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"WofĂĽr ist das?"-EditionAnything public transport in German-speaking Europe is fair game.
>>2053295WĂĽrd schon einen nehmen. Was letzte Preis?
>>2053295I thought they would use them for spare parts for the OG ICE 3 BR403s. you would need to overhaul the whole traction system, not really worth the money.
>>2053914>not really worth the moneySo you think, they'll ultimately end up at Bender?
>>2049393>So why don't the trains in Baden-WĂĽrttemberg, the second richest German state, work as well as those in Switzerland?Don't know about switzerland but in BaWĂĽ there's a new company running their own trains every few km which might overcomplicate things.
so about the Stadler KISS trains that DB sold to Ă–BB. they are back in service in Germany. some services between MĂĽnchen - Salzburg - Wien will use these trains. as they don't have a dining car, they will be branded as IC instead of Railjet.
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?
>>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.
>>2053348again this happened. less than a month. I guess it's no big deal to take the pulleys apart and slather on more grease but this just seems like it ought to work differently?
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?
>>2052039neither do carbon frames, until they crash. I guess you've never had a crash, which makes sense considering you don't ride
>>2052037>Carbon is the only frame material that can reasonably be fixed in the event it suffers structural damage. I don't know why people pretend they're going to fix their dented steel or alloy frame. It's not going to happen. Face reality.Yeah okay trace velo. Fuck off back to aliexpress you twink cunt
>>2053275I don't know who that is, he must be cute because it sounds like you have a crush on him
>>2053278>thinking a man is cuteSounds gay to me bro
>>2049469Why not just go to a bike shop and try one out?
Ironically, I have money to travel because I don't have a car.I get to see wonderful things, instead of gridlock and asshole drivers.I think this makes them angry and resentful toward me.They are always hostile to the concept of living car-free.I'm glad /o/ is separate from /n/.They really are the worst people.
I don't own a car myself since I live in the city, but I've been known to indulge in cageing when on vacation to places with mediocre public transportation, such as europe. I did a little road trip earlier this month, rented a french car (we don't have those back home), with a 6-speed (last I drove, shitboxes only came with a 5 speed, what a timeline!), and complete with real petrol stops. As soon as I filled 'er up, my bank sent me a warning text about was my card stolen, apparently I don't fit the profile of a cageoid.I particularly enjoyed eating baked gods while driving, like a real cager slob. I got flakes of buttery goodness all over myself, and wiped my fingers on my jeans when done, it was truly flyover-tier. I didn't run over anyone and get away with it like a real cager would, but I do have my limits.Anyway, I don't really have a problem with /ol/, they've always been nice to me, I just don't want to get killed, or if I do get killed I think the cagers should be held responsible.
>>>r/anticar is that way, go post your mentally ill ramblings there faggot
See for me i couldn't handle living somewhere with higher population density then 10 people per square km it just feels like you see people literally EVERYWHERE you go even at 15 people per square km and that every piece of land has someones cabin within 100km
>>2052043this is going to blow your mind but I use my car to travel.
That’s right, they know…
>>2054428im on the fbi mosad and cia watch listi'm not suicidalif i die lurk at my picture
>>2054428Bus drivers are not allowed to touch the passengers
>>2054428I fist the bus driver everyday.
This stuff is ancient but I hope that it wasn't posted here before:The construction of the Japanese Shinkanzen high-speed rails, form 1964.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYjFOYLAtoEBoth the footage and the tempo if that of the '60s, so do NOT expect some twitch footage and on point editing. But, I think you all would appreciate it, or - at least - should see this!ps: use auto-subtitles. While at some point it it definitely an 'eh', it is better than nothing.
>>2041099is that the Oceangate Titan?
>>2041099It's...a train.
>>2024166This one was shot on Film so there very few documentaries of that quality.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afu9clEUinQ Here without the annoying black bars at the bottom. There are however quite a few however about other stuff shot for TV.Here a list of interesting ones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MbeW3y78Fo - Ueno being renovated for the Shinaknsen. It wasn't until 1985 that trains actually stoped here and people going to Tohoku had to take a relay train to Omiya.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TDmP3jcoYpQ - This is the relay train that you then had to switch from. This still happens technically in Hokkaido when goign to Sapporo via Super Hokuto. But an actual Relay Kamome train is now in use in Saga when going form Hakkata to Nagasaki you switch to the new N700S there.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u6_wPGikEpI - How the Dining Cars looked likein the 0 series.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfMSffQornk - 20th anniversary onewith interviews of the original people that built it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRVjCaDw-Ro - 30th anniversary onewith interviews of the original people that built it. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2041099You just know.
>>2052922Know what?
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.
Unfortunately they're still extending the track to Pleasanton (it will be finished circa 2277), so we have to turn around and hed back early
>>2055081Oh look, track maintenance equipment
Timestamp :)
>>2045316Looks like it was used for torture. Very surprised the chairs are unsecured to the floor.
How do these large cargo backpacks compare with a bicycle trailer? I need to haul 100kg of cargo on a bicycle
>>1982671What's your setup? My Pelago rack is only rated for 40lbs and I doubt it could even handle that because it mounted a little wonky on my fork...
>>2000420This is the kinda bike you end up with after messengering for 10 years and are done with all the messenger culture aggro track bike nonsense.
>>2001255Who do you work for?
>>2046356And if you don't use these pronouns you can get in serious trouble. Clown world. Reminds me of The Greengrocer's Sign.
>>2017010tfw maximum milk
>bulldoze land stolen from natives>build railroad on stolen land>use trains to take natives to residential schools>ffw modern day>run bomb trains hauling millions of gallons of oil through native reservesdw bro we care, see i painted it orange for u
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Are you late for your Saskatoon starlight tour?
>>2054948>stolenKek! Happy Truth and Reconciliation Day, anon.
WE GOT TO GET ON OUR WAY 'CAUSE WE'RE MOVIN' TOO SLOW
Anyone else feels like absolute shit after crashing? it's not even the pain of it it's just the faith in your ability slowly dying inside. When I was younger it was whatever but now it feels like someone chipped away a chunk of confidence.
>>2054752*hit it with my head
I don't crash>>2045580>The cyclists that don't get hit are the ones that are cautiousyea I always ride with a light even during the day. And even then I assume that that every car around me is ignoring me. I've avoided crashing several times by assuming a car is going to cut me off without using blinkers and then I guess right and it does.
>>2046043I was you but the unexpected and unseen crash doesn't work that way. I went straight down like a sack of shit and all I remember is bang smash crash. I think I hit a pothole with one hand on the bars on a road bike, but I don't know. You me or Brandon fucking Westgate ain't rolling out of that. Of course, not being a one hand on the bars tard would have prevented this huge fuck up and the subsequent problems.
>riding my bike to a seminar>Passing through a metal bridge>avoid huge puddle from rain last night>wheel just slips under me and I fall downHelmet protected me that day. But now I have some kind of PTSD when cornering. Does this shit ever go away?
>>2044901every time I've crashed I've learned from it and became a better rider as a result. if post-crash analysis undermines your confidence that's probably a good thing for you in the long run.
Road signs. What do you think of them? Which country does them the best? Would you change anything in the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals?
>>2052419Shouldn't that rather be an informational sign?Hitting a toad isn't actually dangerous, it's just that they'd rather you didn't.
>>2024662>At least an American or Australian sign writes what it meansIn what language? This is the problem for most of europe, there isnt an expectation that everyone speaks every local language, so signage without writing is the correct way to do it
>>2029890in the US we have intersection signs, especially on country roads, showing priority would be superfluous since thered also be a warning sign for a stop or yield ahead
>>2049975>both measurements systems displayed at once>you need to know both to understand the signam I not getting something or is this some kind of bureaucratic need to spin any possible downsides as upsides? why not just say "everybody will need to know metric but weve been using it long enough that everybody should"?
>>2052433The extra white line was found to improve the visibility. Its standard on all new signs.
We are the most walkable city in the USAWe have pretty good public transit for the USABUT something sad is when I go to cities like SF and El Paso and Dallas among others I see old Philadelphia trolley cars. Yes, it's well know Philadelphia's trolley cars are world famous and we sold many of them off to other cities when we dismantled some lines. I've seen them in person in these cities. It just makes me sad but also a bit proud my transit history is all over the country I guess.I just want people to know that. That yes... Philadelphia trolleys are everywhere. It's a bitter sweet momentOh by the way... you didn't think pic related was Philly did you? Nope... that's El Paso with a Philadelphia street car. Imagine how that feels for Philadelphians.
>>2054153Post 9/11 in NYC they were doing bag checks at subway turnstiles for a while, just picking out random people and doing a cursory peek through your backpack—security theater. It did feel better though to have cops at every station and on the trains, not about terrorists who could never really be deterred, but for ordinary crime. Mass transit, packs of youths and mumbling schizos giving off an aura of menace can’t coexist.
Boston
>>2053672Violence on SEPTA's metro is surprisingly rare, both at stations and in-car. The biggest problems facing the system are actually anti-social dickheads who light-up and play loud music, and homeless schizos that smell like shit. This could all be remedied if they'd enforced the fare and had more personnel at every station- doesn't even need to be transit police, just having a uniformed presence is often enough. Bonus for getting open gangways so train patrolling becomes easier and you don't just get designated schizo cars.
I think it's a shame the usa demolished all of their own history such as iconic historical buildings, neighbourhoods and scenic routes like the trolley lines for some of the most soulless looking generic slop imaginable and parking lots.A lot of the charm of historical cities in Europe was lost to ww2 and I always find that regrettable. Not like you can't have a fancy downtown finance district and a nice and cozy historic old city center existing alongside eachother.America pulled a Chinese great leap forward move because they got comsumed by their own greed for money and the automotive lobby.
>>2054930Shut the fuck up. Stop derailing threads with public policy slop—that discussion belongs in /pol/
A 17-year-old German teen has been living life as a modern nomad, leaving his parents’ house to live on trains and travel all over his country.While most 17-year-olds are only just beginning to consider the idea of leaving the nest, Lasse Stolley has already been on his own for over a year and a half. Convinced that his school studies were already behind him, he convinced his parents to allow him to leave their home in Fockbek, Schleswig-Holstein to embark on a unique train-hopping adventure. It took a lot of convincing, but they eventually agreed, and for the last year and a half, the German teen has essentially been living on trains, traveling all over his home country, working as a self-employed coder during the day, and sleeping on night trains at night.“I’ve been living on the train as a digital nomad for a year and a half now,” Lasse told Business Insider. “At night I sleep on the moving Intercity Express (ICE) train and during the day I sit in a seat, at a table and work as a programmer, surrounded by many other commuters and passengers. I travel from one end of the country to the other. I’m exploring the whole of Germany.”He gave into his wanderlust in 2022, selling most of his possessions and packing what was left in a 36-liter backpack that he has been carrying with him ever since. Minimalism and resisting the urge to acquire new stuff are an essential part of his lifestyle, as he needs to take everything with him wherever he goes. It’s not always easy, but he has found a way to make it work.https://www.odditycentral.com/news/german-teenager-left-parents-home-to-live-exclusively-on-trains-for-the-last-year-and-a-half.htmlhttps://www.businessinsider.de/leben/bahncard100-17-jaehriger-lebt-seit-jahr-2022-in-den-zuegen-der-bahn/
>>1986079Does he old slower because he lives in constant speed?
>>2052837He is not going fast enough to make much difference.
>>2051902>minor's curfew starts at 22:00He's not 7.
>>2051599It's cheaper than renting the cheapest poorfag apartment.
>>2052874DB 1st class train pass costs 6000 bucks a year, dude. You can get nice two-room apartments for that money, if you don't need to live in a city.
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.
>>2043922Try doing your laundry with some gentle - ideally anti-allergic - liquid detergent, not with your regular washing powder. There are always some irritating residues after washing powder and rubbing them into the skin often causes local reaction.
>>2054432weak genes lmao
>>2054462btw, you may try pure glycerin first instead of this cream as it isn't nearly as gross; it's water soluble etc. It's the main working ingredient of all skin care products (aftershave among them) - also perfectly safe and non-allergic - and it lubricates the skin (thus reducing friction) as well as keeping proper moisture. You'd want about 40% to 50% glycerin solution in water; you should buy medical grade glycerin in some pharmacy or something and you may eyeball the solution - if you buy pure 100% glycerin and then add the same amount of water to it you will get a 50% solution. You don't need to be precise.
>>2043925>just wear bib shortsThis.Also if you don't want to go full fred I have better experience with bib undies + light sports shorts vs integrated bib shorts. While undies are free to perfectly fit body shape the integrated bib-shorts always get weirdly tensioned and pulled by outer shorts misplacing or rubbing them.And avoid the thick ones - extra material is what presses, rubs and irritates. You need only enough to wick you dry and isolate skin from any outer fabric movement. I don't even know what the extra thick padding is for. Maybe for heavy persons who completely compress the thinner one.
I got serious butt cheek chaffing today riding my fixed gear bike 14 miles for the first time. I'm gonna have to stay inside all day tomorrow to get my asshole healed. It's very tender. Sucks brosWhat did I do wrong? Are fixies harder on ur asshole compared to normal bikes?Not sure why this happened. I've been riding my normal bike all year with no chaffing issues until today riding my new fixie.
