For when you want to fall over in front of a crowd without getting drunk first
>>2050921>>2043512>Rain>SlippingYou don't need more than this.Solid metal, huge for man sized feet.Covers a good portion of my size 13 (American) shoes.I have been through downpours where you wish you had eyeball wipers and winter in Michigan Are the cheap, stock plastic pedals from Walmart your only point of reference for normal pedals?Because I could see that making sense. I've snapped and cracked a few of those before upgrading.I'm only 160 pounds at just over 6 feet, nothing should be breaking under me.
>>2077302forgot image.A week of waging in triple digit weather has fried my brain
>>2050921nikolasV, RIP
>>2077302>my size 13 (American)
>>2052672>That's not what they're for.What are they for then?
30 years after Mavic Zap, I finally tried three different bikes with electronic shifting (Rival, Force, and Red/XPLR) and it reminded me of the first time I got my dick sucked. It was alright. I'm glad I experienced it. But the overall feeling was like.... "that's all? that's what all the hype was about?"I am glad it's a thing, I'm glad it's available, I would never tell them to un-invent it. I suppose if you offered to upgrade my current bikes with all electronic I'd probably go for it (might have to think it through first). Overall, it was a disappointment.So what did I miss here? Is Shimano better or Campy maybe, was the problem fookin SRAM? Is it less about the ride and more the long term ownership experience, the maintenance perhaps? Why do people fork out 2-3x the monies over the cost of perfectly good mech shifting? I can't believe I'm even saying "perfectly good (old thing)". I love my hydro dicks, I love my crabon wheels, I would never go back and those were worth every penny, but the e-shifting was a big letdown. Again, it was fine, but just fine. For all the hype I expected to ejaculate instantly.
>>2077510Did you ask Grok to write you that post?
>>2077527So much for being utterly unperturbed and nothing gets under your skin, huh. Remember this one is also a bicycle related thread. If you have nothing to add, you are invited to pipe down and let the grownups talk.
>>2077510>I didn't say anything about what was required>>2077337>I have superstitious fear of key logging even though a microphone and some AI could easily crack my passwords.IDIOT
>>2077529Were you home schooled? I'd hate my parents too if I were in your shoes.
>>2077393>>2077347>>2077340>>2077333>>2077330There he is. The incredible retard.
I've been riding hookless toobless for like 10k miles now and I won't go back. I know I'm supposed to be dead or something but I've never had an issue. If it's reliable enough for my fussy complicated european car, it's good enough for my simple mechanical shifting bike. Why do retards think they need hooks? Because they're too stupid to inflate to the correct pressure? Literally just don't pump them up like they're your unc rims from 2007 with 23mm tires. It really is that shrimple! Well that and don't be morbidly obese.
>>2077519why would you ride your fenderless roadie in rain if you can hop onto your practical commuter hybrid with fenders
>>2077520Obviously not since anon (totally not (You)) thought you needed a frame that is "fender compatible" or that somehow the existence of no-clearance road frames that were popular 15 years ago somehow BTFOs all tubeless foreverJust some general life advice, progress does not care about your feelings, if you wanna be a luddite and yell at clouds more power to you, but don't confuse that with being a expert because you're not that, clearly
>>2077522It's always so funny to watch someone be so arrogant and so stupid at the same time. You keep trying to be condescending, but all you're really doing is making a clown of yourself. None of your jabs land in the slightest because every comment just reinforces that you're a fool who mistakes arrogance for intelligence. It's genuinely amusing watching someone so convinced they're the smartest person in the room while making such an idiot of themselves.
>>2077524Grok tier response. You didn't even try to make it about bicycles. Do better!
Hookless is objectively superior because of too many reasons you are too unintelligent to understand. NJB, CADE, and Berm Peak all agree. Hookless Tubeless is not just the FUTURE, it's NOW.
Why did hydrofoils never take off?
>>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.
>>2044074Happy Birthday, Hydrofoil Thread!
>>2044074Weren't going fast enough
>>2059691Nations and states aren't the same thing. A nation is a people, on a territory, with a shared culture. So yes, Texas is a nation, but not a state. Even though it's a "State" as in province within the United States.
What would you do in this situation?
>>2067318>boomers, JAPAN:O
>>2062901What would you do in THIS situation?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-BON5oBITY
>>2075787Explain
>>2063425No, and that's not even a joke. You carry your rubbish with you.
>>2062901I AM CHICKEN
What is it about steam engine chugging sound that makes it so soothing? I really like hearing it, but I can't explain why.
>>2077367I know how it's made anon, I'm curious as to what is it about that sound that makes it relaxing
It's a machine with fire in its belly, breathing as it works hard.
>>2077363Wow, this is a surprsingly possible explanation which I didn't know I could consider.
>>2077468Thanks, I would like to thank MFNY's "Cherry Lime x O2 OG Kush" live rosin gummies for that shitpost
>>2077357steam engines CHUFFit's diesel engines that chug
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.
Cambridge South is now open: here's the first afternoon rush hour, mostly featuring bored commuters looking at their phones. Weird how they're trying to make 'GBR Anglia' a thing, though.
>>2077031Looks a bit of a mess desu. There's a lot of fonts and colours and, well, everything, all smooshed together.
>>2076885That's a Class 37, probably one of the best designs to come out of English Electric. The engineers had a thing for long noses at that time which is why multiple different locomotive classes all look similar.37s are at the sweet spot between being powerful enough to solo small jobs whilst being economic enough to be doubled or tripled for heavy work. They'll probably be around for decades more as nobody wants to make pure diesel locomotives in that power range.>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_gu0v33e7A&list=TLPQMDIwNzIwMjZETqWCrjnpcA&index=4
>>2077143>mostly featuring bored commuters looking at their phonesboring but successful is a good outcome for almost any infrastructure project
>>2076896Is TPWS still only covering stations/ terminus / Morpeth boards nowadays? I thought they would've rolled it out a lot more
we wonhttps://www.petalumanews.com/2026/06/02/tax-measure-smart-train-election/https://archive.is/V4JLP
Stop pointlessly moving around.
>>2075064They have to start running more 3 car sets because theres no room on the damn Nippon Sharyo DMUs. High ridership is a good sign though. Finally someone mentions my backwater part of the country. Also expand it to Fairfield!
Anyone else feels like absolute shit after crashing? it's not even the pain of it it's just the faith in your ability slowly dying inside. When I was younger it was whatever but now it feels like someone chipped away a chunk of confidence.
>>2069433He's look pretty fit here for an 80 year old, why didn't we pick him?
>>2074065A novice would have crashed no matter what if it was a slippery enough surface and he did something dumb like hit a crack at a 45 degree angle
>>2064175all my 2025 crashes were within 300 feet of my house. I've heard similar stats for cars.
>>2071367kwab
>>2074065I didn't >imply any of that :^(I'm not gonna pretend I know how to do anything other than lube my chain and adjust my seat and for the record, I like disc brakes way more than pads. My mind was blown when I got a bike with disc brakes, I like the idea of keeping the brakes going just by adjusting the wire.
Would you fly in an airliner with no windows?
>>2077057fly explodey airlines, our fleet of exciting Tu-22M3 converted bombers specifically designed for passengers with a death wishrecent Tu-22M crashhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dDtXUzwuZETu-ssM breaks up on landinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSvE7LFJ-UA
>>2077060I flew on an airbus A380 in 2014 which had a camera mounted on the top of the tail facing forward, you could dial into the camera on the back of seat video screen, along with a graphic of the position of the plane on a globalmap.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPiNXPOaerI
yeah i just sleep on flights so i wouldnt be too bothered.>>2077060>pulling people out of windows after a crashthey do not do this. those windows are designed to survive crashes to keep the plane intact and exterior debris from entering the cabin.
>>2077060>pulling people out of windows after a crashmaybe if they're small children, otherwise no
>>2077064When I flew on Emirates, they had that but they'd turn it off below a certain altitude, which was a bit disappointing because I wanted to watch our landing.
What the fuck is wrong with these mongoloid slackers? They completely underschedule longhaul trains everywhere outside the NEC so almost no one can use them for shorter trips and then wonder why ridership is in the shitter. Each route should be minimum 3x a day per direction.
Took The Vermonter the other day. Why is it so much cheaper than NEC? It's like the same price as a commuter train. Meanwhile a trip between NYP and Newark Airport on the NEC is like $86 on Amtrak
>>2074105As the train rolls across the land, imagine the land beneath you generating little $ signs that float up into the air like super mario or sonic the hedgehog. The more rapidly the dollar signs rise, the greater the fare. In the northeast corridor it's high dollars the whole way through but once you venture off the beaten path, not so much
>>2074105higher demand on the NEC, it's the same with airlinesfor ny-newark airport there's no much reason to not take njt instead
>>2062712Isn't there a train in Napa (or was it Sonoma?) Like one of those dinky little feeder trains like they have in Princeton NJ?
>>2075832How much is the NJT fare
Ocean liner fans rejoice! The Queen Mary reopened for hotel guests in May and in June, I had the privilege of spending two nights on board. I'll be uploading my album of the ship over the next few days and discussing the history of the ship that I learned while onboard.
>>2043281>Battleship USS Iowa which is also at the port of Long BeachIt's on the LA side in San Pedro. I live in the area. Never been aboard it. Don't really care about it. I was working on the docks the day they towed her in though. pic related.The USS Abe Lincoln came here in like 2007 and that was pretty cool to go aboard. We got to stand on the platform that lifts the jets up to the deck.
>tfw bored and upon up a 3 year old thread where the OP posts pictures of a place that I WAS LITERALLY AT ON THAT EXACT DAYwhat a fucking small world...
Are there any mega oldfags who traveled by ocean liner during the final days of non-ceremonial service? Late 50s or early 60s? Maybe as a child on a vacation?
>>2077228you can't even passenger your way across the atlantic anymore on boat? it just has to be plane?
>>2077284You can but it's like once a month sailings and only between New York and *ngl*nd. You can't go anywhere worthwhile like Marseille or Cadiz, just knifecrime island where you will be immediately arrested for failure to register your phone as an illegal television simulator
Why is /n/ in general so much more friendly and cordial than other boards?
>>2073839hope he sees this bro
>>2047065Imagine being a low IQ normgroid that doesn't enjoy bicycles, planes, trains, ships, cars and any form of transportation"pick one side only!!!!" cucks are brain damaged
>>2073849But that post doesn't say one side only, why are you trying to create conflict where none exists
>>2073844And once more.
>>2073923really hope he sees this. then you can be agreeable together.
Street: Japan
Street Japan
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.
>>2077104You're not even trying
>>2077104>pretends running a cable is difficult and worth $450 plus taxIt... It is though!
>>2077209Stop replying to yourself
>>2073873I want to minimize sweating and use the preferential lanes.
>>2077360There he is. The incredible retard.
