The Amtrak redemption arc continues?>https://media.amtrak.com/2026/04/amtrak-takes-big-step-towards-new-long-distance-trains/>It’s official! We’ve started the procurement process for Amtrak’s largest-ever Long Distance train order.>Our customers deserve the best, and this new fleet will move us full speed ahead into a new era of American train travel.>We’ve issued a formal request for suppliers to bid on the new Long Distance fleet replacement contract. Interested carbuilders are now preparing their proposals for submission. Following an extensive evaluation, we plan to announce our selected supplier by the end of 2027. >This once-in-a-generation fleet replacement program was developed in close coordination with the Federal Railroad Administration, with the goal of modernizing overnight and cross-country travel for a fleet that includes many cars today approaching nearly 50 years of operations.>The program calls for more than 800 new railcars across 14 routes.
>>2077832I heard an interesting argument the other day: Highways are subsidized so Amtrak should get a matching subsidy.
>>2077859Highways are paid for by taxes on gasoline. What kind of taxes should cover Amtrak?
>>2077867what cagebrains actually believe
>>2077870Highways are funded more because they are a powerful catalyst for (taxable) commerce in a way that amtrak is not.
>>2077859>i heard retarded drivel so i'll repeat itok
I saw there's threads of any kind but not for the most important part of the bike, the seat.So this it will be a /bsg/ Bike seat generalTell me your most comfortable seat, because I got a shitty standard one that break my ass
>>2074136Cant believe this thread is still up. Crazy board...Anyways thanks for the rec anon, i bought a WTB speed and hated it but returned it for a Volt which is really comfy. Planning my first 60km ride this weekend. Cheers
Hell, I ride the ass hatchet
>>2074543>brooksI bought it the other day, going to collect the package now. I have done my research, apparently it's really fucking good, and has no break in, also weather resistant. My issue is that apparently it chews through pants, but this is disputed.
>>2074543My used mountain bike came with one that seemed to be brand new. I tried to deal with it for a few rides hoping either the seat or my ass would break in but even with padded shorts it was miserable. I've got a WTB Silverado now and it's much better for me. Maybe if I spent a lot more time on the C-17 it'd eventually get good but I can't deal with that shit.
>>2077828Little update, doubt anyone cares, but did a few rides with it so far and I really like it. It feels like a harder version of the B17 which I also have. Keeping an eye out for holes.
>bikes are either chinese slop or overpriced euro brand tax slopwhat is unironically the Casio of bike brands? Giant?
>>2077687those arent MTBs and they arent from the 90s
>>2077687nothing about those are "mountain bike", those are just cruisers someone put a bunch of bags on (and mtbs aren't for cargo anyway, theyre for xtreem sportz)
>>2077838Ok ok we get it, you don't know what you're talking about and arr just trolling. You don't need to drive the point home.
>we-tard>projection>accusation in a mirrorMany such cases
>>2077848you should work on not replying to yourself, anon. it's not good for your mental health.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKzuHZoRguYBitter, smug failed bike shop owner lectures everyone on why his entitled customers were the real problem and why you really do need a new $3k carbon road bike instead of just a chain and cables for your old steel beater.
>>2077104>pretends running a cable is difficult and worth $450 plus taxIt... It is though!
>>2077209Stop replying to yourself
>>2073873I want to minimize sweating and use the preferential lanes.
>>2077360There he is. The incredible retard.
>is that a Walmart bike?>with disk brake >in my shop?
How is this guy alive? First one or two videos I watched, I thought he was just going for (You)s but they just get worse and worse. The only way this makes sense is if he has terminal cancer and he wants to die riding a bike and not in a hospital bed.
Safa just pay for the ad
>>2076189If you don't want him to get attention why are you bumping a dying thread you retard
>>2076191>why are you bumping a dying threadstupid retard
I'm pretty sure I saw SAFA yesterday alone at a cafe but he wasn't on a Scott, does he always have a Scott?
>>2077839Buy an ad safa
I just want to ride around in a steel frame bike, and yes I want to watch youtube videos describing how to improve, modify and enjoy them more. No, I don't want to constantly see some dipshit on my recommendations page telling me obvious things about downtube shifters being the "big secret" that the bike industry is hiding from us, or that I need tubeless 650b tires to truly enjoy riding. I am really tired of these types making slop content that is thinly veiled advertising, and/or "Hot Takes" on topics really no one in the real world gives a shit about.
>>2077774>Carbonfaggoisms>muh'aero>Stop enjoying things that costs a quarter of what I paid for my Cervelo!
>>2077772Thanks for the bump!
>>2077760that's how 2025+1 youtube works unfortunately. Unless you make clickbait content for retards your videos will get moved into the shadow realm
>>2077830>2025+1More like 2010+16
GUYS BIG NEWS SHIMANO ATRUS 6 SPEED WORKS WITH MICROSHIFT SHART THIS IS GONNA CHANGE EVERYTHING
What kind of used hybrid should I buy with $400? I want to ride on shitty roads in Texas and over to Mexico for errands
>>2076598>proprietaryYou mean actually innovative free market parts that aren't shackled by chinese OEMs?
>>2076605>You might as well go full mail order, for probably less.This and fully this, it is literally insane to expect someone to buy a bicycle and then have to take it to a fully stocked garage just to get the head tube angle correct. Not everyone can weld and it's unreasonable to have to modify your bike just so it fits you at all.
>>2076610No. You want Shimano's and maybe SRAM's innovation and maybe chinese OEMs that are blindly copying them. A chinese flying pigeon is also a bad idea., Check out the c-dale lefty fork in previous pic for what you don't want, particularly for someone like OP at the shitheap hybrid level with no wrenching ability..
Giant Escape Disc 4
Look no further OP, kino is back on the menuhttps://cambriabike.com/products/ceres-ub2-700c-9-spd-hybrid-mtb-bike-gray
When are we getting nuclear powered ocean liners?
>>2071865They can just eject the core into the sea. It'll be fine.
>>2063465I want self piloting hybrid yachts, where they have a motor but also use sails that are electronically controlled for through pneumatic wind gauges. Something to make solo sailing possible for a person out of the box.
Thorium.
>>2076073I hardly knew him
>>2063465>When are we getting nuclear powered ocean liners?1. You would have to make the reactor a non-serviceable modular unit that you simply plug into the ship as if it were a container. Split this power requirement across multiple containers if you have to in order to meet the average limitations of dockside container cranes.2. You would then have to convince every country with an international port to amend their port laws and regulations to allow nuclear-powered vessels to moor in them. This is a bigger hurdle than any of the technical requirements of actually making a sea-faring vessel.3. You would probably have to forcibly declassify the Navy's nuclear power DoE manual. So it could be used for training operational and safety requirements for that class of small reactor.
I NEED electronic shifting!It's SOOOO much better and faster and smoother than cable shifters!Shimano please take my one thousand american dollars to make my shifting divine forever! *(*- until next iteration of Di2 releases)
>>2056412iconic post that I've come back to for months
>>2056523hey at least they use shimano B01S pads>idk why disk brakes have so many pad shapes
>>2076097it's pretty much all to trap you into a Device Ecosystem
>>2075776why did they get rid of it
>>2077766good things are bad actually
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWQ3iLVr-0E>That cylinder is a mass dampener also known as a J dampener in physics.The purpose is to neutralize high frequency low amplitude oscillations.Mass dampeners are currently used in Moto GP and were banned in F1 in the mid 2000s.The mass dampener can also be placed on the fork,above the bottom bracket and as shown on the rear swing arm/triangle on a full suspension bike.have these been used on road bikes yet? i have a stiff track bike fixie, anything that could improve performance or comfort would interest me. i haven't paid attention to bike stuff lately so idk if it has been mentioned on GCN/GMBN yet. GCN has done a lot of videos on tire pressure so i could see them experimenting with tuned mass dampers.
>>2045216that rear fork looks actively unsafe
>>2033307Technology is only ok if it's cars
>>2019204Anyone else notice that the op's title stands for TOTAL MAMIL DEATH and this thread is just a subtle dig at road biek enjoyers?
>>2074296I thought that went without saying
I visited a time dealer recently and they had no idea what I was talking about when I mentioned tuned mass dampers
If steel is so great, why do the companies that make the best steel tubing in the world use carbon for their forks?If steel is so great, why do the finest steel bikes in the world use carbon forks?It seems to me that steel has an aesthetic value that cannot be substituted by anything else, but as a material for building bikes, its value decreases the more that is demanded of a component.
>>2077726nta but "titanium has a dull ride" is a common meme and people generally attribute that to flexibility though I can see how there could be other explanationsalso I have a pair of ti eyeglasses and it most certainly can deform without failing
>>2077728well it aint glass but you dont wanna make actual springs out of ti either
>>2077728>anon's 1mm thick eyeglass frames can be bent, therefore titanium is as soft as lead and as springy as steel
>>2077735No? I didn't say that? In fact it is somewhat springy but soft as lead? Where on earth did you pick that up? Clearly you scored quite low on your verbal SAT.
>>2077726you have absolutely no idea what the fuck you're talking about. Titanium frames are known for being very flexy. People don't like titanium forks because they flex too much.
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.
/sabg/ spurgeout about bikes general
Im more of an assos guy myself
Do you guys think Fred Armisen did a good Durianrider impression?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pe7jtFvMYAI wish we had the good kind of food rider here and not reddit narwhal rider
>>2077658>but hate how much moralizing has gone into what bike parts/standards are socially acceptable to use?What?
What is it that makes a BSO a BSO and not a Bike? Can a BSO be elevated to Bike status with upgraded components?Is the term BSO throw around too liberally to even be taken seriously anymore?
>>2077440I'm an MTB guy so I can actually point to some stuff that makes that a BSO. -The long, straight head tube is a big one, it makes it effectively impossible to upgrade the front fork, and judging by the style of stem it'd be hard to install better bars too - and those ones are comically high and forward, ironically making it appropriate for someone with ape-like proportions.-The seat tube looks like it'd be difficult to put a dropper in, especially because there's almost certainly no routing for a cable.-It's a 2x or 3x drivetrain, which is obsolete for MTBs, and there's a good chance the bottom bracket isn't a common size that would allow you to swap to a more modern drivetrain. -It's QR front and rear, which makes it difficult to install better wheels or anything related to them and is arguably dangerous on an MTB with disc brakes, especially on the front.-Good luck getting a replacement derailleur hanger when you bend/break it. I mentioned dated geo in my early post, but really I guess I'd say that dated design in general is a big sign, and that's basically a poorly made copy of a bike from the early 2000s and if it conforms to any standards it'll be ones from back then, and even when stuff is available in those sizes it's usually just OE replacement, as I learned the hard way when I tried to modernize an actual good '90s MTB a few years ago.
why did i check this thread after i brought my $400 LTWOO-equipped BSO
>>2077690we told you not to buy it in the other thread and you bought it anyway, dumbass
>>2077690looks perfectly cromulent to me
>>2077703>anon teaches me a wordDoesn't happen very often. Many thanks.
Mechanical perfection.Why do coastercucks, rimjobs, or mech dicks exist when you could have picrel?
>>2076869Hydros are poorfag cope with zero modulation.
>>2076874>>2076894>>2076917I hate you niggers like you wouldnt believe.
>>2076944funpost your preferred archaic braking method thenfor me, it is DRUMS
>>2076847Name even one bike that uses this
>>2077701Stop feeding the trolls.
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?
>>2028005it's called a wet dream.
>>2068082There was a radio show on NPR that did a piece on this if that's not too woke/anti-white
>>2069948NPR doesn't exist anymore grandpa
>>2068079National driver here: truer words have never been spoken. Only the public self policing and reporting plates of offenders is the only hope. Police are goofy, clumsy janitors and at a 10,000 to 1 ratio effectively dont exist. Only hiccup is nearly everyone would get their license pulled, cause as youve said: it everyone. So we should start with the bottom 10% of drivers per year. If thar doesnt scare these morons into stop playing hotwheel track, who cares, de-motor everyone.Great way to start private ride share buses.
>>2076076>de-motor everyonebit barbaric thoughbeit?
