I think the states whose population don't care about public transit (Dallas, Houston, etc) should get stripped of their federal transit funding and be rerouted to fund the existing transit/infrastructure in Chicago, New York, Boston, Philly or DC.
>>2060536How can anyone vote for a thing that hasn't been a practical reality in 50+ years? Also my unit (like most owned by individuals and not multifamily developers) isn't subject to any rent stabilization laws, not that I object to those laws, since large landlords are cancer
>>2060455What new rail in Texas? The DART line no one will ride? The Chicago Red Line extension will probably generate more ridership than the entirety of public transit in Texas
>>2060135It's a civil preparedness issue only. There is nothing in the constitution about a right to cheap oil.>>2060137There is no bigger commie in the history of the world than the happy motorist.
>>2060929>There is no bigger commie in the history of the world than the happy motorist.The irony of a communist urganigger accusing everyone else of being like him isn't lost on me.
>>2060135sure, and it should be FREE!https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RBYsQE4Pxb4
>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!!!!!
>>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.
>>2058750thanks
How do you react when you see a landwhale approaching your seat?
I assume everyone is always saying mean things to their friends about me. It only matters if they say them to me directly. I promise I am mentally well.
>>2060209That a completely unself aware whinge about not designing the world around a hyper minority is imminent.
As a society we're doing a piss poor job of finding a reasonable middle ground between gratuitously mocking and humiliating fat people, and giving them candid feedback on the negative impact that they have on other people (and themselves) for not taking care of their disease. It doesn't help anyone to be a dick to them and make them all defensive and non-compliant, but all the people promoting this healthy at any size bullshit need to be charged with some kind of crime, and if none exists a new law should be passed making it one.
>>2060962If they're not losing weight from stress and aren't ashamed to show up at the convenience store then we aren't mocking and humiliating them enough.
>>2060980Stress makes them just landwhale harder, the reason ozempic works is it completely rewires their internal reward system. You can't berate a fattie into becoming less of a fattie, they're fat because being fat is how they cope for everything
>be American minding your own business in your car>randomly get crushed under a flying deathtrapSomething needs to be done about this
>>2060827Just a bit further and that prop would have gone right into the driver.
>>2060764I'd be okay with it happening a lot more often tbqhtwo birds for one stone kind of thing
>>2060764were the engines stalled?how do you NOT hear a plane
>>2060938It’s on the pilots to avoid the traffic on the road. It’s not a runway. There is no way the car could have seen the airplane to avoid it.
Little planes are pretty tuff desu I don't know why but in my mind I imagine it just folding up into a ball on impact
What is the intent behind statements like "I'm not a cyclist, I'm just a person who gets around by bike"?At a surface level it is obviously meant to (proverbially) throw other cyclists under the bus, but to what end? Would it somehow appease the anti-bike people if the person "blocking traffic" didn't agree to be referred to by the word "cyclist"?
>>2027704the usa has no sweet crude oil left, wars are being started around the world so you can have cheap gas. Isnt it weird how biden dipped into the reserves when Saudi jacked up opec prices, then oct 7th happened, and then suddenly prices went back down again? Weird huh?Yah sure, I'm insane. Im cuh-razy, cookoo.
>>2057477No you see the reason we have to invade venezuela is that they sent us over 500 grams of cocaine in the last year alone
>>2000001To evade being labeled a yuppie, market polluting tourist, stealing yet another "should be practical only" thing from real people.
>>2059331>they sent us over 500 grams of cocaine in the last year aloneThat’s nothing. Nick Rekieta, his whore wife, and his whore side piece went through 500 g of coke together.
>>2012663Yeah, he got railed.
The Electra Townie is apparently the best selling bike in America. I figured it would've been some gravel bike or hybrid but nope, it's actually just a cruiser/commuting bike with a really weird seating position (even for cruiser standards). Anyone ever ridden one? I just got one used for about $150 as a daily urban rider but the weird tube angle is starting to give me second thoughts but I haven't had a chance to ride it yet. What do you velophiles think of these things?
>>2060878>Please for the love of God everyone stop sperging over every aspect of your livesBut what if all my cool cycling friends laugh at me? :(
>>2060788>Electra>not electric
>>2060895They were founded before e-bikes were even a thing, not that it matters much anymore since they're now just a subsidiary of Trek
>>2060896>Trek>made for city commuting and racetracks, not long overland treks
>>2060903they are literally a mtb focused brand who had one of the best selling longest sold XC bikes.
How in the fuck are they pulling this shit off? These commies are making us look like clowns! What is the reason for this?!
>>2031666They hated him because he told the truth
>>2031666nice digits
>>2035189what conclusive proof do you have that only 100 people died. You are basing this off accident statistics in the being moderately reliable for the last 80 years.
>>2053483Are you implying there isn't an active organ harvesting operation in china?
>>2031662americans do mass transit (among other things) badly on purpose to "prove" that these things MUST be in the hands of private industry alone so that number go up
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.
>>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.
>>2058735sir this is a thread about tuned mass dampers
>>2019224Damper. Unless you're talking about making it wet.
>>2019204>have these been used on road bikes yet?yes, you literally posted a picture of such. but it's snake oil, your bike doesnt vibrate at a high enough frequency for such a small weight to matter and in general vibration is mostly caused by external factors like road surface or you being too stupid to maintain your bike properly >>2019229f1 tracks are also flatter than your sister thoughbeit and f1 drivers complain incessantly about road circuits where the asphalt isn't better surfaced than airport tarmac>>2019237this but for my shitty ebike. the 90kg of batteries make me go like 30kmh on the gentlest downhills without doing anything.>>2019396compound bows rule, i own one and it owns in general
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)
I'm AuDHD and bipolar and once in a manic state I stayed up for like 9 days and invented a 200g retrofit for any derailleur bike that gives it automatic shifting and automated manual. True story. Still have the technical design document lol
>>2060662License it to a company who can actually market and produce it so you get residuals, given your mental state I would also have an intellectual property lawyer present to help guide you and prevent companies from fucking you over
>>2060649isn't that just normal shifting? just gently pedal when you shift instead of putting power into it
>>2060662that actually sounds interesting, how exactly does that work? with like a flywheel adjusting to wheel rotations like the auto shift or something?
>>2060870No. It intercepts the shifting cable and ads logic. I invented a clever mechanical trick too where it reverts to regular shifting upon power down without adding drag.
My city is cutting bus routes starting in 2026, so tell me me/n/, do you ride bus routes for fun?
funny how our grandparents afforded to build the bus but we cant afford to let niggers maintain it
>>2059530We call that progress
>>2058552i love a good ramble, nice post anon
>>2058540I'm poor and don't have air conditioning, so I ride the bus and shitpost in the cool air
>>2058540My 3 year old loves bus days out, we get the bus to the local beach a lot, and the bigger town nearby for soft play and bowling. Sometimes just get the wee town bus rather than walking for 30minsKinda prefer trains for that stuff, can get into the nearby city for the big museums etc, bus takes ages to get there though, train only takes 20mins
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?
>>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
>>2058708what is the strawman you are attempting to lampoon here?
People need to stop acting like 20 year old record is a flex
hongcouver getting some china ferries…elbows up?
>>2055588true but remember that the irvings will either kick back the money or have a politician driveby'd as appropriate if they dont do it that way whilst BC only has namby pamby film studios and techbro startups who do not enjoy such power
>>2046273So?
>>2046182are they auxillary invasion ferries?
>>2046273if it causes BC to become /n/ I see no problem with thist. not from canada but I know how much they hate transportation in saskatoon
>>2060831please don't talk about canada if you don't live here then. We are a failed state and your attitude about our politics indicates to me that you have no second clue on how bad things can and will get where your from aswell.
GPS used to be fancy, and is now affordableCarbon frames used to be fancy, and are now affordableCarbon aero wheels used to be fancy, and are now affordableHydraulic brakes used to be fancy, and are now affordableWireless shifting used to be fancy, and is now affordableGood tires used to not even exist, and are now available albeit a little expensiveLighting used to be heavy and annoying, now it clips to anything and you can light up the road with something the size of your thumbWide range cassettes used to be unimaginable, now some lazy people are even going 1x because they got filtered by 2x It seems like it's all been done. Seriously, what's left. What else is there to improve? We even got bonuses like thru-axle, 3d printed saddles, internal routed everything, and aero frames/cockpits, which let's be honest, you weren't really expecting were you?Can the cycling industry outdo itself or is it now a plateau of stagnation?
>>2056274What about a small creature that gets zapped with increasingly high voltage shocks depending on the watts, how loud it's screaming tells you how many watts. An analog solution from a more civilized time
>>2020903Alloy rims/bars and other parts. Big improvements in weight just through that. Then the bearings got smoother. Cotterless cranks on square taper instead of cotter pins. 4 speed to 6 speed with higher PSI tubulars.Lots of improvements became common in that era.
The bike is a solved invention, so probably something that adresses the dangers attached to the act of cycling as i don't see the world getting on the level of Amsterdam anytime soon.>a directional airbag that deploys in the direction of an oncoming vehicle and the side you're falling on in case of collision.>cheaper, more comfortable and more stylish protective gear and clothes>an airbag helmet
>>2058538There's an airbag helmet already. Nobody bought it because it turns out the accelerometer can't differentiate between "about to die" and "just fucking around lol"Also if anyone turns my city into Amsterdam I'm going postal, FUCK that shit, a bicycle for normals weighs between 15 and 20 pounds and has a derailleur, I like to ride a bike not sit on my 50 pound 3-speed barge in bicycle traffic jams
>>2058538will he be boiled soon, Alhamdulillah?
Hey /n/, what strategies do you use to mitigate ass pain and skin health? I only experience deep muscular soreness on very long rides, but as I get older my skin is getting irritated more often. Painful red bumps crop up and ruin the ride. I hit them with neosporin and cover with a bandage, which works, but I want to prevent them in the first place. I always ride with a clean ass and clean undies, but now those padded cycling shorts are suddenly making more sense. I might even pick up some chamois cream even though the idea always seemed gross to me.Anyway, how bout you? Is your ass chapped like mine? Tips from ass masters would be appreciated.
I ride about 200 miles weekly in regular jeans. Occasionally some discomfort. At the beginning there was a bit of soreness but eventually it stopped. I hope I'm not damaging anything doing this.
>>2043922I don't have this problem, my inner thigh hurts really bad and my muscles get all acidic.
>>2058205okay boomer
>>2058314brooks are specifically made for boomers though
>>2043925I don't wear comfortable clothes because I am not a tryhard who thinks he's a pro sponsored cyclist
18 injured as Mobile Lounge Crashes into Dulles Airporthttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/us/dulles-airport-crash-mobile-lounge.html
>>2058521this is a bus tho its so they dont have to climb stairs
another mobile lounge crash at Dulleshttps://www.fox5dc.com/news/no-injuries-after-another-collision-involving-dulles-mobile-lounge-shuttle
>>2058928So it's a stupid jetway that crashes into the terminal?
>>2059292IIRC mobile lounges were made before articulated jetways became a thing, back when you still had to board using air stairs. And even after it makes sense at an airport with limited gate spaces- having planes out on the tarmac you shuttle passengers to means less planes crowding the terminal
>>2058495>Dulles has a fleet of 19 mobile lounges, which transport passengers between the terminal and Concourses A and D.surely they could just extend the existing train to D...
