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.
>ITT>step-throughs are less aero because they flex???Shit argument, Mountain Bikes are literally designed to flex under load for example, so clearly that's not a deal breaker
>>2047181Yeah but all the bike sharing bikes are step through
>>2048152Step-throughs are basically the default frame for e-bikes in general
>>2048156I just got an e-bike (tho its a mtn bike) and embarrassed myself by barely being able to sit on it cuz the seat was a bit too high and he was like goading me to sit way higher than i was comfy step through sounds nice as fuck but i dont want to compromise structural integrity
>>2046766This is dumbThey're comfy and based, if you don't like them you're a fag
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?
I kinda want to build a lightweight bike from AliExpress. I want to know what it feels like to ride a modern, fast bike since I already own steel gravel bike and classic steel road bike with friction shifters. Is it a bad idea to buy a Chinago/Chinarello frame?
>>2040058>Carbon wheel>Rim brakesMore like rim breaks
>>2047929y-y-yess andd uuhhhh yes yes yes uhhh fuckkk stopp noticinggg chuddd ugghhhh>>2048056>misusewe should ban water because if you drink too much you die, right
>>2039960>the chinkshill is on /n/ now
>>2049505Yeah bro you're a bit of a silly billy. Carbon is light. That's it's only benefit and lightweight components come at the cost of safety. Which is fine if you want speed but I and many others do not find the possibility of a handlebar/fork/whatever on their bike snapping to be a selling point.
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?
>>2020833>Carbon frames used to be fancy, and are now affordableAnyone who buys cheap carbon gets what they deserve. Failure mode is catastrophic.
>>2041753Stockton and you have something in common: a poor understanding of what applications different materials are good for
>>2041753>build sub out of carbon>call it titanwhat a moron
>>2039699underrated post
>>2044788I thought the dome was titanium though
>200 year old technology>still superior to every modern invention aimed to replace itWhat gives?
>>2049008you stand against everything that made rail the superior regional, national and intracontinental mode of transport for the past two centuries
>>2049009>>2049175What's your objection to prioritizing right of way? Doesn't matter how fast your trainset is if it takes a shitty route and drops you off 3 hours from the center of town. Back in the day they actually put train stations where they were useful.
>>2049008Haters are mad that Robert Moses was right, he just applied the correct method to road instead of rail
>>2049198He's right, you know
>>2049198not at all the case in my country but keep coping
>Taxi>Personal Car>Bus>Train>Boat>Airplane>WalkThose are all the ways I've done it^^^ I told my dad on a call that I want to collect more ways and he said I should go to a border with a segway, a unicicyle, a bike, a scooter etc. hahahaha and add a lot of ways most people never did in their lives. So I said one day I would do that and send him pictures/videos. Would you be interested in a phone app that allows you to collect different methods from crazy ones to normal and track all borders you crossed via different methods of transit? I really want that
>>2049408>Would you be interested in a phone app that allows you to collect different methods from crazy ones to normal and track all borders you crossed via different methods of transit? I really want thatJust write it down, you don't need another tech bro to make another ultra niche app when journaling solved this question centuries ago.Back on topic though :>train>plane>car>train with a bike>walkI'll be crossing by bike hopefuly this year if I can get the days off for a bike tour.
>>2049480Nice - did you have a favorite method or least favorite method?The app would be good because you can visualize it, track every border crossing ever, etc.
>>2049518Taking the Eurostar was kind of a novelty but at the end of the day it really is just riding one ery long tunnel as far as your travel experience is concerned.Flight sucks because it involves airports and airports are designed to make you miserable.>but muh duty-free sh-I just paid out the arse for a ticket, I don't have the balance to buy a wristwatch and save a hundred bucks worth of VAT.Train really depends>France to GermanyNot great>France to ItalyNice>Belgium to NetherlandsIt was fine>Belgium to GermanyIt was also fine I guess, though bike accomodation on DB trains was not that good, just one big empty area and no seats if you want to be next to your bike (which you do if you're touring and have your stuff strapped to your bike)>France or Belgium to LuxembourgComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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.
>>2048253>And yet there would be a big untapped market for those who wanted to try and service them. lolI bet you want to fix tv's too
>>2048187Russian here. We used to have a LOT of kulibins trying to fix these shits. Most of them kept accumulating dead unsalvageable boards and BMS-es, vaults of questionably good 18650s that are not cost effective to test, and broken structural components that you can only get by buying a brand new one of these. You know what was common practice for quite a few models of e-scoots? Etching down the fucking solder mask off the driver board and tinning the fucking traces to let them pull that little bit more amperage without immediately blowing up. You know what that lead to? Them still blowing up, but now at higher loads, thus putting you into more danger. That's the reason scoot manufacturers started putting dick brakes on these, not to make you brake better, but to safeguard you from suddenly finding yourself with no brakes when it inevitably does blow up.Eventually most of these guys went back to fixing bicycles and monowheels and never touching scoots again, the few who remained became rental scooter techs who couldn't care less about your black piece of trash, they have their hands full already.E-bike can't break, it can just temporarily become bike, so they are much easier to work on. On the other hand, monos actually take reliability and durability seriously because they have an autistic community and word of mouth spreads, if your shit is a faceplant machine you'll get blacklisted and only chumps will buy it. Scoots' biggest market are rentals, so you are getting the lowest common denominator, made to be as cheap and disposable as possible. You bought a Kia Rio of non-car transportation, its explicit purpose is to turn into a pile of rust right after its warranty expires, except all of these scoots are chink and chinks don't respect warranty anyway so the threat of expiration is immediate.Is it possible to make a quality e-scooter? It is, but you won't buy one, it'll be too expensive, you'll just upgrade to a shit model with bigger number instead.
>canadianShut up
>>2048730>I bet you want to fix tv's tooFixing TV's is actually stupid easy usually depending on make and model. Mostly due to the fact that while they're mass produced they aren't glued an soldered and held together with fragile plastic clips designed to break like smartphones and shitty laptops are out of maliciousness mostly. They don't need to do any of that since most people with twenty different streaming subscriptions can't be bothered to do some 30 minutes of research to trouble shoot what may be a very simple problem. Not like a TV exists to commute on nor does it store all your beloved family photo's that people don't backup for some reason so throwing it away ain't nothing to people usually.t. anon who was given a free broken Samsung TV with decent specs and all I had to do was remove a bunch of screws that were all the same size and disconnect like two or tree ribbon cables to swap in a non busted timing board.Of course I did that for fun basically, I enjoy seeing if I can bring stuff back to life. I have no delusions on such a venture being at all profitable however and I'm perfectly content with keeping that as just a hobby.I wonder how E-scooters would fair with their environments if say a country that gave a fuck like Japan or Italy were to make them however.
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
/mu/ here. Settle a debate: is Lou Reed riding a girls bike or is this frame normal for men?
>>2048683https://open.spotify.com/track/1cGEZCD84bA6znJbgDSv6g?si=CyljjiFrTRSj7d3vWkxj5Q
>>2048683CHOO CHOO MOTHERFUCKERS.
>>2049325https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfBq9yzrcIw
>>2048683and Trans-Europa Express too
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Redpill me on becoming a pilot /n/. The job sounds so cushy. Should I make the transition? Currently I'm an underemployed liberal arts major.
>>2049046women have their hand held their entire pilot career
>>2049098sounds like that would make it harder to fly a plane.
>>2049026
I am getting ready for my PPL checkride. I cant talk to whether the ATP rating life is cushy, but I can tell you this has been a really stressful process. I would sleep for only 4 or 5 hours a night because I would wake up thinking about everything I had to know, the day's upcoming flight, whether I was going to successfully pass my stage checks etc. Its cool to think about flying into Rome and telling the babes there youre a pilot, but the reality for me is waking up at 4am and stressing myself if I remember cloud clearances for Class G over 1200 AGL but under 10000 MSL. Whether I could explain extemporaneously the gravity fed fuel system. The pitot static system. The various emergency procedures. Knowing how to gauge 10 and 5 miles without using GPS during a simulated diversion. Getting Bravo clearances and not sounding like a retard on the radio. I remember being shown the inside of the Cessna for the first time, taking off for the first time and wondering what the fuck I got myself into. After all though, its been a great learning experience and would do it again. The hardest parts are still yet to come for me too!
>>2049030Lol a non meme college degree costs a fuckton more
I want to strangle every single big buck roadie fred and especially every single downhill-bike-in-a-park pomp who rides around just to do chainsaw sounds with their bicycle's very very expensive hub. "Give way, the asshole is coming!". Like, if you wanna make motorcycle sounds, get an actual motorcycle. A Harley actually sounds cool. A freewheeling bicycle sounds supremely annoying, and also means you are a weak shit who is not pedalling. Fuck you, go ride into a river.
you guys actually pedal downhill?coasting downhill is the best part
>>2049377based cruizerI just cant help myself I need to stay workingy I need to be fast, even when I try to go somewhere unsweaty and slow it just works as long as I consciously remind myself, few minutes in the ride it's all forgotten and gas gas gas.
>>2049380>and gas gas gas.Based racist.
>>2045613imagine rolling slow enough for those to workcould not be me
>>2049360specialty thin grease
I flew down to the Bay Area to take a journey on the Niles Canyon Railway's mysterious and rarely traveled Eastern branch aboard the M200 Railbus. The last of its kind still operating, the M200 once served the California Western Railroad as a literal schoolbus for children. Today is its first publicly available excursion in several years.
>>2045316Cozy
>>2045316Imagine chain smoking here
Hmmmm... I choose not to read this sign!
Emergency World of Warships lootbox
>>2044526Nice that's so really cool. I live scenic and historic railroads.Did they serve refreshments at all? I imagine not if it's one rail bus. Still really cool thanks for the pics
I once again bought parts for a bike I said was finally finished.
>>2047943What did you get?Post bike>>2047972Plastic wrapped furniture type of post>>2047984Why’d they suck?My grabbel is a modified 90s frame and it really rips. BB is a little higher than ”real” gravel bikes but the handling and geo is good.
>>2047984Haha, might very well happen to mine as well. I probably could spend the same amount on an entry level gravel bike and be way better off. But that's not the point.
>>2047982lame
>>2049176How the hell does that work?
>>2049176>Put power and control in the palm of your hand.I'd say I do that fairly often.
>>2045193So you oppose any business offering a product you don't financially benefit from or what? What kind of mongrel thinking is this lol? Just shows how communism is entirely based on inferiority complex and petty resentment and jealousy. I've taken RegioJet and WestBahn trains and they were fine. They have to compete with the existing prices, they increase capacity, it is a win-win. You should be happy there is not just train service but actual competition in some places now. Look at the poorer countries in Balkan, etc. they don't even have rail service at all
>>2042482>installing multiple signalling systems into the same loco/EMU is somehow difficult>danes built the EG class 25 years ago, with signalling equipment for DE, DA and SE/NO>many such cases>ERTMS turns out to be far more expensive to implement than the multi-system locos it's meant to replace>EU bureaucrats are useless again>many such cases
>>2040220They really named a train "I(n)cel?"
>>2045231What's the policy argument for giving corpos free money where there's money to be made while shouldering the tax burden of unprofitable routes? All it does is feed the retards who say government is bad and only helps parasite lazies. It's like those people who sabotage school systems by handing out free giebs to private schools that compete with the best public schools, and then after eroding the good public school into a shadow of its former self, complain that public schools all suck.
>>2040418>I don't think that's trueThere is no "I think", that's just a fact.
>free busesCagebros...should I be afraid...?
>>2047449When my team does it, it's based. When the other team does it, it's cynical political posturing.
>>2047451I'm not even American. You should always assume that any politician pretending to solve all the problems in the world is full of bullshit regardless of party alliance.But I have more sympathy towards Trump because even though he is full of shit and I disagree with a lot of Republican policies at least they are trying to stop the country from turning into another violent South American shithole. This guy is just yet another ungrateful 3rd worlder with ethnic grievances
2047452>uhhhhh actually you can't criticize me because I'm above it all and conveniently I'm not even american, both sides are bad I just randomly happen to only pipe up when it's time to criticize one of these sides, but actually I don't believe in anything so, gotcha! ha ha!interesting, haven't seen this variant in a while
>>2047453I don't get this post at all because I did not even try to hide the fact that I generally sympathize with Trump and dislike people with anti-white grievances.But Trump was just as much bullshitting when he simultaneously proposed 3 digit tariffs on the entire world and promised to bring down inflation for example. Or to bring back all sorts of manufacturing home without a price increase. At the end of the day New York is a world financial headquarter, rent is a bit too high but not even outstanding compared to local salaries and taxes compared to similarly wealthy places. And everything else is much cheaper. I watched that video with the gyro plate where he argued that the $10 plate could be cheaper. $10 for a gyro plate like that is below Eastern European prices. Compare the prices in places like Zürich, Luxemburg or Copenhagen.But anyway this whole discussion is pointless because again, no one cares about prices or rent or policies it is all just ethnic identity politics.
This isn't going to actually happen. The NYC accountants are going to shoot down everything interesting when he realises he can't just print money and he's just going to be a paki Adams
Why don't they just make more 757s but with the latest engines?
>>2049077>A322 and A323 memes are realGenuinely how? Unemployment attitude is already 9.5° in an A321. How are the longer planes going to rotate? Will they have to move to a triple slotted trailing flap? I have so many questions.
>>2049247Make all the landing gear extend-o-matic
>>2049274But Boeing has yet to deliver a 737 MAX 10 or even get approval for it, and that design absolutely depends on extend-o-gear.
>>2049274Dangerously zased
>>2049247> How are the longer planes going to rotateMake tall runways and just fly off the end.
Do you guys ever have conversations with other people on public transportation, or try picking up girls there?>yet another day riding the subway sharing a car with plenty of cute girls, normal looking guys, and never make conversation with anyone to try to make friends or get a date>it's been like this nearly daily for 10 years>even see the same people getting on and off at my same stop, they live near me, and still never speak to anyone
>>2012325No but people talk to me sometimes. Usually drunks, but they're harmless and pretty entertaining and complimentary so I welcome it.
The other day I got on a mostly empty train car by myself and there was one blonde woman there who glared at me apprehensively since I'm a shitskin and, well, you know.I got the message and parked my ass a good distance away from her, and proceeded to doomscroll for a few stops at which point three loudly drunk middle aged men holding 40 oz containers of something in brown paper bags got on board and started crudely complimenting her. "I said you're pretty, did you hear me?" And so on, while she pretended not to hear them. Had she not given me the "get away from me rapist" glare I might have said something, but hey, not my problem and I got off at my stop.Reddit, am I the asshole?
>>2046297and even if you do say hi or ask a questionthey take the ear bud out for 2 seconds to answer, then put it back in
>>2049294fuck her
I’ve been learning Italian so I’ve practiced with a bunch of Italians on the NY subway. It’s really fun. Assuming you can actually hold a conversation (not just regurgitate some phrases from Duolingo) they’re really impressed.
