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.
>>2052912im going to order a new fork as well. it has done well for three months but im tired of my disc brake rubbing against the pads because it causes an annoying resitance when rolling. does carbon bend well or would a crash such as what you and myself had experienced cause a crack and or snap it in two?
>>2052915It would be more accurate to say carbon "flexes", as long as it's structurally intact, it always wants to return to its original shape. If it doesn't do that, it's fucked:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5eMMf11uhMsome kinds of damage can be less obvious when it comes to shape but you can almost always tell from the fact that the finishing has visible cracks of some kind. spider veins or porcelain-style crackling or hairlines or whatever. you can also tap it with something like a nickel and hear the damage. yeah if you're really paranoid you can send it for an MRI or something but that's overkill, when you hear about "surprise invisible damage failures" it's something like a steerer tube where there was damage that would have been visible if anyone had actually bothered checking
>>2052916so i went to the bike shop and the guy flipped the fork around. he thought it was on backwards at first haha.
If carbon is so great, why do the companies that make the best ball bearings in the world use steel for their ball bearings?If carbon is so great, why do the finest carbon bikes in the world use steel ball bearings?It seems to me that carbon 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
fucking shits
>>2053284A thread died for this
>>2053284>Clipper Juan T Trippe>2nd 747 built after prototype>1st one built used for passengerThose American fuckers!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trVrE8_3B44
Not a single fucking shop in Ontario wants to touch electric stand-on kick scooters for any reason. I'm not going all the way to Toronto to fix a single wiring issue that killed the throttle after driving through an ankle-deep puddle. Google keeps bringing up Durham E-Bikes Sales and Service which specifically says in their website "SORRY WE DO NOT SERVICE STAND-ON KICK SCOOTERS". What is with these things that make repair shops so scared of them? With how popular they are getting there are gonna be a LOT of angry stranded scooter users when they start breaking down.
because you're a cucknadian who lives in a 3rd world country run by streetshitters. ALL "scooters" are Chinese junk that isn't worth fixing, or can only get worse afterwards/thread
>>2048189>Because most of those things are made to be disposable e-waste products from ChinaWorst Korea and Vietnam also make a fair amount of E-scooters too actually both good and absolute trash.Dualtron is a good example which is almost entirely made in the Peoples Republic of Samsung an LG and occasionally the Philippines too, also some Segways are from Vietnam which isn't entirely just a work around for sanctions since it was a thing prior and they already make a fair amount of bikes too so why not just re-tool for that market too.
>>2048429with a scooter I don’t need to pay gas or insurance and unlike bikes most people don’t care where I put it. I can fold it and put it on my back and go up stairs or literally just walk through any restaurant and hide it under the table unlike a bike where you have to put it outside and risk some nigger stealing it. I can go way faster than 15 mph and even if it isn’t legal most cops don’t really give a shit
>>2048187>TorontoTL;DR and opinion automatically disregarded regardless of the context.
>>2049571Cool story bro. I've got over 14,000 miles on mine and am on the 5th rear tire as its a bit of a tread eater since I weigh 240 pounds or so.Dont own a car and I live near Washington DC and take it on the metro trains often but not the buses, lol.As other anons have mentioned there are good scooters and then the more disposable kind.
An entry level new bike, that is agreeable to ride, not dragged down by antiquated standards like QR, that you won't regret buying, nor immediately feel the urge to swap out half the components because of cut corners, cost approximately USD $1500 at standard retail prices as of late 2024, give or take a few hundred (depending on the finer details).Now, the prices are going to go up by at least 20%, and the smaller independent brands are going to go under as only the largest players will have the spare cash to ride out the sudden loss of consumer confidence. The most interesting and original bike products will simply disappear from the market permanently until the next wave of prosperity (which may be entirely concentrated somewhere far away and foreign, so that only the wealthiest of your peers will be able to import and use such goods).How does that make /n/ feel?
>>2043723a pair of mt200s costs 20 bucks and is manufactured in japan so the tariff is not a gorillion percent. a single mt200 costs 10 bucks and that's really all you need, put it on the front and keep the cable one on the back.
>>2048483>mt200Shifter's will need to be replaced, dummy.
>>2048483more like $40 each, so $80 plus what, some friction shifters?I'm not saying don't do that, just confirming that is what you're recommending
>>2044673Is that supposed to hold a magazine or what's that block in front of the trigger
>>2043729I did, they are not good
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.
>>2041937Most normies cyclists don't know any track riders
>>2046674t. the guy who got beaten by a roadie in the podunk MTB race
>>2046674>being this mad about someone racing at a race
>>2036202on a bike your life is forfeit.>>2042004suppose we are farely casual, I've a 7 % grade hill among my commute.along the way are some corners, depending on the bike in use it can get a little hard to corner at around 50 kph ish, (caster and gyroscopics)mostly what I find is little piles of gravel accumulate on the inside of corners, and random plants fall down from the cutting.this makes around 2 to 3 foot of the road width unusable, and after a few near misses of storm drains I find it better to take a lane.sometimes I've had cars reversing out of driveways, but fortunately they paused to look about.also cars dip below 50 kph on the corners, so its a little too easy to catch up with them.>something failed on the bike going downtire puncture, weirdly unremarkable, helps allot that I was on a strait.shoe lace caught in pedal axle, lol three crank revolutions is how much time one has to notice this, its not killed me yet lol. (get better footwear)chain drop, this could absolutely obliterate if it manages to jam between the frame and sprocket.>something is in the street that i dont see, or an animal jumps in front of me, I'm probably dying.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2047916chain jammed under the cassette seems less catastrophic than front tire blowout but maybe I'm being too optimistic
....your time is running out to see one.
vieo thread on my /n/?
>>2050562You can fly in a hot air balloon for a lot less money, and it's a lot more memorable.
>>2050571good luck finding passengers
>>2050568Lol. This guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g0C7Lz-qG0 only he's yelling at a balloon far away in the sky lmao
>>2050557come to think of it I don't think I've ever actually seen a blimp in person
Is it the blimp trains time to shine?Could this be used to get Ukraine grain to the rest of europe?They have different rail gauge between rooskie and EU tracks but blimp can be handed off with out even slowing downTHIS CAN WORK???!!!!!!!BLIMP TRAIN HOLEY ROLLERRIDE ON THE BLIMP TRAINBLIMP TRAIN SAVE THIS COUNTRY AND MAKE IT WHOLE AGAIN Now Im on the edge of something Wondering bout the blimp train ooooohhhhaaaaa eeeeeaaaaahhhooooaaaaTalking bout the blimp train
>>2047494Niklaus Riggenbachs railway from Vitznau to Rigi.twenty passengers per balloon are lufted to 1350 meters in altitude over the course of 30 minutes.then a tank built into the basket is filled with water to effect a steady decent.10 balloons lashed together travelling up and down the luftbahn at a frequency up to five Times a day.
>>1932427>Tunnelskek
>>2040522>mfw
>>2050246It's not very healthy. I could see how motorists look at this and see no issue with it, especially if they had a cabin air filter for themselves.
>>1935520do it like>>2050566describes. you see: Helium or hydrogen provides neutral bouyancy at ground level.A heater inside will be used for attitude control.
(continued from >>2035254 )Let's discuss bike tires here.>pic related currently using>27.5 x 1.60 (650b x 40)>1000 miles in>pulled a few glass shards out>extracted a broken glass bottle shard that was wedged 6mm in the tread at an angle>no punctured tube>no flat>rolls great>doesn't weigh as much as a Marathon Plus or Mondial>installing them wasn't too bad eitherWhat's your daily driver? Do you run tubed or tubeless? General thoughts, experiences of tires you've ran with?
>>2053332sir, this is the tire thread
>>2053373As a canyon owner I love to bash canyon because they're utterly soulless bikes, but one of the reasons these consumer direct bikes get such a dedicated crowd of haters is that you kind of have to become your own bike shop so whatever obnoxious shit your local specialized dealer puts up with, is on you as a customer of canyon etc.
>>2053373What to get instead? I'm almost closing on a Cube Attain C:62 for €1699
>>2053375Upon further inspection, I think you're right
>>2053384have you ridden it?a c6001 belt bike is like riding through molasses
one (1) fucking accident and they were gone, I don't get it
>>2040378>no (0) fucking accidents and they were gone, I don't get it>international passenger scamjet .jpeg
>>2052812It's pretty amazing how profitable an airline service can be when the manufacturer sells an aircraft for £1 each and the government swallows all of the R&D costs
>>2048526Especially since passengers tend to care more about fares and comfort nowadays than speed.
>>2052969I mean I care about both, I'll pay 30% more for a slightly more comfortable seat, I'll pay 50% more for a nonstop flight, but there are limits. I'm not paying 10000% more to save 3 hours
>>2040378Should have made a military version. The ability to transport elite troops and light equipment at supersonic speeds could be very useful for certain shock operations. It would need to be altered for paratroopers.
Why did hydrofoils never take off?
>>2047789>Blocks your path
>>2053304I’ve actually been on one of those. It was incredible and much smoother than I was imagining. Smoother than the usual boat ferries you get today
>>2047608Tetris
>>2053192Agreed. An SRN4 would not pitch up more than if it hit a bug though.
>>2044074I took the JR Beetle hydrofoil from Busan to Fukuoka and it was a pretty good experience. Apparently they replaced it with a slightly slower but larger trimaran now.
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
There just aren’t enough wealthy boomer train autistes to make this feasible. There’s these luxury cruise trains in the Canadian and Colorado Rockies but their primary clientele isn’t foamers. You can take short rides on vintage equipment at rail museums, or just get drunk or high enough on Amtrak to imagine yourself in the golden age of rail travel.
>>2011902>>2011903Option 2 if you want longevity
>>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
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?
component technology has peaked and there hasnt been anything better since the top end 9 speeds which has trickled down alreadyiv ridden current ultegra and current sora and they both never miss a shift and practically need the same.bike technology stopped advancing in the 90s only thing left is muh grams which appeals to smoothbrains, dentists, and SEA
>>2050602Sora doesn't even use bearings on the pulleys, they use bushings like a the pulleys on your kitchen curtains. Maybe you can't tell the difference but others can
>>2050604they cant, and neither can (You)
>>2050606I can tell the difference when they start screeching and I need to take them off for greasing
>>2053348man, I've had a lot of bikes with bushings in the pulleys but they've never started screeching. this includes bikes that were ridden in the rain regularly.
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
>>2041217its a horse thread now
>>2041216>muh zionazisbut theyll call you an evil nazi if you are one
>>1950147Tucker is a textbook sky cowboy so his days are numbered. Anyways what happened to that retard that did flyby AK-47s and fed seagulls to his prop
>>2041211I just read this entire thread. Good job, OP. You got all the kids on this board saying "cope & seething". kek!
>>2041227based and magisterpilled
Why are trainheads so obsessed with the arbitrary distinction of "high speed rail"?Especially in America where we barely have any passenger rail in the first place. Sure it would be nice to have trains that go fast, but wouldn't you rather first have any trains at all? Insisting that all new passenger rail be "high speed" just makes it exponentially more expensive to build and less likely that anything will ever happen. See picrel.
Why not build a giant railgun and launch train cars across the continent?
Train trips are universally slower than driving. Boston to SF by car is 45 hours and 79 hours by Amtrak. There is no reason to be on any train beholden to the train operator and their schedule when you can drive anywhere you want. The only time trains are faster is transiting to major cities from their suburbs, which you wouldn't want to use the train for other socioeconomic factor reasons.
>>2053317
>>2053319Not an argument.
>>2053243Traveling by gun WOULD be the most American form of transportation...
When I visited Vancouver Island I noticed almost all major towns and cities exist on an almost straight line along the coast. I also noticed train tracks along the highway pretty much all the way from south to north. Looking it up, Wikipedia says the railroad service has been suspended due to poor conditions. Why won't the Canadian government restore the infrastructure and invest in a high-speed rail network? Traffic wasn't too bad when I drove there but I imagine a decent railroad would massively cut travel times between cities, potentially making it the better option for commuters. Especially if it can be made affordable. BC is basically China already, maybe they can import some Chinese bullet trains too.
>>2052036>according to this they won't restore the rail because it's too expensive>BUT WHAT IF THEY SPENT 1000 TIMES MORE MONEY TO BUILD HSR???
Why would the feds (and when have they ever) given a single fuck about BC? If you haven’t figured out easterners hate you and will always see you as beneath them you don’t understand how Canada as a country functions at all.The BC govt? They’re bankrupt as fuck with multiple lost decades of NDP regimes, and Vancouver Island is full of retarded boomer hippies that’ll fuck up any project proposed in their backyard
>NDP extreme far-left anarchist led and supported by retards >infrastructureAlso>population the size of Hamilton>connecting one drug infested city with the others by rail Those tracks were built by the logging industry and are not meant for speed anyway. That region is entirely mountains
>>2052036If we restored the rail we'd be stealing jobs from dangerous driving street shitters from India, you maniac! Regardless, the natives have illegally ripped up the rail and stolen the land back in one section near Nanoose Bay.
>>2053294are all the indian seetheposts on 4chan from canadians? there's another thread on /fa/ where someone out of nowhere started screaming about indians and it was also tangentially related to canada. maybe we need to get canada and india in a room together so they can hatefuck for hours and stop bothering everyone else with their petty feuding
