Why couldn't you just leave the tunnel, you stupid bastard?
>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!!!!!
>>2047805>will tell you that a Seiko 5 is actually better than a Rolex because it shows you're not a consoomer or somethingI'm wearing a Seiko 5 right now as I type this and they're solid watches for the money but I just have one because I'm poor. Although if I weren't poor I probably wouldn't get a Rolex, I have my sights set on a Hamilton
>>2053060late '00s early '10s citizen chronomasters in near mint condition go for around the same price as a new hammy and are objectively far better watches in every way including "watch guy cred"
>>2053060You use a watch to show off your wealth because you're poor, tbqh.
>>2055945That's what people did in the 90s, yeahThings are different now, you use a watch to show the poors that they're poor
>>2018743they don't make 'em like they used to
The Golden Gate zipper moving the middle barrier.
AIsloppa
They've had these in NY for years.
My city just uses lights and a barrier at either end.
>>2055615>>2055655Its not artificial intelligence, its a vehicle
I can't leave well enough alone, and I'm mildly interested in Clik valves. Anyone have any experience with them? They seem better on paper. The only disadvantages that I see are that I'll have to carry an adapter for my on bike pump, good Samaritans won't have anything to help me, and that it won't catch on and become a dead standard. But it does just seem like Presta but better.
>>2055358I don't even like xkdc but he's right
>>2055394Dang
waiting for the chink knockoff
>>2056949I actually went ahead and bought one of the kits from Clik themselves. I wanted the 2 adapters in OP pic and the cores mostly, but an extra pair of valves hanging around isn't the worst. I had to get 50mm ones because most sizes were out of stock, so I dunno if I'll use them. I'm gonna switch over this weekend and I'll update if I can think about it. I think once you're bought in to a degree it isn't too bad. Only issue right now is shipping costs. If all you need are a pair of valve cores you're gonna get fucked. Probably best to just buy a pair or two the next time you place an order for other stuff anywhere that sells them. Cores are only like $10 for a pair, and I've had enough previous headaches with chinkshit presta valves in the past to not wanna deal with that anymore.
Thoughts on this transcontinental rail line proposal put up in preperation for the world cup?
>>2052438hating on christians, 1990 called and they want their edge back
>>2049984>it goes nowhere anyone wants to travel between, at an intolerably low speed, more expensive to the consoomer than taking a plane
>>2049984Anything that comes out of "AmeriStarRail" can be dismissed as retarded schizoposting
>>2049984Taking the route through to Chicago from the west is stupid but reasonable considering the trackage rights out that way.Passing through Philadelphia to hit Washington is dumb because Chicago to Washington is already an Amtrak route.>Ending at Hoboken on the Lehigh Line for some fucking reasonNo way. I'm not even sure if you can get on the ex-Reading trackage that makes up that side of the freight network from Harrisburg Transportation Center without a wye and some god-forsaken warehouse freight spur.
>>2052440>>2052540>>2056268
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.
hambini and mapdec both like time, but hambini doesn't like mapdec, does that cancel itself out?
>>2019204A tuned mass damper is not a J-damper. J-dampers were developed in F1 to combat the same issues tuned mass dampers intended to solve, however they go about it differently.
>>2043618
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhmLb2DhNYM
>>2056005How would this affect a bike?
infrequent poster hereis there any room on this board for a city builder vidya general?there's a general on /vg/ that includes city builder games but it also includes a few other genres so city building is rarely talked abouti just wanted to get the opinions of my fre/n/s on this topicpic related is cities skylines 2, btw
>>2054311>I've never played W&R but for a focus on logistics they still play the "put everything close to each other or you get penalized" game as far as resources go. >I've never played W&R Evidently. If you had then you'd know that your statement is nonsense. A play style you can confidently use in W&R which I haven't seen to as much degree in similar games is that you don't have to have everything centralized in one big mega city. If you want you can have everything scattered all over the map, building small towns (micro raions was the Soviet term I think) to service a particular resource extraction site or factory. It can get quite cosy once you get a game going.
>>2054188>the way jobs are assigned is nonsensical and wrecks the whole thing for startersIf public transportation was all the game was about, then I'd agree, but it had to be that way because of the extra restrictions and consequences the game places on citizens' commute times and buildings not having workers present. The player needs someway to ensure citizens get to the jobs they need filled for the city to function at all.
>>2053209>Tropico is set in Copenhagen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qClfyb-rXt4how accurate is this about cities skyline?
>>2053177No
A few years ago people starting referring to certain China wheelsets as not just "the best Chinese wheels" or "the best budget wheels" but simply "the best wheels". This year, Winspace released the T1600, a CDM (Chinese Domestic Market) product that costs more than a Madone or a Tarmac. It's UCI approved right out of the box (though you may need to tape some lead weights to it to get it to pass the weight restrictions). Western buyers need not apply, though they no doubt will try.Western brands were folding right and left before the iron curtain 2.0 was raised, now the "tiro de gracia" has been fired and big companies like Trek are going to go bankrupt because their supply chains have been cut off by Import Substitution Industrialization, a popular third world development tactic pioneered by visionaries like Pinochet and Galtieri.Is this the end of the western bike era? Will tomorrow's dentists settle for nothing less than Chinese bikes on 100% Chinese groupsets?
>>2053278>thinking a man is cuteSounds gay to me bro
>>2049469Why not just go to a bike shop and try one out?
>>2049469this isn't 2019 anymore, brands like Winspace make UCI approved frames
>>2055764Yeah but people who are looking for an ali express bike are probably pretty price sensitive. If you're buying a winspace frame you're looking at an all-in cost that rivals a prestige brand's cheapest possible bike. You're getting a much higher spec bike, but it's not for hardcore penny pinchers, it's still going to cost you like $5k if you want a build that's worth all that trouble
>>2053280I have it on good authority that bottoms are women
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
>>2053994
We have contacted Brian Shaw regarding an ongoing issue between him and Mike Tyson. The former World's Strongest Man allegedly got into an altercation with Tyson, where he supposedly told him, and I quote: "he touches me one more time, I'm going to un-lisp that nigger myself".During our call, Shaw stated: 'hey listen man, I made it clear that he tries something, and the ropes in the ring won't be the only ropes he'll be seeing in his life". He then refused to elaborate in the matter and before closing the call, he said: "Hitler did nothing wrong, but I will".
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.
>>2052723max comf
>>2043515>rail priorityNews about some of that:https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/norfolk-southern-agrees-give-amtrak-trains-highest-priority-over-freight-trains-and-make-itsNorfolk Southern will give Amtrak the highest priority on the Crescent route.Now we just need this on every route.
>>1992023>Daily trains pass through Lakeland station to Tampa.>Turning around in Tampa, passing Lakeland again.>Can't ride from Lakeland to TampaWhy?
>>1992027Why does acela stop in metro park, NJ?
>>2055736Weekday ridership is higher than Trenton
If steel is so great, why do the companies that make the best steel tubing in the world use carbon for their forks?If steel is so great, why do the finest steel bikes in the world use carbon forks?It seems to me that steel has an aesthetic value that cannot be substituted by anything else, but as a material for building bikes, its value decreases the more that is demanded of a component.
>>2052933I wouldn't return to this bike shop ever again
>>2052933Isn't there a line of forks that's specifically designed to be flippable?
>>2032098>use carbon for their forks?The bicycle industry invented planned obsolescence A bicycle made out of steel would usually never need to be replaced in your lifetime unless a car run over it
>>2052933What in tarnation?
>>2055608Yeah it's state bicycle
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
>>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
>>2011902
>>2056951Why?
Why don’t we fly DC-10’s anymore?
>>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.
>>2051315Elaborate
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
>>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.
>>2055569It's always been like this
Im wanting to figure out what is it that makes some bicycles have a more comfortable wheelie position than others?By comfy i mean a point that sits further back and also has freedom of movement before loopingSo far it seems higher bars help. And maybe a steeper seat tube?And i want it to be figured out for a hybrid/gravel bike with an upright position similar to picrelIf you are going to blab on about wheelie bikes, please at least help me understand what it is that makes wheelie bikes wheelie so well so I can find a hybrid that will wheelie well
>>2054525i got this and learned on ithttps://www.citygrounds.com/collections/big-wheel-bmx-bikes/products/gt-performer-29-bmx-bike-2022
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