Cos you gotta have SEOULhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLKN_Rmb39I
>So I went to South Korea recently-amazing how these 'i just came back from vacation and you would not BELIEVE how AMAZING the stuff i saw was' videos all boil down to pointing at stuff and saying wow!. it's not 'the world's best metro system'. it's a metro system that serves Seoul. and i'd bet my left testicle that persnickety transit martyrs don't give a shit about 'has air conditioning', 'has an app', 'has pedestrianised streets nearby' or anything else raised in the video elsewhere, because again these videos are just THING: PLACE vacation recaps for other transit martyrs to cry over.
>>2057420>persnickety transit martyrs don't give a shit about 'has air conditioning', 'has an app', 'has pedestrianised streets nearby'Im a persnickety transit martyr and I care about these things so I guess you owe me your left testicle. The real question is: do I preserve it in formaldehyde as a trophy or eat it Rocky Mountain Oyster style
Montreal's is better
Do you guys ever have conversations with other people on public transportation, or try picking up girls there?>yet another day riding the subway sharing a car with plenty of cute girls, normal looking guys, and never make conversation with anyone to try to make friends or get a date>it's been like this nearly daily for 10 years>even see the same people getting on and off at my same stop, they live near me, and still never speak to anyone
>>2035592That woman is cute. Does anyone know her name?
>>2054798Lorna
>>2049311I don't think she would have enjoyed that
There was a cute girl with wavy hair who used to ride the bus on the same route as me when I lived in mexico and she smiled and made small talk with me a couple of times but I was too much of an idiot to ask her out
>>2046297I get it a lot less now that I wear big headphones
>*combines the aggressive solipsistic entitlement of an exurban helicopter parent SUV karate lessons karen with the sanctimonious humblebrag better-than-you instagram mentality of a childless upper middle class urbanist in your path (literally in your path because it's in your physical path being as expensive and space-hogging as an actual car, while being as slow and annoying and needy and pointless and "look at me" as a dutch bike, in everyone's path) in your path*>*heh, nothin' personnel kid, as in, look at these kids of mine that I am effectively using as human shields, so give me everything in return for nothing or you're a monster and I will have you cancelled for not buckling immediately and catering to my massive sense of entitlement, kid*When did cargo bikes go from being a crusty, get-it-done, no-nonsense niche improvised delivery tool for reasonable humans, to being the single most punchable conspicuous consumption fashion accessory in the history of wheels?Also, cargo bikes hate thread, and yes I took my meds thanks for the reminder though
>>2052097>>2052092how do you attach a random trailer to a bike
>>2042821does the front wheel necessarily have to be small just saw someone cut up an old bike and make it into a cargo bike i guess that'd need a tig welder xyz cargo designs are just bolted together anyone ever build one of those? sucks how they're all igh dependent though
>>2056646you want the most weight bearing wheel to be larger
>>2052107now THIS is Physics
>>2056646yes it needs to be smaller so that you fit the style of the time
I want to strangle every single big buck roadie fred and especially every single downhill-bike-in-a-park pomp who rides around just to do chainsaw sounds with their bicycle's very very expensive hub. "Give way, the asshole is coming!". Like, if you wanna make motorcycle sounds, get an actual motorcycle. A Harley actually sounds cool. A freewheeling bicycle sounds supremely annoying, and also means you are a weak shit who is not pedalling. Fuck you, go ride into a river.
>>2031782Get outta the way!
>>2056925truly hikers pay for nothing buy nothing and just shit up trails made for other purposes.
>>2031789>fixie that isn't a rusty chain death trap screeching its presence to all within 100 metersa likely story
>>2059372I keep my fixie mounted on my bedroom wall, my chain still looks new. Suck it.
>>2056925this keeps happening to me even though my bike is inherently loud as fuck. it's a total rustbucket AND has an electric motor that whirrs away with gears and shit.>>2056347to expensiv
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?
>>2055764Yeah but people who are looking for an ali express bike are probably pretty price sensitive. If you're buying a winspace frame you're looking at an all-in cost that rivals a prestige brand's cheapest possible bike. You're getting a much higher spec bike, but it's not for hardcore penny pinchers, it's still going to cost you like $5k if you want a build that's worth all that trouble
>>2053280I have it on good authority that bottoms are women
It's frustrating because I prefer the look of rim jobs but a decent set of rim brake alloy wheels is like $1000, I can get a better set of carbon wheels for less
DT Swiss finally came out with carbon spokes, for like $4000 lol. And they're heavier than the China rims.
>>2047764>gaspipe surly with QR dropouts and cable disc brakes,that's a nice bike thoughit the tubing is swaged tubing without a seam, so not "gaspipe" at least
What is the intent behind statements like "I'm not a cyclist, I'm just a person who gets around by bike"?At a surface level it is obviously meant to (proverbially) throw other cyclists under the bus, but to what end? Would it somehow appease the anti-bike people if the person "blocking traffic" didn't agree to be referred to by the word "cyclist"?
>>2056920you're kinda weird
>>2056915>587. don't let anything not be an ick
>>2056920yes you did fagget
>>2027704the usa has no sweet crude oil left, wars are being started around the world so you can have cheap gas. Isnt it weird how biden dipped into the reserves when Saudi jacked up opec prices, then oct 7th happened, and then suddenly prices went back down again? Weird huh?Yah sure, I'm insane. Im cuh-razy, cookoo.
>>2057477No you see the reason we have to invade venezuela is that they sent us over 500 grams of cocaine in the last year alone
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?
>>2058228anonbikes are ridden everywhereon bike lanes, on sidewalks, inna woods and on the roadfuck, i ride my bike in my apartament building, it has a long corridor from my door to the elevatorbike is universal transportation, if you can walk you can ride
>>2058409>if you can walk you can ridecheckmate
Happy 2nd birthday, thread
>>2059373Damn time flies… I moved into a new town Right around when this thread was made, still here
>>1962645E-bikes, because "cycling" is casual now.
previous thread:>>>2036544
>>2058506Thanks manThe pedals are called ”spank spoon” I think, and the crankset is pic related.Plenty of old campag, sugino and other track bike cranks out there with the same look.
>>2058881>it was my brother's>wasSounds like you already made the decision. Subconsciously, perhaps?
I did it again, roast me.
I respect my friend for riding the dorkiest bike possible
>>2059375I see it as being in a sort of schroedinger's bike stageI think he forgot about it, but that doesn't cede ownership quite yet.As an update, them shits hold air and the only thing it needs is a front brake cable
Space transportation general: Stage Separating into a new year edition. This general is here because spaceflight is increasing exponentially. We are up to at least a launch per week and we are now in the midst of flight testing an industry revolutionizing fully reusablesuper heavy lift launch vehicle.Upcoming launches:>https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/2025-launch-schedule/SpaceX livestreams on Twitter/X:>https://x.com/SpaceXUpcoming NASA operations:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2058660Launch in 15 minutes!Official https://www.youtube.com/live/ecfxcTEl-1IEDAhttps://www.youtube.com/live/q8Fi-0lqjcc
TOUCHDOWN
>>2058757Pretty incredible
>>2059343>>2058757Also Kino launch
Setback for V3 booster gor starship
Hello guys (and that one girl who is here).OP from >>2024166 here.Found another old gem, in this case from TGV. French language? Check.Strange music? Check.Sensual start with a woman voice? Check.Also: absolutely interesting footage.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VTfoSltNRIThis one in English, but with old footage:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHqZ6PjZ7voComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2057867SNCF archives are awesome.Have the 1955 record that started it all, complete with goats, stilts and unhealthy train on rail and train on OHL violence.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJzJl7jMYMw
>>2058016that IS a find! :-)
I have one about the TGV-M in english:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kg74ut6SNU
All of these except the last RMC Découverte link are simply reuploads from their archives https://www.archives.sncf.com/https://www.archives.sncf.com/les-trains-le-tgv/https://www.archives.sncf.com/tgv-an-un/https://www.archives.sncf.com/contre-la-montre/This one with the weird transitions with the blonde woman cracked me up the other day https://www.archives.sncf.com/les-trains-les-trains-du-quotidien-2/ (but quite interesting for the period my model railroad club is modeling)
>>2057867
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.
>>2054961Wet metal bad is a lesson you only need to learn once
>>2054961>now I have some kind of PTSD when cornering. Does this shit ever go away?Welcome to the club, no it never goes away and if it does, you'll make the same mistake again to remind you to never relax. Take it as a blessing and a curse
>>2044901I was rammed off my bike by a couple of chinks in a car who then tried to rob and kill me.Fight back. Get back up. Start walking before you can run again.
I got super hammered once and decided to ride at like 11pm. My friends spent the whole night looking for me and I was pretty busted up; I fractured one of my metacarpals and my right brow has a scar. Haven't drank since as you could imagine.
>>2044901 it’s a thingFor me tooI crashed my bike last year navigating a corner in the rain and my biggest injury was a deflated feelingI almost wonder if the brain goes into a crash analysis mode going over the incident and figuring out subconscious solutions so it doesn’t happen again. Meanwhile making the body feel a sense of guilt for doing something that potentially could have killed the mind and body and soulI have noticed an increase in my skills the following year, and when I get caught in the rain on my bike I go into this traction control mode, I’ve had less-to no smaller incidents such as a loss of traction since. Also, this Lingering anxiety when navigate corners, even under good riding conditions too.
Why weren't these a thing more often in the heyday of railroads?>gives freight trains an additional source of income>passengers can presumably pay for tickets less since freight trains usually run on slower schedules>allows for mixed trains without the need to pull a coach from regular passenger service>can be coupled to the back of a regular passenger train during periods of high demand, the crew will enjoy the added privacy too>lonely freight train crews will enjoy the additional company>can be outfitted as extra crew accommodation when not in revenue service
here in Chicago I sometimes see a CNW caboose roaming around in active service.
>>2056653>>2056654I played a video game where they used shipping containers as prison cells once.
>>2042477I don't really get the point of a conductor having a separate compartment. Here in the US, conductors just ride in a pre-assigned seat in the passenger compartment and to my knowledge that's always been the practice.
>>2045720cute
>>2047949>supersized cabooseWe could all use one of those>>2056642This
Thoughts? electrically assisted bikes are borderline motorcycles anyway
I wouldn't ride one but I can see the use case like if you were just riding to the beach with your family or something
>>2059230What's the width? Looks like you'd barely fit in a bike lane.
>>2059230>electrically assisted bikes are borderline motorcycleBorderline? They are literally cycles with a motor
Are there any actual disadvantages to them? They seem to perform as well as standard bike frames but with the advantage of being easier to mount and dismount without the top bar getting in your way. I know they were originally marketed to women who wore skirts because the top bar on traditional bikes got in the way and exposed their panties but it never quite made sense to me why these weren't just the "default" frame style in the first place, especially since most utility bikes and pretty much every single E-bike on the market uses this style of frame.
when bad shit happens you dont wipe out as bad and you can wear a skirt on one. and they were literally designed for the latter. "step through" is just modern PC bullshit, that frame style was just called "female" or "girls' " until like last year
>>2058484>Nearly impossible to carry up and down a flight of stairsJust grab it by the saddle.
>>2058484>>2058753better, perch the saddle on your shoulder
>>2046766>not as aeroproof?
On the topic of step throughs, should I?26" wheels , though apparently it's supposed to be 700c, and can have both rim or discs. I really don't wanna use a MTB anymore that isn't all that great for on-road riding, even with hybrid tyres. I also generally can't find shit on this online without bringing up traditional frames
Epstein used the same private plane for 35+ years. Is that normal?
Is there a reason to think it abnormal?
If you're using it as a plane and not as some showoff piece, then why would you need a new plane unless there was some drastic upgrade or reason to do so? New jets are nice, but unless you want to squeeze out more fuel efficiency, upgrade to a new interior, or get a larger plane or a plane with longer range, then there should be little to no reason to get a new jet.
>>2059194what you think hes gonna check a new aircraft for foreign agencies bugging him why not use the one he keeps in his hands.
The chart clearly shows he had 2 planes retardAlso his Boeing was over 50 years old
>>2059217I was more or less asking if it was possible he was forging tail numbers and using decoys
