does anyone have some good recs? i don't like the concept of electricity in my bike. picrel is sold by several sellers on amazon and aliexpress but i'm not sure who's the OEM.
Someone made an analog one a few years ago but it was ANT+ I think or BTLE or whatever
>>2078009The only way you can have RPM and speed measured by the same dial is if the model is locked to a specific wheel diameter. Different wheel diameters have different relationships between RPM and speed, and you need completely different gauge markings.If it didn't claim to display RPM on the gauge, I might not have noticed, but it's 100% non-adjustable/tunable.>5,000 m / hr divided by (400 RPM times 60 minutes in an hour) = 2083 mm per revolution>2083 mm per revolution = 66.3 cm wheel diameter or about 26 and 1/8th inchesHope that exactly matches your bicycle and you don't care about things like tire wear or inflation pressure.
>>2078014i don't care about rpm if it's the wheel's rpm. now if it can somehow measure the pedals's rpm (cadence) that's a different story, it would be like the rpm gauge in a car.
>>2078015im like 90% sure these are just third shift/b-grade qa fail units off of motorcyclesthey probably work fine but after looking into them myself a few weeks ago it's a lot of cabling and weirdness that's probably not worth the SOVL of a mechanical gaugeif you dont want a battery operated thing you could try to figure out a stator/rotor setup to do it without needing a battery like engines use for their timing and tach but that might lose you enough energy to magnets that you can feel it>>2078014good models have a tuning screw and you can probably just replace the faceplate with the actual numbers on it. it should always measure RPM accurately (that is what it is actually measuring, with a little spring loaded clutch thingy right at the axle) but you can figure out that function for RPM to actual wheel speed and sharpie in new numbers on a piece of paper you stick to it>tire wearyou're losing max like 2.99mm before your tire is unserviceable junk>inflationjust keep your tires inflated??Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
post examples of road construction, transit route planning, intersection management, and other retarded city council decisions even the most cagebrained cannot defend
>>20778100 stars they had no phones and some dude in an altima called me gay
Frontage roads were a mistake
>>2077544Every country is retarded in their own way.The french, italians and iberians are the least worst.
>>2077807americans are functionally braindead
>>2077807>lifestyle centre>>2078018>americanAnon, I...
SS United States to be sunk, creating the world's largest artificial reef. RIP to one of the greats.
>>2076176if he intervened the result would be $40 trillion moved around on polymarket by mysterious accounts linked to the inner circles of the regime, several hundred dead USCG, the state of arizona ceded to mexico (spun as a glorious victory by the government-controlled media), and the price of basic food staples doubling in the next three months (but actually that's a good thing!)
>>2076176Eh...suppose it could be fixed after he's gone.>>2076177Whatever it takes. Really wanna take a boat instead of a cattle car plane around the world. It hilariously being americas huge, ancient hog would be too funny.
>>2071303So it's July now and there's still no date set. Okaloosa county said they've finished cleanup and they redid the agreement between them and the Army Corp of Engineers but now there's a requirement for preservation work including 3D laser scanning of the entire ship before sinking and after sinking
>>2077172it's never gonna happen, is it?
>>2021031>>2057183Ocean liners are inefficient because they're designed for luxury and go too fast. A proper modern ocean liner would be a few times more efficient than taking a plane, but only for people who can work remotely while onboard. You have to think of it as a real form of transit and not a vacation.>but they have to eat They have to eat whether they're on the ship or not.
Now that wider tires on road bikes are the default and you can barely even find a rim brake bike for sale anymore (other than at the antique store), how long before Big Cycling realizes there's no more upgrades to sell and if they want to continue selling bikes now they have to promote thin, high pressure tires and turn of the century frames as an improvement (complete with convincing-looking data presented by convincing-sounding "engineers")
>>2065818The "twheel" 's time has come.....
>>2074408name one non-pedal vehicle that does this
>>2076154
>>2077935CAUGHT YA BITCH
>>2076154If dirt bikes go offroad why don't they have pedals?
The Amtrak redemption arc continues?>https://media.amtrak.com/2026/04/amtrak-takes-big-step-towards-new-long-distance-trains/>It’s official! We’ve started the procurement process for Amtrak’s largest-ever Long Distance train order.>Our customers deserve the best, and this new fleet will move us full speed ahead into a new era of American train travel.>We’ve issued a formal request for suppliers to bid on the new Long Distance fleet replacement contract. Interested carbuilders are now preparing their proposals for submission. Following an extensive evaluation, we plan to announce our selected supplier by the end of 2027. >This once-in-a-generation fleet replacement program was developed in close coordination with the Federal Railroad Administration, with the goal of modernizing overnight and cross-country travel for a fleet that includes many cars today approaching nearly 50 years of operations.>The program calls for more than 800 new railcars across 14 routes.
>>2077832I heard an interesting argument the other day: Highways are subsidized so Amtrak should get a matching subsidy.
>>2077859Highways are paid for by taxes on gasoline. What kind of taxes should cover Amtrak?
>>2077867what cagebrains actually believe
>>2077870Highways are funded more because they are a powerful catalyst for (taxable) commerce in a way that amtrak is not.
>>2077859>i heard retarded drivel so i'll repeat itok
I saw there's threads of any kind but not for the most important part of the bike, the seat.So this it will be a /bsg/ Bike seat generalTell me your most comfortable seat, because I got a shitty standard one that break my ass
>>2074136Cant believe this thread is still up. Crazy board...Anyways thanks for the rec anon, i bought a WTB speed and hated it but returned it for a Volt which is really comfy. Planning my first 60km ride this weekend. Cheers
Hell, I ride the ass hatchet
>>2074543>brooksI bought it the other day, going to collect the package now. I have done my research, apparently it's really fucking good, and has no break in, also weather resistant. My issue is that apparently it chews through pants, but this is disputed.
>>2074543My used mountain bike came with one that seemed to be brand new. I tried to deal with it for a few rides hoping either the seat or my ass would break in but even with padded shorts it was miserable. I've got a WTB Silverado now and it's much better for me. Maybe if I spent a lot more time on the C-17 it'd eventually get good but I can't deal with that shit.
>>2077828Little update, doubt anyone cares, but did a few rides with it so far and I really like it. It feels like a harder version of the B17 which I also have. Keeping an eye out for holes.
>bikes are either chinese slop or overpriced euro brand tax slopwhat is unironically the Casio of bike brands? Giant?
>>2077687those arent MTBs and they arent from the 90s
>>2077687nothing about those are "mountain bike", those are just cruisers someone put a bunch of bags on (and mtbs aren't for cargo anyway, theyre for xtreem sportz)
>>2077838Ok ok we get it, you don't know what you're talking about and arr just trolling. You don't need to drive the point home.
>we-tard>projection>accusation in a mirrorMany such cases
>>2077848you should work on not replying to yourself, anon. it's not good for your mental health.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKzuHZoRguYBitter, smug failed bike shop owner lectures everyone on why his entitled customers were the real problem and why you really do need a new $3k carbon road bike instead of just a chain and cables for your old steel beater.
>>2077104>pretends running a cable is difficult and worth $450 plus taxIt... It is though!
>>2077209Stop replying to yourself
>>2073873I want to minimize sweating and use the preferential lanes.
>>2077360There he is. The incredible retard.
>is that a Walmart bike?>with disk brake >in my shop?
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.
Safa just pay for the ad
>>2076189If you don't want him to get attention why are you bumping a dying thread you retard
>>2076191>why are you bumping a dying threadstupid retard
I'm pretty sure I saw SAFA yesterday alone at a cafe but he wasn't on a Scott, does he always have a Scott?
>>2077839Buy an ad safa
I just want to ride around in a steel frame bike, and yes I want to watch youtube videos describing how to improve, modify and enjoy them more. No, I don't want to constantly see some dipshit on my recommendations page telling me obvious things about downtube shifters being the "big secret" that the bike industry is hiding from us, or that I need tubeless 650b tires to truly enjoy riding. I am really tired of these types making slop content that is thinly veiled advertising, and/or "Hot Takes" on topics really no one in the real world gives a shit about.
>>2077774>Carbonfaggoisms>muh'aero>Stop enjoying things that costs a quarter of what I paid for my Cervelo!
>>2077772Thanks for the bump!
>>2077760that's how 2025+1 youtube works unfortunately. Unless you make clickbait content for retards your videos will get moved into the shadow realm
>>2077830>2025+1More like 2010+16
GUYS BIG NEWS SHIMANO ATRUS 6 SPEED WORKS WITH MICROSHIFT SHART THIS IS GONNA CHANGE EVERYTHING
What kind of used hybrid should I buy with $400? I want to ride on shitty roads in Texas and over to Mexico for errands
>>2076598>proprietaryYou mean actually innovative free market parts that aren't shackled by chinese OEMs?
>>2076605>You might as well go full mail order, for probably less.This and fully this, it is literally insane to expect someone to buy a bicycle and then have to take it to a fully stocked garage just to get the head tube angle correct. Not everyone can weld and it's unreasonable to have to modify your bike just so it fits you at all.
>>2076610No. You want Shimano's and maybe SRAM's innovation and maybe chinese OEMs that are blindly copying them. A chinese flying pigeon is also a bad idea., Check out the c-dale lefty fork in previous pic for what you don't want, particularly for someone like OP at the shitheap hybrid level with no wrenching ability..
Giant Escape Disc 4
Look no further OP, kino is back on the menuhttps://cambriabike.com/products/ceres-ub2-700c-9-spd-hybrid-mtb-bike-gray
I NEED electronic shifting!It's SOOOO much better and faster and smoother than cable shifters!Shimano please take my one thousand american dollars to make my shifting divine forever! *(*- until next iteration of Di2 releases)
>>2056412iconic post that I've come back to for months
>>2056523hey at least they use shimano B01S pads>idk why disk brakes have so many pad shapes
>>2076097it's pretty much all to trap you into a Device Ecosystem
>>2075776why did they get rid of it
>>2077766good things are bad actually
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.
>>2045216that rear fork looks actively unsafe
>>2033307Technology is only ok if it's cars
>>2019204Anyone else notice that the op's title stands for TOTAL MAMIL DEATH and this thread is just a subtle dig at road biek enjoyers?
>>2074296I thought that went without saying
I visited a time dealer recently and they had no idea what I was talking about when I mentioned tuned mass dampers
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.
>>2077726nta but "titanium has a dull ride" is a common meme and people generally attribute that to flexibility though I can see how there could be other explanationsalso I have a pair of ti eyeglasses and it most certainly can deform without failing
>>2077728well it aint glass but you dont wanna make actual springs out of ti either
>>2077728>anon's 1mm thick eyeglass frames can be bent, therefore titanium is as soft as lead and as springy as steel
>>2077735No? I didn't say that? In fact it is somewhat springy but soft as lead? Where on earth did you pick that up? Clearly you scored quite low on your verbal SAT.
>>2077726you have absolutely no idea what the fuck you're talking about. Titanium frames are known for being very flexy. People don't like titanium forks because they flex too much.
What is it that makes a BSO a BSO and not a Bike? Can a BSO be elevated to Bike status with upgraded components?Is the term BSO throw around too liberally to even be taken seriously anymore?
>>2077440I'm an MTB guy so I can actually point to some stuff that makes that a BSO. -The long, straight head tube is a big one, it makes it effectively impossible to upgrade the front fork, and judging by the style of stem it'd be hard to install better bars too - and those ones are comically high and forward, ironically making it appropriate for someone with ape-like proportions.-The seat tube looks like it'd be difficult to put a dropper in, especially because there's almost certainly no routing for a cable.-It's a 2x or 3x drivetrain, which is obsolete for MTBs, and there's a good chance the bottom bracket isn't a common size that would allow you to swap to a more modern drivetrain. -It's QR front and rear, which makes it difficult to install better wheels or anything related to them and is arguably dangerous on an MTB with disc brakes, especially on the front.-Good luck getting a replacement derailleur hanger when you bend/break it. I mentioned dated geo in my early post, but really I guess I'd say that dated design in general is a big sign, and that's basically a poorly made copy of a bike from the early 2000s and if it conforms to any standards it'll be ones from back then, and even when stuff is available in those sizes it's usually just OE replacement, as I learned the hard way when I tried to modernize an actual good '90s MTB a few years ago.
why did i check this thread after i brought my $400 LTWOO-equipped BSO
>>2077690we told you not to buy it in the other thread and you bought it anyway, dumbass
>>2077690looks perfectly cromulent to me
>>2077703>anon teaches me a wordDoesn't happen very often. Many thanks.
