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>>2079055Bbb
should I get a trek checkpoint alr 3 or surly preamble(the one with Shimano parts)
>>2078989>So, before resigning myself to expensive ass saddles as a wear itemthe chinks have a thing.I can only attest to the comfort of their non-carved one which was okay for the $20. Feels like a lower quality leather since it took longer to break in and it was very stiff when I got it.
>>2079029>if it's new geo/slanted too tube you need at least L or probably XL if you can find it.>a little smaller is preferable to too bigThat makes sense>if you find a bike you want and the seller is asking too muchI was just wondering about the used market in general, but now that I think of it, I know someone who wants a bike but needs to be frugal about it, so I will pass that tip on, thanks Anon>pic is a long headtube which tells you it's a big boy frame>>2079030>the really small frames will actually have the top tube and downtube touching each other at the headtube.I see what you're talking about, and I have seen how geometry doesn't scale in proportion for each sizeI'll keep an eye out for potentials
>>2079010I mean do you want me to tell you the truth
"Wofür ist das?"-EditionAnything public transport in German-speaking Europe is fair game.
Mal was kurioses:https://www.merkur.de/deutschland/deutsche-bahn-ice-hielt-ausserplanmaessig-zugchef-kaufte-klopapier-zr-94400246.html>Deutsche Bahn [...] kündigt häufigere Kontrollen der Vorräte an Bord an.Das Video ist das im Artikel besagte Video.
>>2078067Englisch Mutterficker tust du es sprechen
Well, this doesn't bode well...
The profane masses still think politicians actually make decisions. Oh, the poor fools.
New video by Suits-san, a Japanese railway YouTuber, who has done a night train trip from Berlin to Zurich.It's auto-dubbed, so you don't need to be able to speak Japanese.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUyIJiBbgKI&t=36
anyone know of any Taiwan-based trading/exporting company/online-store that i can use to purchase bikes (even a single bike) and import them into my shitty turdy-country?for example the Giant Escape Disc 4 costs 550 USD from the US giant website, but only like 330 USD from the Taiwanese giant website.
>>2078949I've looked into this once and it turnwd out if your cou try is like mine they will ass rape you on imports. Cronyism gotta be saved somehow.
>>2078951my country has very low import fees.
>>2078953Okay good luck then just set a search engine to taiwan and search. You'll find all sort of businesses.
Some euro shops will send you a bike without charging VAT but if you're scraping one-off purchases of $300 bikes shipping alone is going to cost more
The fundamental problem of any form of public transportation is the other people you're unfortunate enough to be forced to spend time with. Prove me wrong.Pic related
>>2067975i once transported a 3.5 feet-ish tall tree on the bus. not an enjoyable experience whatsoever but i was 14 at the time and beggars cannot be choosers
>>2076988>nothing against carsEssentially, me either. If every car had at least a 100 pound of stuff, or a SINGLE OTHER PERSON in them, let alone four, and was only going as far as a bike couldnt, id shut up a bit. I watched a guy at a body shop, hop in his lifted truck (blue lives matter flag and all), and drive it to the royal farms next door. It was such a on brand event I thought I was being ranked. I spun around and asked where the cameras were.>>2076992In a perfect world, where a vehicle is a utility, not a fashion item, you have quick and available rentals for one such occasion.
>>2066317>fundamental problem of any form of public transportation is the other people you're unfortunate enough to be forced to spend time withIf you can't stand it, you may have to move to the more rural areas.
>>2066317Pods are the right compromise but you still need a high trust society for them to work.
I had very good conversations on public transport in the past but I have never used it much and some of my beliefs changed in such a way that I now refuse public transportation alltogether.
Keep in mind this is for bikes meant to be loaded up. I guess a marketing exec at some point decided kickstands are for poors so no expensive bike can have them now, just like MTBs got stuck with Presta valves. They will literally drill 15+ holes just in case your bike bags use bottle bosses instead of straps, but outright refuse drilling 2 for a kickstand
>>2064947Recipe to get your shit stolen
>>2064947bro is literally just gonna pick up your bike and walk away with it
>>2075061the netherlands was a mistake
>>2075061Why do you hate Walkable Cities?
>>2046974every bicycle should have a kick-stand.
Old thread from 2023 finally hit bump limit >>1955863New thread. "Cycling infrastructure" is harm reduction. But not in the way you probably think. The anti-bike crowd considers riding a bicycle on public roads as an offense against the interests of motorists. An so, they wish to create infrastructure to reduce cycling (harm). Yes! Those who advocate for "separate but equal" are (whether they admit it or not) working against the interests of bicycle users:-The American Automobile Association strongly supports bike lanes-Countries that place responsibility on car drivers have 70-90% fewer fatalities per billion km traveled by bike. This is of course beyond the pale, drivers must always have total immunity. But hey, look, green paint! We solved safety!-The true purpose of bike lanes is to neutralize the opposition by corrupting the discourse. Don't support bike lanes? Then you must not care about safety!-Bike lanes have a curious pattern of appearing where they are superfluous, and vanishing as you approach potential traffic conflict zones. This way, when you get run over by a dump truck making a turn, it's your fault! You shoulda been in the bike lane that wasn't there!In conclusion: bike lane activists hate cyclists and want to eradicate cycling as a form of transportation.
>>2059451>why does anyone give medals for walking on a balance beam?>obviously having to focus more on the task due to increased complexity means you become less attentive to the task!
>>2076867>why doesn't anyone give medals for juggling to people balancing on a beam>doing two different things at once should make it easier to focus>inb4 i pretend that fiddling with the clutch is actually the same as focusing on the road and tracking traffic again
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FIm5Z3PiskI
>>2076340Its every cyclists story.
>>2076340That would only work if you're white
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
>>2076643No one wants that shit, and it's never going to run againIt was letting him put it in his back yard or getting broken up and put in a landfill
>>2073112People blame the Internet on the decline of the post office and not the fact that in the early 2000s The UPS Store and FedEx started taking over existing storefronts and expanding in great numbers. Even with that, the post office is still cheaper than them.
>>2041354i try this shit every time i boot up openttd and it never works
>>2074951>a city is worth an awful lot more than the same area of farmlandpassenger rail has less of an impact on the growth and development of population centers than it's ever had since its inception.
>>2070676That thing's seen better days
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?
>>1962645More people ride bikes today than at any point in history kill yourself niggerfaggot
>>2076946because the "responsible" adult is travelling 38 km/h on a sidewalk because he is not, in fact, responsible, and unlike a regular bicycle that's self-regulating through effort expended, electric shits take no effort so he doesn't see a secondary downside in travelling too fast somewhere that can't support it
>>2076962>travelling 38 km/h on a sidewalkBut bikes don't belong in the road??? And there is no speed limit on the sidewalk. Do you roll at Two Miles An Hour on the main road in town?
>>2076967>Two Miles An HourI liked them before they were cool
>>2076967>But bikes don't belong in the road?They belong in the road in this jurisdiction, faggot.
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?
>>2075322The nonsense you spew is genuinely impressive.
>>2071489This. A wheel has a much wider diameter, so it needs less clamping force to stop. Rim brakes are the solution. With discs, your brakes will simply slip.
>>2075322you genuinely believe that automotive disc brakes are mechanical?
>>2076916Counterpoint: hydraulic hose systems are cheap and effective
>>2076922Some of them must be
What is it about steam engine chugging sound that makes it so soothing? I really like hearing it, but I can't explain why.
>>2077468Thanks, I would like to thank MFNY's "Cherry Lime x O2 OG Kush" live rosin gummies for that shitpost
>>2077357steam engines CHUFFit's diesel engines that chug
>>2077357it's fire and water turning to steam like at home on a woodstove
Because believe it or not, steam engines are living, breathing creatures. Now I want you to imagine the immense sound this guy was making back in the day as a helper over this 4% grade
>>2077367>>2077367The harmonics of the long, individual, intake and exhaust and thus low rpm.Steam expansion causing the pipes to ring. The noises of steam condensing after being dumped into normal atmosphere. The noise of the condensate collection. High horsepower AND torque at low rpm. The work done per liter is much better because it is all mechanical, no chemical combustion stoichiometry/spark impulse/bang timing/thermal waste retarding efficiency.
What the fuck is wrong with these mongoloid slackers? They completely underschedule longhaul trains everywhere outside the NEC so almost no one can use them for shorter trips and then wonder why ridership is in the shitter. Each route should be minimum 3x a day per direction.
>>2075832How much is the NJT fare
>>1994042Might as well just live in the chicago area and stop being retarded but, it's your wallets funeral
>>1999706Americans were unironically psyopped into the status quo. The history bears it out. At the same government action tilted for cars and suburbia, it tilted against trains and cities, and a massive propaganda campaign was launched. It was very deliberately engineered to artificially inflate the consumer economy. HOWEVER, what trainfags never want to admit is that cars are legitimately useful and have their place in society. Rome had traffic problems 2000 years ago; they had traffic control in cities too small for sewers. European chariot racing predates European literature. And something that literally never gets brought up when discussing American transit policy in comparison to Japan is that Japan has abundant, profitable expressway, and actively expands them even in urban areas. They're not mutually exclusive at all. You can have high quality rail funded by station real estate, and you can have high quality expressways funded by tolls. Both modes are useful and deserve their place in society.
>>2078761Which vlogger told you that
>>1993796>The jews did this.I mean sometimes it's trueAnd trains can be enormously comfy but usually not in America. Some rural European regions used to be lovely. I'd like to go on a trip through Japan.
Mechanical perfection.Why do coastercucks, rimjobs, or mech dicks exist when you could have picrel?
>>2078077>brings you to a complete haltOnly part of that not true. The bike comes to a complete halt. You carry on without it.
>>2078078Install a seat belt so you stay with your bike, there problem solved, and while we're at it you might at well put the bike in an enclosure to keep you out of the sun, also single track vehicles tend to be less stable than 4-wheels so you might as well add an extra 2 wheels for stability, oh and while we're at it you can add an engine, gonna need all the help you can get with all that extra weight. There, now it's perfect. It's like a carriage but without the horse, or a "car" if you will.
>>2077748But the ground itself digs into your tires when you stop the wheel rotating with any other style of brake anyway.
>>2078620you aren't actually meant to skid your tires when you brake anon, if that's happening then it means you're braking way too aggressively
>>2078078seatbelt
4chan Virtual Divegrass is about to enter its 15th year with the 2026 Summer Cup, and unlike those real world soccer fans you don't need to brave American public transportation to watch.Stream: https://isthisliv.com/4cc/stream.htmlVODs: https://implying.fun//n/'s team page: https://implyingrigged.info/wiki//n/
bancage,,,has me weak.,,,comfy sidelined.,,,,,restof you /N/s,,,,getuff!
>world's longest halftime show.
smoooooothlandinng!
Well somehow we managed to make it to the Final Day, and a match against /sp/ starting at the top of the hour. The odds might seem stacked against us, but I saw the same said of the last two matches, so who knows?>>2078363Sorry about that, I'll try to do better today.
Full VODs are now up at https://implying.fun/summer26/Thank you to everyone who showed up. I'll be back after Christmas, and we'll see if we can maybe get a new player or two added to the roster.
>>2076696
Where is it? There is a mesabi range in minnesota
>>2076727Presumably that's what he meant. DMIR ore jennies had a seperate brake pipe/valve. It's called "straight air" or Orinoco retainer. There is a seperate handle on the engine to set up the brakes and it can be maintained as you use your normal automatic brake. The Orinoco *retainer* name hints at its intended use. It basically takes the place of a conductor going back and flipping some retaining valves to hold a set on cars.This system still exists today with CN keeping captive AC44C6Ms in the area(3300-3350 mostly) being fitted with the straight air handle.
>>2076727>>2076731>The Mesabi Range was known to the local Ojibwe as Misaabe-wajiw ('Giant mountain').[1][2] Throughout the Mesabi Range, Mesaba and Missabe spelling variations are found along with places containing Giant in their names.
I guess it's like allegany/allegheny/alleghany where there's a bunch of places around that drainage basin where they spammed a different transliteration onto it because there was no agreed system at the time
Can someone please explain this shit to me, an out of touch boomer who apparently isn't the right demographic to be brainwashed by my hand computer into committing suicide by I-beam? Why are today's no-good teens so eager to grind themselves into hamburger meat in front of hundreds of commuters? And apparently the thing to do is when your friend gets dismembered you run away and send a message to the group chat about this epic thing that happened, instead of calling an ambulance. It happens at least once a month.When I was a kid the naughty kids would play hookie to waste $4 worth of quarters on street fighter matches against much older kids, we didn't have these tick tocks rotting our brains. Is that what this world is coming to? Can't a kid just play a wholesome game of street fighter while smoking a cigarette and throwing up?
>>2078216>hospitalizedDamnToo bad she didn't die.
>>2078679Ow that edge
Teenagers taking stupid risks is a timeless part of human nature and since we don’t have “take this spear and sacred amulet and go hunt the bear, son” rites of passage, the darn kids will find outlets for these primal urges. How common is subway surfing around the world? I’ve read about kids in Brazil riding on the tops of commuter trains and getting pulped, will do a bit of research.
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2024/11/rooftop-train-surfing-resurges-in-rio-raising-concerns.shtmlThere’s also a popular video game in Brazil called Subway Surfers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_surfingA lot of this is “millions of Indians piled on a train” but there’s a section of recreational train surfing, with the most interesting part on post Soviet Russia.
