Why do people subject themselves to this in this day and age?
>>2081434It's Aisle or nothing for fellow longbois
>>2081432What if I don't want to tell anyone
>>2081344I can usually get a sleeper for $100 more than basic economy Amtrak ticket when the train isn't crowded, which is about what it costs to fly economy anywhere. That's a way better deal. Last time I took Amtrak though, there was some kind of "issue" that took a whole coach out of service and Amtrak said they couldn't do anything about it. People either had to change their reservation to a sleeper or be left standing in coach, if not outright cancel their trip. I was not about to do that so I paid $300 to secure the sleeper first. And you know what? The sleeper was about 30 minutes delayed out of our station, which was okay. It took the staff about 2 hours to serve dinner, which was absolutely not okay. And at our second stop, we were delayed for 4 hours about 30 minutes away from the city center. Instead of getting in at midnight, I was able to hail an Uber at 4:30 AM to be driven 30 minutes to my home. The sleeper made it tolerable, but this being the second time in a row where there were huge delays means I will never trust Amtrak as a coach passenger.
>>2083458Does Amtrak force you to sit with strangers at meal times like VIA Rail does? I always thought that's rude.
>>2081335Amtrak-chan before she was corrupted
Does anyone else love good bike stuff but hate how much moralizing has gone into what bike parts/standards are socially acceptable to use?I miss the good old days when the most controversial thing in cycling was not am I a mean judgmental asshole for having something even $1 more than the worst possible piece of shit death trap BSO, but rather, whether you should eat bananas before you ride, or how much water you should be drinking. Can you imagine how much better things would be if we focused on things that matter like whether it's stolen valor for a 50 year old cyclist to date a 25 year old cyclist? Most of all I want misguided luddites to fuck off to the netherlands and stop shitting up a perfectly good thing. There is literally nothing wrong with dicks, crabon, aero wheels, lycra, extremely bright lights that blink, and stuff like that.And furthermore you aren't making things better for cyclists by performatively hating people who enjoy cycling. You're always going to be the annoying faggot who should get off the road (or get off the sidewalk for some of you). Even if you scream how much you hate Castelli gear as you bleed out on the pavement underneath some karen in her SUV.
>>2080150>things almost touching your front tire very cool thank you
>>2083202Counting heads such that it becomes a monster isn't a proper noun? Capitalizing grammatically is the same word and concept. A capital (word) is the head noun and subject of this sentence. The aforementioned conceptus is on obviously greater when there is durable meat implied.
>>2077658>socially acceptable to useWhy should anyone care? Only women care about what is "socially acceptable".
>>2083366You sound like a faggot who still has a kickstand on his ""bike""
>>2083384>faggot calling someone else a faggot
usecase?realistic reliability and chances of failure?
>>2079304lol
>>2079145I... kind of like this?
>>2079147if they'd just make something to mount it on the front end of the hood, it'd actually be nice. they make ones like that for old downtube shift levers, so it obviously can be done
>>2083192The biggest problem is that it uses two cables to shift gears
>>2083197I always thought that you could totally have two trigger type levers one left and one right wherw when you push one the other is pulled and vice-versa unless I am mistaken about how shifting goes on in the hub itselt.Is it so that you need the ends of the cable(s ?) going into the hub/gearbox where then one will grow and one will shrink?If so my idea is useless trash because I assume that a loop of wire goes into the gearbox rather than the ends of the cable(s ?)
I flew this Summer on a An-2 and i was curious if the an-2 is rare, but i don't know because thousands have been manufactured.
That's awesome OP, any more pics? Anything interesting about its flight characteristics?
There's only 7 registered in the USA and 3 in Canada, but I'm sure if you're in Eastern Europe they're more common.
>>2083101still pretty common in ex-commie EU countriesit just werks and a typical aeroclub of 30 people just can't afford to buy a 208 or pc-6 while An-2 was free and now it only needs gas, oil and tires to keep running
>>2083111It pretty much has no stall speed.>>2083239Only 3? Wow. I feel really lucky then seeing one at the Beloeil airport south of Montreal, QC. I've also seen one fly over my datcha back in Russian.
The An-2 in Beloeil Quebec from streetview
Why did bi-level vehicles go out of style?
>>2069068>Why did bi-level vehicles go out of style?They become forced to use only a few routes due to overhead obstacles such as:-- pedestrian walkways-- roadway overpasses-- plaza exchangesThey also require right turn modifications in USA cities or else the bus, which has no hinge in the middle, will sweep people standing curbside. With all these problems, it's far easier and cheaper to just not have these buses around.
>>2082167Why would double deckers cut the corner more than a normal bus you utter retard
>>2069068
>>2069068>Why did bi-level vehicles go out of style?Too many overhead obstacles existing in cities. And any city with electric buses or light rail will have low-hanging electric lines that these double-decker buses would run into.
These are widespread in the UK, I probably see more doubledeckers than single, and I live in a town not a city
fuck electronic drive trainsfuck ebikesfuck 32"fuck >26" on mtbsfuck 25mm+ on road bikes (unless riding cobbles or gravel)fuck droppersfuck tubelessfuck constant new bb standards, in fact fuck all threadless bbsfuck boa shoesfuck mixing carbon fork with steel framefuck power metersfuck the industryfuck you if you disagreeliterally the ONLY good changes/trends/etc of the last 30 years are fat bikes and disc brakes, and disc brakes mostly only belong on mountain bikesthanks for listening
>>2082886good
>>2082566these fucks are incapable of not speedinf and being recklessi dont want technical limitationsthat is just govenmental tyranny against all because of the fewI want speed limits and forved confiscations (and auctioning) of offenders vehiclesThis has proven extremely effective against retards abusing and being reckless with e-scooters in Austria and Switzerland respectively
>>2082884yeah, fuck sram gxp especiallybearings got gritty and craky after under a year when i replaced that expensive piece of shit with an oem partfuck you srami will never buy something from sram again and will have no lack of disdain for shimano eitherthe chinks arent better eother necaise its chinsy shit (even worse than sram/shimano at times, buyer beware)the only thing one can do is simply stubbornly going a few yeats behind amy trends and using old and proven tech
>>2079641>steel poverty bike unc brake take I bet you look that too
>>2079641fuck carbon anything
How do these large cargo backpacks compare with a bicycle trailer? I need to haul 100kg of cargo on a bicycle
>>1957712Thank You for Your Service
>>1964713if it makes u feel better this photo made me mald for being a amercuck
>>1957568>bicycle trailerwhat are they like?
>>2046395delusional pedonigger lmao
>>1957568I know what he's reffering to. I know exactly what the fuck he's making a reference about. there was this debate on some british news broadcast and some dumbfuck retarded woman say that delivery vans and all vehicles for that matter, iirc, had to be banned out of Britain because "muh net zero, muh decarbonization"and the two men were so fucking flustered about the dismal fucking display of absurd retardation got them stunlocked for a whole 5 minute on air. shit was typical British On-Air Woman retardation.
Have you had any close calls? I was t-boned by a car at speed but just rolled over the hood and had some physio sessions
>>2081796*Coconut sound effect*
>>2081669I'm back and just reread what I typed noticing half the incoherence of my speech my brain is so fried
i almost died from a bus. unfortunatly i soiled my trousers when i nearly fell under the wheel. the lady who helped me noticed. she didnt say anything but i could tell by the way she looked that she felt sick and disgusted. nothing like that happened to me before, thought shitting yourelf was a myth, aparently not.riding home with shit in my pants was no fun.
>>2082608>Rescue a man from a near death experience>Get the ickI jejd
>>2081557>The insurance company offered nothing at first and told her to fuck offrest in piss brian thompsonno amount of not reflecting eill avert our wrath, kevin o'leary, you brainless subhuman
Good news!Funding deadline for the Amtrak Chicago-Moline line has been extended.https://www.trains.com/pro/passenger/intercity/federal-funding-deadline-again-extended-for-chicago-quad-cities-passenger-service/
That's great news, we all know Chicago is the one city underserved by Amtrak
Anyone in USA have problems riding these? It seems like cops in PA only sometimes care, a few reports on Reddit one saying it was impounded. I want to buy an ausom l2 max but don't want to get raped by law enforcement in Wayne county PA.
>>2083003some dude shot at me for riding one once
>>2083003>don't want to get raped by law enforcementJust don't stop. Head towards the nearest bottleneck and laugh as you make good your escape.
Horsecar that thinks it’s a horsebus
>>2083046I wish they'd bring back horse cars
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.
>>2038819Sounds based as fuck, intellectuals get the rope
>>2060832Link?
>>2054986While searching Google sat-view looking for Wildberries targets for an upcoming mission, I noticed that there seems to be a respectable rail museum in Nizhny Novgorod.
>>2079060I think you mean gorky, zoom zoom. Nizhny Novgorod is some revisionist
>>2036639Whatever happened to the RZD Talgo units which were bought specifically for operations on sleeper lines to central Europe? Are they still being used for domestic services?
Why does China has so few Railway stations?In total China Railways services around 5500 stations across the entire country, while only 3300 of which provides any passenger service, this include High-Speed stations. SNCF operates around 3000 stations and DB operates around 5600. Both of which are much smaller in scale.
>>2081593the general policy is for conventional lines to be as much as possible freight-only, as far as i can tell
>>2082324do you want to ride a metro train for two hours? used to require a transfer too since line 2 operated in two sections. and all these enluggaged people going to onward points via hsr or sha clog up the busiest metro line through the city core
>>2081255they know that trains are the most efficient when they go at a steady speed, and waste energy when they stop and accelerateergo, less stations is more efficientthe most power efficient train possible is a train on a loop line with no stops
>>2082329thats not efficient at all since it would move nothing. Locomotion-style point-to-point routes would probably be best.
You can land in Beijing and try to make your way to the Great wall, some locations despite being served by the oldest railway in China, no longer has any passenger services today despite being in prime locations to service local towns and tourists. Of course I think some places they built some new HSRs to replace the old lines.
Ocean liner fans rejoice! The Queen Mary reopened for hotel guests in May and in June, I had the privilege of spending two nights on board. I'll be uploading my album of the ship over the next few days and discussing the history of the ship that I learned while onboard.
>>2077228you can't even passenger your way across the atlantic anymore on boat? it just has to be plane?
>>2077284You can but it's like once a month sailings and only between New York and *ngl*nd. You can't go anywhere worthwhile like Marseille or Cadiz, just knifecrime island where you will be immediately arrested for failure to register your phone as an illegal television simulator
>>2077284You can probably find a boat from cabo verde to port harcourt or something
>>1938375Here's a video about being on the Queen Mary II:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6qKXUCdA78
Does logistic shipping count as /n/?https://youtube.com/watch?v=eczB0uUx_k8
>ride bike on road>those stupid selfish cyclists disrupting traffic>ride bike on sidewalk>those stupid selfish cyclists trying to run over pedestrians>advocate for bike lanes so everyone gets their way>those stupid selfish cyclists wasting our tax dollars making everything about themselvesThere are jackass cyclists like there are jackass motorists and jackass pedestrians. Yet we get the hate because we’re trying to be both economically and environmentally efficient while getting to places as soon as possible?>t. a cyclist who uses the sidewalk because there are no bike lanes, people hardly use sidewalks, and i don’t wanna risk car accidents
>>2075968>You don't pay GAS TAXNo one should. Taxation is theft.
>>2075819That bicyclist actually sued and won.
>>2083019You would think, but problem is, everybody else is speeding up and down the freeways doing 80+mph. All it takes is one moron to be distracted while streaming on tiktok, or texting, drift towards the shoulder, and...blam.The only exception I know is the Glenn Jackson Bridge that connects Washington and Oregon states (I-205), where it has a two lane pedestrian/bicycle path in the center of both North and Southbound lanes.
>>2072585Bitch, bitch, bitch.
>>2083019>They should allow cyclists on the shoulder of the interstates.They do, outside of urban areas.But cyclists aren't that smart. My parents are avid cyclists and one day My father was driving up I-5 near Bellingham. 4 bicyclists riding abreast on the shoulder. The one on the far right falls over and hits the next one. Dominoes. The last one falls into the traffic lane. My father swerves, barely missing him. He pulls over to check and the guy ha almost hit said, "Good reflexes. I felt the wind as your truck when by."My parents grew up cycling in Europe, and Dad says, "What morons ride abreast next to moving traffic?" There is no hope for American cyclists.
