Got directed to here from /out/. Hopefully yall can help. Copy pasting my post from there.Had to pack my bike into my car for a move and I'm pretty sure I fucked it up like a retard.Front wheel had to come off for it to fit, but I didn't know that the axle bolt was a loosen-only type deal and didn't actually come all the way out. Sat there just spinning it thinking it was stripped but ended up stripping it in the process. Lots of metal shavings in the axle threads and when I put the wheel on and tighten it, the wheel just falls off under load, so the threads are definitely fucked and not biting. I think both the wheel bolt and axle threads are fucked. Don't worry about the brake rotor, I took it off (I bent it oops).How do I fix this bros? The wheel hub bolt comes out (so I've seen) so that can be replaced. What about the axle threads? You think I can rethread them using a tap or do I need to buy a whole new front fork since the axle is integrated and it'll be too hard to rethread? I've heard bike shops are expensive so I want to DIY it if I can. Idk the model I didn't buy it, all I know is that it's a lefty Cannondale.
>>2023364Use red loctite. In most cases the helicoil is stronger since it's a steel thread vs aluminum. Seems like it's been working on many bikes until OP stripped the threads.
>>2023281Proprietary American shit strikes again. Buy standardized hardware next time and never buy cannondale.The lefty fork relies on the axle being one with the leg. Otherwise this monstrosity wouldn't work at all.I'd say the threads on the axle might be alright, but you should chase them.If they're fucked, helicoil is your last option.Bolt obviously needs replacement.If all fails you can always replace this stupid fork with a normal one (suntour, rockshox, fox, etc.).
>>2023365Couldn't get to replying until now. I inherited the bike so I have no idea what year or model it is. Can't find any indication of a model name/number on it.>>2023317>>2023364>>2023395>>2023397If helicoil is my best option next to buying a whole new fork, it doesn't hurt to try it. Worst that could happen is it snaps and I eat pavement and have to buy a new fork anyway.
>>2023408Looks like a decent bike. As the other anon said maybe try and chase the threads and replace the bolt first, then go helicoil if the prior doesn't work.
>>2023409Will do
why did it fail?
>>2020361>>2020362this
>>2020337Heavier and inferior alternative to lightweight e-scooters.
>>2020337no vtec
>>2020337Needs a motorcycle license to use it. Surprisingly cheap, but you can get e-bikes and scooters that don't need a license for less. Also, having an escape pod for your car isn't all that practical most of the time really, and if you want to ride places you can't drive, there's lots of ways to mount a bicycle, motorized or otherwise, to the outside of a car.
>>2020337I saw a ton off brand versions when i was in china.
December 2024 will see the launch of the first direct train serving Paris and Berlin in decades, which will use DB's ICE3 sets.Paris-Est 09:55 - Berlin Hbf 18:03Berlin Hbf 11:54 - Paris-Est 19:55...so around eight hours in total, calling at Strasbourg, Karlsruhe and Frankfurt. Prices will be €59 in second class, and €69 in first class.
>>2022800you don't need to leave your seat while travelling from paris to berlin and vice versa, which you couldn't do before. if you're going to start thumping the dictionary and angrily spinning a globe, fuck off.
>>2019739Man, this is why i prefer the french way of building HSLs. So many obligatory and unecessary stops on the german side.Its better to make HSLs go around cities, with branches leading into it, so you dont have to stop there but can make varying services that could stop at said city, hell Paris and Lyon are prefect examples of this.Imagine a direct line between the two cities, fully highspeed, it'd take half the time.
I cant wait to see a load of Wehrmacht soldiers disembark at Paris from the fist train. Imagine the lulz.
>>2022832But isn't this due to the fact that France is more centralized in general? Population of Paris metro area is 13 Mio, which is 20% of all French.Greater Berlin area is 4.6 Mio equal to only 5% of all Germans If we talk about value added to GDP it's even worse lol
>>2022800I don't think it's longer via Strasburg than via Lille and Brussels. Question would be which route has more HSR, but I dare say taking the french 300 kph HSR to Strasburg and then the German upgraded lines is probably better.Berlin-Brussels is about 7.30h, Brussels-Paris is 1.30 so ca 9h total, maybe 8.30 if you established a direct train.This train otoh takes just over 8 hours, I don't think you could beat that via Brussels.
>wears a rolex daytona while driving, just like paul newmanFine>wears a rain coat when it's raining, just like gene kellyFine>wears gym shorts at the gym, just like wilt chamberlainFine>wears aviators just because, just like val kilmer in top gunFine>wears tacticool ballistic nylon cargo pants when working, just like steven seagal in under siegeFine>wears cycling shorts when cyclingWhoa wait WHAT NOOOOO YOU CAN'T DO THAT YOU TRYHARD WHAT IF SOMEONE THINKS YOU'RE LANCE ARMSTRONG AND YOU WOULD HAVE TO TELL THEM YOU'RE NOT A PROFESSIONAL RACING CYCLIST THEN THE UNIVERSE WOULD EXPLODE NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
>>20208394 u?
>>2018743That usually happens when the front wheel is smaller than the rear
>wear a raincoat while it's raining>this is clearly because of gene kelly and not the rain
>>2018753>>2019068Fresh from Reddit, I see.
>>2023389just own it you larper, everyone knows you're only wearing it because you want to be le dancing dapper gentleman
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/
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>>1987505He is living a more interesting life than you ever will while 80% of it is still ahead of him.>molested on well-staffed public transportationIt's a first-world country, not Hungary or America.
>>1986176>directionbrainYou almost had a point until you played the retard card
>>2023420You're only mad because he described (You)r own behavior to the t
>>1986079grim
Last April, a company called Dreamstar Lines announced plans for an overnight service between Los Angeles and San Francisco, in effect, restoring Southern Pacific's Lark service, the overnight equivalent of the more famous Coast Daylight, which ceased service in 1968.What we know:>the train would run between Los Angeles Union Station and San Francisco's 4th & King Street Caltrain station>rolling stock will consist of streamliner cars built in the 1940s and 1950s>actual train consist would be a locomotive, 5-6 sleeper cars, and a lounge car serving drinks and "tavern food" (idk what that would entail)>the train would run on a ten-and-a-half hour schedule, departing around 10pm and arrive at its final destination at 8:30am>Tickets will be in the $300-$1000 (the minimum is slightly higher than the current price for a private room on Los Angeles-Oakland on Amtrak's Coast Starlight at $284)>there will be no coach service, sleeper class only>the company hopes to begin operations by Summer, 2024>the project is far enough along that negotiations with Metrolink and Union Pacific for right of way have already startedThe most detailed sources I could findComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2000472>the ex Amtrak HiLevel fleetAre there any even left?
>>2018996Apparently not, no wonder amtraks look so dinky now
I understand bumping your other threads but since this project will never happen and no one's interested just let it die
Local /n/(igg)erd breaks down why it's a bad ideahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLqP8gSTGWk
>>1992961>your foamerfic storyThat only happens on holidays.
Dumping photos for whoever's interested.
>>2019582
>>2019580>>2019581Nice! Although looking a bit rough. Only two of those H16-66's left. The other one is on static display here in Canada.
>>2019582Southern's commitment to high hood fascinates me
>>2020963NW had quite a few high hoods and like SR, was committed to running long hood forward. But NW diesels didn't look as nice
>>2019580>East Broad Top is a 3' narrow gauge railway.Ah, keep forgetting that part. It seemed so big when I was a kid.
Theoretically speaking, if I was an entrepreneuring billionaire and I wanted to bring back one of the great American passenger trains (Super Chief, California Zephyr, Panama Limited, Empire Builder, City of Los Angeles/San Francisco, 20th Century Limited, Broadway Limited, Powhatan Arrow, Coast Daylight, etc.) to run on a regular basis (let's put it at at least two times a month for a start), which option would be more feasible from an economic/technical/legal perspective?1. Acquire all of the surviving rolling stock (sleepers, dining cars, dome/observation cars, baggage cars, etc.) from the original consist from private owners, heritage railways, and museums, as well as matching surviving locomotives (can be from ones different railroads since thousands of functionally and aesthetically identical EMD F and E units were sold to all Class I railroads). Renovate them as necessary to make them FRA-compliant, obtain waivers wherever possible. Put them into service as a part-luxury train, part-mobile museum.2. Commission the construction of a replica consist. Building entirely new streamlined cars from scratch, designed to match the internal and external appearance of its original as much as possible, with changes only being made when it's literally required to make the car FRA-compliant/modern user friendly (updated wiring, HEP, power outlets at seats, WiFi support, replacing wooden paneling with MDF paneling etc.). Motive power consists of custom-built Siemens Chargers designed to resemble the original E and F units (streamlining, bulldog noses, matching paint schemes, etc.) as much as legally possible.1/2
>>2017102I meant once it enters revenue/excursion service, not a one-time test for bragging rights. Obviously fans of the T1 are gonna want to ride it when it's going the full 100 mph but there's very few places where you can realistically do that, especially with a locomotive of that size, and most certainly not on heritage railroads. Hell, the Acela Express only goes at its full speed on a single stretch of track from New York to Philadelphia.
>>2017437It would be limited to class 1 and 2 lines that allow for excursion services.It does happen norfolk and western 611 is not that much smaller and does just that, so did atsf 3751. But those trips are not always for the average person tickets are mostly high dollar fundraisers.But a railroad should have really come forward by now as a sponsor or partner.While they have no excursion service yet rail heritage of midwest has a dd40x running doing yard trip on occasion and are working on rebuilding a 4-6-6-4 and 2-10-2 all are comparable size and weight.
>>2013399>Siemens Chargers designed to resemble the original E and F unitsBro just buy a real one a 645 or 567 will outlast a cummins shitblock several times over.
>>2016991UP loves hosting steam excursions
>>2021134Their own steam engines, not ones from other railroads
>HEY LOIS, REMEMBER THE TIME I WAS A TRAIN?>NYEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH
>>2023025No it's from Middle English
>>2023086Its ancient-albino-chimp-english for "newfag bird"
>>2023063>Reminds me when in the early 90's a lot companies had an ex suffix to look "modern". X is not used in Polish language, so anything using it had a "modern" vibe. And then tons of companies started doing it creating such fun names like Butex (shoe-x), Drutex (rod-x), Dachex (roof-x) etc. and in the end ex suffixed names became sort of a joke on itself.Back in the commie days Pewex was the only chain where you could buy imported goods using foreign currency, so the name was attached to luxury in the mind of average Pole. And my absolutely favorite was Rybex (fish-ex).
>>2023117Now I feel silly, I never noticed the relationship before, since it is so obvious.
>>2023025Polish would be Griffinwski, innit.
Days are getting shorter, here is your last chance to ride a century in a comfy autumn setting, are you prepared? I will be bringing plenty of food this time.
>>2019383I felt very exhausted after riding 90 km, half of it against heavy wind, on a hybrid bike. I don't think I will attempt to ride 161 km.
>>2019383>are you prepared?I need new brake calipers and levers and hose
did 290km in april on pic relatedstarted at 7am, arrived at 2am. 2 restaurant stops, tons of food, almost ran over a deer in the dark, and one of my fingers was numb for a few months
Only did 100km a few times because 100 miles are pretty gnarly where i live. I had 3000m of climbs on my 100km ride. Maybe im just not strong enough for the 100 miles
>>2023177fuck that dude jesusnice tho
What causes this?
>>2021449shock therapy applied
>>2019492In the case of Poland, lack of income to upkeep a line on such a scale that we saw was mostly a myth. They didn't improve the more widely used or mainlines as a result, they let it all rot.>degredation of infrastructure to a comical degree (10-20 kmh slow zones!) deincentivies people to use the trains for freight/passengers>rail traffic decreases which results in decreased investment into upkeep and upgrades>this further results in more degredationAnd the cycle goes on. The most ironic thing was there was only ONE line in the country that was up to spec in the 90s -- the 270 kilometer central magistrate railway aka line Number 1.
>>2021497>thorpi didn't know that word existed in english, only the dutch and german versions dorp and dorf
>>2013872shut up pidorashka
>>2019366Do you think for yourself or are you dominated by symbols and almost algorithmic reactions?
>bus, aesthetic
How about Elon Bust?
>I wasted 10 hours of my life to own the chuds>Yeah crossing the border by car probably would have taken like 4 hours I guess
>>2022925>Still doubling down on being a complete imbecile.
>>Still doubling down on being a complete imbecile.
>Do you have a source on that?>Source?>A source. I need a source.>Sorry, I mean I need a source that explicitly states your argument. This is just tangential to the discussion.>No, you can't make inferences and observations from the sources you've gathered. Any additional comments from you MUST be a subset of the information from the sources you've gathered.>You can't make normative statements from empirical evidence.>Do you have a degree in that field?>A college degree? In that field?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2021024I took the Maple Leaf Express in business class both to and from New York as a Canadian passenger just a few months ago and it is NOT a pleasant trip. I would only ever recommend it if it were an overnight where your information is checked before boarding. I would have flown if the person I with wasn’t apprehensive about flying.
>>2021024Not just Bikes reeks of onions.
It's over.Bikes destroy male organs.https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13982479/riding-bike-cause-prostate-cancer-Chris-Hoy.html
>>2022866Literally same, but I also experimented with supplements. Insane loads
>>2022893Because no one here is uncivilized/poor enough to ride one
>>2022893We just like to jump to extremes all the time.I remember some time ago the newspaper ran a headline saying you might burn more calories watching football vs. actually playing itThe reason being that watching a match you're invested in elevates your heart rate for a solid 120 minutes (match+break) vs playing where you'll catch your breath every here and there and take a 30 min break.Obviously that's probably never gonna happen but tabloids here are very "So you're saying it COULD happen?"
>But subsequent studies, such as a 2020 paper published in the Journal of Clinical Urology on data from 8,000 male cyclists, failed to find a link between cycling and increased risk of prostate cancer. >One such study, published earlier this year on over 50,000 men, found that men who exercise regularly, including cycling, have a reduced chance of prostate cancer compared to those who don't.>The Swedish study, published in January, found men who undertake regular cardiovascular exercise had a third lower chance of developing prostate cancer.I only read the parts that I want to believe.
>>2023129>tabloids herestill the fact is this super healthy guy who must've lived 100years died so early. I gave up on my bike, will sell it or break it, just don't want to ride anymore, running is more fulfilling.You might say it was genetical, but the amount of training he did to win olympics 6 times should've given him a ten times immunity from any problems with reproductive system, but it turned to be otherwise, nature didn't make that area pressure-resistant, just like it didn't make our faces to sit on them. Nature has put reproductive organs in most safe place surrounded by "airbags". We should not sit on our dicks, balls, prostate.
is this true /n/ ?
>>2023084Infrastructure can be upgraded. What you said also doesn’t explain why public transport, more specifically trains, is so bad in the USA when compared with the rest of the world.>The USA has a $35.3 trillion national debtThe money to pay this debt, that has been accumulating because of mismanagement, needs to come from somewhere, like you and the tax from the fuel in your stupid fucking car.
>>2023094>>The USA has a $35.3 trillion national debtTake a look at the incompetence that is carried on to the next generation to deal with.
>>2023095>2017I couldn’t find a recent map. That means that the debt increase by $15 trillion in the USA since then.
>>2023095>>2023100This is the only thing that I’ve heard that can put a dent on that.
>>2021167>Point out that self described "conservatives" are actually just racist big government liberals>self described "conservatives" pretend not to be angry>mfw when