Cyclists of /n/, do you wear a lot of loud obnoxious advertising logos on yourself when you ride?
>>2058825Never understood the appeal of MTB as a lifestyle. I mean in theory it sounds great, but when you get down to how to actually make the fantasy happen, it sucks all the joy out of the experience. Either you're waiting in line at the chair lift like a sucker, or you're damaging some pristine grassland and getting the death stare from nature lovers. Either way you have to drive there, and drive back. So out of 10 hours spent on the hobby, it's about 30 minutes of being in the saddle and the rest is preparing and un-preparing.With a road bike you can just throw on a pair of bibs at home, check your tire pressure, maybe give it a few pumps, and off you go. But that's just not inclusive enough I guess because road bikes have weight limits for liability reasons.
>>2058825>>20588262 hours of riding is 2 hours of ridingI'm sorry you hatin ass bitches are sad, mad, and gay bib wearers LMAO
10 hours of driving for a 30 min ride sounds dope af fr fb
>>2058826same as alpine skiing. Unless you're one of the increasingly rare and lucky downeasters who still have a cheap, local and uncrowded ski/bike slope down the road, the amount of punishment you have to withstand to get to the full-on Downhill Experience(tm) just doesn't add up to me. It's wildly popular though; one of the few things that makes me unironically question whether I'm just a sperg
>>2058826>>2058825Stay glued to your screens, losers
>wears a rolex daytona while driving, just like paul newmanFine>wears a rain coat when it's raining, just like gene kellyFine>wears gym shorts at the gym, just like wilt chamberlainFine>wears aviators just because, just like val kilmer in top gunFine>wears tacticool ballistic nylon cargo pants when working, just like steven seagal in under siegeFine>wears cycling shorts when cyclingWhoa wait WHAT NOOOOO YOU CAN'T DO THAT YOU TRYHARD WHAT IF SOMEONE THINKS YOU'RE LANCE ARMSTRONG AND YOU WOULD HAVE TO TELL THEM YOU'RE NOT A PROFESSIONAL RACING CYCLIST THEN THE UNIVERSE WOULD EXPLODE NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
>>2028747>grokkys
>>2058748quality post to bump this thread withyou twat
>>2055945also anyone who buys bill gates reasonable richman act is stupider the those who believe warren buffets charade.
>>2058762you mean the people who are like "actually warren buffet eats mcdonalds so the reason you're not rich is you don't eat low quality garbage"?
>>2058764No I mean the people who believe his I still live in the same house and overall lower lifestyle projection mcdonalds breakfast included. Yes he still lives in the "same home" that he had expanded to over 6 thousand sq ft.
After years of frustration, Toronto’s major LRT projects — the Eglinton Crosstown and Finch West lines — are finally taking shape. The infrastructure is largely in place, testing is active, and the city is on the verge of a real step forward in how people move across it.The Crosstown will finally link east and west through midtown, while Finch West is basically a super streetcar in a poor area of the city. Is light rail still a legitimate form of transit, or were Doug and Rob correct with their subways subways subways mantra?
>>2058715Light rail is fine so long as it's smartly combined with heavy rail. You need both, fine distribution and longer distances. Subway alone will often fall between two stools: not very practical for short trips, too slow for long trips. Better to have a dense LRT/tram network, and a less dense but high speed and high capacity heavy rail grid.
>>2058716This is our mixed traffic streetcar system. In the above pic, the Grey and Orange lines are a similar technology but on separated lanes and direct tunnels to the subway network.
>>2058718Better to save the Nuke for Israel
>>2058715>Is light rail still a legitimate form of transit, or were Doug and Rob correct with their subways subways subways mantra?The Kingsway Ratepayers Association would commit terrorism if the province tried to build subway-level density along Eglinton West, so that was never a serious option. They're already having a melty about Metrolinx building stuff on top of the station premises.I used to bitch that the project should have been at-grade, but the last few years of arguments downtown have made it clear that the city will never accept transit priority signals and so at-grade would have been mediocrity. I guess we'll see how Finch West turns out on that front.
Post your favorite or most used train station or bus stop.Once a year or so I like to start this thread, it usually ends up pretty interesting.
>>2050887Has the mural been vandalised?
>>2056855>they've since removed the trolleybus wires and instead put up chargers for the battery busesWhy, why, would they replace trolley buses with battery buses? It makes no sense. Even if determined to worship the electric Jew instead using diesel like God and nature intended, why would it be better to cart arou d a million quids worth of explosive battery when wires overhead work better and are already there???Switzerland has gone to pot since you gave women the vote.
>>2058532Cute and quaint.
Paoli station used to be a simple low-level station with boarding on both sides. Occasionally, an Amtrak would alight from the inner track and wooden plates were installed to get passengers over the tracks.Then they spent 4 years and a billion dollars and built one high-level platform, tore up the center tracks, and fenced the shit out of everything. It's fine, but you have to do two flights of stairs up and two flights down, to enter or leave the platform. Fucking sucks dick balls with luggage and I'm not a fat fuck.They could have built like one tunnel from side to side and saved so much cardio.
>>2058551Only line 1 was trolleybus and they electrified the other lines that way. But it's still stupid as hell. I'd rather they converted line 3 to trolleybus like it was projected some 15 years ago and kept normal buses for the other lines.>Switzerland has gone to pot since you gave women the vote.trvke
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.
>>2058578This is what I mean. You're at a point in your life where your own time isn't that valuable so if your train is delayed it's whimsical to you. No big deal, not like you've got somewhere better to be, right? But eventually you won't feel that way and any delay in your transportation is just an aggravation.Last thing in the world I'd do is go 'exploring' a city if my train is late. I'm going to do what I'd do at the airport, stare at my phone and get a drink at the bar. Doubly so at night (lack of a self-preservation instinct is also indicative of youthful naivety).
>>2058582>stare at my phone and get a drink at the bar>not a bigger waste of time than taking a walkI thought you old people are supposed to be wise. You're stuck with that downtime either way, it kinda sucks, but you might as well make the best out of it. >lack of a self-preservation instinctAh, also, you can carry a knife with you if you are on a train, for self-defense and generally as a useful tool.
>>2058584>but you might as well make the best out of it.There again, your own time is meaningless to you–a delay in transit means it's adventure time. Very childlike. Enjoy college because you won't always feel the way you do now.
>>2058601What else am I supposed to do? Nothing? Drink (worse than nothing)? For nothing-doers, a delay in transit is an unmitigated disaster, they get nothing out of it and just suffer. For me, I'll still have an hour ripped out of the next day (with accountability in case it's needed though), so the hour I get today because of it should be used wisely. You get that hour too, but you just sit and sip on your depresson juice. I have many options if I'm in the city, including cheaper and better depression juice at a better place if I wanna.
>>2058576this but i absolutely just go for a drink at the nearest bar. and then miss the train because im busy getting plastered with locals and singing songs of sedition against our respective states>>2058298via rail has those. you can get a variety of cabins depending on your group size (or just how much you wanna spend)https://www.viarail.ca/en/plan/cabinscanada wins again
Space transportation general: Stage Separating into a new year edition. This general is here because spaceflight is increasing exponentially. We are up to at least a launch per week and we are now in the midst of flight testing an industry revolutionizing fully reusablesuper heavy lift launch vehicle.Upcoming launches:>https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/2025-launch-schedule/SpaceX livestreams on Twitter/X:>https://x.com/SpaceXUpcoming NASA operations:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2058369Yes it was ridiculous. They can't do anything right.
Artemis V RS-25 engine at Stennis Space Center for Acceptance testing
New Glenn on the pad.
>>2058660Launch in 15 minutes!Official https://www.youtube.com/live/ecfxcTEl-1IEDAhttps://www.youtube.com/live/q8Fi-0lqjcc
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What's next in bicycle tech?
>>2057836All of these already exist.
>>2058405>1988 Hutch Genital Warts
>>2057836DUI detected
>>2058310mate 99% of bike accessories are either 5 or 12v as it is and picrel exist. i'd get it if you meant cyclinc computers or motor controllers or something (which themselves come out of the same two chink factories so are a defacto standard) but even i'm ordering some shit off digikey and my local hardware store to rig up some switches to my handlebars to control lights
>>2058744i think i have the flu and forgot my image
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.
>>2057543the wheels ride well on hard surface. Hard forrest dirt paths for example are ok, but pic rel looks too soft. I think it would be a pain anon.
Just wanted to share that I recently got a G-Line and love it. Spent a little bit of time on an older C, which is far more fun/exciting, but the G could actually be a main commuter/city bike for me instead of a short-distance novelty. Now I have enough gear range and feeling of stability I think, so I will only miss the 5% or so efficiency gained by having a derailleur system and larger wheels.
>>2057931how about 20 inch wheels?
>>2058093"roads like that" are absolutely no problem with my 20x2.1in tires
>>2058190does it matter if the frame is steel or aluminum?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWQ3iLVr-0E>That cylinder is a mass dampener also known as a J dampener in physics.The purpose is to neutralize high frequency low amplitude oscillations.Mass dampeners are currently used in Moto GP and were banned in F1 in the mid 2000s.The mass dampener can also be placed on the fork,above the bottom bracket and as shown on the rear swing arm/triangle on a full suspension bike.have these been used on road bikes yet? i have a stiff track bike fixie, anything that could improve performance or comfort would interest me. i haven't paid attention to bike stuff lately so idk if it has been mentioned on GCN/GMBN yet. GCN has done a lot of videos on tire pressure so i could see them experimenting with tuned mass dampers.
>>2043618
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhmLb2DhNYM
>>2056005How would this affect a bike?
>>2056005You can tell this guy is smart because he's explaining it in a tone of voice like he's telling a toddler he needs to pull his pants down before peeing and I'm just not following at all>the first thing to understand is it's power preserving because the product of voltage and current is a power and anything that's passive in the electrical domain is... oh but there's 2 analogies and the first one that's about 2 and across variables and series connections and topologically identical and ground is a datum voltage and...
>>2019204Lol just lolYou best thing you could do is sell that single speed shit and get something with gears, and 32-40mm wire tires unless you only ride on glass smooth velodromes, in that case, keep your 23mm ice skate tires. Pros are setting records on 28mm tires now, the world has changed, more rubber is sometimes better. I think XC MTB uses 2.3" now, 2.5-2.8 trail.
What would FAA regulations be like if witches (the kind that fly on brooms) were real?
>>2055987>>2056111Are there any regulations against pregnant women flying?
Witches turn FAA-glowies into frogs after every attempt at enforcement action. A 9/11 tier contingency plan is kept in reserve by the witches, just in case, implemented with a squadron of giant street sweepers which, unexpectedly, are also effected by flying broom magic.
>>2057387Why do you ask?
>>2055859https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/AC_103-7.pdf
>>2055903I don't think a SAM can track a target that small
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>>2054785The render of a car with running gear made of granite or possibly concrete should have been a giveaway
>>2053446In Dubuque, Iowa there is a funicular connecting 2 halves of a rich guys house that became public after his death. I think it still costs 50 cents and you can bring your bike. I'd perish in it.
>>2054785That thing literally looks like it was designed by Viktor Antonov using a discarded Half-Life 2 Combine or Dishonored design as a basis
>>2053210>Redpill me on FunicularsPretty italian girls love them
>>2053210>cable tension intensifies
Is riding on top end groupsets if you're not a top end cyclist stolen valor? Or is this sour grapes?What groupset would you ride if you could get any groupset you wanted for free, but when/if you sold the bike you would have to price it as whatever groupset you ride now. That is, if your financial circumstances were no different and you were subject to the same "rules" as you currently as in terms of other people judging (because we all know unlimited wealth begets shamelessness), what do you choose?
>>2058611Interesting and informative post man, thank you.
>>2038740>Stolen valorLOL. What kind of dumbasses are you talking to to even consider this?You SHOULD know that the Shimano trickle down system optimizes for different things at different levels and this CHANGES based on generation. There are times when the higher tier gets you weight reduction and REDUCED durability, or other tradeoffs, like say the shitty feel of many super stiff road disk forks compared to peak chromolly or rim brake carbon.>>2039102Sheldon Brown would ride it. >>2049843>>2049900It's not the bike. The equivalent is wearing a team kit for a team you don't ride for. Consult euro roadie rules for more details. >>2050190Do you have a Tite Gaps jersey?
>>2050190i do this but even worse: i posted on Secret Area of VIP Quality maybe three times total but call myself a VIPPER and make references to Daddy Cool
>>2058613wisdom.if people shopped for bikes the way they shopped for cars, everyone would know that this is what you need, like a Toyota Camry or something.instead, the whole bike industry is structured around selling people the equivalent of supercars or monster trucks and normies just assume they need this shit because they want something "good"
>>2058613>mt200NOOOOOO IF THE PARTS YOU HAVE ARENT THESE SPECIFIC MODELS YOU'RE DOING IT LE WRONG AIEEEEEE
hey /n/ this is my cat rupert i was thinking about taking him on the bus to see the sights of the city but i couldnt find any rules on it, do you know if can cats go on busesi have a cat carrier but would he be allowed out to see out the window?
>>20572590/10 bait
I love you Rupert.
>>2056672i remember seeing rupert shopped in with a bunch of tits on either /s/, /aco/, or /d/
>>2057427There's a Rupert the cat thread in /k/.>>>/k/64450053
>>2058633Wait a minute, I thought it was Ru/p/ert the photo cat >>>/p/4476309
Welcome to Juarez city... now look at pic relatedCargo train runs right through this buys intersection en el centro.So if you need to get somewhere sometimes there's a massive cargo train in your way preventing you and making you LATE. How do you fix that. Not only that it's dangerous. There are no "Train crossing beware" it's just hopefully uou don't get hit by the train
>>2049815>>2049819I'm going to go kick his ass, just after my siesta.
>>2049406the tunnel bypass has been there for AT LEAST 4 years now you ingenuine faggot
>>2049405a big fuckin trumpet interchange. demolish all housing and commerce within a mile to make it fit
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>>2053854what am I looking at here, why is there a giant wall of dirt?
Road signs. What do you think of them? Which country does them the best? Would you change anything in the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals?
>>2057288I’ve seen them before. In the Dartford Tunnel from memory but I haven’t lived in the UK for a very long time
>>2043160There is openguessr
>>2057321geoguessr is still superior because they made some changes so it doesn't drop you in the middle of a grainy 2 lane highway that might be siberia or yukon territories or whatever, it's almost always either in a populated area or within 100 clicks of a town of some sort
>>2022126The Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) is the Gold Standard in highways construction.>https://www.standardsforhighways.co.uk/
I enjoy how Italy does this instead of having a round sign with a "applies to" plaque beneath. Much more elegant. For some reason the Vienna convention only specifies the trucks with hazardous material sign.
