Although I set out some preferences for the last one I ended up settling for literally anything to do with Britain. Those preferences about foreign exports and rare diversions remain in place but otherwise post what you like as long as it fits the broader requirement
>>2064229It wouldn't be able to run in the UK. It's Cape Gauge, and it would cost a small fortune to build a railway for it or convert it to Standard Gauge. Plus it has a huge grate and is probably equivalent to 2x UK 4-6-0s or Pacifics in terms of coal burn.
missed opportunity?this is probably more fascinating than the pacifics Bulleid built, perhaps chain driver valve gear wasn't a bad idea
>>2064923>Chain driven valve gearHorrendous>CaprottiSexo
>>2064966>caprottiabsolute nothing burger of a valve gear, hardly used
>>2064229
I was thinking of picking up one of those cheapo Aliexpress carbon forks, but my buddy probably rightfully talked me out of it due to safety concerns.Where should I buy an affordable carbon fork in 26" for rim brakes (in Yurop)?
>>2064895it's funny how you unracers accuse normies of being brainwashed by GCN when you seem to be the only regular viewers of that channel
>>2064897what makes you think I'm unracer though? Get your head checked you have some "rent-free" bogey mans in your skull.
>>2064899sorry I've lost track of what you identify as. if you've transitioned and you've got a new name, I'm happy to call you by your name. this doesn't need to be a heated rivalry.
As an ali express and ebay special enthusiast just wanna pop in and give some insight. In my experience I've yet to have an aluminium ebay special or aliexpress part break on me. I've heard of people having issues with cheap chinese carbon constantly. If you're going to go cheap aluminium may be ok but understand the risk you're potentially taking. I've had no catastrophic failures and I ride my bike everyday.
>>2065026but speaking personally you've bought china carbon and nothing broke?
I am 37 and got fired from my tech job of 16 years over something stupid. My product manager was mad about it and promises to be a great reference in looking for a new job and I have a security clearance which is very valuable. All that plus my experience I think I can get another similar job pretty easily. However I am tired of tech. I own ~$700k of company stock that I will receive in a year and a half. Tell me how stupid of a plan this is.>sell house for ~$300k profit>use house profit to rent an apartment and pay for flight school>in 1.5 years be probably making peanuts as CFI but can buy a house cash>in a few years be making big bucks again as commercial pilotI also have about $100k of crypto that can be leveraged if need be. Why the hell not?
>>2065716I know exactly who >>2065731>>2065698isno one wants to hire him because hes a shit head that hates teaching hes been canned by two other schools and acts like a complete ass. I know a freshly minted CFII that got scooped up by FEDex imediately. In this industry you have to have people skills too since they want a CAPTAIN
I am in instrument training right now, also to do it as a profession eventually. I pretty much have nothing else in my life and no other skills, so this is necessary for me. If I had 700k and other actual skills, Im not sure I would have the resilience to get through what being a student is like. Id probably say fuck this and go back to my previous life. With that said, in my short time so far in aviation world, complaining is the favorite thing of a pilot and yet there is literally nothing else you want to do once you get good at it. 37 years old is getting up there in terms of...if you have yet another day of shitty day of pattern work in 100 degree weather, you have to really determine if you have the kind of personality who is going to stubbornly show up the next day and be able to handle your CFI putting you under the microscope. I dont regret it, but like I said its all I have in life.
>>2065283Didn't read the thread. Sounds like a good plan OP but keep in mind it takes about 10 years on average to make north of $200k in this career.
>>2065348rare analytic post
Wellp, after 3 weeks of being an unemployed NEET I got another corpo swe position so I guess I'll go back to that world after all. Still gonna do the airplane thing but I'll just weekend warrior it for now rather than going through with the crazy plan of selling the house.CFI bro took me up last week to show me the ropes. Did some takeoff and landings (while he also held the controls), extreme low speed maneuvers, stalling, and sharp turns. Lots of fun.
What would you do in this situation?
>>2064975my city has six broad categories of waste and about 20 subcategories that need to be separated. there are four pickup days per week for the different categories, you're supposed to put waste out before 7am on pickup day, not the night before. in reality all of these rules are ignored and people put everything but bottles and cans in combustible, whenever they feel like it
>>2064960For you.
>>2063186The weebs are probably worse than the japs in that regard, they're not throwing rocks in from a glass house.
>>2063156>a read light district is not for sightseeingwtf? literally the entire point is to go look at titties, posters with titties on them, titty-themed objects, engage with titty-laden interactive media, and then get really embarrassed with a hooker paying them money to keep lapdancing even though you're gay but don't want to offend the homies who took you out for seeming disinterested or ungrateful. how is the point of somewhere like kamurocho not for sightseeing? you literally go to look at stuff. mostly titty stuff but stuff you look at nonetheless. for that matter the reeperbahn is also for sightseeing, and i have actually been there, it's full of people just looking at stuff
>>2065008lol
i have like 700 bucks to my name and i gotta get the fuck out of this country (canada) what do i do? how do i get out? how do i make money on the way?
saar this is /n/ where we argue about bicycles, if you want to whinge about indians taking your jerrrb and ask what countries want to suck your cock for being white, /trv/ is that way --->
>pretty whiteKek. YWNBWhite.
>>2066456Italians are white, anon.......barely.
>>2066458https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vonb2Hir7Oo
>>2066439>im pretty white
Why does a graffitied train have to be taken out of circulation immediately? How much does it cost in your country to clean up one graffiti piece? In Finland, the average cleanup cost is 600-700ish.
>>2065122Will destroy the glass, rubber, advertising materials and probably stain the steel over time. Environmental run-off must be considered and obviously additional wages to pay the workers. Lots of money (that the west doesn't have) to cover up art
>>2065321Amen. Consider they have tractor trailer washes too...that fucking train should be GLEAMING like the savor or society it is. Keep my train nice with my taxes. Job one.>>2065347>doesnt know anything about soda blastingI didnt say SAND, sir. Collect pits are standard even for car washes. And like anything the more you do it the cheaper it gets, per unit. And it has to work. The energy crisis is a death pact.
>>2065321>why they dont have drive-thru car washes but for trainsBruh
In Bucharest, Romania, they dont bother to clean the old metros since they will be phased out anway. Its nice going with them while we still have them
they should just paint over the graffiti every few weeks like how they blob more paint onto warships to cover the rust. eventually, the train will be more paint than metal and will thus be impervious to all damage spiritual or physical>>2066466god i wish that were me.
I see you all are intimidated by my obvious superiority
>>2066203>How bad does it reflect on me as a /n/egro that I would absolutely LOVE to ride thatit looks fun as hell but it belongs in silly pumptrack/skate park videos not on the road or mup
>>2066203>>2066203>my issue with e-bike kits is usually retards having poor cable management and motor choices.you would hate my bike; i stole a bunch of those velcro straps to tie everything down properly but the controller is just in a crappy seat bag thingy and the cables go through the zipper instead of the dedicated Cabling Port For You're Headphones + USB's because the fittings for the motor and throttle were too big to fit through said portif you can believe it, when i bought it used off of some boomer in the first place, it was even worse; the cabling was all into a repurposed fanny pack bro cut an X into to slide cables through, and just tied the fanny pack straps together instead of using the toggle-locks and clipping it together. also the battery was attached to the side of the rear rack with no bottom support for some reason
>>2066217Ooooh that's making me mad thinking about it, pics?
>>2066083>no triangle frameanyway here's something that's not for toddlers
>>2066262no because i aint doxxing myself also the most egregious bits from the previous owner have already been rectified
It would probably kill more people than cars do nowadays and any accident results in death. Otherwise would be nifty tho lol
The average retard cant even comply with something as basic as a speed resistriction imagine atc vectors
>>2063632Trying to cross any roads with freeway on-ramps and off-ramps was always fucking AIDs for me, especially since for me the road in question is a bridge that has a moderate uphill gradient so not only am I having to dodge Karens who feel way more entitled to use the onramp than they should even if its passed a pedestrian crossing but I have to go uphill while doing it. Luckily though, it's super easy to avoid since the other road over the freeway just a light down doesn't have onramps or offramps
>>2061591Hit by driver not looking right at a stop sign to join a one way road. They only looked left cause everything is a car....
>going on weekend with buddies, one of them with a pilot license so we're borrowing a DA40 from his flying club rather than driving>flight there uneventful>3 days of boozing later, time to get back>riding in the right seat on the flight back>engine start, taxi, line-up, full throttle>rotation>*ding*>hol'up, I can't remember the plane dinging at us on take-off any other time I flew with him>pilot buddy keeps his composure>check panel>Master Caution on>"anon, is-">raised hand to my face>alright we got a problem serious enough for him not to waste attention talking about it>check panel againComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2065243Almost like humans shouldnt be up there....
>>2065219Stop and wait until you make eye contact with the driver. The reaction is funny sometimes because they never expect you.
Elon Musk wishes he was 1/10th as GREAT as this English manlet.
>>2060108>wishing was someone he doesnt know existed
>>2060208 i mean, sorta did, ireland and parts of australia did adopt 5'3"
>>2064926Australia adopted them all.
>>2060319>"overthrowing">preying on people's techno-narssicsm about "flying cars"
>>2064926>Manlet Gauge
What are the advantages of these things as opposed to, idk, a bus?
>>2063881Suspended monorails such as the one in Wuppertal can. But the other suspended variants indeed can't.>>2063758Suspended monorail like the one in Wuppertal can swing from side to side and are a nearly perfect design. This perfection pleases other aspects of autism.
>>2057440All are outweighed by one car being able to block it. So until the most vicious possible enforcement on that (which will never happen), buses it is.
>>2065220Trams work just fine in France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Holland, Czechia, Hungary, Australia, Belgium...
>>2065288And im so jealous they have more civilized citizens. It doesnt work in "im a giant babies with no responsibilities" u.s.a.. But truly, what are the upsides compared to a bus?
>>2059437>>2059445I suppose if we're gonna "a human is a featherless biped" this, the difference between pic and a bus is the latter has its own on board power supply, where the montreal metro uses third rail electrification to power the motors
It is said that if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Are you one of the good ones, /n/? Do people say you're not like those other cyclists?
>>2064095>>2062326no need to samefag like that bro
>>2064101no need to be a retard faggot like that bro
>>2028039>all that to get a 16oz coffee......
>>2064123>deep undergrounddwarven coffee...
>>2028001All I is yuppie/hipster. Where is the dirtbag option?
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.
Cute little shunter
>>2054600I think that is a former automat car.
>>2044578Most schizo melty seen on this site in a while. Ssed.
Post your shitbikesssss
>>2066367Nakamura is a kinda shit brand here in Canada now unfortunately, but I don't know if this is even the same brand. It has a couple Miele stickers on it as well, specifically says Miele Design, so maybe some sort of old collab or sub brand? When I picked it up, it had (nasty) white tape and whiteish cable housings, but I kinda like the contrast with black a bit better. Celeste would be cool though, maybe another iteration will play into the other accent colours.Here's an updated pic, drive side this time.
>>2066362you started some shit here claiming altus is better quality when it's same plastic garbage with only difference being more cassette range and cancerous jockey wheel, arguing that low tier groups are better than the other is retarded and I must correct you since those low groups are made for different purposes and sometimes some tourney models will cost more than altus due to being very specifically made for older bikes.
>>2066361who said we're talking about cool vintage bikes with woefully undergeared drivetrains? this is a shitbike thread, we are talking turn of the century beat up aludiddlium gt with the only original part being the hopelessly seized seatpost that's conveniently right for your heightit's got a triple up front, it's got a seven on the back that you toss out and slap on a nine once it wears out, the old stick tourney won't shift shit
>>2066376what's your stem (25.4 or 31.8 clamp) and dropbar?
>>2066411Stem is the 80mm VO riser quill stem, with a 26mm clamp. The bars are Nitto noodles, 42cm if I remember correctly.
That cozy, old school cabin photo of a Delta Air Lines L1011 TriStar from the 1980s is getting people talking for one simple reason: it looks roomy. Wider looking aisles, big overhead bins, and that warm lighting that makes the whole cabin feel like a different era of flying.Delta's own history of the L1011 explains why it felt that way. The airline called it "high, wide and handsome," noting a cabin about 8 feet high and 19 feet wide, plus wider aisles and large entry doors designed to make boarding and deplaning easier.Delta's first revenue L1011 flight was on Dec. 15, 1973 from Atlanta to Philadelphia, and the airline ultimately flew 70 of the type, the largest L1011 fleet in the industry.Delta retired the L1011 in 2001, after decades of domestic and international flying, including transatlantic and transpacific routes. And over time, the industry shifted hard toward efficiency and packing more people into each flight, especially after U.S. airline deregulation in 1978 changed how airlines competed. Looking at this cabin, you can see why so many travelers say, "Yeah... they really don't make it like that anymore."
>>2062055>300 for NY to LAChrist thats cheaper than taking a bus
>>2062434Yeah, and it's actually a bit conservative. You can go from NYC to LA for significantly less if you don't care about the actual airport you go out of. There's a reason Greyhound is dying.
>>2062036absolute kino interior
>>2062036Reminder: commerical flying only exists as a halo project of futuristic, and can not exist without massive subsidy from goverments, never making financial sense in a freer market.>but trains are subsidizedLiterally Cinderella case.>whole hog on the greatest communist venture in human history: the interstate>hold it against the only viable form of travel overland
>>2062036Also: >what a lovely disease reactor>hundreds of strangers sharing recycled air>or compressed of the jet engines worth toxic compounds in itWhat's the appeal again? This version has no overhead bins? Yeppie.....
