turkish C-130 crashes in azerbaijan
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It reminds me of the Atlas rocket explosion in Koyaanisqatsihttps://youtu.be/cJrtROuQFfk?t=137
>>2058609It looks like at least a few were ejected, maybe even a failed parachute deployment from one in middle of the shot a few seconds from the end, looks like a drogue deploys form one of the dots that were ejected. Might be just debris though. But fuck imagine if you had survived that alone.>>2058609Looks like one almost pulled a chute in time, imagine almost surviving then your chute failing on you, sheer adrenaline probably would have you passed out before impact hopefully.
>>2058993hitting the ground at terminal velocity is by no means a guarantee of a painless death. and most people in that plane hit the ground at quite a bit lower than terminal velocity. most likely there were at least a few people who survived for several hours after the crash
>>2058564Separation of onje or more prop blades from #2 engine. Slice through fuselage forward of wing.>The front fell offAerodynamic forces rip the aft fuselage off the center section. Center section is the strongest part of the airplane because the wing box is such a stiff structure.There was a similar crash of a USMC C-130T in 2017 or so. That aircraft was not all that old (built in 1993), but poor maintenance failed to inspect the corroded prop blades. The Turkish one, a C-130E, was built in 1968.Poor bastards didn't stand a chance.
>Who puts a cement wall at the end of a runway? >Why is everybody so facking stupid?
>>2058874> Who puts a cement wall at the end of a runway?Bug people (asians) and their average IQ of +100
>>2058874>Who puts a cement wall at the end of a runway?Someone who put value engineering above safety regulations.Don't worry, he an hero'd like a week later.
>>2058874>Who puts a cement wall at the end of a runway?Probably the people living behind
>>2058874I did?what u gonn do bout it bitch?
Get in there motherfuckers.Share your thoughts and experience.
>>2059032>every 2.5 minutesnigga what
>>2058998I believe another aspect to this is regulations. Canada essentially follows the US's FRA regulations and these simply aren't designed for the type of commuter rail operations you see in Europe or East Asia. This includes things like signalling systems, staffing requirements on trains, rolling stock specs, etc. Toronto is great example of how this can get in the way since our GO RER project has turned into a debacle due to both Metrolinx's incompetence but also our Class I regulations being to restrictive. Deutsche-Bahn was supposed to deliver the RER system but backed out partly because our regulations made it almost impossible for DB to implement its desired changes. Canada is to shit even for DB apparently.All of that is to say that from a regulatory perspective converting the old commuter line into a light-metro would be simpler then fighting with the feds to change regulations and/or be granted exemptions. The REM is for all intents a purposes severed from the main line railway and is thus not subject to its regulations but is instead now governed by the same provincial regulations that govern the Montreal Metro.
>>2059045Fair enough. But I still don't see how that would preempt higher speeds and/or express services as well as more comfortable interiors for the trains, which are probably my main caveat on the project.But all the explanations really have helped for this thing to make sense to me.
>>2059064well your probably not from canada then, as a canadian the number on rule in canada is you can't have that.
>>2058932hopefully people like it and we can try to build again the one in the east
I currently have a very basic one that came with the bike (pic rel). It's at proper height so I get zero pressure on the perineum, but if the terrain doesn't require me to get up every couple of mins, I quickly get sore sit bones. I wanna do some touring (min 50 km daily) so that won't do. So, I measured them bones and set about finding a new one.Thing is, I have zero experience with other saddles and have no clue what to look for. It seems like saddles under 50€ aren't worth looking at, but it also seems like I'll have to buy multiple either way until I find the right one. It baffles me that saddles go up to 300€ and there's never a way to try them out. Am I just supposed to waste money until I luck into one that fits? Is there at least a flowchart?
>>2058474i dont know what a differential is, but your sale tactics wont work on me ex-surly/fork manufacturing employee>>2057065does pic rel fit in with an ideal downward slant?
>>2045632Just do what some ebikes do, and use a "moto style" seat.
>>2058979You don't know what a differential is? I truly hope you've never driven a car for mine and everyone elses safety.
>>2059005anons arguement could be applied to any subject matter that anon doesn't know about.
>>2046018I used to read posts like this but I have the mental fortitude to read like 2 1/2 lines and skip Feels good.
Fixies can be mass produced and retail <$400 (RetroSpec is practically giving away their fixies at a loss, at $179 right now)Generic road frames at every size from 54cm 56cm 58cm 60cmNice lightweight 700c road wheels and decent 28mm road tiresFront and rear rim brakes, swappable hubOh but a generic MTB frame in Medium size that fits everyone from 5'2" to 6' decently, ohhhh noOOOOO we can't do that lets do $1,399 MSRPI just want a super simple bike, geared low for cruising, and able to fit 2.3" tires.
>>2058822Everything after the first ? is bullshitTruncate your links nigga
it is insane how much prices have gone up i paid under $500 for the 2009 version of this bike the current one is $1300
the market will bear the price because it's more important to price people like OP off the trails than it is to save a completely trivial amount of money on an entry-level steed. I can't actually remember the last time I saw a bike worth less than $6,000 at the trailhead tbqh (other than my own)
>>2058823If you want a <$400 mtb frame here you go, it's on sale. Why does it matter if such a frame is being mass produced or not? It will last you a lifetime.
>>2058870by the amount of money printed during thy vid that frame should cost almost 3 thousand.
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.
>>204200430 mph is 50cc scooter speed, teenagers ride those all the time without a helmet, stop being so overdramatic. Yeah you fall you'll get a nasty rash maybe a sprained ankle, big deal.
>>2056143You can die just falling over in your clips, it's not common but it can happen
>>2036239Highly competent rider. Crazy, but competent, talented even.
>>2042004outside of a peloton or getting hit by a car, there's not much risk of life-threatening injury at those speeds. the only mechanical failure that can kill you on a short, slow descent like that is a chainsuck. keep your drivetrain moderately well adjusted and it's about as likely as getting hit by lightning.
>>2036239that is a very large cemetery
Who mogs?
>>2056992Buses are orders of magnitude more efficent. Trains build part of their wheel into the ground and in cases of appalling wasteful electrification, the engine too. Then receives a huge taxpayer subsidy and still charges you 10x-50x a bus ticket. When it hits a quarter inch track fault it derails, killing 200 people. Never has to pay fuel or road tax.Buses in the mean time are totally unsibsidised, pay for taxed fuel and road tax and bounce over 8" potholes without breaking stride. Only need a resistive surface, can go anywhere. Can charge route easily. And are profitable, a net benefit to society unlike trains.Passenger trains have been obsolete since the perfection of the pneumatic tire and small diesel engine in the 1920s, over a century ago. Trains only use today is what they were invented for, haulling heavy aggregates from mine to port. And that is what they should be used for.Trainlets should be offered courses on riding a two-stroke moped if they aren't happy about their historical preservation-as-reality being closed down and sold for scrap.
>cut corners on a train system>it sucks as a result and gets low ridership>use the low ridership as justification for cutting corners
>>2057127>Passenger trains have been obsolete since the perfection of the pneumatic tire and small diesel engine in the 1920s, over a century ago.Harsh truth. Trains can't switch tracks to avoid a breakdown like a bus can switch lanes. They can't decide one day to just stop somewhere else. There's a use case for passenger rail and subways, but it's very hard to account for the gentrification and enshittification of various parts of the city, and the city itself. Bus routes can be added or dropped with demand without having to lay/rip up miles of track, build million dollar stations, mothball carriages, etc.
>>2057431>real train ridership has never been tried before
>>2057127>>2057448
>it's another "anon has nothing to do on a beautiful weekend so he goes on an aimless 20-25 mile bike ride for an hour or two just to be out of the house" episode haha gee it was great biking past all the families, friends, people with children, eating at restaurants, walking the streets together, doing stuff at the park, and living their lives happily while i was complete self-congizant how im the autistic retard biking alone through town
>>1999701>>it's another "anon has nothing to do on a beautiful weekend so he goes on an aimless 20-25 mile bike ride for an hour or two just to be out of the house" episodeTo me, it's a moment of peace. Peace from the daily exposure of city noise, people, work routines, have-tos, traffic. A break from the daily routine of stress in general. So no, it wasn't an aimless 20-25 mile bike ride, it was to take a break from real life that doesn't involve doomscrolling on the internet in my own house
Sometimes I mutter abusive phrases to myself while riding, like if I'm climbing a particularly hard segment I'll be like "bitch.... bitch... take it bitch... yeah you like that don't you bitch...." and it gives me the energy or motivation I need. Usually this isn't a problem because there's no one around but me.Anyway on Saturday I was absentmindedly riding along, alone as usual, and I got to the top of a steep segment I was like "that's right bitch suck on that cock" and realized too late that i said it just as I was passing an attractive and fit woman in a fairly revealing running outfit. Like I was literally 5 feet from her facing her and I wasn't even thinking. So now I can't ride that route anymore for a while. I also had a to take a very roundabout way home just to make sure not to pass her or see her again. I really hope she didn't take out her phone and take a picture of me. I immediately put the hammer down and sprinted off when I realized what had happened. There's probably a whole tiktok right now where a bunch of women share their running stories about encounters with horrible men and it's all because of me.
>>2059066youre not man.
>>2059090What did she mean by this?
>>2059066yup the world just ain't meant for us anon. If you aren't in presenter mode 24/7 normies will hate you.
yeWax or Oil?What do YOU like better?I don't wanna listen to the youtube silca shills
>>2055017That guy looks like he sniffs bike seats.
>>2058747He’s saying that bike chains spin a lot slower than a chainsaw, which is why chainsaw oil is inappropriate for a bike chain.
>>2054955wax all the wayoil always grinds against the chain whenever you go out, it gets mixed with dust and other elements and destroys the chain in no timewax on another hand will always stay clean, I leave for ~300 km before re-waxingoil was a painful experience and had to change the chain frequently or keep cleaning it every now and then (only to end up buying a new one)
>>2054955I used to use PTFE but I'm looking for an alternative because of the health and enviornmental hazards. I'm leaning towards parafin.Also include your riding conditions, you fucks. I'm in dry desert.>>2054958Wet vs Dry condiditons.
>>2058970PTFE and parafin are not the sameone is a base, the other an addetive
Alright, quit MONKEYING aroundHey guys I want to put APE hangers on my bikeResources:https://www.sheldonbrown.com/https://www.parktool.com/en-us/blog/repair-helpNeutral Support News on YoutubeRJ THE BIKE GUY IS GOATprevious thread: >>2054840
>>2059409nobody's posting in it.everyone's waiting for the new one instead of making it .usually we get at least several posts per day.
>>2058680bump
>>2059586we're past the bump limit, dufus.also, there's a new thread now
New thread >>2041959
>>2059598kill yourself
POV: Your local transit system decided to kill itself>went from 3 lines going 15 minutes from one another to 1 line every hour
>>2058876Sorry, Rajeesh. Looks like you'll have to walk.
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.
>>2058614it's for people who have a chip on their shoulder about things not lasting forever. usually spergy, skinnyfat white males with a wound collector mentality. they've been KEKED by Big Bicycle one too many times, fool me once shame on you fool me twice I won't get fooled again. they probably weren't even cucked but it's just their paranoid way of going through life. they're on the looking for Planned Obsolescence boogyman that's out to GITCHA. the timeline is:-need bike-not this, not that, oh that will rust, oh galvanic corrosion, oh muh fatigue cycles, ugh carbon? no!-ahhhh yes titanium, it doesn't rust, it's invincible, just like me!-spends an entire paycheck on it, YES this is the FINAL bike!-fast forward 10 years-needs a new everything because it's all worn out-finds out all the standards have changed and he has to hunt for NOS at ripoff hipster prices-oh it turns out I kind of do want thru axle, I kind of do want bigger tires-sheepishly sells it on craigslist to the next sucker and buys a plastic bike with clearance for 32mm tires
>>2058625Plus the welds always break
>>2058614You can't make aluminium springy without it bending permanently.
>>2058758neither can you with titanium, even worse, titanium just breaks instead of bending out of shapeits literally only useful for withstanding compressive force or resisting high heatit is for aircraft and brake rotors, that's it
>>2058774Apparently more so than alu.
>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!!!!!
>>2028747>grokkys
>>2058748quality post to bump this thread withyou twat
>>2055945also anyone who buys bill gates reasonable richman act is stupider the those who believe warren buffets charade.
>>2058762you mean the people who are like "actually warren buffet eats mcdonalds so the reason you're not rich is you don't eat low quality garbage"?
>>2058764No I mean the people who believe his I still live in the same house and overall lower lifestyle projection mcdonalds breakfast included. Yes he still lives in the "same home" that he had expanded to over 6 thousand sq ft.
What's next in bicycle tech?
>>2057836All of these already exist.
>>2058405>1988 Hutch Genital Warts
>>2057836DUI detected
>>2058310mate 99% of bike accessories are either 5 or 12v as it is and picrel exist. i'd get it if you meant cyclinc computers or motor controllers or something (which themselves come out of the same two chink factories so are a defacto standard) but even i'm ordering some shit off digikey and my local hardware store to rig up some switches to my handlebars to control lights
>>2058744i think i have the flu and forgot my image
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.
>>2043618
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhmLb2DhNYM
>>2056005How would this affect a bike?
>>2056005You can tell this guy is smart because he's explaining it in a tone of voice like he's telling a toddler he needs to pull his pants down before peeing and I'm just not following at all>the first thing to understand is it's power preserving because the product of voltage and current is a power and anything that's passive in the electrical domain is... oh but there's 2 analogies and the first one that's about 2 and across variables and series connections and topologically identical and ground is a datum voltage and...
>>2019204Lol just lolYou best thing you could do is sell that single speed shit and get something with gears, and 32-40mm wire tires unless you only ride on glass smooth velodromes, in that case, keep your 23mm ice skate tires. Pros are setting records on 28mm tires now, the world has changed, more rubber is sometimes better. I think XC MTB uses 2.3" now, 2.5-2.8 trail.
