
>>2052195>which way, western man?
>>2052695>which way, Great Western man?
>>2052707Nice touch.
>>2052189hey that's the London tube battery locomotive, very interesting construction
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>>2053556Picture of the rock
>>2053556couldbe,,,might,,,signature,,,questions,,maybe.
>>2053557Chances "we" brought that life there?
>>2053571From thousands of yeara ago maybe. But this is fossilized, basically indication of bacteria a long time ago
If steel is so great, why do the companies that make the best steel tubing in the world use carbon for their forks?If steel is so great, why do the finest steel bikes in the world use carbon forks?It seems to me that steel has an aesthetic value that cannot be substituted by anything else, but as a material for building bikes, its value decreases the more that is demanded of a component.
>>2052912im going to order a new fork as well. it has done well for three months but im tired of my disc brake rubbing against the pads because it causes an annoying resitance when rolling. does carbon bend well or would a crash such as what you and myself had experienced cause a crack and or snap it in two?
>>2052915It would be more accurate to say carbon "flexes", as long as it's structurally intact, it always wants to return to its original shape. If it doesn't do that, it's fucked:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5eMMf11uhMsome kinds of damage can be less obvious when it comes to shape but you can almost always tell from the fact that the finishing has visible cracks of some kind. spider veins or porcelain-style crackling or hairlines or whatever. you can also tap it with something like a nickel and hear the damage. yeah if you're really paranoid you can send it for an MRI or something but that's overkill, when you hear about "surprise invisible damage failures" it's something like a steerer tube where there was damage that would have been visible if anyone had actually bothered checking
>>2052916so i went to the bike shop and the guy flipped the fork around. he thought it was on backwards at first haha.
If carbon is so great, why do the companies that make the best ball bearings in the world use steel for their ball bearings?If carbon is so great, why do the finest carbon bikes in the world use steel ball bearings?It seems to me that carbon has an aesthetic value that cannot be substituted by anything else, but as a material for building bikes, its value decreases the more that is demanded of a component.
>>2052933I wouldn't return to this bike shop ever again
fucking shits
>>2053284A thread died for this
>>2053284>Clipper Juan T Trippe>2nd 747 built after prototype>1st one built used for passengerThose American fuckers!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trVrE8_3B44
Not a single fucking shop in Ontario wants to touch electric stand-on kick scooters for any reason. I'm not going all the way to Toronto to fix a single wiring issue that killed the throttle after driving through an ankle-deep puddle. Google keeps bringing up Durham E-Bikes Sales and Service which specifically says in their website "SORRY WE DO NOT SERVICE STAND-ON KICK SCOOTERS". What is with these things that make repair shops so scared of them? With how popular they are getting there are gonna be a LOT of angry stranded scooter users when they start breaking down.
because you're a cucknadian who lives in a 3rd world country run by streetshitters. ALL "scooters" are Chinese junk that isn't worth fixing, or can only get worse afterwards/thread
>>2048189>Because most of those things are made to be disposable e-waste products from ChinaWorst Korea and Vietnam also make a fair amount of E-scooters too actually both good and absolute trash.Dualtron is a good example which is almost entirely made in the Peoples Republic of Samsung an LG and occasionally the Philippines too, also some Segways are from Vietnam which isn't entirely just a work around for sanctions since it was a thing prior and they already make a fair amount of bikes too so why not just re-tool for that market too.
>>2048429with a scooter I don’t need to pay gas or insurance and unlike bikes most people don’t care where I put it. I can fold it and put it on my back and go up stairs or literally just walk through any restaurant and hide it under the table unlike a bike where you have to put it outside and risk some nigger stealing it. I can go way faster than 15 mph and even if it isn’t legal most cops don’t really give a shit
>>2048187>TorontoTL;DR and opinion automatically disregarded regardless of the context.
>>2049571Cool story bro. I've got over 14,000 miles on mine and am on the 5th rear tire as its a bit of a tread eater since I weigh 240 pounds or so.Dont own a car and I live near Washington DC and take it on the metro trains often but not the buses, lol.As other anons have mentioned there are good scooters and then the more disposable kind.
An entry level new bike, that is agreeable to ride, not dragged down by antiquated standards like QR, that you won't regret buying, nor immediately feel the urge to swap out half the components because of cut corners, cost approximately USD $1500 at standard retail prices as of late 2024, give or take a few hundred (depending on the finer details).Now, the prices are going to go up by at least 20%, and the smaller independent brands are going to go under as only the largest players will have the spare cash to ride out the sudden loss of consumer confidence. The most interesting and original bike products will simply disappear from the market permanently until the next wave of prosperity (which may be entirely concentrated somewhere far away and foreign, so that only the wealthiest of your peers will be able to import and use such goods).How does that make /n/ feel?
>>2043723a pair of mt200s costs 20 bucks and is manufactured in japan so the tariff is not a gorillion percent. a single mt200 costs 10 bucks and that's really all you need, put it on the front and keep the cable one on the back.
>>2048483>mt200Shifter's will need to be replaced, dummy.
>>2048483more like $40 each, so $80 plus what, some friction shifters?I'm not saying don't do that, just confirming that is what you're recommending
>>2044673Is that supposed to hold a magazine or what's that block in front of the trigger
>>2043729I did, they are not good
How is this guy alive? First one or two videos I watched, I thought he was just going for (You)s but they just get worse and worse. The only way this makes sense is if he has terminal cancer and he wants to die riding a bike and not in a hospital bed.
>>2041937Most normies cyclists don't know any track riders
>>2046674t. the guy who got beaten by a roadie in the podunk MTB race
>>2046674>being this mad about someone racing at a race
>>2036202on a bike your life is forfeit.>>2042004suppose we are farely casual, I've a 7 % grade hill among my commute.along the way are some corners, depending on the bike in use it can get a little hard to corner at around 50 kph ish, (caster and gyroscopics)mostly what I find is little piles of gravel accumulate on the inside of corners, and random plants fall down from the cutting.this makes around 2 to 3 foot of the road width unusable, and after a few near misses of storm drains I find it better to take a lane.sometimes I've had cars reversing out of driveways, but fortunately they paused to look about.also cars dip below 50 kph on the corners, so its a little too easy to catch up with them.>something failed on the bike going downtire puncture, weirdly unremarkable, helps allot that I was on a strait.shoe lace caught in pedal axle, lol three crank revolutions is how much time one has to notice this, its not killed me yet lol. (get better footwear)chain drop, this could absolutely obliterate if it manages to jam between the frame and sprocket.>something is in the street that i dont see, or an animal jumps in front of me, I'm probably dying.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2047916chain jammed under the cassette seems less catastrophic than front tire blowout but maybe I'm being too optimistic
....your time is running out to see one.
vieo thread on my /n/?
>>2050562You can fly in a hot air balloon for a lot less money, and it's a lot more memorable.
>>2050571good luck finding passengers
>>2050568Lol. This guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g0C7Lz-qG0 only he's yelling at a balloon far away in the sky lmao
>>2050557come to think of it I don't think I've ever actually seen a blimp in person
Is it the blimp trains time to shine?Could this be used to get Ukraine grain to the rest of europe?They have different rail gauge between rooskie and EU tracks but blimp can be handed off with out even slowing downTHIS CAN WORK???!!!!!!!BLIMP TRAIN HOLEY ROLLERRIDE ON THE BLIMP TRAINBLIMP TRAIN SAVE THIS COUNTRY AND MAKE IT WHOLE AGAIN Now Im on the edge of something Wondering bout the blimp train ooooohhhhaaaaa eeeeeaaaaahhhooooaaaaTalking bout the blimp train
>>2047494Niklaus Riggenbachs railway from Vitznau to Rigi.twenty passengers per balloon are lufted to 1350 meters in altitude over the course of 30 minutes.then a tank built into the basket is filled with water to effect a steady decent.10 balloons lashed together travelling up and down the luftbahn at a frequency up to five Times a day.
>>1932427>Tunnelskek
>>2040522>mfw
>>2050246It's not very healthy. I could see how motorists look at this and see no issue with it, especially if they had a cabin air filter for themselves.
>>1935520do it like>>2050566describes. you see: Helium or hydrogen provides neutral bouyancy at ground level.A heater inside will be used for attitude control.
