>2025>I am forgotten...
>>2059226His stuff is still ok, especially with The Tim Traveler. I bet Vicki has gotten fat, though. She was cute 10 years ago, but from the glimpses we get on Instagram I think she's hit the wall. He's probably better off.
>>2059396>not spending their anniversary on the crossrail openinghow did he miss that option?
She looks like a female Stephen Marchant.
>Ditching Vicki>Choosing picrel insteadwhat a fumble
>>2060474Bros before hoes.
What are the advantages of these things as opposed to, idk, a bus?
>>2057440A much, much better ride. Not having to deal with potholes is a godsend.
>>2057440helps melburnian special snowflakes feel unique
>>2057440The main advantage is not being held up in traffic.Sure that TECHNICALLY can be done with bus lanes but cage-driving retardoids will hog the bus lane. That does not have the sense of impending doom that hogging the tram track does.The best way to speed up your transit vehicle is to have it in a separate, dedicated lane that cannot be blocked by retards.As such, the logical conclusion for all public transit is, and always was, the suspended monorail.But they don't want you to know that.
>>2060158>Not having to deal with potholes is a godsend.t. privileged firstie
>>2060597200% shithole tram kino
Have you ever thought about paying the ferry man BEFORE he got you to the other side?
>Sang a song about ferrieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqZEp4Fb6qw>Sang a song about trainshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnaUvPoiTfQIs Chris de Burgh the most /n/ singer-songwriter?
S.E.P.Leave enough toys to keep those left behind happy.
>>2059048imagine getting rolled by a monster like this
>>2059259>>2059048imagine getting railed by a monster like thatsex with that creature!!
These guys passed you on the last big hill before the cafe. Didn't even take pulls. What do you tell these Freds to not seem mad?
>>2052169Tbh I wish there was somewhere I could get a tram to the top and just ride down descending is the only fun part of road riding
>>2057734the reason it's fun is that you've spent like 2 hours in the granny gear to get there so it's a godlike rush of power when you just need to tuck and read the corners and you're basically bouncing off terminal velocity for 15 straight minutes, it won't be the same if you take a chairlift like an MTB hamplanet
>>2057731never heard of a chop shop dude? they sell the useful parts and then just scrap the frames, or at best rattle can it and apply some new stickers>>2030704>flip flopsdon't do this it is COLD outside>the purestrain seethe i can feel radiating off of boomers walking on bike trails and lycras struggling to take corners as I carve through a corner wearing my shitstomper combat boots, instantly achieving five times their terminal velocity on downhills without even touching the throttle or pedals just because my bike weighs like 50kgdont even have a bell on it anymore, the day i rang at someone and they still seethed that they "couldn't hear me coming" was the day i took it off. you walk your dog on the bike path, i will run over your dog. i know they would door me in a second were i riding on the road, fuck them white niggas
>>2030777Lucky trips aside flip flops are the greatest cycling footwear money can buy. I have fully converted.
>>2059709everyone knows riding park is for losers. imagine wanting to be around so many people, its the same reason I can't roadbike your literally just surrounded by people and cars 24/7
This stuff is ancient but I hope that it wasn't posted here before:The construction of the Japanese Shinkanzen high-speed rails, form 1964.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYjFOYLAtoEBoth the footage and the tempo if that of the '60s, so do NOT expect some twitch footage and on point editing. But, I think you all would appreciate it, or - at least - should see this!ps: use auto-subtitles. While at some point it it definitely an 'eh', it is better than nothing.
>>2056769Couldn't remember off the top of my head, so I checked a reference book I have. Basically, budget at the time was very tight. Pretty much every shinkansen line project has gone massively over budget, and with the development of the Tohoku Shinkansen, the cost continued to increase further due to having to develop the line in response to protests regarding noise pollution. A lot of money was also wasted on development of the cancelled Narita line. Although, it was mostly the issues with protesting against noise pollution that made it impossible for them to get any closer to Tokyo at the time. I can't find the pages talking about the development of the Shinkansen in Omiya station, but I assume that it was a combination of protests happening less frequently and more effort put into designing railways to dampen noise and vibrations via walls and viaducts.
Sorry for the necro, OP here, made another thread for the TGV:Please check it out too:>>2057867
>>20241661 year anniversary coming in 2 hours
>>2057975OMG you are right! HEHE, I didn't check for that! :-)
>>2057975Forever Shinkansenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huIahNEnyM4
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/
>>2054920I'd rather live on board a train than an apartment in an abandoned coal town surrounded by AFD inbreds
>>2056728Not everyone is a chai latte drinking hipster from berlin
>>1986079Nomad urban explorer phase in your late teens is all fun and games until your body croaks into your 20's.>>2037430/thread
>>1992774fat titties >>1992458
>>1986079>relying on cutting edge, expensive public infrastructure and tech every day in order to live>minimalist
Elon Musk wishes he was 1/10th as GREAT as this English manlet.
>>2060208YesWhat political bullshit caused the inferior gauge to be maintained?
>>2060108Overthrowing the space transportation business alone is worth more than all other 21st century inventions.
>>2060319This tbqh, I can't avoid smiling at the fact that space travel was taken away from government-employed nerds with inflated egos. Them and the boomer government-embedded spaceship building companies got humiliated. I'm not really mad, NASA is cool, but I got tired of looking at that whole situation with them making no progress and keeping space travel as this mythical once-a-year ritual where the NASA wizards in their white labcoats send some overqualified supermen on a disposable multimillion dollar vehicle into space.
>>2060208Standard should have been 1500 mm. That would be right 0.007” less than 4’ 11 1/16.” Everyone’s equipment would have been compatible with each other regardless of which measurement system they were using. No one needs anymore than that.
>>2060319Probably but it's a bit early to say that.
SS United States to be sunk, creating the world's largest artificial reef. RIP to one of the greats.
>scrolling through facebook>still seeing posts trying to save it>latest one is someone trying to get it listed as an historic artefact or some shit (look how that turned out for falls of clyde)Just give it up man
>>2059142I've been to that part of florida, the number of small roadside churches was genuinely disturbing to me
>>2059142That would be a good technical dive.
>>2059158yah, saw that when I was looking for the sinking location. Said the ship “was a masterpiece to last forever … not to be sunk as a reef". Nope, it was not. And especially not without anyone spending money to keep it looking nice.
>>2050528nice tds grandma
Cyclists of /n/, do you wear a lot of loud obnoxious advertising logos on yourself when you ride?
>>2058782>>2058783
>>2051816elaboratewhat is that device?is it a surgical tool for skin transplants?
>>2060152>segregatedlol, i love when retards like want to disingenuously appeal to racial shitit's called "separated bike lane" and everyone knows what you're pullingseparating modes of transport when the speed differential can be expected to be more than 30km/h make sensejohn forester is a hack that was worried proper bike infrastructure would remove his ability to ride on roads in group rides and thus argued aggressively against proper bike infrastructure and cycling enablersthis is beyond debate, it provably leads to less cycling usage and more cycling deaths
>>2060326go make more hour long advertisements njb guy
>>2058826I have 30 miles of trails all within 3 miles of biking. There's 100's of miles of trails within a 30 minute drive. Why do you people have such strong opinions about things you've never done before?
If I passed you, don't take it personally. It's because you're slow, weak, and have no stamina. No, don't look at my bike. I could smoke you any day, even you were riding a Colnago Gioello, and I could do it on a $100 BSO from Walmart. Little man, learn to take defeat gracefully. I won, fair and square.If you passed me, chill out dude, you're such an insecure tryhard. You wasted all that money to win a race that only exists in your head. Sure I could have been a pro, still could if I'm being honest, but that kind of thing doesn't interest me, I have nothing to prove to myself. So why should I try to prove anything to others, let alone you? Stop and smell the roses, that's my philosophy.
>>2057284I haven't seen this meme in ages, this must be like 15 years old
>>2057116This is a custom racing bicycle, sir. Designed for competitive road cycling. This bike has a light-weight, space-age carbon frame and handlebars positioned to put the rider in a more aerodynamic posture. It also has micro-shifters and thirty-seven gears, and weighs under six pounds. I won the Tour de Mexico on this bike.
>>2058158what is this quote a reference to?
>>2058158There is an idea of a professional rider. But there is no real prizes. Only middle of the pack finishes. And although I can hide my shame shake the hands of my opponents and maybe you can even sense my watts are somewhat comparable...I simply am not aero
Based. Speedmogging is a virtue.
Post your ride during sundown Post your favorite lights and light setupsDo not: Be a haterTalk shitPost daylight ride photos
cool thread anon, here's mine from todayi got a new taillight (moon cerberus) and wanted to see how it works after dark
>>2058814>>2058907how many lumens are those lights
>>2060008i'm >>2058907front is cyclami x7 set to the dimmest mode at (allegedly) 250lmrear is moon cerberus ru on the dimmest setting also, but it has a "variable lumen system" and i don't remember what setting i used, lowest i think? it tops out at 150lm and goes as low as 5lm
>>2058817Based tenno heika banzai pilled
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The EMUs are out of service. Post your pics here of Queensland Rail service- double imaginary bullshit points for rural/discontinued services
>>2054283>Go to train company website>click "work for us"Here I did the work for you already for one option:https://pacificnational.com.au/content/join-the-crew
>>2049223Make your own board then
Fuck you cunts and your $20 or 25 airport train tickets that shit gave me a shock when i was getting a transport card at the booth
>>2056941>Make your own board then
australian rail is shitwhy different gauges in each state? why do you need to bogie-swap at the border? why couldn't they just use the same gauges nationwide like every other damned country in the world?baka my head
As you guys may know, theres now huge subsidies coming from the WEF or the EU to remove car traffic from city areasits a bit sad because some of these towns and cities used to have extremelly walkable main streets in the early 20th century, beautiful cobblestone pavements, etc, and it was all removed for cheap asphalt when cars became the thing. Now the pedestrian pavement is often just cheap concrete or modern materials imitating older cobblestone. You even see some retarded mayors destroying an entire 19th century park to replace it with concrete and fake grass and it just breaks my soul. How can we conserve and preserve true traditional urban planning and 19th century walkable standards?
I would like to say that the NYC Commissioners Plan of 1811 is one of the best examples of urban central planning EVER.
>>2060164>>2060157Levittown's must largely be a flyover thing, even here in California (a state that's often branded heavily car-centric) I wouldn't describe any of the suburbs here as being Levittown's, they're too broken up by public parks and strip malls within reasonable biking distance, and this is even true for the postwar/post redcar developments
>>2060172People who think California is exceptionally car-centric have never been outside California and think that the movie Grease is a documentary. No offense to you, Anon.
>>2060164This essentially still exists in parts of Europe, just on a slightly bigger scale around the suburban rail lines, and usually it was pre-existing villages which turned into suburbs. They're usually centered around the station with commerce and higher density development near it, then lower density residential areas a bit further away. Sometimes you can even appreciate how there was an original town center and a new center developed around the station.>>2060166He says >central planningbut it's not really what he's describing, which is organic centrality. If you have a place where many people move to for transportation it will obviously become attractive for both commercial and residential development, while further away gets less demand and consequently less activity and less density. With rail transport you automatically get this central point of movement which generates this centrality and consequently varied development, while the absence of it and high car usage generates large swaths of identical development lacking centrality which is essential to the organic urban growth.
>>2060155Suburbs are the byproduct of better transportation methods, the first ever case of suburbanization happened in Amsterdam in the XVIII century as people used boats to commute to their jobs in the city.The modern car centric suburb appeared in the mid XX century as developers, politicians and bureaucrats mixed the ideas of the garden city (low density) with Le-Corbusier urban ideas (car centric city).The result was a new type of suburb where people are isolated from their neighbours and have to use the car for everything.
I was thinking of picking up one of those cheapo Aliexpress carbon forks, but my buddy probably rightfully talked me out of it due to safety concerns.Where should I buy an affordable carbon fork in 26" for rim brakes (in Yurop)?
My Chinesium (alu) fork has made it through customs. I'm so stoked, guys. Only a couple of days left!
Is it really a bad idea to buy $60-80 chink carbon forks on AliExpress?
>>2058082The consensus seems to be: "They're all right if you don't take them off the road." I did not get a first-hand report of one breaking ever, though.
>>2055053hylix sounds like a real brand
>>2052080buy an entire bike off of your craigslist/kijiji/fb marketplace equivalent and drill speed holes in it
TGVs should be orange. Blah blah blah different liveries blah blah variety blah blah I don't care. TGVs should be orange.
>>2057678very fair assessment. blaze orange is a sexy color>>2057680montreal wins again
>>2057678British trains? Should be Rail Blue, with yellow snouts, and with little coloured stripes on the carriages indicating the First, Second and restaurant cars.
>>2057678France used to make the sexiest trains in the world. The MP 89 is still the best looking metro train ever made.
Coast Starlight should be Golden Gate orange Instead it's just a boring amtrak stripe Yo, North American liveries suck. I never realized it before, we always get shitty ad wraps and toned down colors I guess transit agencies don't want to do anything that might make them bad press
>>2060161If you start using unique paint schemes for each service eventually you'll end up with rainbow-era Amtrak again
