Where is it? There is a mesabi range in minnesota
>>2076727Presumably that's what he meant. DMIR ore jennies had a seperate brake pipe/valve. It's called "straight air" or Orinoco retainer. There is a seperate handle on the engine to set up the brakes and it can be maintained as you use your normal automatic brake. The Orinoco *retainer* name hints at its intended use. It basically takes the place of a conductor going back and flipping some retaining valves to hold a set on cars.This system still exists today with CN keeping captive AC44C6Ms in the area(3300-3350 mostly) being fitted with the straight air handle.
>>2076727>>2076731>The Mesabi Range was known to the local Ojibwe as Misaabe-wajiw ('Giant mountain').[1][2] Throughout the Mesabi Range, Mesaba and Missabe spelling variations are found along with places containing Giant in their names.
I guess it's like allegany/allegheny/alleghany where there's a bunch of places around that drainage basin where they spammed a different transliteration onto it because there was no agreed system at the time
>>2078743The Ojibwe rode Giants?
Disasters never have one root cause and neither did the destruction of cycling. But I know some important milestones in the decline and fall:1. COVID 19. Enough said.2. Full suspension mountain bikes. Enough said.3. Reddit. Enough said.4. Twitter. Enough said.5. British "people". Enough said.6. The d-tch. Enough said.7. The state of Utah. Enough said.8. Zwift, Peloton, "Spin Class", and other cancer. Enough said.What were some other key moments?
>>1962645More people ride bikes today than at any point in history kill yourself niggerfaggot
>>2076946because the "responsible" adult is travelling 38 km/h on a sidewalk because he is not, in fact, responsible, and unlike a regular bicycle that's self-regulating through effort expended, electric shits take no effort so he doesn't see a secondary downside in travelling too fast somewhere that can't support it
>>2076962>travelling 38 km/h on a sidewalkBut bikes don't belong in the road??? And there is no speed limit on the sidewalk. Do you roll at Two Miles An Hour on the main road in town?
>>2076967>Two Miles An HourI liked them before they were cool
>>2076967>But bikes don't belong in the road?They belong in the road in this jurisdiction, faggot.
This is what true cycling used to be about
>>2080132Damn dat white boy fine>>2080134Same energy
>>2080132implessive AI image bro
no this
>>2080132Negress? Never was.
>>2080132That looks like a performative cyclist, here what a real cyclist looked like
What's the deal with bus drivers?
No matter what the cause of the crash is here, there is a way bigger deal with the cagers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdX1eBY64iI
>>2080663cyclist was at fault
What the fuck is wrong with these mongoloid slackers? They completely underschedule longhaul trains everywhere outside the NEC so almost no one can use them for shorter trips and then wonder why ridership is in the shitter. Each route should be minimum 3x a day per direction.
>>1999706Americans were unironically psyopped into the status quo. The history bears it out. At the same government action tilted for cars and suburbia, it tilted against trains and cities, and a massive propaganda campaign was launched. It was very deliberately engineered to artificially inflate the consumer economy. HOWEVER, what trainfags never want to admit is that cars are legitimately useful and have their place in society. Rome had traffic problems 2000 years ago; they had traffic control in cities too small for sewers. European chariot racing predates European literature. And something that literally never gets brought up when discussing American transit policy in comparison to Japan is that Japan has abundant, profitable expressway, and actively expands them even in urban areas. They're not mutually exclusive at all. You can have high quality rail funded by station real estate, and you can have high quality expressways funded by tolls. Both modes are useful and deserve their place in society.
>>2078761Which vlogger told you that
>>1993796>The jews did this.I mean sometimes it's trueAnd trains can be enormously comfy but usually not in America. Some rural European regions used to be lovely. I'd like to go on a trip through Japan.
>>2078788/n/ - crying about cars and why your pinch flat is actually a form of circumcision
Amtrak to shut down all routes in blue for 10 days.https://media.amtrak.com/2026/08/amtrak-announces-pause-for-progress-infrastructure-upgrade-in-washington-d-c-for-nine-days-this-october/
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?
>>2071489This. A wheel has a much wider diameter, so it needs less clamping force to stop. Rim brakes are the solution. With discs, your brakes will simply slip.
>>2075322you genuinely believe that automotive disc brakes are mechanical?
>>2076916Counterpoint: hydraulic hose systems are cheap and effective
>>2076922Some of them must be
>>2078850must be what? poor?
https://soranews24.com/2026/08/28/nonstop-flights-from-u-s-to-okinawa-return-after-54-years-making-travel-faster-than-before/
"Wofür ist das?"-EditionAnything public transport in German-speaking Europe is fair game.
>>2078067Englisch Mutterficker tust du es sprechen
Well, this doesn't bode well...
The profane masses still think politicians actually make decisions. Oh, the poor fools.
New video by Suits-san, a Japanese railway YouTuber, who has done a night train trip from Berlin to Zurich.It's auto-dubbed, so you don't need to be able to speak Japanese.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUyIJiBbgKI&t=36
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/deutsche-bahn-sanierung-infrastruktur-managerwechsel-li.3538123Generalsanierung sounded like a good idea. Where did it go all wrong?
They're the definition of cattle class. They're slow, expensive, and you're sleeping in a tiny room with total strangers. Any sleeper route can be better served by a low-cost airline, and cheaper to boot. Sleeper trains made sense in the 19th century when they were the only option, but they make absolutely no sense today.
>>2061472Everyone hates this. The original design failed but because trains are expensive and heavily-subsidized we've been stuck with them until we can afford to retire them.
>>2049967Fuuuuck, this really tickles my autismImagine if you could just book a sleeper train from anywhere in europe to anywhere else, like you currently can with planesThe comfyness is almost overwhelmingSince trains have carriages there's also so much potential here for splitting up passengers mid-jouney while they're still asleep that you simply don't have with planes, boats or coaches.You could have a sleeper train with 6 carriages travel from Glasgow to Paris, and then the train gets divided up and each group of 2 carriages travels to a different part of France. Could even join up with carriages that have come from other countries (e.g. Germany) to build up a full 6 carriage train again.The logistics of this would require more planning that people currently put into rail now, but this isn't infeasible, this is something we could easily be doing right now.We could also automate a lot of it, instead of the decades we've spent trying to invent self-driving cars why don't we just create train carriages that can self-propel themselves at low speed enough to automatically couple and de-couple, tied in with an automated points system. We easily have the technology to do this. A sleeper train could arrive at a station, detach the cab and then automatically split its carriages into 4 groups, then another 3 trains could come along and do the same and now you have 4 full trains again ready to go off to different parts of France.
>>2080537Anon discovers the magic of through coaches
>>2080537What this anon said >>2080560This was standard practice before flying became commonplace.In theory this could be revived, would need some investment but if done well it wouldn't be too expensive in subsidies to keep prices reasonable.You could define a list of cities that will definitely get night trains and establish all the necessary logistics for it systematically. Right now this gets subcontracted and is one of the things that makes operation so expensive because there's no economy of scale.But the EU isn't actually about doing neat things, it's a neoliberal project that seeks to privatize all basic services within a state-directed oligarchy. They don't gaf about trains.
>>2058558butthurt alcoholic failure's shaking hands typed this post
small obscure extinct railroads are the best >chemins de fer d'haiti>f.c interoceanico de honduras >f.c interoceanico de mexico veracruz-acapulco>f.c de yucatan >FEGUA and IRCA>North Coast Railroad Marin to Eureka I can't be the only one who enjoys reading about this stuff.
>>2080417>a narrow-gauge street running tram-train railwayMan, it's like something that was tailor-made to attract /n/tists. The earlier rolling stock even had a luggage compartment.
>>2080439It was just a European-style interurban, which were usually narrow-gauge and often ran roadside outside of cities. There's a bunch of such railways still operating in Switzerland like pic related in the Appenzell region. In Zurich they actually have an interurban line which uses the normal tram tracks within the city and then gets onto its own ROW. It even skips some minor stops on the urban portion.
Post your local obscure closed railway line!
>>2080512nobody knows about the super obscure third rail interurban that used to run in marin county with steam trains running all the way up to Eureka. we have SMART now but its diesel. Pretty cool seeing all the abandoned rail bridges in humboldt county along the eel river
>>2080512Will it ever stop hurting?
Can someone tell me what Japanese residential streets are called? I’ve never been to Japan but in videos and anime I keep seeing these narrowish neighborhood streets that lead right up to people’s houses. They’re super walkable even though they almost never have sidewalks, people just walk down the middle of the road. Doors basically open onto the street and there’s almost no on-street parking so the whole thing feels open and free. What’s the actual name for this style of street/layout? Is there a specific term or is it just "normal Japanese residential street"?
>>2079194I-is that a STEP THROUGH!!?!??? And it is it... OMG... IT'S AN OMAFIET! BUT JAPANESE!?!?!?SQUEEEEE<3<3<3<3
>>2080553japan and the US are actually very different in many ways, urban streets are definitely one of those ways. i'm surprised you seem to not know this
>>2080574>suburb:(>suburb, Japan:O
>>2080627this but actually. man japanese culture is so superior to so much of the planet its not even funny
It's amazing how OPs simple observation has so many anons triggered out of their minds
Anyone here into it? Or even just into collecting models of trains. This shit is so expensive only codgy old boomers partake.
>>2079429Yeah, they have a couple of methods of making water vapor.
>>2079429>>2079431Imo they never look that good, and I think they eventually lead to stuff getting gummed up if you use them long enough.
>>2078374The answer to Boomers is to befriend them and have them allow you to acquire their collection.I can't be bothered to spend the time to sell my stuff and when I go ...Not my problem.
For anyone here who has O-Gauge, what's the difference between AC and DC? Is that determined on the transformer you're using or how you wire the tracks? Also, what is the best source of tube tracks since Menards doesnt ship to my state unfortunately.
>>2080456>what's the difference between AC and DC?>Is that determined on the transformer you're using or how you wire the tracks?Anon, your basic 7th grade electricity reps, my god.The transformer determines if you're running AC or DC, not the wiring. You could AC transformer to DC track if you needed with a basic bitch rectifier between the transformer and the tracks but that's not relevant for O gauge running.For any O gauge you should run AC from a conventional transformer. "Lionchief" is DC but they have rectifiers built in so they work fine on AC and any conventional locomotives will need AC.>Also, what is the best source of tube tracks since MenardsEbay them, or check your nearest hobby shop. Unless you live in Alaska a hobby shop will probably ship to you from ebay with a box of tube tracks.
ÆRO edizionehttps://www.sheldonbrown.com/https://www.parktool.com/en-us/blog/repair-help/previous thread >>2077464
>>2080616meant for >>2080604
>>2080599Aside from the seized chain it looks ok, Shimano Claris 2x8 at that price point is really good. Only weird thing is open dropouts on a disk brake bike, which is weird to see in current year. Woulda thunk everyone had moved to thru axles for disc brake bikes. Not necessarily a bad thing, I have the same setup on one of my bikes, have never had a problem. Looks like a heavy hi-ten steel fork, too. The bike will probably feel slow to accelerate with slow handling. For 600 eurobux? Sure why not>>2080604>(non-bike) storeBike's setup will likely need to be adjusted by a decent bike mechanic
that's bump limit, folks
>>2079062So which of these 4 worked best?
Direct your questions here >>2080737
I am currently using a xiaomi smart band 9 to track my rides (so thats GPS from phone + HR from band), I start and end the ride from the band and the app automatically transfers the route, speed and heart rate to stravaI am wondering if I should upgrade to a bike computer cus I am not worried about how much calories I burn nowadays, as I got the idea of it. I just want to know how far I went and how long it took me, and to keep track of cadence so I learn to ride optimallyI have been looking at XOSS G2+ (pic related) with 2 sensors - one for cadence on crank and other on rear hub for speed (rotation)my questions about bike computers in general are:>do the bike computer accessories (cadence, speed, HR) connect to it, or to the phone>does only the bike computer connect to your phone and stay connected constantly, or only to transfer data to strava or an app once the ride finishes?>can I just get on my bike and ride, and the bike computer will then automatically upload my ride to strava once I am done?>can I still use my xiaomi band 9 to measure my HR? will I be able to see my HR on the screen? or the bike computer only connects to HR sensors and not other "smart" devices>should I get a bike computer with an actual screen to show maps/route?>should I even get a bike computer to begin with, I am riding actual gravel and trails, basically exploring my region on weekends and driving 2-3 times to work a week, will the sensors and shit survive the rough terrain?>will my mechanical watch (8 year old skx007) get fucked by the vibrations from the single/double track?Thanks
>>2080359they still make these and even if you're a brand-obsessed base slave who needs it to be Bike Thing, Garmin still makes gps map units that are just your position on a map from 5 years ago and that's it
>>2075963>Residual magnetismDo americans really?
>>2061289They make standalone Apple carplay screens for pretty cheap now, that would probably do the job if you could find a way to power it.I was actually thinking about this the other day. But then you need the screen, some kind of battery, and then still need to carry your phone. At that point why not just mount your phone?
>>2061289>>2080566I recently mounted one on my motorcycle that has the option of being powered either 12v or USB. Use case for it on a bicycle is kind of extra though, not really needed
>>2080590>motorcycleFUCK YOU FUCKING FURFAGGOT GO BACK TO >>>/o/
How in the fuck are they pulling this shit off? These commies are making us look like clowns! What is the reason for this?!
>>2031662https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJe7wGUMyTo
>>2053484They also have Bonin Islanders too who are polynesian and western white mixes.
>>2049774dog your great great grampha used to work 15 hour shifts at the textile factory embedded 15 miles into a WV coal mine
>>2035195notice how that got memory holed after a couple weeks?
Priorities that's all
