Wouldn't horses be more efficient than electric vehicles? We could transition to a society with high tech and low tech working together
>>2022035they are not.
>>2022036See what?>>2022037They only need grass to eat
>>2022038Yes but exactly that does not scale. Land is a limited ressource. Also increasingly intensive land use relies on the Haber-Boach process. Given the same area of land used for either any means of renewables that then fuel electric vehicles or livestock feed the renewables will easily come out on top. This is mostly because of the extremely poor efficiency of mammals doing work and of course the wheel. But also because a horse needs maintenance joules even when not doing any work. If you do the math you'll find that, sadly, the 'electric bicycle' is actually easily more environmentally friendly than a real bicycle and needs less than 15k miles to completely offset its production, assuming a typical first world electeicity mix and standard western diet. Also theres the methane issue.But the real problem is actually motorvehicles per se.
>>2022035>>2022036>>2022037>>2022038>>2022042This guy is a horse spammer. Just letting you all know. He spams on /pol/ too:>>>/pol/484807579
>portrait-full-body-of-beautiful
Why haven't you built your own bicycle, /n/? Is purchasing a $1,000 bicycle really worth it?
stealing is cheaper
>>2019831not to poors like you
Not sure how practice a bamboo bike would be, but seems like a fun project. Anyone have experience either riding or building these things?
>nobody will ever build a cool polygonal trike out of aluminum sections with a roof why even live
>>2021768where's its bamboo tires?0/10
thread for /n/ related AI-slop
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>>2019106Their helmets should each have a letter, starting with "N"
>>2019146Ai haters should die already, future is now old man
>>2021926The term AI applies to many usefull things. Generating shitty images because to 'creator' is too much of a mental cripple to draw, photoshop or photograph what he wants to portray is not one of them and shouldn't have a place in any future.
>>2021983nta but I can snap a shitty pic of my bike in about 10 seconds, it takes a good 20 minutes of fucking around with stable diffusion to make it do what I want, maybe you should actually play around with the technology because clearly you lack the intellectual curiosity to experiment with new things
Thank your grandparents for allowing them to the front of the bus and not enforcing social norms.Now nobody uses the bus.
It's 4chan, if you want to say "I hate niggers" nothing is going to happen. Is this why yimbys hate old people? Because they think they should have lynched rosa parks?
We called it progressThen the boomer living in their city home wonders why their kids are "struggling" and living 2 hours awayThey don't even notice that the only white people in their entire neighborhood are boomers like them
>>2021862>lynched rosa parksNo need, she was a paid actress. Just don't pay her and don't run the propaganda campaign.We did racial integration, but we chose social norms of niggers to be the default ones we follow.>>2021864Boomers watch Gran Torino and think Walt is the good guy. Also that car is ugly and gay as fuck, wtf is wrong with people.
>>2021867But tl;Dr to keep this on topic.That Chevy ad is right and until we solve the problem of Americans just running away from antisocial behavior, we will not have functional cities and we will be stuck in cars to drive half a mile to the store.Shit sucks, but this is the root of the problem.
Very gay thread. Kys.
What does /n/ think of tomorrow's upgraded, more inclusive bike lanes? Cagetrolls will hate this, but I for one think it is perfectly reasonable for bike lanes to be open to any vehicle that doesn't have an ICE or require a Class A CDL to operate legally. What's the point of bike lanes if nobody is going to use them!??!?
>>2019945Is the part were it's 33" wide and 10' long lost on you?
>>2019949Are you disable? Why do you need assistance in not making a fool of yourself?
>>2019953I see you have no real argument and aren't interesting in discussion. Good day.
>>2019955Bye bye clown.
in my neighborhood these things just go on the sidewalk now
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"?
>>2013058schizo detected, this person called you out >>2019813
>>2013087>>2019814>out of date and wrongI see these sorts of ubercyclist retards all the time in my area. They are covered in extremely tight smooth clothes and ride very expensive bikes. Think they're competing in the tour de france or some stupid shit. Like all the obsessive shit they do is gonna eek out an additional 0.2% more performance or somethingBlessed be you anons who don't have them where you live
>>2019824I'm sorry you're poor, but you're complaining about at least two separate issuesThe word is "eke" btw
>>2019825Retard detected
>>2018481they look the same to me
I wonder how many people here actually practice what they preach? Not many I'm sure, I can smell the the hypocrisy. Rules for thee and not for me is the rule of the internet.So let's post our walkscores and let's see how bad things really are. If any of the there numbers are under 90 you don't belong here.
>>2006118No car plus can't find a new job, current one both pays poorly and requires I either stay in the rural area I'm in or take an hour+ commute by bus to a car dependent exurb 5 days a week>>2008935>In middle or high school I wish, I'm sadly an adult that went to university during peak COVID in a field getting flooded by idiots and Indians every day
>>2014536old people are not good at judging speed or distance, that's why they shouldn't be driving but yimbys want to ban old people from taking the bus so here we are
gotta be BS. the bike lanes are completely disconnected and barely functional and most walking is beside extremely loud motorways. there is an express bus and the skytrain terminates here but 91 rider score makes no sense. also it sucks ass to drive too.
small new england city scored worse on biking than the small texas city i moved from, almost identical scores otherwise. on one hand, the hills in new england make biking considerably more difficult (but also fun); on the other hand, in new england i'm not prey to roaming packs of large dogs and lifted F-150s on the streets
>>2014909>unemployable, poorly socialized yimby neet blames indians for his inability to complete a job interview without making the interviewer send a confidential report to HR to never hire this person for anythingkino
How do these large cargo backpacks compare with a bicycle trailer? I need to haul 100kg of cargo on a bicycle
>>2019472Motorists are and always will be cucks. The motorist even depends on foreign power to move their own body, let alone their shit.Meanwhile the noble bicyclist, pedestrian and what not retain their dignity by providing own power instead of being carted around like cattle.A jeet on a moped is a motorist, no different from a mutt in a F150.
>>2019479this is a fucking stupid take
>>2019479Literally mentally ill
>>2019479the sun powers your bodyimagine being cucked by a ball of gas lmao
>>2019479retard how do you think your food gets delivered to yougo look up the first law of thermodynamics and be horrified that your cuck shell body can only recycle matter and energy from another system
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.
>>2019571That's not riding though, it only measures one aspect, wind resistance. If you put a dampener on your bike it will also be measurably slower in this test.
>The purpose is to neutralize high frequency low amplitude oscillationsbut how, and why?the human body is a gigantic mass damper, gotta think in terms of physics this little guy is going to do the % of work it weighs against the human body. so like if it weighs 250 grams or half a pound, on a 150lb rider 0.33%? it's also not connected in series with any spring so what the hell is it dampening?
>>2019204Everybody at MSA has jumped on the hype train lmao.
>>2021430Picture explains how it works for a building, but it works the same on the suspension by replacing the pendulum with a spring. Basically the suspended mass vibrates at the same speed as the mass it's attached to, but with enough delay to be out of phase. The vibration energy of the large mass is being damped by the relative displacement between it and the suspended mass.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhNjfNUOUo8The reason it's being considered alongside regular dampers is because there's too much unsprung mass relative to the total mass of the bicycle for a bike suspension to be able to absorb road irregularities without bouncing all over the place. It also has the plus side of being tunable for the specific frequency at which the tires bounce, while a regular spring + damper works more like a low pass filter.The human body can work as a mass damper if the rider contracts and extends the legs at just the right time to counteract the oscillation, but that's impossible for frequencies higher than 1 hz or so, far below the response of the tires.
tuned mass damper is such a pseud tier goal, what we need is an active mass amplifier to increase cornering agility, not slow it down with damping
Here is mine:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2lT4oE4DxEJust do it:https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=cW8VLC9nnTo
>>1977726Flobots - Handlebarshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLUX0y4EptA
Guile's ThemeKyle Athaydehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB4dK5RQgB4
リコリス・リコイル ED 花の塔 TV-SIZE さユり Lycoris Recoil [ピアノ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX6Co2W9GIo
>>2017293wow, that's fucking terrible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQheJzi6x3c
Are there any examples of 21st century steam locomotives? Not preserved historical steam engines made in the 19/20th century but original 21st century steam engines.It doesn't matter if it's standard gauge or minimum gauge.
The Bluebell literally just finished a replica of an LBSCR Atlantic.https://www.bluebell-railway.com/special/beachy-head-launching-britains-newest-locomotive/
>>2013835UK has a special love of steam
>>2005166A guy named David Wardale actually tried to build an entirely new class of steam locomotive in the 2000s that would be used to haul luxury excursions. The project got pretty far, detailed technical drawings were made and they were able to use computers to calculate its approximate performance, but he was unable to find steady financing.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5AT_Advanced_Technology_Steam_Locomotive
>>2019566How much would it have cost?
>>2019567A lot, they never actually around to finalizing the design, let alone the cost per locomotive. It would have easily run into the tens of millions of dollars because of the need to fabricate custom parts
How do you deal with heat when biking?I planned for a long ride today but called it quits after 4 hours. I went through 5 gatorades and a couple of granola bars but still developed a strong headache and painful leg cramping. It was only 84F
>>2016046good for them. my car is hot pink and it brings much joy to the community
>>2018158Stoptouchingkids,,,,,,,,,,,,
as long as you stay moving it cools you down some
>>2013105>be in Florida >ride in 95f+ excluding humidity >120-160 miles a week on a fixie Hmmm so I can out ride doped up tweekers? Really looking forward to the fall.
Hell has frozen over: a New York Central locomotive will be returned to a working, operation-ready state.https://railfan.com/new-york-central-4-8-2-mohawk-to-be-restored-to-operation/>ELKHART, Ind. — The Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society announced Wednesday that it had acquired New York Central L-3a “Mohawk” 3001 and planned to restore the 4-8-2 locomotive to operation for use on its popular Indiana Rail Experience excursions. >The 3001 is the largest surviving NYC steam locomotive and the only member of the L3a class to escape the scrapper’s torch. The locomotive was under the care of the City of Elkhart, Ind., and has been on display at the National New York Central Museum for decades.>FWRHS owns three other steam locomotives, most notably Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 765, which it has operated since the 1970s. For the last few years, it has managed the Indiana Rail Experience, an excursion operation on the Indiana Northeastern Railroad, which has trackage in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. Much of that track is former NYC, meaning locomotive 3001 will be right at home. NYC 3001 will also join the fleet of seven Budd streamlined cars built in 1941 for the NYC “Empire State Express” and purchased from Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum in 2023.>The group estimates that it will take $4.3 million to restore the locomotive to operation and FWRHS has issued a $100,000 challenge grant with the goal of raising $500,000 by May 3, 2025. Donations can be made online at AmericanLoco.org. FWRHS is also encouraging people to join its pledge list.
>>2021403Badass
>be me>ride Amtrak for cross-country tour across the United States>have lunch>can't have a burger and friesExplain yourselves Americans.
>>2016578>My Dream trip would be DC-Chicago-San Fran-Seattle-Chicago-NYC-DC.That's not a dream, that's a nightmare
>>2016555>I've only done a couple of trips involving hotels and it was a whole shitshow making sure the plane lined up with the hotel booking and there were literally no vacancies when I arrived so it had to all be in advance.Are you retarded? It's not difficult booking hotels and flights. Any functioning adult should be able to do it all on short notice or day of.
>>2019332I mean if they had a train following Sherman's march to the sea i'd take that trip, but sadly no such train.
>>2007885Are air fryers even any good with fries?
>>2021494Not quite as good as an actual fryer, but if you make sure to salt and oil them well it’s pretty close.
post soviet or russian trains from the post-soviet countries
