>*combines the aggressive solipsistic entitlement of an exurban helicopter parent SUV karate lessons karen with the sanctimonious humblebrag better-than-you instagram mentality of a childless upper middle class urbanist in your path (literally in your path because it's in your physical path being as expensive and space-hogging as an actual car, while being as slow and annoying and needy and pointless and "look at me" as a dutch bike, in everyone's path) in your path*>*heh, nothin' personnel kid, as in, look at these kids of mine that I am effectively using as human shields, so give me everything in return for nothing or you're a monster and I will have you cancelled for not buckling immediately and catering to my massive sense of entitlement, kid*When did cargo bikes go from being a crusty, get-it-done, no-nonsense niche improvised delivery tool for reasonable humans, to being the single most punchable conspicuous consumption fashion accessory in the history of wheels?Also, cargo bikes hate thread, and yes I took my meds thanks for the reminder though
Wine moms and toddlers on e-cargo bikes have now taken over the UWS/Manhattanville transition zone. I assume at least they paid for something expensive enough that it won't burn down their co-op building in the dead of night because the charger didn't have the 3C stamp of approval
>>2077151Most of those are like $8k+
>>2075679That's the point of the thread I think
For me it's cargo trikes.
I bought an old Babboe Curve E bike and I hate it. It is very difficult to drive, and kind of unsafe to turn. I almost fell on the side when turning. Uitritconstructie is insane invention. Rant off
Soul vs. soulless
>>2081937crackheads dont
>>2083028they arent anti crack they are anti heroin. get your facts straight. the crackhead fears no color of lamp for they smoke that shit. the purple light is so heroin and other iv drug users can't find a vein properly
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>>2079999>less of the light actually hits the goddamn groundThis is the real problem. Regardless of light source, modern street lights are just worse designed. That they also happen to be cold color LEDs is annoying but they are objectively less effective than older designs even when they use warmer colors or xenon/halogen/etc lamps instead. Modern engineers are simply retarded.
>>2083042The purple streetlights are because the internal LED phosphors are breaking down. It's the blueish lighting inside public and retail bathrooms that are meant to stop people finding their veins.
A/n/ybody use these? I was waiting at a bus stop this morning and someone whizzed past me in one. Any anons recommend them?
>>2082801Have you ever heard the term "talking out of both sides of your mouth"? You say one thing and then when someone contradicts you, you immediately say "that's what I was saying". A great way to go through life, at least you will never be wrong (in your own mind), dipshit.
>>2082818no, the guy said they were for poors>>2082228>EV cucks have to cry and stream to big daddy gubberment to subsidize their entire class of vehicle because it turns out there's ZERO demand for electrification except from poors and tumblrite SJWs who don't wanna pay.and I said what you said, the only people I know who have them are the rich people I work for. regular and poor people all have ICE. I was also saying that these people are rich because they're smart, and smart people tend to make good decisions. but yes, that was a supporting argument, not the main point that we agree on.
>>2082559>- most businesses will let you walk with them insidethis is changing. despite carrying phones that explode in their pocket, normies are absolutely unhinged about lithium batteries. i had a guy complain that my fucking vape pen was a "fire hazard" and i had to leave
>>2082862Lol, imagine kicking someone out who was gonna buy stuff.
>>2082862>complain that my fucking vape pen was a "fire hazard" and i had to leavHe was 100% correct and I hope it burns your bughive down.
Horsecar that thinks it’s a horsebus
>>2083046I wish they'd bring back horse cars
post thr modt beautiful train station from all over the world.if you would like i would be happy to see your cities train station.
>>2079300Okie dokie
SOVL
>>2078435That's art deco I think
Helsinki train station with that clock tower has to be the best one in the world. It's pure Gotham.
>>2082987Forgot the pic
I like mixed trainsPost mixed trains
>>2082783Depends. Strasburg had been a purely tourist railroad since rhe 1960's, but in 2013 local businesses approached the Strasburg board about hauling revenue freight. After looking at the possible profits, they decided to go ahead. There was a bit of controversy since this meant a 100 year old wooden bridge would be replaced with a modern concrete viaduct to hand modern 100 ton freight cars, and the railroad had to build freight offloading facilities, including a liquid handling facility to off load tank cars. Revenue freight operations began in 2014.
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>>2082863>>2082864>>2082865I knew about those operations, but the photos you had posted before showed old rolling stock that they wouldn’t dare use for revenue freight
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.
>>2038819Sounds based as fuck, intellectuals get the rope
>>2060832Link?
>>2054986While searching Google sat-view looking for Wildberries targets for an upcoming mission, I noticed that there seems to be a respectable rail museum in Nizhny Novgorod.
>>2079060I think you mean gorky, zoom zoom. Nizhny Novgorod is some revisionist
>>2036639Whatever happened to the RZD Talgo units which were bought specifically for operations on sleeper lines to central Europe? Are they still being used for domestic services?
Why does China has so few Railway stations?In total China Railways services around 5500 stations across the entire country, while only 3300 of which provides any passenger service, this include High-Speed stations. SNCF operates around 3000 stations and DB operates around 5600. Both of which are much smaller in scale.
>>2081593the general policy is for conventional lines to be as much as possible freight-only, as far as i can tell
>>2082324do you want to ride a metro train for two hours? used to require a transfer too since line 2 operated in two sections. and all these enluggaged people going to onward points via hsr or sha clog up the busiest metro line through the city core
>>2081255they know that trains are the most efficient when they go at a steady speed, and waste energy when they stop and accelerateergo, less stations is more efficientthe most power efficient train possible is a train on a loop line with no stops
>>2082329thats not efficient at all since it would move nothing. Locomotion-style point-to-point routes would probably be best.
You can land in Beijing and try to make your way to the Great wall, some locations despite being served by the oldest railway in China, no longer has any passenger services today despite being in prime locations to service local towns and tourists. Of course I think some places they built some new HSRs to replace the old lines.
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.
>>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
>>2077284You can probably find a boat from cabo verde to port harcourt or something
>>1938375Here's a video about being on the Queen Mary II:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6qKXUCdA78
Does logistic shipping count as /n/?https://youtube.com/watch?v=eczB0uUx_k8
>ride bike on road>those stupid selfish cyclists disrupting traffic>ride bike on sidewalk>those stupid selfish cyclists trying to run over pedestrians>advocate for bike lanes so everyone gets their way>those stupid selfish cyclists wasting our tax dollars making everything about themselvesThere are jackass cyclists like there are jackass motorists and jackass pedestrians. Yet we get the hate because we’re trying to be both economically and environmentally efficient while getting to places as soon as possible?>t. a cyclist who uses the sidewalk because there are no bike lanes, people hardly use sidewalks, and i don’t wanna risk car accidents
They should allow cyclists on the shoulder of the interstates. No one's going to hit them there, and they can actually go places if their hearts so desire. The worst place for cyclists is a busy country lane with no shoulder, since there's no place for them to move over to allow regular traffic to go around them. And yes, as a cyclist you are obliged to get the fuck out of the way if you can not travel at a significant fraction of the speed limit. In that sense, honestly, if there's no shoulder on the road, and the speed limit is over 30, stay the fuck off.
>>2083019If you can go 30mph all the time and traffic isn't bumper to bumper.The minimum enforced posted speed limit everywhere is 35mph. 'Road' slower than that might as well be a private drive.
>>2075968>You don't pay GAS TAXNo one should. Taxation is theft.
>>2075819That bicyclist actually sued and won.
>>2083019You would think, but problem is, everybody else is speeding up and down the freeways doing 80+mph. All it takes is one moron to be distracted while streaming on tiktok, or texting, drift towards the shoulder, and...blam.The only exception I know is the Glenn Jackson Bridge that connects Washington and Oregon states (I-205), where it has a two lane pedestrian/bicycle path in the center of both North and Southbound lanes.
This is what true cycling used to be about
>>2080132That looks like a performative cyclist, here what a real cyclist looked like
>>2080732Hell of a shoulder he's got, I bet.
>>2080732I wonder if he actually made it with all dat shiet
>>2080732Those bars, those hands, those trees and building make no sense
getting hit on by mixed race liberal women?
ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene cables
>>2082683Brake-by-wire, fool, by WIRE.
>>2082684>Mfw my brake batteries die
just realized they killed (or are trying) cables with hydro+electronic grupsets
>>2082725cables are easy to install, replace, adjust, and maintain. Big Bicycle hates it!!
>>2082683Everyone freaks out but airplanes been running on this shit since forever
I want to start riding together with my kid and to do that we need to drive out to trails. Do I need a bike rack or can I just take the front wheel off and fit an adult bike and a child bike in the back of a Subaru? What bike racks do you recommend? Ideally roof mounted so I don't have to shill out another $1000 for a hitch.
>>2082678It's an SUV but the problem is I can't fold the seat back since kids have to ride in the back with a booster. It might work if I fold half of the back seat? Just wanna know how other people handle this when they drive their bikes out.
Also we are not serious cyclists so I'm hoping to invest as little money into this as possible.
>>2082679I mean how the fuck should we know? open the back of your SUV and try to put your bike in it. remove wheels as necessary.there should be plenty of room
I fit my XL 700c hybrid into the back of my old Accord by dropping the backseat and taking off the front wheel and seatpost. I once fit my xl frame 26" bike at the bottom of my trunk by taking off the wheels and seat post and then fitting the bags of 4 people for a weekend trip to a lake house and obviously having 3 passengers, so no seats down. The '07 accord does have a huge trunk though.
>>2082677If you don't want to get a trailer hitch (which is nowhere near $1K if you get one installed at UHaul) you can get a one that hangs on the tailgate but they're still pretty pricey https://realtruck.com/p/thule-outway-hanging-trunk-bike-rack/thu-994005/?srsltid=AU7gw4VquB0EZBnPH1Glf71RiXoKrQfnLPNVvsZ5LRzNcZx7QoAq9J7N
I'll start: my old Mongoose XR-150
>>2080226nice
>>2080227I bet you get mad at people for driving older cars too instead of letting their Tesla drive for them.
>>2080151nice color
A mongoose hilltopper in a beautiful purple color.My second bike that is my first non BSO.Too small for me since I've had it since early teen but it's been a reliable bike.Now I have the Raleigh Capri that was posted in pyb a bit ago, while it's a lot faster and the correct size compared to the mongoose, it's also a heavy fucking bike.
race commute & leisure bikeI rode the shit out of it this year
when will cycling be perfected?
>>2082101That's why touring tires exist that favor heavily towards puncture resistance.Marathon Plus being often agreed as the king of preventing flats, but weighing in at 750g each.There's also the Continental Contact Plus and Contact Urban that don't weigh as much, a bitch to put on rims without a bead jack.
other than not being as compact or light is there a proper reason why you couldn’t design a bike around a car seat?
>>2082681bad ergonomics
>>2082681you wouldn't be able to pedal?you could make it a recumbent but the whole reason nobody uses them is they don't really work on uphills. the weight of an upholstered bucket seat would make them even worse. the COG of the backrest would probably make it handle like shit.
>>2082703hmm makes sense. it would be cool to have a bike thats also a small camper van so it doesn’t need a license or fancy fuel or tech to be used
