Are there any actual disadvantages to them? They seem to perform as well as standard bike frames but with the advantage of being easier to mount and dismount without the top bar getting in your way. I know they were originally marketed to women who wore skirts because the top bar on traditional bikes got in the way and exposed their panties but it never quite made sense to me why these weren't just the "default" frame style in the first place, especially since most utility bikes and pretty much every single E-bike on the market uses this style of frame.
>>2077580Did you post this in the wrong thread fren
>>2077580>when your car is already fully paid offwew lad
>>2077584What is "paid off" did you get yours from the cosa nostra?t. cash chad
If you are a fatso, the frame will eventually bend and become unusable. Where I live, there's story about that guy in pretty much any blue collar workplace who broke his step-trough frame by virtue of being obese as fuck.
S-frame or bust.The 36% overdrive in this isn't exactly comfy, but fun to play with.
Should public transit focus on access or efficiency?Access means you have full access to underused (but possibly vital to some) routes and night/weekend service at the cost of undermining the "public transit is efficient" argument, but efficiency means you cut those routes and timetables.Can't have both in a single system.
>>2079464I accept your concession.
>>2079200>Should public transit focus on access or efficiency?That's actually the wrong problem.Reformulate it as:> How can a transportation network provide universal access without requiring universal high-capacity service?now you can have both, but ARIZ reveals that the contradiction is partly caused by treating “transit service” as one homogeneous system. The trick is to move the contradiction to the service mode / capacity allocation, rather than forcing every route to satisfy both goals simultaneously.For example, keep rail and bus as fixed scheduled service in high demand areas and minibus taxi/uber in low demand areas, problem solved.
it should favor profitability, which then means it will make SANE DECISIONS, which means its sustainable>>2079327>cities get magic returns on revenue by giving subsidized travel to minimum wage workersidiot
>>2079778NTA but China has demonstrated this. Not exactly in this way but close enough.
>>2079778>cities get magic returns on revenue by giving subsidized travel to minimum wage workersyeah, we should quit building roads for the exact same reason. we should only build roads that charge a fare and if they're not profitable we should tear them up
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Everyone left...>>2079224I don't get the appeal of cruises.>pay to spend days/weeks in the overcrowded tin can.Wouldn't even want to work on one as an engineer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xn23NuQI7Ajust posting today's busy departures and arrivals from my island paros
>Everyone left...Probably cause ain't nobody want to do this job anymore sans the truly desperate (poverty level, ex-felons, mentally ill, etc.)I mean, I get it. Other than the true few who genuinely do it for the love of the sea, at a cost benefit analysis level, the pay benefit after everything deducted is considered to the cost of the hours, work, and people involved barely make sense anymore. It's been creeping up for decades, but even to this day, companies still refuse to budge on pay, choosing to remain 20+ years ago where the pay was godly good. Now, it's just a moderately better than average job in terms of pay for back to back weeks or mo the of 12+ hour days. At least such is the case in the US domestic industry, which is all but dead in the water. Dunno what the situation is like outside of US. But here it sucks. If only I didn't personally have such an affinity for that blue water, I'd probably go back to being a NEET.
>>2079423Sorry bro but this is kind of a poorfag reddit mentality. >I dont get the appeal of boarding a floating vacation resort that goes out to sea and stops at different portsReal headscratcher that.>>2079491>ex-felonsHow do they get TWIC cards?
Burger time
>>2079772
Why are they not popular anymore?
>>2079460quads or blades?i never got into quads but blades are piss easy
>>2079460the way you move when skating is completely different than walking.walking: put foot straight forward and shift weight forward to it, then push off straight back repeat.skating: keep weight in a straight line down from shoulders, hips, knee, foot. then with the other foot, angle the skate outward with whole leg, mostly from the hip joint. when it's at about a 45° angle from the line your foot with the weight on it is pointing, push off backwards with the unweighted foot. the angle will make it so that skate doesn't roll and you can push hard backwards and the weighted foot will roll forwards. you're coasting forward now.then dip your weighted hip and knee, bring the push foot forward and shift your weight to switch feet. this will automagically give the next "step" the 45° angle you need to push your weight forward again on the other foot now. keep making the skating motion , mirror image the motions with the opposite feet back and forth.since you push forward at an angle, you don't go straight forwards when you're skating (you can coast forward when you have enough speed, though) you're constantly going a bit to the side of your weighted foot and then correcting with the other foot. so you're pushing yourself right, then left, then right again, averaging to a straight path, but actually rocking side to side all the time, and dipping your weight low in the middle when you transfer your weight back and forth. so you have to mentally divorce yourself from a walking movement. you never put a foot in front of you and shift your weight to it like walking. you keep your lead foot steady and push BACKWARDS with the other foot.watch a video of someone skating forward without turning or doing tricks, you'll see them going one direction then the other, hips rising after they push off, then lowering again when changing feet. mimic that movement and you're skating. works same for ice skates.t. former rink monitor
>>2079510>shoulders, hips, knee, footwhoops, your hip will be crouched rearwards a good bit. weight over your foot in a straight line up through bent knee with shoulder above them. butt backwards. sorry.
>>2079460oh, and if you feel like you're going to fall, don't panic and stiffen up, you'll fuck yourself up that way. RELAX and crumple, try your best to sit down. landing on your butt is best but as long as you get started with a general sitting motion and still fall over, it'll be a trivial fall and won't hurt really.
>>2077556The rollerblades are safer than the other skate design. Also give more control and speed, even look cooler... though the other kind can be kind of cute on the right kind of girl.>>2077557This.
The Amtrak redemption arc continues?>https://media.amtrak.com/2026/04/amtrak-takes-big-step-towards-new-long-distance-trains/>It’s official! We’ve started the procurement process for Amtrak’s largest-ever Long Distance train order.>Our customers deserve the best, and this new fleet will move us full speed ahead into a new era of American train travel.>We’ve issued a formal request for suppliers to bid on the new Long Distance fleet replacement contract. Interested carbuilders are now preparing their proposals for submission. Following an extensive evaluation, we plan to announce our selected supplier by the end of 2027. >This once-in-a-generation fleet replacement program was developed in close coordination with the Federal Railroad Administration, with the goal of modernizing overnight and cross-country travel for a fleet that includes many cars today approaching nearly 50 years of operations.>The program calls for more than 800 new railcars across 14 routes.
>>2077867what cagebrains actually believe
>>2077870Highways are funded more because they are a powerful catalyst for (taxable) commerce in a way that amtrak is not.
>>2077859>i heard retarded drivel so i'll repeat itok
>>2070947Why in the blue fuck are we still throwing good money after bad on passenger rail?
>>2079728In what sense?
How retarded would it be to buy one of these as a first purchase? I will get a tailwheel cert before I do. The Champ has always been a favorite of mine.
>>2079130The competing schools only use a Cessna 140 and a Luscombe and one more out of my budget uses AT-6s. Should I ask for the 170 at the school, or go with one of the other schools? I figured the Luscombe was maybe worst since it is the least forgiving.Nearest Citabria is 100 miles drive for instruction in dense urban airspace (city with 4-5 airports with jet traffic and another half dozen helipads inner city doing tours).What is so bad about the Taylorcraft anyway? Weak brakes?
>not building your own
>>2079153>What is so bad about the Taylorcraft anyway?the most recently built one was built in 19511951...
>>2079678I would be more concerned about maintenance logs and TTAF>>2079676Peter is a genius... I am not, I am more like this Chinaman.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIr-2dVZLQs
>>2079721>boomer logsmhm
Cyclists of /n/, do you wear a lot of loud obnoxious advertising logos on yourself when you ride?
>>2076346MTB clothing is specifically designed to make the wearer look like a literal man-child (reflective of the person)
>>2063980Not him, but everyone is superior to yuppie suckers overpaying for a Victorian toy, poisoning the market against real people.
>>2076378Is this a real problem though
>>2051742I wear gym shorts or cargo shorts and beat-up sneakers with ankle socks and take pleasure in forcing everyone else to have to look at my hairy, out-of-shape torso.>b-b-but the sun!Just sunburn your front, too, bro. In a few days, it'll mellow out into the deepest tan you've had in years.
My friend I don’t even wear a helmet.
How is this guy alive? First one or two videos I watched, I thought he was just going for (You)s but they just get worse and worse. The only way this makes sense is if he has terminal cancer and he wants to die riding a bike and not in a hospital bed.
>>2076189If you don't want him to get attention why are you bumping a dying thread you retard
>>2076191>why are you bumping a dying threadstupid retard
I'm pretty sure I saw SAFA yesterday alone at a cafe but he wasn't on a Scott, does he always have a Scott?
>>2077839Buy an ad safa
>>2077840Who?
Hear me out, we need one of these.
>>2077212An adult woman buying a bib and then specifically goes for the most revealing one because she thinks she's all that. How do people find this attractive? Literally choosing to whore out doing a sport.
>>2078675All women are whores though
>>2077216How is it that her skates perfectly match the iOS emoji
>>2077216You guys would like White Rock Lake in Dallas by the way. It’s actually a fantastic scene for a lot of the things people itt doubt happen. About 10 miles of smooth asphalt around a nice lake in the old money part of town. See and be seen and everything from casual to triathlete marathons to training for Olympics and Tour de France etc. No shortage of talented and beautiful people out there, great for a jog or bike.
>>2077216is the shoe part of the skate why is there a heel on it
SS United States to be sunk, creating the world's largest artificial reef. RIP to one of the greats.
>>2071303So it's July now and there's still no date set. Okaloosa county said they've finished cleanup and they redid the agreement between them and the Army Corp of Engineers but now there's a requirement for preservation work including 3D laser scanning of the entire ship before sinking and after sinking
>>2077172it's never gonna happen, is it?
>>2021031>>2057183Ocean liners are inefficient because they're designed for luxury and go too fast. A proper modern ocean liner would be a few times more efficient than taking a plane, but only for people who can work remotely while onboard. You have to think of it as a real form of transit and not a vacation.>but they have to eat They have to eat whether they're on the ship or not.
Are they ever going to sink it?
>>2016134brown
I NEED electronic shifting!It's SOOOO much better and faster and smoother than cable shifters!Shimano please take my one thousand american dollars to make my shifting divine forever! *(*- until next iteration of Di2 releases)
>>2076097it's pretty much all to trap you into a Device Ecosystem
>>2075776why did they get rid of it
>>2077766good things are bad actually
>>2075776Those people are both surprisingly ugly
>>2056380I would not switch to electronic drivetrain even if I was paid to>>2056381how much did shitmano pay you to post that?
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.
>>2033307Technology is only ok if it's cars
>>2019204Anyone else notice that the op's title stands for TOTAL MAMIL DEATH and this thread is just a subtle dig at road biek enjoyers?
>>2074296I thought that went without saying
I visited a time dealer recently and they had no idea what I was talking about when I mentioned tuned mass dampers
>>2077765>time dealeryou mean like a bucherer?
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.
>>2077728well it aint glass but you dont wanna make actual springs out of ti either
>>2077728>anon's 1mm thick eyeglass frames can be bent, therefore titanium is as soft as lead and as springy as steel
>>2077735No? I didn't say that? In fact it is somewhat springy but soft as lead? Where on earth did you pick that up? Clearly you scored quite low on your verbal SAT.
>>2077726you have absolutely no idea what the fuck you're talking about. Titanium frames are known for being very flexy. People don't like titanium forks because they flex too much.
>>2077726it's ok to not be into bikes
For when you want to fall over in front of a crowd without getting drunk first
>>2050921nikolasV, RIP
>>2077302>my size 13 (American)
>>2052672>That's not what they're for.What are they for then?
>>2043375yes
>>2077303I don't really see your argument. It's not that I didn't believe you or anything. If it works for you thats great.But your argument essentially boils down to 'you NEED those huge and rather specific pedals with stupid studs that wear and wear your shoe etc. only so as to avoid clipless. 'You see how one argument is just like the other? Like why would I ditch clipless and put that stuff on?>It's not that I didnt believe youI'll be diplomatic about that and just put it like this: I would not feel safe sprinting on those in ass conditions. It must certainly be a skill issue etc. etc. good for you that it's not so for you.
