Hell why didn't all of the world? One stop every two or three blocks, is that so hard to understand?
Hell why didn't all of the world? One stop every two or three blocks, is that so hard to understand?
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Hell why didn't all of the world? One stop every two or three blocks, is that so hard to understand?
After 4 months, the previous thread >>1427890 has finally died.
How much of that is in the weekends?
Press F to pay respects.
>I support immigration
Coronavirus is a hoax edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHWBU6rFU40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FOIKDG61Kc
https://youtu.be/KnyXZDB_bHY
so we havent had one of these in a while, ill start with roller questions.
1. do they eat your wheels? i've found conflicting info on the net
2. any special features to look for when buying? rollers material, shape etc?
personally im looking at the tacx anthares..mainly to do aerobic rides/recovery.
GO!
Burwood Station in Melbourne, on the Alemein line. The only line to use 3 car sets instead of 6. Almost no patronage outside out morning and afternoon commutes. Once i found a good patch of magic mushrooms next to the station building.
7/10
Do you wear it?
Do you judge people with/without it?
Do you have helmet laws in your city/state/country?
Give us your height, location, intended use of the bike and budget. We'll ignore you.
resources?
LBS, chainreactioncycles, wiggle, bikesdirect, bikeexchange, gumtree, craigslist, Diamondback and Raleigh corporate discount portals
>plagiarized from archive
If you look at a used bike, check the blades of the fork aren't bent back from the line of the head tube (crash), the frame for hairline cracks, the bearings all spin smoothly with no play, the wheels are straight and have evenly tensioned spokes, the cog teeth aren't badly worn (compare to each other and look for shark toothing), the cables aren't cracked, it brakes and shifts well and check the derailer cage doesn't move much when you wiggle it. Moderate surface rust is ok.
Most things aside from frame damage are just haggling points.
Take cash with you and haggle in person to get the best price.
I've always thought they were real cool though and rode one once over a theme park as a kid.
Would anybody else like to have a cable car thread with pics and potential stories?
Old Thread: >>1386439
had PTO put in for a May ride from Seattle to Vancouver. and had tentative plans for Boston to Montreal in August.
stay inside, clean your fixed gear bike, lube your gold track chain, order some rollers
"Giants of the Past" Edition
Previous thread
>>1416251
Featured
SA, NT - GM29 pulling a Trans Australian at Rawlinna
VIC - L1167 at Caulfield hauling coal
QLD - 1556D and a 1720 class pull The Sunlander through Yabulu
NSW - 8170/G518 at Central off duty from the Sydney Express (SEX)
WA - X1005 pulls an Australind through Byford on the way to Bunbury
TAS - X17 pulls a Tasman Ltd service towards Byrnie
NZ - DC 4087 on Wairapara Service heading North, south of Naenae, Wellington
I've been riding for a month now and I always follow all the laws, keep well to the side of the road, keep up a good pace and always indicate etc.
Never had any problems until now but I went out today and some cager honks at me when I'm literally doing nothing wrong (and then is so seething he honks again when overtaking me lmao). Then 5 minutes later some chav riding on the back of a moped flips me off and calls me a wanker. Both times I didn't even react at all because I knew I wasn't doing anything wrong and I don't give a shit if someone else is mad.
Does this happen to everyone?
Also before anyone asks I'm not some pretentious lycrafag I'm just wearing normal clothes on a budget bike
Previous thread: >>1430662
Can't they just do what actual major cities do and put a metro stop there? Imagine walking from the dead end of this lot in dry 110 degree drought weather.
What do you do, /n/? Oh and she's 163cm and 49kg, all slow twitch.
Is this true? Either I risk being mowed down by car or get a ticket? My city is one of the top 50 for automobile accidents in America.
post stories and photos
Road sign in NZ - Be Kind Stay Calm
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/gag/ is dedicated to all the pilots and pilot applicants out there, and although the name suggests otherwise, airline, military, and charter discussion is welcome. Keep it on topic, keep the shit throwing to a minimum, no nudes. No bikefags allowed :^)
Old thread hit image limit so post your airports thread #17 Starting with AMS
What have you picked up lately ?
How will coronavirus effect the market?
Is it time to buy?
Will dying boomers let go of their Delta v 1000s finally?
Wal Mart will be selling sick gravel bikes in the less than two years.
All this niche shit is over. The market is going to destroy surly and every other hipster brand. It's over
What should I look for? What information do I need to know to pick a good bike to buy?
All demolished for a freeway.
>>1422961
For me, it's Buffalo.
You can vote in this years poll here:
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>What is this
4chan-wide memesports tournament played on Pro Evolution Soccer where each board sends a team to represent them with ridiculous mods to the players, board related music before, during and after games, and all the ridiculous physics breaking and nonsensical shitposting you'd expect.
>Any toughs on the new private space race?
>How fast will the proposed Soyuz replacement of the week be crapped?
>When will ESA throw the towel and start buying American?
>What is the endgame of the Chinese?
>How come the Pajeet are the only ones left doing basic research?
>Will the pandemic burst the Starlink bubble?
>Is reusable truly cheaper or is it all just a marketing gimmick and economies of scale?
Is anything like that happening for bikes?
Regardless of not so bright political past such as USSR and socialism no historic heritage deserves to be forgotten and scrapped.
https://www.change.org/p/riga-city-council-maintenance-and-preservation-of-latvian-built-rvr-multiple-unit-trains
if you can, please sign.
Kigali, Rwanda as an example
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If you want help purchasing a new bike, post in >>>/n/bbg
>still no supersonic or suborbital commercial aviation
This timeline blows.
This is also just a me-thing, but there’s seemingly always one guy who had never ride a train before. They usually fall on their asses but that’s funny so I’m not complaining.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJZlhECK0Ps
![Turnstile_jumping_in_Moscow_Metro_(1)[1]](https://i.4cdn.org/n/1585966192640s.jpg)
The past 2-3 weeks the ridership has dropped 90% due to shelter in covid place but I still have to go to work, yet even with so few riders, there are still bums on trains, still watching as people evade fare and the agents do nothing. So this week I've been evading fare and no one has said anything. This morning an agent tried yelling at me but it's as I was leaving so I just kept walking. And even in this short week, as I walk to the turnstiles, I watch as someone else does the exact same thing so I do it as well. Even this evening as I was exiting my home station, 4 teenagers with big bikes just walk right thru the emergency exit, station agent in their cube is watching, yet do nothing.
>During the flight, Burke penned a suicide note on an airsickness bag reading "You've shown no mercy for me and my family, and you'll get none in return." He then got up and shot his boss, whom he knew was a regular passenger on the flight. As recorded by the CVR, a flight attendent rushed to the cockpit and informed the pilots "We have a problem." When they asked what was up, Burke replied "I'm the problem." and shot her, followed by the pilots. Burke then apparently pushed the control yoke so the plane began a steep dive. The CVR recorded one more gunshot, possibly Burke shooting PSA chief pilot Douglas Arthur, who was onboard the flight and may have been trying to head to the cockpit and regain control of the plane.
>PSA 1771 nosedived into the grounds of a cattle ranch at speeds exceeding 700 mph. The crash speed was so extreme that no sizable pieces of the plane other than the engine cores survived. Of the 43 people aboard, 27 were never identified. The gun was found with a piece of Burke's finger still clutching the trigger. For this reason, it was believed that he probably did not shoot himself and was alive and holding the gun to the moment of impact.
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>Prosecutors charged a locomotive engineer who worked at the Port of Los Angeles with intentionally derailing a train at full speed near the US Navy Hospital Ship Mercy because of suspicions over it and activities surrounding COVID-19
>When the officer approached Moreno he told them "You only get this chance once. The whole world is watching. I had to. People don't know what's going on here. Now they will,' the complaint alleges.
>In his first interview with the Los Angeles Port Police, Moreno acknowledged that he "did it," saying that he was suspicious of the Mercy and believing it had an alternate purpose related to COVID-19 or a government takeover, the affidavit states.
>In a second interview with FBI agents, Moreno stated that "he did it out of the desire to 'wake people up,'" according to the affidavit. "Moreno stated that he thought that the U.S.N.S. Mercy was suspicious and did not believe 'the ship is what they say it's for.'"
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/man-tried-to-derail-train-to-wreck-navy-hospital-ship-mercy-over-coronavirus-suspicions-feds-say/2339287/
Who are you trying to fool?
Everyone can tell it's not fixed gear
All seasons are just the teacher's last moments!
He flashes and you see him dies in the arms of Lisbon and Tokyo is next to him with the girl from Lisbon #casadepapel # casadepapel4
I own a 38' gaff-rigged cutter that in the past I've taken all over the world. It's very traditional (the only electricity aboard the boat is for radios, no winches save for the anchor windlass, all oil lamps, doesn't have a motor, etc.). In my younger days, I got by just fine with it. I'm far from being an old man, but my 15 years in the merchant service is starting to take its toll on my joints and back, and I'm not able to hand, reef, and steer her myself like I used to.
So, I'm wondering what exactly the legalities are for hiring help aboard a private yacht. In the past I've only ever sailed her solo or with a buddy or two that didn't expect any monetary compensation. In a couple years time I'll be retiring from the merchant service and with that nice steady pension income I think I'll be able to afford to hire a mate and a hand (and possibly a cook/boy). Does anyone on /n/ have experience with this sort of thing? I'm aware of all the legalities for merchant seamen (currently work as first officer/relief master), but I'm unsure just how much of this transfers into the private yachting world.
Is there a minimum wage that I am required by law to pay a hired hand? Must I provide the same accommodations that merchant seamen are guaranteed (certain amount living space, three square meals a day, insurance etc.)? Am I required to have a certain percentage of my crew be US citizens (this is a requirement in the US Merchant Marine due to cabotage laws)?
Any help in this area would be appreciated. I don't need anyone to spoon feed me info, just looking for help in pointing me in the right direction. The CFRs are written with merchant sailors in mind, and I know that yachtsmen are either not bound by those laws or they are simply hiring hands illegally. Thanks.
>>1367158
Anything about public or alternative transport in Switzerland, Austria and Germany is fair game.
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/12/virginia-legislature-statewide-upzoning-law-codes-ordinance/602818/
They also just bought a few hundred miles of train tracks.
The ingenious inventors at Steven finally made race sporty gravel bikes to need electricity and problematic components such as big lithium batteries, copper, rare-earths, microelectronics and a firmware. That way they can ensure you'll buy a new one in 5 years because it will be electronic waste by then. But hey, the "S" in SUV stands for "sports" too!!
You're worried about that extra 8 kilos you are carrying when the laughably small 250Wh battery died? Stevens took the hook and made the motor and battery removable so you can just ditch them into the grass to continue your fucking hardcore ride.
Turn chicks heads and wet unracers pants with the lightweight full carbon frame. Clocks in at only 5000€!
>three fucking engines
>iconic, THE face of aviation for decades
>wide, dominant body
>worst hull loss ratio of all time, still got recertified within a month
Is it, dare I say, the most Chad aircraft of all time?
Time to sell the bike
Why is it so bad?
>was very tired before I even started my ride from long rides the past few days
>on a mtb-style hybrid
>don't remember the last time I was passed by a girl
>only people that ever pass me are on road bikes, usually in suits, and I pass some of them too
>a girl (along with a guy) passes me
>they're on road bikes, dressed pretty pro
>she's tall, huge legs, perfect body for biking
>I was already very tired, so understandable
>so what, no girl passes me
>catch up to them at intersection
>trail them a while
>they slow down
>I could pass them, but I don't want to pass them then get passed back, so I just trail them a bit longer
>then they speed up
>pull farther and farther away from me
>out of sight
>occasionally when there's a long line of visibility I'll catch a glimpse right before they go around a turn or over a hill
>going hard, but still not that fast cause very tired
>finally close to them
>they turn onto road
>not that far behind them, I cross road and get onto trail going along road
>there's a bike/walk bridge over the river a little ways from here
>I'm going to beat them to it
>pedal all out
>putting about as much effort into this as I've ever put into anything
>but it's still the easiest thing I've ever done in my life
>dat adrenaline
>catch up to them
>this is it
>pass them at what feels like twice their speed
>keep going full speed
>slow down as I'm arriving at the bridge
>look back
>they're a ways back and turn off the road onto a ramp to get onto another road
>owned
>flawless victory
>ride a little more then go home and take a shower and get some much needed rest
>you could literally open the doors on these whilst they were moving at high speed (some could only be opened from the outside though)
How was this allowed back in the 90s?
>there's less cagers than there would be on a sunday afternoon
THANK YOU BASED CORONA CHAN
>be femanon
>riding my rigid 90s steel mountain bike
>dressed casually, no cycling specific clothes (unless a helmet counts)
>on a paved bike path
>enjoying the nice spring weather
>begin to come up on someone from behind
>a fat guy
>wearing full cycling kit
>including Air Attack helmet
>on an S-Works road bike
>he hears me approaching and looks back
>he quickly looks forward and starts pedaling as hard as he can
>I'm keeping pace with him without even trying
>he keeps looking back at me
>literally every 5 seconds he looks back
>looks visibly distressed, as if afraid that he is going to be passed by a girl on a mountain bike
>he keeps looking back every 5 seconds or so and this goes on for several minutes
>we get to a climb
>he slows down to an excruciatingly slow pace so I pass him immediately
>when I get to the top of the hill I look back out of curiosity, he is only a third of the way up at best
>a few minutes later, stop at one of my favorite rest stops, a nice park overlooking a lake
>about ten minutes later, fat guy passes by
>stares at me as he passes
>a few minutes later, get back on my bike and resume my ride
>not long before I've caught up to fatty again
>he looks back and sees me
>he immediately stops, gets off his bike, turns it upside down, and starts spinning the wheel as if inspecting it
>clearly pretending to have mechanical issues to justify stopping, when really he just doesn't want to be passed by a girl on a mountain bike
>ask him if he is okay or needs help with his bike
>"yes I'm fine thanx. just having a bit of a rest"
Pic related, looks almost exactly like him.
>"blah blah ZOMG IT'S SPRING!!! blah blah coronawhogivesafuck blah blah temporary store hours blah blah canceled blah blah"
>"WE'VE SEEN WAY TOO MANY PEOPLE OUT THERE RIDING WITHOUT HELMETS! BLAH BLAH MUH SAFETY BLAH!!"
>"COME IN TODAY TO CHECK OUT OUR HUGE SELECTION OF HELMETS! (unless there are more than 10 people in the store in which case we'll make you sit out on the sidewalk until someone leaves)"
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Looks really fucking sexy but I have to wonder if you are saving any weight with this production technique rather than getting a really nice oversized tubeset (which as far as i understand offer more weight savings than standard skinny steel tubes).
>No bus stops
>No metro
>Nothing at all
>Too hot to drive a bike
how can i cope with this ?
pic related the scooter i want.
>uses Di2
>doesn't wear a helmet
>has a Brooks saddle
>rides a fat bike on pavement
>cross-chains
>rides on the sidewalk
>is fat but still wears full kit
>is fat but still rides a super lightweight bike
>is fat but still rides a super aero bike
(nothing against fat cyclists btw, it's good that they are getting out and improving themselves)
>no bottle cages
>only bikes for sport; doesn't commute, tour, randonneur, go on adventure rides, or anything else
>always drives death cage to the bike trails (it's okay to do it sometimes, but you have to ride from home at least some of the time)
>only owns one bike and it's carbon
>owns multiple bikes and they are all carbon
(carbon race bikes are great but everyone needs a steel bike for commuting and general riding, if you ONLY ride to race/gotta go fast, then you are a faggot and not a true cyclist)
>people that don't carry flat repair tools and a multitool when they ride
>people that take their bike to the LBS for flat fixes
>people that don't know the difference between hybrids (good all-around bikes) and cruisers/comfort bikes (worse than Huffys)
>not knowing the brand and model of the bike they are riding
>people that use dry lube (wet lube is NOT dirtier if you dry off the chain after lubing it, and wet lube lasts longer; if you want lube for dry conditions then use wax/ceramic, not dry/teflon lube)
Someone once said this in relation to cycling. I disagree. For anyone who truly embraces cycling, especially endurance cycling, suffering is inevitable too. Someone who truly embraces cycling, a true cyclist, will not stop simply when they reach pain. They will keep pushing themselves until they are in so much pain that suffering is no longer optional. And they will embrace that suffering. For an endurance cyclist, or any endurance athlete, heaven and hell become synonymous. To an endurance athlete, heaven is the glory in going beyond one's physical and mental limits. And hell is the suffering in doing so. The suffering is the glory.
What would be the point of cycling if it didn't involve suffering?
I prefer the organic chaotic streets.
>looking to buy all arounder
>sales guy takes me over to Pugsley
>this is the true all arounder he says
>buy the Pug, use it for commute, trails, everything
>perfect.jpg
>about 3 months later tires start to get a little thin
>get flat tire
>patch and re-inflate
>tear valve stem
>go down to LBS for new tube
>oh sorry anon we don't carry those tubes, we'll have to special order them
>should be here in 3 days anon
>3 days!?!
>outraged.jpg
>this is my only transportation, how am I supposed to get to work for the next 3 days?
>not my problem, you should commute on a bike with more common components. Fat bikes are for sand and snow. That is why your tires wore out so quick, all that paved riding
>b-b-b-but your salesman said this was the best all-arounder
>Oh, he just meant it was the best for extreme conditions
>it kinda sucks for road riding/commuting
>well that is all I use it for! Maybe 10 miles a week of trails, but mostly just commuting
>will you let me return it then and get a cross bike?
>no sorry, we can't do that. We could buy it back from you, how's $130 sound?
>$130?!?! I paid $1,200 for it 3 months ago
>sorry anon, it is the best I could do for that bike. Not a lot of interest in fats around here. They're just not very practical in an ruben environment.
Fat bikes, not even once!
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