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Pic related. I've always loved the red & grey/silver with the touch of yellow. I don't know if this came before or after the blue but I think it looks a lot better. RIP Santa Fe.
>t. have used trains in Europe and was impressed being American.
discuss bike tubers
discuss bike tube drama
discuss bike tube retardation
No idea why, but my feed constantly gets spammed with Urban planners.
> 1. Is this guy for real? Or is he paid for by the Dutch government to promote the country?
> 2. Is the country really that good?
> 3. Is these videos true or just marketing and lies?
I just watched the following video and thought: So what! Most countries have this. This is nothing special
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HACaRm2KP6Q
>equipped air conditioning, restrooms and a lounge car with cafe service
>ran on the elevated tracks in chicago, then private ROW, then right on the streets of Milwaukee
>top speed of 90 mph in regular operation
>less than two hours from Chicago to Milwaukee (in the 1940s!!)
>many such cases
Public transport in the US used to be badass af
Old Thread: >>1899749
>automatic transmission available if you’re a gash
>never have to deal giving someone a ride
Motorcycles are how real men travel. Hit the open road and go wherever the wind blows you.
Post your bike and rate others
>Previous Thread
>>1942140
Technically, this was my ride on Sunday, because my ass has been sore from too much riding, so I took Monday and Tuesday off. The Sunday ride started with some public roads full of karens. First, a karen in a silver SUV got mad at me for reasons known only to her, and tried to run me off the road for some reason (my best guess is that I look very handsome in lycra, and some people take that as a personal attack) Then a few km later I pulled up behind a different karen in a white sedan who was weaving everywhere drunkenly, at least I thought she might be drunk but then I saw she had her phone in one hand and she was filming some other roadies in front of her, maybe to upload to X to share with her fellow blue checks. Oh and quite a bit later two minivan drivers (both men) got into a loud argument with one another about turn signals. It was a beautiful day, I don't know why all the cagers were so mad at everything.
So anyway my cafe stops involved san pelli (lemon flavor), and I think a cookie or something. Later another cafe served ice cream and coffee. My strava says I burned 3,333 calories.
Last thread >>1914925
Park Tool
https://www.youtube.com/@parktool/videos
Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Information
https://sheldonbrown.com
RJ the Bike Guy
https://www.youtube.com/@RJTheBikeGuy/videos
Previous thread: >>1947220
I've lost couple of pounds (due to food poisoning) and e-scooter suddenly started doing wheelies, and I thought about it... It is just a matter of time before i land on the back of my head and leave brain juice on the curb, and city will fine me for littering which i dont want.
What kind of things i've to look for? I think biggest danger is that back flip can be accelerated, and fact that on e-scooter head is much higher off the ground than on a bicycle.
Top speed is not much, around 30 kmh or so, but that doesn't really matter unless you slide off in the corner and hit a curb or smth.
I did not have locks since i was just few steps away from my bicycle.
I either take 0 locks and stay within sight of my bicycle all the time or I take:
1 x Kryptonite New York chainlock
2 x Nameless brand large U-Locks
Any similar experiences with thieves? What is your lock setup?
Maybe spike release from the back to blow out the tires.
https://files.catbox.moe/lt6891.mp4
post updates and photos.
Also, why did they even lie? It says 10 AH on the battery heatshrink, while in reality it is 7.8 AH.
That $0.1 saved resulted in 4.22 - 3.85 V disbalance in cells. No fucking wonder it did only like 12 km.
The usual interesting links:
~Trainline (thetrainline.com/) - probably the best option for overseas visitors wishing to purchase tickets.
~National Rail Enquiries (nationalrail.co.uk/) - will show you the possible options for travelling by train, and link you to the train operator's website to buy a ticket. It doesn't matter which train operator you buy a ticket from, they'll all sell you a ticket from anywhere to anywhere for the same price.
~Realtimetrains (realtimetrains.co.uk/) - track your train in real-time: ideal for keeping on top of your ETA and platform numbers.
~Openrailwaymap (openrailwaymap.org/) - for finding existing and disused railway infrastructure.
~The Man in Seat 61 (seat61.com/) - the best UK & EU (and beyond!) rail travel resource out there.
What's happening?
~Phase One of High Speed 2 (Birmingham-London): hs2.org.uk/
~Belfast Great Victoria Street re-construction as Belfast Grand Central: weaverscross.co.uk/belfast-transport-hub/
~The Transpennine Route Upgrade (electrifying the Liverpool-York mainline): thetrupgrade.co.uk/
~The Midland Main Line electrification (no website!)
~The East Coast Digital Programme: nextgenerationrailway.co.uk/
What's kind of happening, but not quite yet?
~Great British Railways: quietly pushed under the rug. Maybe smothered, or maybe it'll be brought out and dusted off after next year's general election?...
~Avanti's Class 805 and 807 trains are undergoing testing ahead of introduction this year; one or two of EMR's Class 810s are also 'on test', due to appear in 2024
~East West Rail (Oxford-Cambridge rail link) is still in the planning stage
~Crossrail 2 (north-south London rail link) is ... not likely to happen for a few decades
![F0164550-A_man_working_in_a_bicycle_repair_shop[1]](https://i.4cdn.org/n/1692250279781811s.jpg)
Which is fine
Someone just uploaded 10 minutes of crisp CVR audio from the Northwest 255 crash a few hours ago if you're into CVRkino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noADOBnvfZQ
>still no Pakistan 8303 report
>Seaplane
>Turboprop
>STOL
>10' sea waves
>names it US
Where were you when Japan saved the seaplane?
>1.Washington.DC
>2. Montreal Metro
>imo, overlapping metros is way better than all separate lines.
I want to buy a road bike and go for some nice long, exploratory road riding but things like this confuse the fuck out of me and worry me especially if I don't plan the trip.
Commuters, hobby road riders, wanna-be racers, 4chan schizophrenics:
>how would you handle this road?
>what are some other confusing or potentially dangerous pieces of road infrastructure for a cyclist?
>am I overthinking it and should i just ride my bike like a someone drives a car?
If it matters more than the fact we drive on the left, I'm in Australia not the USA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEXn3TlPi2Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0wyXHfgZrQ
Class 365 Networker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2509s0PnBwo
Jubilee Line 1996 Stock:
https://youtu.be/BeYKmKWc6uM?feature=shared&t=20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24sx3aFynQI
Class 373:
https://youtu.be/KQKhsuaXmXc?feature=shared&t=585
Recent Headlines:
>Amtrak applies for grants to improve long distance routes (incl. daily cardinal and sunset limited, returning sunset limited to phoenix, adding branch of crescent that runs meridian-jackson-shreveport-dallas)
https://media.amtrak.com/2023/06/amtrak-applies-for-federal-grants-to-improve-long-distance-network/
>Amtrak applies for grants to improve NEC
https://media.amtrak.com/2023/06/amtrak-applies-for-7-3-billion-in-federal-grants-to-advance-northeast-corridor-infrastructure-upgrades/
>MTA spending over $100 mil on PSDs at three stations
https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-set-to-install-protective-platform-doors-at-select-subway-stations-in-coming-months
>But I've had the stick back the whole time!
Yeah!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwWCOoREFJw
For me its Kontroll, the hungarian masterpiece
>Opens with a budapest transit official say they were happy to help make this film, but please don't think it reflects on our actual service
>Entirely set in the subway
>Excellent soundtrack
1. Extensive use of additive manufacturing with hexagonal sandwich honeycomb structures (metal)
2. Fly-By-Light (optical fibers) instead of Fly-By-Wire, Power-over-Fiber, higher redundacy
3. Ultimate range capability (ie. At least 10,820 NM = 1/2 of the Earth's circumference) to be able to land everywhere in the world from any point
4. Mach 0.99 cruise speed with supercritical airfoil
5. Large ailerons (50% of the wingspan), stabilators, all-moving tail, boundary-layer control, aerogel for thermal and acoustic isolation,
6. Cabin that is pressurized at sea-level (14.7 psi) cabin altitude at all altitudes.
7. Large windows, parquet floor, memory-foam leather seats (32" wide x 43" pitch), LED lighting
What else?
https://youtu.be/il-sgcy9jRU
>plane crashes for the 9284th time
>oh no the turbine blew AGAIN how could this happen
>everyone on board dies
>oh no this is so terrible for everyone involved.... anyway
vs
The experimental flammable death trap
>crashes once during passenger flight
>36 people die
>cause undetermined to this day
>OH MY JESUS! THEY HAD HECKING SMOKING ROOMS IN A BALLOON FULL OF FLAMMABLE HYDROGEN GAS???? ARE THEY RETARDED?
>OH THE HUMANITY OH THE HUMANITY
>I CRIED I PISSED I SHIT AND I CUMMED
>DID YOU KNOW THAT HYDROGEN GAS IS FLAMMABLE??
nothing suspicious about this at all
Can anyone help me compute just how much track I need to pull this off, especially with the curves? I really have no experience with anything bigger than some model trains on this.
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/for/d/san-ramon-24-gauge-railroad-train-track/7658009797.html
any riders? experience? thoughts?
2. Dynamic/Static rollover
3. Ground resonance
4. Loss of tail-rotor effectiveness (could be avoided by having a coaxial contra-rotating main rotor)
5. Dynamic stall
6. Vortex ring state
7. Vibrations (a lot)
8. Crashworthiness
9. Noise
10. Engines (higher power, lower weight and low fuel consumption)
11. Performance (blade design, powertrain,
12. High-altitude performance
13. They can't glide (they can autorotate though). Is a "lifting body" fuselage possible?
14. Cost (helos are extremely expensive)
15. No catastrophic failure warnings (basically they lack the alarms commonly located on fixed wings)
>Skytran was allegedly supposed to have a full scale test track up and running by 2014
>2023... nothing
READ THE FUCKING STICKY NEWFAGS:
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1lxDKFTLO4x771l06T9y331XYhlc6TqYj-hfhl91iXXU/edit?pli=1
https://www.gobrightline.com/press-room/2023/the-countdown-is-on-brightline-orlando-to-officially-launch-service
The humble pair of legs, formed over the course of hundreds of millions of years, is thus the superior tool. Only a cuck would choose to drive their F150 or electric fagcycle while wearing a ridiculous helmet and requiring a million reflectors when they could simply put on footwear and manifest their body and consciousness to move using nothing but thought alone.
Bikefags can stay in their lane - the car lane. Trainfags are okay because trains are cool. Planefags are also okay because they go up in the air. Boatfags are also acceptable because boats float, but so do people. Carfags can crash into the nearest highway bridge pillar. Scooterfags, skateboardfags and rollerbladefags are subhuman. But ultimately, walkfags are the master race.
>23 year old co pilot
https://timetableworld.com/ttw-viewer.php?token=0e98079c-135e-4433-a9be-ab5939fd515d
And it got me curious if there was anywhere where I could find a map or set of maps that just show absolutely everything. Every train, trolly, interurban, and streetcar line, both passenger and freight, that existed in the us at a given point in time. Down to the every last little offshoot that connected to every little neighborhood or factory. I looked around the website and a couple other similar sights and couldn’t find what I was looking for. Does such a resource exist, or something similar to it? And if so, could anybody kindly direct me to it?
>What is this?
This is a AI vs. AI football tournament on PES with team exports built, custom player models designed and live managed by users from every 4chan board. The cup normally runs four times a year and has been going since 2011. Normally there are two 'babby cups' for the lower ranked and new or returning teams and two 'elite cups' for the top ranked teams in a promotion and relegation system of the top and bottom 16 finishers. The Autumn 2023 tournament is the second 'babby' tournament and final of this year's divegrass season with the chance to promote to the next 'elite' cup in Winter 2024 next year.
>I haven't seen this for a while, or before how are /n/ doing?
We were unfortunately relegated from the most recent Winter Cup this year. /n/ were due to play in the 2023 Spring Babby Cup but due to lack of interest at the time the team was unable to compete and lost it's annually required Proof of Interest (PoI) from the board. But never fear, sign-ups open again very soon for Autumn and if the board would like to see /n/ back again we can jump back on the memebike again and return in October as a returning team.
What options do I have? I couldn't find any conversion kits that work with belt drives.
![image[1]](https://i.4cdn.org/n/1695092966657361s.jpg)
https://youtu.be/F3XtN1WezNo?si=OJXy9fkXlK_QR-Re
Post here for recommendations on a bicycle purchase. Useful tips: include your height, weight, intended riding and budget. Details and a picture are always best.
>Similar population size and climate to Spain
How come it can't into trains like Japan and Spain?
Previous: >>1781074
What are you using front and rear?
Let's shill and shit on each other over cheap LEDs.
What I need to know from you anons is what steps can I take to ensure that I can make my daring escape without getting sucked in to the jet engines?
I think they are quite sex.
>but muh cost of deliveries
Muh cost of rebuilding the entire block after it was leveled and rebuilding the lives destroyed, cash me outside howbou dah?
2023 started out as a crazy year on the collectible market but things seem to have settled down a bit
Have you made any new acquisitions ?
What do you wish to buy year?
Collectible bike thread!!
Picrel is mine. Chrome citizen messenger. Only thing I don’t like is the heavy ass metal buckle
Why Danish only cycle on city bikes?
Why Danish-like city bikes not available in Italy?
Fuck Denmark
Came across this video and while it is fascinating, its fucking insanity how arduously slow the train is. It's like American fat slow-walkers decided to make their trains just as slow too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukOHqdPbYYg
>Faster then the car, more convenient (and probably faster) then the plane
>Perfect distance for HSR
>Both cities have OK mass transit
>Would be probably faster to build then the current CAHSR line,too
Post your bike and rate others
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>>1921034
I'll start. Doctor prescribed picrel when the PFPS became unbearable. I couldn't walk. I considered it a meme, a frail thing like that can not do shit. I was wrong. I don't care which if any of the speculative mechanisms did improve my condition. If it's just nervous so be it, nerves are part of me, part of the body.
Which tweaks to the bike, your fit, gear or changes in habits helped you manage pain, exhaustion and accumulated damage ?
whenever i pass a couple on my bike the boyfriend ALWAYS has to lead his chick out of the way like she's an invalid. the dude almost always notices you coming, women never do. why is it so hard for them to turn their head and acknowledge their surroundings?
I’m a long haul trucker and get to park in truck stops 6 miles (10km) out of major cities in US and Canada, did the walk once. Took 3 hours. Got a folding bike, miserable bringing it on and off the truck. Looking for a halfway decent scooter that isn’t too big to be a hassle to bring on and off the truck, but has some decent battery, doesn’t need to be 50 miles+
Thank you, also these prices are in CAD not USD, but I can buy from a us store too
For rail that requires wide social coordination to overcome its issues, generally either the larger society automatically enables its use, or a smaller group seize power and apply tyranny against the rest of society. I do not support the latter.
From a market mechanism perspective, a user fee correlating to usage of scarce land for vehicle use should fix a big part of the free rider problem that resulted in the popularity of vehicles designed with inefficient footprint for cargo moved.
Could this be used to get Ukraine grain to the rest of europe?
They have different rail gauge between rooskie and EU tracks but blimp can be handed off with out even slowing down
THIS CAN WORK???!!!!!!!
BLIMP TRAIN HOLEY ROLLER
RIDE ON THE BLIMP TRAIN
BLIMP TRAIN SAVE THIS COUNTRY
AND MAKE IT WHOLE AGAIN
Now Im on the edge of something
Wondering bout the blimp train
ooooohhhhaaaaa eeeeeaaaaahhhooooaaaa
Talking bout the blimp train
Is it going to work out?
Previously: >>1841229
Why, or why not?
-Assos - flimsy shit for anorexic freaks, designs are eye rape
-Gore - cut for obese diabetic golf dads, designs are so boring I want to kms
-Rapha - the bose of cycling gear, dead giveaway that you have no idea what you're doing
-Castelli - probably the least terrible from an objective point of view but the logo is way too in your face
-MAAP - wannabe rapha cringlelord gear
-Le Col - another wannabe rapha, the only thing worse than Rapha is wanting to be rapha
-Santini - completely nonsensical sizing, either baggy shit for obese people or ridiculous midget shit even though it's the same nominal size, bibs are way too thin, might as well just wear women's panthose
-La Passione - changes their designs every 10 seconds for no reason, takes about a decade to do an RMA that would take no more than 2 weeks from anyone else
-Black Bibs - ali express tier garbage and permanently smells like a wet dog after 2 rides
What we can conclude here is that it all sucks except Castelli and I'm sick and tired of wearing all castelli all the time, anyway I ask again what does /n/ wear? Post your likes and hates. Oh I forgot giro, giro isn't too bad for casual "urban cyclist" stuff. Haven't tried their real bike gear in a loooooong time though. A long time.
Sarah Rodo, from Dortmund, Germany, found love on her first flight with a Boeing 737 - after an unfulfilling attempt to date humans.
Since then, the 23-year-old has also 'met' 60 figurines and three larger models who she considers part of a 'collective being' that she is dating, and so she often refers to her lovers as one.
Keeping up a relationship with an object requires real commitment.
The avid jet-setter is so loved up that she has booked 30 mini-breaks in the last 12 months just to be close to her original beau, the Boeing 737.
Despite their many trips together, Sarah, who identifies as objectum sexual [having a sexual or romantic attraction to an inanimate object], is heartbroken that she's never been fully alone with her partner.
Sarah said: 'I'm proud to be objectum sexual – it's a wonderful sexuality, the only sad thing is that I can't be alone with a real plane.
'I flew a lot in the last year to be with the Boeing as often as I possibly could, I took about 30 flights and always combined it with a city trip or vacation.
'I also love to travel and discover new things [in the cities].
'With my love, I've travelled to Stockholm, Malmo, Copenhagen, Budapest, Vienna, and Paris.
'I also often visited Katowice in Poland as a day tour.'
Although Sarah struggles to have alone time with her beloved aircraft, she has an impressive collection of models that she also shares a bed with.
She is so devoted to her planes that she's forked out over £3,550 on 60 figurines and three large models of her significant other.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11825563/Im-sexual-relationship-PLANE.html
1. Light
2. Fully self-serviceable
3. Reliable
4. Better wheel feedback
Mass adoption of disk brakes was nothing short of disastrous for cycling tech.
As I write this, just off the top of my head there's projects for putting rail lines underground in planning or being executed in Granada, Lorca, Valencia, Dos Hermanas, Montcada i Reixac, Sant Feliu, L'Hospitalet, Torrelavega, Almería, Vitoria, Bilbao, Logroño, and likely a bunch of other places. Many of these towns have just a few hundred thousand inhabitants, so they're not precisely big cities. Add to those the train lines already put underground in places like Cádiz, Sabadell, Terrassa, Elche, Getafe, León, Zaragoza, Montmeló, Alicante and many more.
Many towns have their "historic demands" for burying rail lines which they've been insisting on for decades. At this point it's basically seen by citizens as a normal thing to put the rail line underground, a perception which I think is absolutely unique to Spain. They sometimes allude to people getting killed for crossing the tracks where it's forbidden, or literally ignoring the luminous signs, bells and barriers at the few level crossings left, as a reason for putting trains underground. Like they need to spend millions on pointless construction just because people are too stupid to not cross the tracks where and when they oughtn't to. But other times there's really no real reason other than "reee it splits the town in half".
Some places even have the train line already running on a viaduct or an elevation which is easily traversed underneath, and they still ask for the train to be put underground for aesthetic reasons. An egregious example of this is Girona, which has the train station on a perfectly fine viaduct.
And when they can't put the train underground they move the station to far outside the city, which seems like a really stupid thing to do. They did that in Burgos and will do it in Figueres as well.
I really can't wrap my head around it.
>sprint
>noisy freewheel behind them
>repeat
>get waved to overtake
>never surrender
annoys people so much lmao
Lots of other groups doing the same, and decent amounts of /n/ like chat about bikes/trains/ferries
Any other classic /n/ trips?
super heavy lift launch vehicle.
Upcoming launches:
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight_launches_in_January%E2%80%93June_2023
Upcoming NASA operations:
>https://www.nasa.gov/launchschedule/
SpaceX Mars goal:
>https://youtu.be/921VbEMAwwY
>https://www.spacex.com/human-spaceflight/mars/
Starbase 24/7 streams:
>https://www.youtube.com/live/mhJRzQsLZGg?feature=share
>https://www.youtube.com/live/60YnbafD6vY?feature=share
Starbase tour from last summer:
>https://youtu.be/t705r8ICkRw
>https://youtu.be/SA8ZBJWo73E
>https://youtu.be/9Zlnbs-NBUI
>https://youtu.be/3Ux6B3bvO0w
15hp
12 mile range
40 lbs
995 USD
What are /n/'s thoughts?
https://www.dronamics.com/theblackswan
Just started biking recently and only leave my bike at home or whoever's home I'm visiting
Want to start biking to other places were I would leave my bike outside for under an hour. What are secure ways to keep your bike locked up?
I know angle grinders kill everything, nothing can stop a thief yada yada
Lyrca wearing faggots use drop Bars so I'm leaning towards flat bars.
Park Tool
https://www.youtube.com/@parktool/videos
Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Information
https://sheldonbrown.com
RJ the Bike Guy
https://www.youtube.com/@RJTheBikeGuy/videos
Previous thread >>1945971
It's opium, isn't?
Post trams
What’s your line and what’s wrong with it?
