hongcouver getting some china ferries…elbows up?
>>2055435Hey, we made some decent ships back in the wooden era!Though that was mostly because Europe deforested itself and literally could no longer make ships fast enough with what was left...
>>2055435picrel were made in quebec and while they're fucking useless to the military, purely as ships they're perfectly okay and the few glaring design fuckups were the result of government meddling (and not even that important, like what exact material to make non-water ballast out of, and adding a bit of extra length that impacted handling slightly but also added a bunch more cabins)>>2052184have you ever been to victoria? its population is made up of abbos, military people who are utterly transient, and retired boomers. of course everything is retarded>>2046338the 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 skeem
>>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
Keep in mind this is for bikes meant to be loaded up. I guess a marketing exec at some point decided kickstands are for poors so no expensive bike can have them now, just like MTBs got stuck with Presta valves. They will literally drill 15+ holes just in case your bike bags use bottle bosses instead of straps, but outright refuse drilling 2 for a kickstand
>>2050151Bikes are like dogs. Putting them on their back is the ultimate humiliation.
>>2050161>his dog doesn't like to roll overNgmi
>>2047836This setup actually makes sense on pure road bikes. I got a 2017 allez with literally 0 mounting points. It's a good setup for summer road touring.
>>2046974>external cable routingSoul.
how did so many posts delete
Theoretically speaking, if I was an entrepreneuring billionaire and I wanted to bring back one of the great American passenger trains (Super Chief, California Zephyr, Panama Limited, Empire Builder, City of Los Angeles/San Francisco, 20th Century Limited, Broadway Limited, Powhatan Arrow, Coast Daylight, etc.) to run on a regular basis (let's put it at at least two times a month for a start), which option would be more feasible from an economic/technical/legal perspective?1. Acquire all of the surviving rolling stock (sleepers, dining cars, dome/observation cars, baggage cars, etc.) from the original consist from private owners, heritage railways, and museums, as well as matching surviving locomotives (can be from ones different railroads since thousands of functionally and aesthetically identical EMD F and E units were sold to all Class I railroads). Renovate them as necessary to make them FRA-compliant, obtain waivers wherever possible. Put them into service as a part-luxury train, part-mobile museum.2. Commission the construction of a replica consist. Building entirely new streamlined cars from scratch, designed to match the internal and external appearance of its original as much as possible, with changes only being made when it's literally required to make the car FRA-compliant/modern user friendly (updated wiring, HEP, power outlets at seats, WiFi support, replacing wooden paneling with MDF paneling etc.). Motive power consists of custom-built Siemens Chargers designed to resemble the original E and F units (streamlining, bulldog noses, matching paint schemes, etc.) as much as legally possible.1/2
There just aren’t enough wealthy boomer train autistes to make this feasible. There’s these luxury cruise trains in the Canadian and Colorado Rockies but their primary clientele isn’t foamers. You can take short rides on vintage equipment at rail museums, or just get drunk or high enough on Amtrak to imagine yourself in the golden age of rail travel.
>>2011902>>2011903Option 2 if you want longevity
>>2048155Thank God this baby got preserved
>>2053389This thread's been up for over a year and most of the replies are just you bumping your thread. Not much interest in it. Let it go
>>2053390nta but I've ghost bumped it a couple of times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyjhjSFL0yo
Folding bikes seamlessly tie in with all transportation modes as they are specifically designed to be compact, stowable and therefore easily TRANSPORTABLE. Easily carried onto trains, planes, buses, trams and other automobiles.There've been many attempts to create the perfect folder, some designs have come very close and have remained in production for decades. The world of folders spans incredible genius tier feats of engineering to terrible examples of dangerously ill conceived death trap folly.Post yours here, or post examples that may be of interest for their engineering genius, aesthetic charm or worthiness of ridicule.
>>2053973>KEEP THE TUBEwhats so great about the seatpost?
>>2054176It's very tall and needs to bump into the fender for the bike to fold correctly.
Literally have a 6 speed brompton on order. After a quick search I see a 12 speed on sale for only 100 euro more, from the same retailer. What do I do, should I exchange it?
I've seen some almost new foldable bikes for dirt cheap in my neighborhood. I'm considering buying one and throwing it in my cars trunk.Will 3 gear planetary hub (shimano neus 3) with 20 inch wheels will be usable for casual riding? I'm not planning to ride more than 50-100km daily.
Do you get a lot of wind resistance on these due to the upright riding position or is the small frame and wheels kinda aerodynamic?
Why did hydrofoils never take off?
>>2055508What if you want to transport a lot across not a lot of water?
>>2055487having a war with an invading neighbor is a good way to get a strong national identity; russia's run by idiots
>>2055545quite the contrary, he knows exactly what he's doing. a strong leader needs an enemy to validate their strength and unite simple people under him, and in absence of one, they have to create one. it's a country of cattle, ran by a mastermind.
>>2055549that doesnt work so well when the tiny country you pick a fight with insisting it'll be your rightful clay again within a week blows you the fuck out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VUQnVSQxcM
Why don’t we fly DC-10’s anymore?
I have a random question to ask, so I’ve been watching videos about cascading failures that lead to crashes in commercial jets. It has me wondering, does the aspect of having so many automated systems inhibit pilots ability to respond to situations where flying the plane manually and technically is demanded?
>>2055272>inhibitAs in, preventing them from flying the plane? None I think except for the MAX crashes. But the fact that they get less time flying manually probably makes them less capable of responding to emergencies.In the end, all of those systems are in place to prevent the plane from entering in one of those situations in the first place; preventive rather than corrective. Safer to not let a plane get out of it's flight envelop.Think about it like this: Does a car with a bunch of safety features prevents a driver from responding in case of an accident? You could say that a professional driver could get out of a bad situation without ABS for example, but it's better to just never let a vehicle be in that sort of situation to start with. Cascading failures are rare, they do happen of course, but having so many systems is what makes the average flight safe.
>>2055272There was a notorious crash in the late '10s of an Air France Airbus that crashed because the pilots lacked basic flying skills due to the high degree of automation. I think it stalled and crashed from a high altitude. I believe training has been altered to put more focus on fundamental skills.
>>2055288>Does a car with a bunch of safety features prevents a driver from responding in case of an accident? Funny you mention this; there was a video circulating of a car stopped on train tracks that couldnt get moving because the door had been opened and modern cars with fully electronic/"fly-by-wire" gear selectors refuse to engage 'Drive' if the door is open
>>2055272half the brown skin thirdworld pilots dont even know how to fly, big commerical planes opperate almost exclusively on auto pilot and the 'pilot' is just there to take the blame when a system fails and everyone dies.
These faggots should be strictly restricted to class F airspace, with well defined dimension and NEVER EVER LEFT OUT, sick and tired of avoiding them. Yesterday while flying a personal Cessna 310 from a buddy of mine and 3 weeks ago on the Dash 8 with the small airliner I fly for. >23 year old co pilot
>>1950147Tucker is a textbook sky cowboy so his days are numbered. Anyways what happened to that retard that did flyby AK-47s and fed seagulls to his prop
>>2041211I just read this entire thread. Good job, OP. You got all the kids on this board saying "cope & seething". kek!
>>2041227based and magisterpilled
>>2027647Robinson doesn't make blimps
>>1954415>give up all your ironworks, steelworks, and manufacturing to china>only hire 80 iq shit skins>durr guess we have to make soldiers fight with hanggliders now lolwe live in a clown world, the rich play with us like children play with videogames.
>>2053984taking a bike on spanish trains is a major hassle
what happened here
>>2055212Dual gauge. Not pure HSR but shared with regular trains.Should have drawn something in the gap.
>>2055173Portugal literally begun by using 1,435 gauge, before it even was an internationally adopted standard, but quickly switched to 1,664 gauge (by moving the rails to the outer nails). Iberian 1.668 is a compromise between Portuguese 1.664 (5 portuguese feet) and Spanish 1.672 (6 castillian feet) gauges.
>>2054048And also the connection between Madrid and Badajoz, presumably via Toledo.
t. 2022 Marin Alpine Trail E2
>>2055488>full squish agressive geometrysorry I'm a noob, what does that mean? I've heard about geometry a lot but I had no idea mine was that, kekthe previous owner was using it to travel with the wife, it was chock full of bags and had full sized mirrors as wellI bought it because I thought it looked cool and it had all the components/motor I wanted, I never thought it was full squish aggressive geometrically speaking, lolalso I live in a city that is flat as fuck, my "pump track" is the final 50 meters of a cycle path that has huge roots coming from under the asphalt, I might say it's ungodly funny and the bike takes them like it's the job it was always meant to do
>Mountain biking
>>2055494I'm retarded. I thought that bike was a full suspension trail ebike anon was riding around town. It looks like an xc (cross country) ebike which is fine for that use. I ride my big XC bike on gravel and around town for exercise. It's my everyday bike. The aggressive geo tail bikes have slack head tube angles and other shit that make them a pain to just ride around but the compromise is that they can tackle rough shit at speed on trails. As geo gets more and more agressive the bikes get harder and harder to climb with, are slugish to manuver, suffer from pedal bob and weigh a gorillion pounds. This is actually a use case for an emtb since the 40 pounds of an enduro bikes and the endurofication of trail bikes makes them harder and harder to climb with. Boomers will also just buy am emtb trail bike, put a giant saddle on it and then ride around town with the throttle when they should be getting an XC ebike with geo that that is better suited for that use in addition to being lighter and cheaper.>picrel is my everyday XC shitter
>>2055510>I'm retardedat least you have some self-awareness
Now my buddy finally got a normal roadbike and wants to sell me his emtb for like $30 of weedMight take the offer and give it to my disabled mother. The only good use for an emtb
They're the definition of cattle class. They're slow, expensive, and you're sleeping in a tiny room with total strangers. Any sleeper route can be better served by a low-cost airline, and cheaper to boot. Sleeper trains made sense in the 19th century when they were the only option, but they make absolutely no sense today.
>>2053055But he's not.>sit in car for 10 hours staring at asphaltYou don't "stare at asphalt", you take in the world around you. The only people who stare at asphalt are the cyclists who think they're competitive cyclists and then crash into an extremely obvious stationary object.>get mad at kid for being restless in the back because he doesn't want to sit still for half a dayThat's why you take breaks, especially with children. And in planes and trains you're expected to sit still anyway, too.>sleazy highway rest stopYou have your choice of any rest stop, and many are well-maintained. On a train or airplane, that toilet isn't getting cleaned until you get to your destination, so at worst its a bit of a wash.>eat some overpriced goy slopEating on the road is what you make of it. I GUESS you could eat exclusively from fast food restaurants but especially in cities, there's every cuisine imaginable within a mile of the freeway, while you can enjoy regional food on the road as well. Doesn't take much effort to have better and/or cheaper food than on a train.>arrive with cramps all over after sitting at the wheel all dayThe longer the journey is, the more you'll be sitting. This also applies to trains. That's why it comes to getting there fast, you'll want to go on a plane.
>>2053101Sorry that happened or I'm happy for you bro
>>2049551>sleeping in a tiny room with total strangersthis must be a russia thing because I have literally never slept with strangers in a sleeper
>>2053104I accept your concession
>>2049551Are we pretending that at least 30% of any population in a country isn't cattle class?I like sleepers because you can just book a private room, not worry about hotel checkins, airport hassle and end up from city center to city center. Plus the food on some of these are quite ok, better than airplane meals unless you book business class. Not to mention that you can always find some people to talk to while you look out of the window at the passing scenery.
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 $1500 at standard retail prices as of late 2024, give or take a few hundred (depending on the finer details).Now, the prices are going to go up by at least 20%, and the smaller independent brands are going to go under as only the largest players will have the spare cash to ride out the sudden loss of consumer confidence. The most interesting and original bike products will simply disappear from the market permanently until the next wave of prosperity (which may be entirely concentrated somewhere far away and foreign, so that only the wealthiest of your peers will be able to import and use such goods).How does that make /n/ feel?
>>2043729I did, they are not good
>>2036143
no amount of regulation will ever cause the american consumer to tolerate the cost of american-manufactured tubesets or the cost of american workers assembling them. it will always be cheaper and better to smuggle grey market frames from taiwan. the cost will always - ALWAYS get passed down the line until it reaches capital and capital will always eat the cost because capital gets interest-free tax-free money from central banks whenever they want it and will plow that straight back into manufacturing infrastructure in southeast asia not red states.
I bought my new gravel bike at 1250 euros. I'm quite happy with it. It has shimano GRX600 components and decent quality componentd. Idk why people are itt pretending entry level bikes are bad when all the cool tech from high end racing dripfed down to regular bikes. A 1500$ in 2025 absolutely btfos a bike from 2010 at 3-4x the price.
>>2055527You unilaterally declared $1500 to be "an entry level bike" in a thread where a bunch of people bickered over whether a $500 bike (new retail price) was any good, I think maybe you're intentionally playing games with definitions in order to win an argument that no one made
yeWax or Oil?What do YOU like better?I don't wanna listen to the youtube silca shills
>>2055422all I do is dunk my chain in a crock pot for 5 minutes but apparently I'm the crazy fred who engages in absurd rituals for my watts, while normal people just raid the local cosmetology school for equipment and do a breaking bad in their backyard with beakers full of extremely specific ratios of obscure petroleum isolates, if only I could "get a grip" and do things to my chain with the mac cosmetics catalog that are still technical violations of anti-sodomy laws in several states
I got the silca secret drip wax thing on sale and it has been pretty good so far. It came in a combo pack with a chain stripper bottle.I think the best part is that you can just spray some water over the drive train and wipe it dry. Reapply a little bit of wax. With oil that always got a bit messy.
>>2055478>minecral spirits>obscure XD
Still trying to figure out if there is any tangible advantage to going through with all this wax crap rather than just oiling your chain which has worked fine for billions of people.
>>2055519Taking a shit in an open sewer has worked fire for billions of people too, but it turns out once people get accustomed to nice things, they like it better that way.
Post your shitbikesssss
Specialized Hardrock made with whatever parts I could salvage from my pile of scrap bikes.Wally-World bike pogo stick fork, the only front brake assembly I could find that wasn't completely seized, ancient thumb shifter, busted rack held together with zipties, cranks with very worn chainrings (no front derailleur, I just keep it in the low gear anyways,) clapped-out seat on with a tube that's too small so I have it duct taped to the frame so it only spins a bit. And a milk crate.I call it the Crackrock.It's like the bike equivalent of a farm truck. I ride it maybe a thousand feet to grab mail or whatever, and when I'm not using it it just sits outside against the steps.
>>2055399Based suicidal budget downhiller.
>>2055490I would always call these and the rockhopper, hardcock, and cockhopper, respectively. Would always make me chuckle to myself
>>2055420It's there to catch the straddle cable in case the brake cable snaps. Otherwise it would catch on the knobs of the tire and lock up the front wheel.
>>2055514makes sense.I've never seen one before. and I've seen a ton of canti bikes. I guess they just never caught on.
Any of my dirt friends still on here?
>>2055320Good looking stable mate. We have some Case 520s(?) dragging disc ploughs and offsets here to help condition dirt and some Bagshawe laser buckets.
>>2055409newfangled,,,sure, wehave satalite guided, robot pilled, soulesstuf., but ilike the ancientimes.,pic> tractor pull contest of prehistoriclasics.
>>2055416Do you guys use a lot of those buggies? They have completely replaced quad bikes here pretty much.
>>2055416Holy shit man, let autocorrect do its fucking job for Christ's sake
>>2055457hello newfag
