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>>2073572also, you stand the bike up on very subtly uneven ground, or there's a medium-power breeze, or both, and the wheel turns sideways and the bike falls and slams into the concrete.>>2073561they confer absolutely no benefit that you can't get from leaning the bike on something upright, or just laying it down on the non-drive side (chain and gears up.)
new baek >>2073626new biek >>2073626
>>2073171Turn it into a hardtail mtb with an orange fox fork.
>not a single omafietsfaggot thread
go out and do some centuries
notrash,,,extend range,,,Victory!
Is riding on top end groupsets if you're not a top end cyclist stolen valor? Or is this sour grapes?What groupset would you ride if you could get any groupset you wanted for free, but when/if you sold the bike you would have to price it as whatever groupset you ride now. That is, if your financial circumstances were no different and you were subject to the same "rules" as you currently as in terms of other people judging (because we all know unlimited wealth begets shamelessness), what do you choose?
>>2058684I'm shopping for a car and I want something less NPC than a camry THOUGH
>>2068151only when you stop being a nonce
>>2038740i thought i wouldnt care but>taking bike for test ride after some sicc mods>bike path is one of those just-a-painted-lane things, one on each side of the road>some fatass dentist on a Trek with 900 bottle bosses (nothing on them) wearing lycra) not covering his asscrack or gunt) with the typical muh aero no toob is actually round frame is in front of me >he's cranking away at a billion rpm in 1st fucking gear>leaves the bike path to make an illegal turn (turning off the solid white, into traffic, over a double yellow, to go to the opposite side of the street)>think it's whatever, it's spring, such things are normal>he stops pedaling and the thing sounds like a fucking chainsawDisgust, Instant, Type II (Saveur de Setsui No Hado)
>>2073552>anon riced out his bike>anon sees some guy out enjoying his own riced out bike>anon gets mad for some reasonI'm tempted to think "oh you're just mad because he's fat" but if he was skinny you'd complain about lanklets or some shit, what are you so mad about and what does any of it have to do with super record?
>>2073554it really was just the hub. some fat dentist can drop 5.2k on a "racing" bike that uses teh same entry level shimano slop a wal mart bike does and i will merely chuckle at him behind his back about his poor financial choices. something about the incredibly loud/aggressive sounding hub was the clincher thoughthoughbeit my own bike is also loud as fuck but that's because parts of it are visibly clanking around and it sounds that way due to LOW performance. the idea that another bike that's supposed to be "good" and yet also sounds like the denouement of "Hustle Bones"* is dumb ass shit. i will admit it is irrational and probably more motivated by my hatred of modern bike and bike accessory manufacturers than the riders/(L)users thereof* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCgxi-h1PoI
Can they become applicable for the air equivalent of trailer car? Can they help people flight in slow but somewhat more comfy travels? Or is it a pipedream?
>>2068997They are both tethered, honey.....
>>2071449brainlet
>>2071471>classic projection
>>2065173They bump into randomshit at awkward moments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fwj5ZsqAg8&t=2sI think of the early airships America had only one survived.
>>2073342>I think of the early airships America had only one survived. Yes, because USS Los Angeles was built by Zeppelin themselves. All the others (Shenandoah, Akron, Macon) were poorly-made copies, with various design flaws.
>Less than a week left until shutdown>Only a decade run>Only one line completed out of several proposed>Underperformed despite a Union Station connection and being in one of America's best transit citiesSo, what went wrong here?
>>2072167The Portland streetcar was a huge success (for a streetcar) which made every clueless city think if they dumped a streetcar into their downtown, it would magically become Portland (of twenty years ago).
>>2068940>So, what went wrong here?Trolleys cause too many moral dilemmas.
>>2072330That's why streetcars usually have multiple cars. It can split and kill everyone on both tracks, completely solving the moral dilemma.
>Less than two months since the death of the DC Streetcar>Proposals popping up this week to make the "Gold Line", a rapid bus connecting Union Station to RFK via the corridor of the former DC StreetcarWhy not just revive the streetcar, charge for it, and actually realize its potential instead of doing this? I don't foresee the "Gold Line" being much different in how it goes except for maybe being unaffected by poorly parked cars.
>>2072167>atlantaFix'd
F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIVfY2UJD6w
>a thread died for this
>>2073462transportation
Somewhere beside the sea
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?
>>2071481Looking like an antique means it looks good. Looking good is nice. I only quarrel with those who claim that they also work better than dick brakes, or worse, that liking brakes that work well makes you a bad cyclist
>>2071483Rim brakes definitely don't work better, but I take issue with people pretending they don't work at all. I never understood the meme of saying they don't work in the rain. I was able to setup up cantilevers with cheap pads to stop me going down hill in the rain. That's not even with salmon kool stop pads, and it was on the first bike I ever did work on myself.
>>2071484Of course they work in the rain, just like non antilock brakes work in the snow, but strangely everyone seems to agree that "works better" is a compelling reason to buy something over something else.
Why did bikes take so long to het disk brakes? Cars have had them for a long time. Clamping onto the rim of the wheel to stop is the dumbest shit imaginable.
>>2071488The amount of clamping power you need to break effectively with good modulation on 140mm dicks is astronomical compared to the amount of clamping power you need on the outer rim of a 700c wheel. So hydraulic is really the only way to go, and the bike industry was coasting on cable break inertia. Hydraulic breaks came out for mountain bikes a long time ago, but that is a simpler system to switch over, because the breaks are their own separate thing. A road bike has a combined breaking/shifting assembly. So you have to switch essentially all of the most expensive and complex parts of the bike. And that costs money to finance that initial jump, which is why the first systems were exclusive pro-tier setups.The other thing that accelerated the push was the expanded availability of carbon fiber parts. With carbon becoming more affordable it was possible to make wide, stable, gentle-riding, grippy, stiff, aerodynamically efficient wheels without a major weight or cost compromise. But this rendered most of the unc break designs incompatible with the build. Since a new set of breaks was going to be needed anyway, suddenly it made sense to put dicks on everything.
Front mech edition Resources:https://www.sheldonbrown.com/https://www.parktool.com/en-us/blog/repair-helphttps://www.youtube.com/@RJTheBikeGuy/videoshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx5GcsjMOSsNeutral Support News on Youtubeprevious thread:>>2070403
>>2073532i use a 10$ set of ski goggles i got on sale when it's cold, or my old shooting glasses when it is warmeven when it's warm i sometimes prefer the goggles, it's mad dusty out sometimes and the shooting glasses work fine for rain/snow/splash dont do shit against updrafted super fine road crud
>>2073519>I don’t want clip insYou do you just don’t know it yet
>>2073532Should be more or less okay (like everything in same price category) as long as the frame fits your head and the arms don't push your temples too much. Cheap chinesium ones might have shitty coatings and issues with polarization. t. cheap glasses enjoyer
>>2073519I rode them for a few years and I really liked the way they gripped my feet, which was excellent. my issue with them is the same as all foot retention: I ride urban, so I don't mount my bike, clip in one foot, slowly get to speed while I dick around with the other foot, then ride a century and dismount. when I see my window in traffic, I need to fucking go and hammer it. also, I'm potentially dismounting for lights and whichever stop signs it's too trafficy to blow, and if I want to go and skip clipping in for a while, they drag and could snag the ground. so it's flat pedals for me.aside from it not matching my use case, the only thing that bothered me about powergrips was the adjustment was with a nut and bolt. so if you don't wear the same pair of shoes always, it may not fit different pairs. short of busting out a wrench and screwdriver and spending 5 or 10 minutes readjusting them every time, you either must wear the same shoes always, or ride with them upside down and hear them drag when you're cornering all day.
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I flew down to the Bay Area to take a journey on the Niles Canyon Railway's mysterious and rarely traveled Eastern branch aboard the M200 Railbus. The last of its kind still operating, the M200 once served the California Western Railroad as a literal schoolbus for children. Today is its first publicly available excursion in several years.
think of this as an express flexi-bus
And of course back to the railbus
If I went around in the heaviest most inefficient shoes possible to make a statement, people would rightly think I was a tryhard, trying to show off how strong I was, or otherwise basically see it as impractical, quixotic, or foolhardy. Normal people prefer lighter shoes that are more comfortable and efficient. Especially elderly women, people who aren't fitness freaks, etc.Yet if I do the same with a bicycle, all the urbanists want to suck my cock for being "practical". With bicycles, riding something comfortable, efficient, that doesn't ride like a boat anchor, is tryhard, show-off behavior. The least practical bike is seen as practical down to earth stuff for normals, and the most practical bike is seen as status-seeking show-off sports equipment for the very strong. Casuals belong on bikes that convert most of your pedal input energy into rattlecan noises and heating up the tires. Bikes that are reasonably effective at "bike things" are classified as competitive hobby gear.When did this mentality take root and who is responsible?
>>2070179Outside of citibikes being super stiff 25 kilo bricks so that rapscallions don't toss them into rivers for sport, as opposed to floppy steel stepthroughs weighing half that, they are pretty similar indeed. Upright, undergeared and usually undermaintained bikes that go, but just about.
>>2070654They're heavy so they don't break. And the gearing is fine for what they weigh. You wouldn't be able to do much with higher gearing, and the low gears are low enough for most hills. If you're trying to climb fort george hill or something the drivetrain inefficiency will get to you before any gear ratio inadequacies are a problem
>>2070179>>2070651Had my dad take a picture of my old bike, he has it in storage. So I used to ride this, and now I ride citibike to commute, and I feel comfortable telling you they’re very similar
>>2070660>They're heavy so they don't break.lead is heavy. i guess lead never breaks.
>>2070684If they made a lead bike and sold it for $5000 I'm sure some unracers would buy it just to show how they're not like those elitist "cyclist" snobs
>tfw you will never live to experience space transportation
>>2067720Thank fuck.
It might be interesting to look out of the window, but there's nowhere to actually go to and that's never going to change. It would be like getting a train in Scotland.
>>2067720Maybe if you're Poor.
>>2067723>a return to small communities, cottage industry, and outside influence being not just undesirable ethically but actually expensiveAIEEEEEEEEEEE
>>2073213thisimagine not even having enough money to go on a spacex suborbital ride
I miss this lil dude like you wouldn't believe
>>2073124they look so happy together...better times, man.. better times.
>>2073071you never met that nigga in your life
>>2073124is this /ss/?
>>2073132SIEG HEIL
>>2073308This is when humanity peaked.
I’ve always wanted to live the mid-20th Century experience of riding a Pullman Sleeper hauled by a steam locomotive roaring through the night and while I have been fortunate enough to ride steam excursions many times and even do an overnight ride on an original Pullman car, I’ve never been able to do them together.Is there anywhere in the world where I can actually still take an overnight train hauled by a steam locomotive? The closest I’m aware of is the modern Orient Express being steam-hauled through Hungary as a one-time thing in 2017 and the Cumbres and Toltec possessing a restored tourist sleeper coach (idk if it’s ever been used in that role).
>>2068932>bl00dyWhy?
>>2068933Having a mishmash of non-matching rolling stock isn't exactly a pretty sight. SP 4449 and N&W 611 used to haul their original coaches and looked better for it but the consists have been broken up and dispersed to different owners since the 90s.Kinda sad if you ask me. I'd love to see 4449 in particular pull a recreation of the original Coast Daylight route from Los Angeles to San Francisco using its original cars (or at least ones that have been appropriately repainted to match it).
>>2068027>there arent coaling stations everywhereUP 4014, SP 4449, and N&W 611 have all successfully gotten around this by using additional tenders/conversion to oil-firing (coal was already going out of style when they were built).
>>2067924Steamy, dreamy... creamy?
>>2067924Long story short: insurance kikes and bean counter kikes.
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?
>>2071010>just as lethal as a carskill issue. just let off the throttle, moron. they would have died on a bike too making an equally dumb maneuver
>>2071013Yes, learning to pilot an e-bike, or really any kind of vehicle, is a skill issue. I'm glad we're all on the same page here.
>>2071016okyay <3
>>1966530>When you lump in the regular average joe cyclist to the stravafaggot cyclists>Lol you bought a Cervelo?Ok, and?>You have a dork diskOk, and?>Lol aero barsOk, and?>That's not the right bike for this eventOk, and?Point is, who gives a fuck what other people think. Enjoy the ride, the weather, the scenery. Who cares what neon spandex wearing faggots thinks. Let them seethe and allow you to live rent free in their heads. Hope it tanks their Strava stats.
>>2071074imagine not riding a Cannondale Dutch Bike with the Dork Disk removed and front rim brakes only. LMAOing at you life from my Brooks Saddle. Enjoy your anal damage from using "straight" bars you fucking homo.
Why does a graffitied train have to be taken out of circulation immediately? How much does it cost in your country to clean up one graffiti piece? In Finland, the average cleanup cost is 600-700ish.
>>2058163For the health of society. Should be armed guards shooting taggers.
>>2058177it's nonsense
>>2070767>*coughs times square
I love bombing. I was thinking about taking it up myself, but I just don't have the time at the moment.
>>2073276>I love bombing.same
