one (1) fucking accident and they were gone, I don't get it
>>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.
>>2040378they were also loud as fuck and guzzled fuel. the concorde was crazy expensive to operate and they just needed an excuse to kill it>>2053451warfare doesnt really work that way anymore, why do you think the US has bases everywhere? dont need to do paradrops when you already have 5000 deranged beaners ready to go in the capital city of every country you dont like
>>2048846someone please post the copypasta hating on this plane, every instance of DC-10 was followed with something like "ALSO KNOWN AS DICK CRUSHER 10/DEAD COMMUTERS 10/etc"
>>2055432Seconded
>peugeot is selling brand new steel framed fixies, can be found under 500 euroswhat the fuck? it kinda slaps frfr
>>2053148proably cheaper and hoods on track bars look weird >>2053091
>>2050593I can fish similar things out of the canal for free.
>>2050593>fixieKill yourself.
>>2055353you seem butthurt
>>2055383I'm not
>The San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway (reporting mark SDAE) is a short-line American railroad founded in 1932 as the successor to the San Diego and Arizona Railway (SD&A), which was founded in 1906 by entrepreneur John Spreckels. Dubbed "The Impossible Railroad" by many engineers of its day due to the immense logistical challenges involved, the line was established in part to provide San Diego with a direct rail link to the east by connecting with the Southern Pacific Railroad lines in El Centro, California.>the railroad has a checkered history, with periodic disruptions in service to rockslides, storms, fires, and derailments, and has never been profitable>the line ceased being used in its entirety decades ago and has been bounced around by owner to owner ever since>at present, only a fraction of the line in San Diego, Mexico, and Campo is actively used, with the rest being left to decayHere's my questions:1. Were the "Impossible Railroad's" issues inherent to the climate and terrain, or more so the technological/economic limitations at the time of its construction (the railroad was built with anachronistic infrastructure such as wooden trestles)?2. If funding could secured, would it be possible to rehabilitate or even rebuild the line in its entirety using modern engineering techniques to negate the hazards that plagued its previous incarnations?3. What services could be provided to make the line economical, or even turn an actual profit? Obviously there's tourism, Carrizo Gorge attracts thousands of tourists a year (many of whom come to gawk at the ruins of the railway). I recently found out that the Mexican portion of the line is used to host the Tijuana-Tecate Tourist Train (pic related, several gallery cars that were originally intended for it but ultimately left unused) and has proven quite popular. But I'm also wondering industries could be served or even if a US-Mexico commuter service would be feasible (ignoring current diplomatic issues)
>>2053054In notch 8, they burn upwards of 400 gallons of diesel an hour. Tier 4s are less fuel efficient. Paying even $3.00/gallon and crews $50/hr(really more with benefits) means your train costs around $2500/hr to run in just fuel and labor costs.
>>2038870I don't think a single piece of infrastructure would be reusable. At that point, you'd be tearing up literally everything and just reusing the right of way.
>>2053058Yes, but instead of moving 20 tons, they are moving 20,000.
>>2055046The ROW probably isn't even that useful because of how curvy it is.
>>2038870Of course not
The EMUs are out of service. Post your pics here of Queensland Rail service- double imaginary bullshit points for rural/discontinued services
Hijacking this thread to ponder, where do I start if I want a career in rail in aus? I'm having a semi mid life crisis and decided I want to do something rail related
>>2054283Idk how it works there but in the UK you can start a position at gateline and work your way up to train guard
>>2052924Move! That’s my spot. You’re in my spot.
>>2054283>Go to train company website>click "work for us"Here I did the work for you already for one option:https://pacificnational.com.au/content/join-the-crew
>>2049223Make your own board then
I'm looking for that "do it all" bike, but I'm kinda lost in the weeds. You have anything from people saying that you can put wider knobbys on a road bike all the way to saying that you need a FS MTB. I currently have a Trek Crossrip LTD, which is an XC bike with 32c wheels. I'm looking to be able to do road rides, but would also like to hit some trails, like picrel which is only a few miles from me. The problem is with trail ratings is that they are more catered to MTB riding. Do you think that I'd be better with either A: upgrading my current bikes wheels/tires to something like a 38-40mm allroad/gravel setup. B: Just buying a higher spec'd gravel bike that's more on the MTB side than the road side and keeping my current bike as more of a road/city bike. Or C: Getting a hardtail MTB and having a nice diversity of styles? I'm completely ignorant about MTB's, but I don't think a FS is warranted for my area. I'm not against them, but they are way more expensive, and higher maintenance, and legit downhill stuff is more of a weekend excursion.
>>2055271Ok, you might have sold me then. I think I've just been looking for any excuse to waste a bunch of money on a gravel bike because of all the hype. I test drove a Trek Checkpoint ALR 3 at the bikestore today because it was the best spec'd one they had for testing. I liked it a hair better than my Crossrip, but it felt almost identical other than "feeling" slightly lighter and more nimble even though it's only 1lb less. Probably just less rolling mass. So then that was making me think that I could just blow way more money on the carbon version. I'm probably going to have way more fun keeping the Crossrip in a road/city setup and just getting a hardtail. Any thoughts on a good HT? I'm a tinkerer, so I'd probably be best suited to getting one that has the best frame even if the components aren't as competitive, because I'll probably just fuck with it in the future. I did like the Roscoe 8 that they had there, but it's brand new, so I might wait until they discount it slightly. $2300 is more than I'd like to spend, but the older gen 8 seemed way shittier ever though it was like $1300.
>>2055273>PetersburgI might have to check it out. I grew up in Fburg, and then moved to north of the river Richmond/Henrico. I'm in Chesterfield now, and all this south of the river stuff is new to me.
>>2055274>Any thoughts on a good HT?Sorry, but I have no idea, since I just ride the one I bought back in 2019. My advice would be to go to a bike shop and just see what they have in stock and see what you like. Mine was around $800 when I bought it and I didn't feel limited by it. If you like to tinker, then yeah, go for whatever frame you like.>>2055275I'm from the tri-cities area, though I no longer live there. Petersburg is not the best place to be, but the battlefield is nice. If you want to know some road trails, there's the Virginia Capital Trail that connects Richmond and Jamestown and the Colonial Parkway between Williamsburg and Yorktown.Regardless of where you ride, enjoy it! I miss home sometimes.
>>2055276>Regardless of where you ride, enjoy it! I miss home sometimesThanks bröther. I don't mind it here, but I'm actually looking at other cities for when my current lease is up. The pandemic brought all the WFH people here looking for a cheap hip city, so housing has skyrocketed, but wages are the same. I know it's the same story most everywhere else, but at least in my field, there's other cities that rent's are similar but pay is 20-30% higher. I'm currently hot on Denver or Ft. Collins, but I still need to shop around more.But hey, great biking out that way as well.
>>2055268Wrong
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
>>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.
im love blimp t so much what do?
>>2050570Thats very intereseting doctorI am a doctor also
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 $1500 at standard retail prices as of late 2024, give or take a few hundred (depending on the finer details).Now, the prices are going to go up by at least 20%, and the smaller independent brands are going to go under as only the largest players will have the spare cash to ride out the sudden loss of consumer confidence. The most interesting and original bike products will simply disappear from the market permanently until the next wave of prosperity (which may be entirely concentrated somewhere far away and foreign, so that only the wealthiest of your peers will be able to import and use such goods).How does that make /n/ feel?
no amount of regulation will ever cause the american consumer to tolerate the cost of american-manufactured tubesets or the cost of american workers assembling them. it will always be cheaper and better to smuggle grey market frames from taiwan. the cost will always - ALWAYS get passed down the line until it reaches capital and capital will always eat the cost because capital gets interest-free tax-free money from central banks whenever they want it and will plow that straight back into manufacturing infrastructure in southeast asia not red states.
I bought my new gravel bike at 1250 euros. I'm quite happy with it. It has shimano GRX600 components and decent quality componentd. Idk why people are itt pretending entry level bikes are bad when all the cool tech from high end racing dripfed down to regular bikes. A 1500$ in 2025 absolutely btfos a bike from 2010 at 3-4x the price.
>>2055527You unilaterally declared $1500 to be "an entry level bike" in a thread where a bunch of people bickered over whether a $500 bike (new retail price) was any good, I think maybe you're intentionally playing games with definitions in order to win an argument that no one made
>>2055390People in China need jobs too
>>2043723I've got a Trek Crossrip LTD that was my first "nice" bike once I got a decent job out of college. Yeah, the bike has some weird issues, but I didn't know anything about bikes yet. It sat in my garage for the last 5 years mostly unused as I got fat and lazy. It's got TRP hy/rd brakes and they work well enough for me. I've been riding it as heavy as 240lb. They'd probably be more than enough for someone that's 150lb. If I could magic hydraulic breaks onto that bike I would though. I don't find that frame to be worth putting upgrades into, so I'm saving up for a nicer bike and will keep the Crossrip as a beater.
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>>2054787It couldn't have a clamp like a normal funicular because of the rails set into the street. Apparently it did have some emergency brake system which had never been tested and failed.Normal funiculars are actually extremely safe, in Switzerland we have dozens if not over a hundred funiculars and it has been decades since there has been a serious accident. Ropeways are actually somewhat more prone to accidents.
>>2056720For me, it's Saas-Fee's Metro Alpin. Hohlaub exit is spoopy.
>>2054785The render of a car with running gear made of granite or possibly concrete should have been a giveaway
>>2053446In Dubuque, Iowa there is a funicular connecting 2 halves of a rich guys house that became public after his death. I think it still costs 50 cents and you can bring your bike. I'd perish in it.
>>2054785That thing literally looks like it was designed by Viktor Antonov using a discarded Half-Life 2 Combine or Dishonored design as a basis
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.
>>2056079and a taco'd carbon frame turns into splinters but a crack in alu or steel can be welded.comparing cracks to buckles is completely disingenuous
>>2056156> alu or steel can be weldedlost technology like roman concrete in the pre- bring back manufacturing united states> b-b-but the pipe isnt completely roundlost technologylikeroman concrete
>>2038727Oldhead alert
>>2038727Pokemon cards sound better.
>>2031782>IT'S TOO NOISY!>meanwhile>someone else has a silent hub>passes by you without warning at jogging speed>get butthurt>"YOU ALMOST RAN ME OVER!"Get the fuck off my trail faggot
When it snows in Japan, the streets spray warm water to prevent ice
>>2054766Road salt has to be some sort of scheme by Big Auto to keep people buying the new model every 6-8 years. Plenty of ways to keep ice off the road yet the entire northeast/midwest chooses to drown them in shit that melts through your car. Moved from AZ to VT and went from regularly seeing 30+ year old shitboxes on the road to rarely seeing anything older than 2012.
>>2053397Cool, now try it in Yakutsk, Siberia
>>2056885What other actually work and are feasible to cover the required area?
>>2056910Table salt
>>2053397I guess it makes sense in places where you have plenty geothermal energy.
In which we discuss the Bikelighting culture (Fahrradbeleuchtungskultur) of our countries.Here in Germany, because of the Danger, it is not allowed to have a blinking Taillight. This is also the Reason that all emergency Vehicles in the World have blinking Lights. By attracting other dangerous night Vehicles to crash into the Ambulance, instead of the civilian Vehicles, it spares Drivers in smaller Vehicles, where the Occupants are less able to administer emergency self-Aid. This is the Consequence of what we call a „high trust Society“; our culture of Politeness dictates the most Risk to the most capable Roaduser. The same Expectation is extended to Police and Construction Engineers who are paid more for occupational Hazards such as a blinking Light.Do you have a Law about blinking Bikelights in your Country?
>>2053772>Making yourself as visible as possible to oncoming motorists is illegalWe really did defeat the wrong enemy.
>>2053772Most lights seem to be garbage, not just in bikes, i general.But more so on bikes. The problem is Most average people don't see light very well.And you can't covince me otherwise.You see, for average people to see a light, it needs 2 things.1 - VERY bright, like brighter then the SUN2 - big, how big? Well traffic lights are very big?At least bigger then most of the shit lights on bikes.I would probably try a Front light (brighter) on the Back of bike.https://shoprealitybikes.com/products/giant-recon-hl-1800Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2055209Thats nice, and even if it causes trouble (maybe not recommended.It would work pretty well.Where do you find something like that?https://www.nightprovision.com/products/ps1200-police-bike-light-set-1200-lumens-xm-l-t6-led-with-red-blue-strobeThats what i found.
>>2056905If you buy an american taillight not a shitty german one, $45 from a legacy brand like cateye or nite rider will be blindingly bright at 10 meters and impossible to ignore at 100 meters. The reason you think taillights suck is that you bought a gimped Busch & Muller taillight from some hipster store that cost $100 and is barely visible when it's 5 inches from your face because of german laws
>>2056827nah. i see you fuckers out there at night using LED road flare strobes as bike lights.
t. 2022 Marin Alpine Trail E2
Do you guys do anything to clean/maintain your drive unit? I know you're not really supposed to mess with them because of the seals but my bike has a lot of dust in it from the summer, particularly where the pedals connect to the bottom bracket part of the DU and I'm worried about letting it turn into mud when I ride in the rain... Is it better it let it wash out or should I try to clean it?
>>2056661You should be doing full disassembly/assembly at least once a year so you can regrease it and check for gear wear.Don't worry about seals, as long as you do it right you wont void warranty. Those type of motors are designed to fail after warranty expires anyway.
>>2001154>thinks e-waste is a sign of wealthDamn, you really are poor.>>2001147Get a real dirtbike, queer. My snowblower has more power than that thing.
I bought a shitty craigslist e-bike and was thinking of transferring it all over to my mountain bike frame, but ebikes all use 26" and my old bike is 28" so I'll have to get disc brakes and I just don't feel like hitting the bike shop today. also the frame is kinda tight and I'm not sure how/where I'll mount everything since I can't fit a rack to it properly with the rear suspension (or at least don't want to nigger rig more springs and arms or ask a guy to weld me up something to bolt around the frame or something)>>2001147>MTB>no suspensiongah DOOD>>2056767>get a real biketbqh i only bought a shitheap e-bike because a deal on a 3k "proper" electric motorcycle that does like 100 fell through. some gormless retard supposedly gave the guy more money and straight cash>>2054390modern ebikes all use hub motors so literally just swap the wheels and plug everything into everything else. the main hard part is finding somewhere to mount the battery and not getting CHINKED and shipped non-functional parts. unless you have to start splicing wires you need no "specialized tools" that a normal cyclist wouldn't already have.
>>2056767I agree these people all have never riden a dirtbike they want that on the pegs experience idk why you would want to have pedal strikes when your not actually pedaling anyways.
Quickpill me on keirin racing. What are these /n/ippon lads all about?
https://youtu.be/sVbwngNoHm0
Any good sites for getting legit keirin stuff? Those shorts look sick.
>>2055167They won't fit unless you are an estrogenized asiatic manlet
>>2054627They're dressed like power rangers
>>2054644rubbinu is racerru
yeWax or Oil?What do YOU like better?I don't wanna listen to the youtube silca shills
Still trying to figure out if there is any tangible advantage to going through with all this wax crap rather than just oiling your chain which has worked fine for billions of people.
>>2055519Taking a shit in an open sewer has worked fire for billions of people too, but it turns out once people get accustomed to nice things, they like it better that way.
I had a crash the other day and was in too much pain to ride and needed to put my bike in someone's BMW to get home. It sucked, but having a spotless drivetrain that can be handled with ungloved hands was nice, one less thing to be stressed about when you're in a tough spot, literally just toss the whole thing in with no tarp or old towels or garbage bags, because it won't leave a mark
>>2056868lol
>>2054955I use a belt drive, so neither.
I am a railway fan from Moscow. In my free time, I make videos of trains, subways, and transportation. Ask questions about my activities, and the transport of my country, stereotypes, in general, everything that is interesting, I will try to answer.
>>2055063Is the Omsk metro ever going to be built?What should be done in the railways of Western Siberia? I imagine there is potencial for high speed rail service along a Omsk-Novosibirsk-Tomsk corridor.
>>2055187Last year they announced they're selling the only built station of Omsk metro with a starting bid of 2.5 million dollars, but it doesn't look like it went anywhere.
>>2055187>>2055223Every time I see the word "omsk" I think of this one troll guy who called a FSB operator and asked him about the thing in tomsk and they went back and forth a few times about whether it was omsk or tomsk and anyway the FSB inadvertently leaked some info but I forgot what it was
>>2056846https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwvA49ZXnf8Thanks for reminding me about this
>>2036639Can you still go from Moscow to Beijing with a train? I heard they scrapped the service during covid
