I was thinking of picking up one of those cheapo Aliexpress carbon forks, but my buddy probably rightfully talked me out of it due to safety concerns.Where should I buy an affordable carbon fork in 26" for rim brakes (in Yurop)?
My Chinesium (alu) fork has made it through customs. I'm so stoked, guys. Only a couple of days left!
Is it really a bad idea to buy $60-80 chink carbon forks on AliExpress?
>>2058082The consensus seems to be: "They're all right if you don't take them off the road." I did not get a first-hand report of one breaking ever, though.
>>2055053hylix sounds like a real brand
>>2052080buy an entire bike off of your craigslist/kijiji/fb marketplace equivalent and drill speed holes in it
How do these large cargo backpacks compare with a bicycle trailer? I need to haul 100kg of cargo on a bicycle
>>2054987>Bakfietboom tish
These human traffickers are getting desperate.
The failed operation has radicalized a lot of people
>>1957568everyone in this thread is too retarded to consider that maybe op will split the 100kg up into multiple trips and just wants to optimize this process
>>1957568use it for CAKE
TGVs should be orange. Blah blah blah different liveries blah blah variety blah blah I don't care. TGVs should be orange.
>>2057678very fair assessment. blaze orange is a sexy color>>2057680montreal wins again
>>2057678British trains? Should be Rail Blue, with yellow snouts, and with little coloured stripes on the carriages indicating the First, Second and restaurant cars.
>>2057678France used to make the sexiest trains in the world. The MP 89 is still the best looking metro train ever made.
Coast Starlight should be Golden Gate orange Instead it's just a boring amtrak stripe Yo, North American liveries suck. I never realized it before, we always get shitty ad wraps and toned down colors I guess transit agencies don't want to do anything that might make them bad press
>>2060161If you start using unique paint schemes for each service eventually you'll end up with rainbow-era Amtrak again
If buildings in Venice are crumbling at the foundation because of the waves from speed boats, why don't they build deep metro below the lagoon to move people and goods within Venice and to and from the mainland and completely ban boats?
>>2059103if all the houses are sinking, what makes you think a open-faced concrete box wouldn't?
Venice is a meme town. It’s just a giant swampy tourist trap with old buildings in it. The only reason it exists is because a thousand years ago or so the locals would save themselves in that swamp from the hordes of invaders or something. Today it’s just a quirky but dangerous museum. People shouldn’t be living there anyway. They should just evacuate anything of value and let the old buildings slowly sink and return to the sea. Keep the boat tours but don’t let people walk there due to danger.
>>2059308>People shouldn’t be living there anywayEvery year the population of Venice (the island portion) drops by 1,000. Within 50 years the permanent population will cease to exist.
>>2059055>I'm not familiar with the specific geology of the area.i don't know a ton but iirc when you have muddy places like that usually there isn't accessible bedrock and the mud is on top of gravel and soft stone>>2059308akshually it exists because a thousand years ago some rich bankers moved there because taxes were low and power projection onto it was minimal so they then started financing mercenaries and making bank basically being Medieval Blackwater
>>2059111What if you start digging into the bedrock using a TBM from the shore towards St. Mark's Square?
What would FAA regulations be like if witches (the kind that fly on brooms) were real?
>>2055903I don't think a SAM can track a target that small
>>2058729CIWS guns can track individual 80mm shells and fire at them so accurately that the frangible ammo doesn't work properly so
This is a witch's best friend.
>>2059369Yes, but the radar would need to be recalibrated for witches on the grounds that they're typically non-metallic.
>>2055859They'd probably drive air traffic controllers insane trying to track them
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.
>>2058163>In Finland, the average cleanup cost is 600-700ishNo, your average cleanup cost is 600-700 * r, where r = repeat offending rate.A little vigilantism, particularly if this is being done by third worlders, can save millions. I mean, you're going to give serious consideration to using a spray paint can again once you've lost a fingertip.
>>2058444>literally stalking for 2+ weeks in bushes for worker and guard activity, looking at timetablesbruteforce approach also workshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S931SkhLKZshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uobSUdu_6q8
>>2058187If I ever see you I will push you into the tracks and smash your skull on the rail.
>>2058178Nice
>>2058174yeah i feel like it's this more than muh broken window. the tagger probably covered a window or two or got paint in a vent or some shit.>>2058178lots of cities have been doing this with various objects, they set up "tag walls" in shitty looking places hoping to spruce up the place and kickstart gentrification of dead industrial areas
low key been driving 10 years and im not sure who has to yield in this situation.Say you are at a red light and the light just turned green. does car 1 have to yield to the bus? or will the bus zipper in between 1 and 2?
>>2059946it wants to merge into your lane, it has to yield to you. They would put up signs frequently that say "Must yield to bus" if they cared.Take your right of way bro. People on the bus are POOR. They don't matter.Honestly, yielding to it is just going to make car 2 honk at you, or worse rear end you.
>>2059963something exciting like professional racing or mere hooning, or possibly just something that would involve a lot more hours over those 10 years like driving a delivery or service vehicle as opposed to just his own passenger car.
>>2059946I think 1 has to proceed, 2 has to yield. 1 is already in his lane/direction of travel and has right of way, bus is merging in. 2 is far enough back that it should give way. But what a shitty fucking intersection holy shit nuke toronto please>>2060014>They would put up signs frequently that say "Must yield to bus" if they cared.some places do this and actually have signs on the buses themselves, sorta like how school buses have deployable stop signs (city bus ones are just bolted on the ass all the time though)
>>2059968>>2060060Total zoomer death. They are completely retarded.
>light turns green>bus driver activates the left-hand indicator, thus communicating to nearby drivers that he wishes to change lane>1 and 2, seeing the bus and its active indicator, then slow down a little to allow the bus to slide in depending on their relative positionsMust there be a rule for people to point to and interpret and quibble over? Why not just act as necessary in the moment to ensure everyone gets along?
What was air travel like before 9-11?
>>2059081Did you see a grown man naked?
Moslums were a mistake.
>>2058936Me too, man. Tha captain was really nice.
>>2058931Not as shitty as today but still shitty. Before then I used to catch rides in the jumpseat but that all ended in 2001.
>>2059136I'm very sorry you got deported, anon, but the law is the law.
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?
>>2059650How doesn't it have a cut beam? did you even watch at the video he posted, or any of the other twenty videos on the magicshine headlights?
>>205849110/10 shitpostfuck bush, hope he gets ass cancer and trump gets lynched
>>2059651>How doesn't it have a cut beam?Look at that diffused lens and compare it to the ones I posted>did you even watch at the video he posted, or any of the other twenty videos on the magicshine headlights?I rewatched the video, and also checked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPEOKckvUMU which features a useful comparison to the LumintopIt looks like Trace Velo demonstrated the light with the high setting where the beam is really high up, and the cutoff is also not as distinguishable as the Lumintop which in my opinion makes that kind less practical/obvious to aim to take into account the other road users or pedestrians.The Lumintop and the Sofirn have their LED pointing down and then reflected against a mirror and don't have such a diffused round lens, I think it's a better concept
>>2059685Thanks for posting that.I saw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqg8tVUlvk0that's a diffuse light if I ever saw one.The Lumintop is better, but it's still more diffuse than the Magicshine:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Gz7ecwI2II think the trouble with most of the Magicshine videos is I haven't seen one that locks ISO / white balance and so it's difficult to distinguish brightness, beam cutoff and spill.I pulled the trigger on the magicshine i might try to put a video up when I get it.
Those cheap as fuck button lights (a rechargeable one obviously). Theyre kinda good cuz they arent meant to be bright, so a lot of time they provide visibility for quite a while on one charge, they arent heavy and can be spammed.Brightness is not as important as most people make it out to be. At night, any light stands out great. The important part is you have a light that works.strap them to your backpack straps or jacket so theyre always kinda around indoors to charge and such- and you dont have to bother attaching them to your bikeand here's the real key, theyre cheap so you can have multiple. Just buy a 2 pack, so when one runs low, you have another and have a few days at least to remember to charge it and swap it back in.---I tried superbright lights with massive batteries. They do last longer but often times have bad mounts that snap. I couldnt find a convenient solution.
I bought an NJS frame. Does anyone want to make ignorant comments assuming that I have never ridden fixed-gear or that I don't know how JIS standards work or what toe overlap is or similar?Yes, I'll be riding it exclusively on the street.
>>2059932Is your fucking seatpost high enough?
>>2059956Quack
This image may be of interest to anyone who has considered an NJS frame but is intending to drill for a brake
>>2060034based lucky horseshoe
>>2059932Based and duckpilled would post my duck but it's on my motorcycle but it's under a tarp which is under almost a foot of snow
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.
>>1992023americans do "public" transit wrong on purpose to better shill cars and car-centric infrastrucutre
>>2003433>>1995951Bulk freight actually makes money
>>2018351>he thinks the government is debting itself>never heard of the Rothschilds
Please answer:>>>/trv/2844463
>>2042914Thermodynamics ftw
has anybody noticed how east asia completely kills every other place when it comes to urban planning and public transportation? why is this?
>>2059887>they really aren't.They really fucking are, moron.>>2059887>The perspective is skewed because they callIt does not matter what they call anything. Picrel has no borders whatsoever. It's just a population density heat map of China (and the US, which is included only incidentally because I don't feel like making a new one.)
>>2059970NTA; my understanding is that the rural Chinese small farmer is on its way out. The American small farmer died out during the farm crisis of the 80s and 90s, which explains the lack of density in American rural areas.
>>2059971>The American small farmer died out during the farm crisis of the 80s and 90s, which explains the lack of density in American rural areas.This isn't the explanation.First, lower density in the US isn't limited to rural areas. The cities themselves are far less dense than pretty much anywhere else in the world (especially East Asia). NY City is the only truly dense city in the US, and a few others are somewhat dense (Boston metro, San Francisco). Urbanists like to claim the US is "densifying" as they flood 3rd worlders into the country, waging soft war on China's behalf, but it's nothing like Asia.Second, the effect you describe, while true, isn't large enough to really show up on that particular map. Relative to the rest of the world the US has ALWAYS been less dense.The truth is that the US has just, historically, had an enormous amount of valuable and habitable land relative to its population size and technological power level. Americans had plenty of room to spread out everywhere east of the 100th meridian, where the Chinese (along with most of East Asia) did not, with substantial populations crammed into much smaller geographical areas. In 1850, there were some 400+ million people in China already, vs 20-25 million in the United States.The most substantial migrations in the US in the last 100 years have been from the denser Northern cities and the "Rust Belt" into the south and "Sun Belt." Contrast Buffalo, NY with Phoenix, AZ. This was also coupled with growth of suburbs, so some cities proper may have seen stagnant or declining populations even as their metro areas as a whole were booming. Again this is due to the ease of expanding outward in most of the US. Places like Dallas, TX or Atlanta, GA aren't hemmed in by any major geographical features (mountains, oceans, deserts) and can grow in 360 degrees. It's usually easier, cheaper and more desired to build out rather than build up, and it's been that way for a very long time.
>>2059720Nobody did, unless you think that clearing a handful out of thousands of blocks for a few freeways is "bulldozing the city".
>>2059722Almost all of those lines are still in use today except for redundant lines and spurs to random flyover towns anymore.
Why did hydrofoils never take off?
>>2055476They were a nation, though, separate from Russians. When the USSR dissolved they asked for independence and got it, though Russia gerrymandered the final borders to have a sizeable contingent of ethnic Russians inside the borders, hoping to ensure Russian dominance of Ukrainian government. That left a messy situation even before you consider the CIA democracy cult's plan to turn Ukraine into an international money laundering hub.
>>2059590bullshitwell, not entirely, but this is turning a fly into an elephantnation-wise, saying "ukraine was a nation separate from russians" in context of ussr (and russian empire prior to that too) is akin to saying "texas is a separate nation from the united states". they are distinct if you average them out, texas is not california and not wisconsin, but compared to neighboring states like new mexico it's a gradient rather than a hard cutoff, and the same is the case with russia and ukraine. no matter how you cut the jib, you'd end up with texans in new mexico and new mexicans in texas, and that shouldn't have been a problem. at least for as long as it's not regular mexicans in texas.ethnicity-wise, again, you might as well say ethnic americans, same kinda melting pot. for some reason all russians get the same hate nowadays, despite a lot of them not being ethnically slavic in the slightest- be it people from republics that split off like azerbaijan (look at the list of richest people in russia, you'll find a few), people who stayed within russia as distinctly not russians like tatars and chechens, or even numerous misc minorities like jews and koreans. don't diss on russian koreans, korean carrot is the shit.if you meant slavic russians in particular, then potato potato. both them and ukraininans stem from the same kievan rus that expanded, became too big, fell apart, got MONGOL'd, got un-MONGOL'd, reassembled back into the megazord, went to space, returned and fell apart again. like, sure, you might not have liked to be the left leg, but don't pretend you weren't a part of it. and definitely don't go pissing in torso's boots just to spite him, at least not before you actually move out like azerbaijan moved out with turkey, you'll be smelling those boots from the top bunk too.eeeh uhhi wonder why there are no hydrofoiling seaplanes. except for this thing, but it's a silly all-electric investorbait, and seems to be vaporware too
>>2059691Texans don't have a separate language.
>>2059698they just don't consider it a separate language lol, their cowboy yankee yapping is sometimes as undecipherable to an english speaker as the worst cases of scottish accent. for me as an esl, at least. ukrainian is indeed a bit beyond just an accent, but for the most part it's just russian that's trailing a few patches behind. it retained (and added) a bunch of unique words that russian instead nicked from other languages over the last few centuries, and it also kept its sound closer to old russian; but at the same time it also lacks some optimisations that russian lanugage has made to be less of "every rule has a list of exceptions and every exception has its own exception" (and it's still very much that, don't learn those languages, you will suffer). russian and ukrainian speakers can easily understand each other for the most part, and the rest of the meaning can be got out of context. out of all post-soviet republics' languages, only belorussian comes as close.
>>2044074They were foiled.
Why couldn't you just leave the tunnel, you stupid bastard?
>>2059137why animals menace the transit so frequent?>>2056988for the love of god montresor
>>2059145Yes, for the love of God
>>2056988Well I was just standing here, and Henry locked himself in the tunnel I asked myself why won't Henry just come out the tunnel? Nobody has no answers, and so I pull out my gun! Tell me why Henry in the tunnel or else I am gonna shoot someone!
Postan my old folder of /n/ images since I found it on a usb drive in a drawer. These are circa 2009 I think.
>>2059823One thing I always enjoyed about the cycling world was the crazy contraptions people came up with/built.
>>2057499What do you think it feels like to ride?
>>2058883Good to see you, dude.
>2008 wowzers, I went on 4chan for the first time that year.
>>2059838Total shit like all early DH bikes.
