What's the most retarded bad faith argument against improving transit and walkability you've come across?I'll start with "But but but, AMERICA'S TOO BIG"
>>1994821>>1994822Thirdies simply seething
>>1994827Yes, the US can be considered a third world country, largely thanks to your kind
>>1994827I mean, there's a significant percent of the American population who live in worse conditions than actual turdies so...
>>1994847>I meanNot reading anything after that
>>1994821Why would it take 3 hours? Why would I spend 2 hours and 40 minutes at the store alone?>>1994822In real supermarkets instead of filthy bodegas, they sell vegetables that are fresh instead of being practically rotten.
the mustached man editionRead this:https://www.sheldonbrown.com/https://www.parktool.com/en-us/blog/repair-helpOld >>199235
>>1994838>he got the bridgestone mb-0probably worth 1k to some grant peterson aficionados/bridgestone cultists.Have fun.
>>1994792In my locale mopeds are looked down as dui/homeless/etc. Worse then bicycles, and I have a motorcycle since they are so cheap here so I just run that if I need low/no effort riding.>>1994803>is chain waxing worth itdepends on who you are. It's nice that it doesn't collect grime as bad, and it's low friction, so I think it's worthwhile if you don't mind the hassle.I have lots of oil/chain lube and prefer using that.
>>1994838lewd dirty brake hole
is 4x10min at 100% FTP too high for intervals?Zwift rated it at a 4.5/5 for effort, and I had to cheat in a lot of breaks in the second half when I tried it.The other two workouts felt fine
>>1994855If you have to cheat it's too hard for you right now.Maybe go for something that's a 4.25 or 4.0 difficulty first. Then slowly ramp up over the weeks
If you want help picking out a bike, post your height, what you will use the bike for, and a link to your local craigslist.>I want to buy a new bike. What should I watch out for?Don't buy Wal-Mart garbage.Don't buy department store garbage.Beware of amazon and alibaba garbage.>Should I buy from Bikes Direct?If you are clueless enough that you need to ask, no. If you have no mechanical ability, no. If the alternative is walmart, maybe. Ask first.>I want to buy a used bike. What should I watch out for and where should I buy?Craigslist is good for old bikes. Pinkbike.com/buysell is good for used modern mid- to high- end mountain bikes.Ask in /bbg/ if uncertain.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>1993011This is what I did. The bike itself was rubbish though and I ended up having to spend a lot of money replacing the steel rims, then brakes, then better levers to match those brakes, then new handlebars cause the diameter was too small for modern parts.I can’t put a price on experience though.
I know you're supposed to buy a quality used one if you're on a budget, but what's the best new bike I can get for under $300? Mainly going to be used on roads and dirt roads with maybe a little bit of trail use. I prefer thumb shifters over twist shifters. I can't buy used because I need a receipt. Insurance company is replacing one that was stolen.
>>1994835Can't you just use venmo to buy used and there's your receipt?
>>1994837I don't think they'll accept something that isn't from a major store. I was thinking of ordering one online from Academy Sports or Walmart and picking it up. I looked at the bikes they had on display in those stores; I didn't like any of them.
>>1994835something from decathlon
Do you wear a helmet while riding your bicycle?
>>1987515staged pic. looks like he cut a slot in the glasses
>>1994298>cager comes along with high beamshelmutothe,,,save!,again!,,i dip my headso visor blocks the lights but can see roadahead.,,,,cage ALLWAYS dimms when they see me,,,,maybe a tiny "beep" apology after they pass?,,,have BigFarm reflector on the rear so theyseeme miles away from behind.
>>1960158>FUEH?
>>1973354>>1980308>>1973162https://www.reddit.com/r/NSFL__/comments/uperf4/bmx_rider_suffers_skull_fracture/>Diagnosed with 2 fractures, hematotympanum, hematoma and thrombosis>He is recovering well, still has all his motor functions and still talks and acts the same as he did before the accident.”
>>1972879>Dazed and confused shirtPottery
A woman who is in a sexual relationship with an aeroplane has revealed that she travelled abroad 30 times in the last year just to spend quality time with her lover.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.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>1896887>Hangar 17
>>1913665Love is always wright
>>1993325lmao this is hot as fuck
>>1992892The more important question is why does she have male pattern baldness?
>>1895196>In love with a Boeing When the door flies off because the diversity hire forgot to install every screw and it kills her, will it be a plane accident or DV?
>20 dollar toll peak hours to travel under 8 milesI set my transponder to 3 occupants so it's free, if I ever get pulled over ll quickly set transponder to 1 and tell the cop their machines are malfunctioning. I've been doing it for about 2 years and have saved so many hours of time. What will eventually happen??
>>1994413Yup, opened up right when wu-flu hit so kind of a soft/under the radar opening. For some reason VTA runs it rather than BART so you can still tap on with a physical plastic clipper card, station agents are always in the booths and the whole thing is kept very clean. In my experience, BART doesn't become really become the meme people know it has until you hit the core East Bay & SF stations.
>>1994357They have cameras checking occupancy in Virginia.
>>1994423
>>1994423>They have cameras checking occupancy in Virginia.Pretty sure all of them do and have for a while, enough to catch on what's a person and what's not. Stuffed animals are common and in Portland someone was ticketed for it.
>>1994357I'd be very surprised if the state ever caught up with you anon, express lanes are just another way to milk money out of bay area tax cattle, and I don't think any self-respecting cop is going to bother enforcing it
Old beater edition
too many bicycles on this board and not enough tractors
>>1974873>50 seriesnever selling
Feel the same way with the old 20 series
i am on the lookout for an old power king lawn tractor with a pto to restore at the moment
>>1994809that thing is pretty dope. hope you find a nice one
>accidentally bust a bravo >gf as passenger >told her to jerk my dick >she jerks me> high voltage light > so much stress >no phone number >busted in her hand >she wipes me >turbulence starts to kick in >landed safely
fake and gay
>>1994496Mokulele is peak regional kino
>>1994685>working for the devili'll pass
Bot thread, niggers tongue my anus
When you see this and think about how it's a 72 year old design, doesn't it make you feel like transportation technology hasn't advanced enough in the past 72 years? 72 years before the B-52s first flight was 1880, the middle of the wild west era. These things are still in service 72 years later. Wtf
>>1994828Which one of those is "transportation technology" as clearly stated in the OP? Also what kind of examples are electric guitars and toasters lmao
>>1994832things that are already incredibly functional in their design. You can't improve the electric guitar without fundamentally changing the principles its design is based upon. >we want a medium-altitude, long-endurance bomb truckaerodynamic principles and the laws of physics really limit what you can effectively do with those parameters. It wasn't designed to go fast, it wasn't designed to go incredibly high, all it needed to do was deliver a payload to a target cheaply, which is why it's outlived everything else SAC ever ordered.Sure, there are marginal efficiency gains from different engines, and deleting the tail gunner and some of the CSO stations as avionics advanced, but every single other thing you could do starts to compromise the design into another corner.B52's on fucking mars baby.
>>1994834Seems wrong to assume 1950s technology was already hitting physical limits of design, even for the use case of the B52. The 1950s was only like a little over a century into the industrial revolution. But what do I know.
>When you see this and think about how it's a 72 year old design, doesn't it make you feel like transportation technology hasn't advanced enough in the past 72 years? 72 years before the Roadmaster's first ride was 1880, the middle of the wild west era. These things are still in service 72 years later. Wtf
>>1994840The thing is there's only so much you can change before you run into the simple laws of physics. You can't suddenly double the amount of energy in a pound of Jet-A, you can't make air move across a wing in a way different than it did 70 years ago. Sure, you can get a bit more efficient with how well the fuel burns or add some winglets, but there's a reason that the airplane design has remained roughly consistent: it's what works.
Post Your Bike ThreadSlow Roll Spring EditionPrevious Edition>>1977471
>>1994783I hate it but love you.
>>1994783What are the problems you want to fix? The components are low end, but functional. I’d replace the tires with something more suited for road if that’s where you are riding it. You’ll feel the difference, knobbly tires add too much resistance.
>>1994804Thank you for the advice, I wouldn't have thought to look at the tires. It has a lot of problems because it's old. The back break doesn't touch (and stops working after I break once or twice after tightening it) and one of the bolts holding the front breaks together fell out today. (I rode for a while before realizing that I had lost all ability to break, but caught a bus home). I am happy for these issues because I get the opportunity to learn how to fix them, but I'm posting her here to see if there's anything non-optimal that I wouldn't have noticed noticed (like her tires). It's not a specific request, I just have the itch to customize her some and want to know what more experienced people might think to change first.>>1994786danke
>>1994804those aren't really mtb knobbies they're hybrid shitter tires. Perfectly appropriate for the bike like sure he could upgrade but nice tires would be worth more than the bike. >>1994783Extremely low end full suspension bikes are the absolute worst because the suspension only serves to bounce you up and down as you pedal which wastes a lot of energy, and it adds weight and something to fail. It's not even fucking up because it's old, that kind of bike fucks up when it's NEW because they tend to be extremely poorly assembled at the factory and at the shop. In terms of fixing your brakes even the absolute worst v brakes can be made to work reasonably well. Take them completely apart, clean, and lightly lube them. You want a thin film of grease on the posts that they pivot around, the threads of all the bolts, and the mating surfaces (the concave washers) of the brake pads (makes them much easier to adjust). The cables are probably adding a lot of friction. Don't pull the inner fully out as you won't get the end that's been clamped back through, so you'd need to recable. What you do is drip some lubricant onto the inners at the ends of the housing and try to slide it around to work it in. They're pretty basic mechanically so you should be able to overhaul them without instructions, just do one arm at a time, and one set of brakes at a time, so you always have several references to look at how they go back together. You want to clean stuff with a bucket of hot water and dish soap, and kerosene for stuff that doesn't remove. Rags and tooth brushes. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>1994783Basically, it's worth doing a full overhaul if you want to learn to wrench on bikes. The few times i've tried assembling a bike like that for a customer, new out of the box, it has needed a full overhaul. It's an opportunity to learn to wrench. Look at RJ the bike guy on youtube.
WITNESS ME EditionPrevious: >>1962890US Mariners: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1lxDKFTLO4x771l06T9y331XYhlc6TqYj-hfhl91iXXU/edit?pli=1UK Mariners: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yjRTjwJRkW_wYqis7E-c9U0xTQZWLXbsP--2qgYKUdM/edit
>>1994829>I'll be an unemployable freak because of something I saw on 4chanBut what else is new right?
>>1994833I'm still able to go back to what I was doing before if I had to but I'm not gonna get a jab for something that wasn't even close to being as deadly as the Spanish Flu.
>>1994839What's it feel like to be a real life lolcow?
>>1994841I wouldn't know I'm not an eceleb that attention whores or anything. Honesty I wish Covid was as deadly as they were hyping it up to be because it would cull guys like you from the gene pool and open up the housing market a lot more.It was a nothing burger.
>>1994842Unlike a tiny jab, which is profoundly terrifying
What are your thoughts on Embraer? what is the future of the company? What do you hope they accomplish?
https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/boeing-partner-embraer-aircraft-manufacturing-edf3758a it's happening
>>1994679They already denied it, though they did announced studies for it last year.
>>1984572Those motorcycle style yokes look retarded.
>>1994457I know, the Brazilian Air Force has something similar on their website, lots of KINO pics.
>>1994297>what is the ATR>what is the C408>what is the C208>what is the CRJ-200
Meanwhile on public transportation.https://twitter.com/still_boneless/status/1786184172031091180
The government shouldn't do anything about stuff like that because people won't have any incentive to work if they know they can just get free housing and psychiatric care by being a piss-soaked hobo.
>>1994818The problem is that they are incapable of being better. Having starving, desperate people on the street would actually end worse then the current state. The real solution is some kind of poorhouse system, where they’re kept in a large building and forced to do manufacturing work or something mind numbing. Or a labour camp for the more belligerent sort.
>>1994812>two available seats left>one 30 feet away downhill>one 6 feet away uphillwat do?
>>1994824>some kind of poorhouse system
Post trains that are just a bit weird or different from the norm. All trains welcome, passenger, freight, locomotive, rolling stock, etc.Saw this one in the Netherlands and it's a bit odd.>EMU>Only one motor car>Which has three bogies and one level>Every other coach is a normal bilevel
>>1992917Early bilevel EMUs from the 80s had a hard time fitting all the mechanical components. In Switzerland the first such "EMUs" were pseudo-EMUs consisting of three bilevel cars and a matching locomotive, all coupled together into a fixed set. Then they couple those sets together, up to three per train.
>>1993631>I (mildly autistic) am to this day bothered by the design of Stadler GTWs due to that fucking engine/electrics compartment. It's like putting a small freight wagon into a passenger consist just because.>Inb4: they need to put the engine or electrical components somewhere>So does Alstom, Siemens and Bombardier, yet they don't need a fucking freight car for it.I understand your autism, but it's actually not a bad solution. The advantage is that except the far ends of the cars theyhave completely level floor at platform height, while other EMUs have a much more irregular floor height with ramps and protrusions hidden below the seats and whatnot. From that perspective I actually find them superior, although I think by now this is an obsolete model.
>>1994794>The advantage is that except the far ends of the cars theyhave completely level floor at platform height, while other EMUs have a much more irregular floor height with ramps and protrusions hidden below the seats and whatnot. From that perspective I actually find them superior, although I think by now this is an obsolete model.The new TGV-M have a little "wagon" named greffon just behind the two loco, it have several advantages, first, until now due to design the TGV must have been two types of coachs now all the coach are the same and shorten by 1m and it reduce cost increase fexibility and also shorten the loco by 4 meters so no space lost, second, technical equipments are moved in those greffon and above all they are equiped with big batteries allowing autonomous of the train for few hours in case of powerline shutdown and the ability for the train to move at low speed to a station or a functional power line. This capacity can also be used in case of overloading of the electric network to smooth consumption.
>no maintenance required>can't be stolen>inexpensive>no storage neededIs this the best form of commuting?
>>1994506nta, but settle down you neurotic city rat. live the life you want, it's not a contest.but if it were you guys would lose hard, just sayin'
>>1994508Yeah I know you guys fantasize about a civil war, I've been to /k/. You sure think about shooting people a hell of a lot. Must be because you're so happy
>>1994460>heavy as fuckexcuses excuses
>>1994648There's a police station on the mezzanine level of that station but they're probably too busy vandalizing the fare readers so they can bust people for fare evasion to notice someone dragging in a stolen citibike
>>1994460Have never witnessed one of these going over 10mph. >>1994506Funny, no people like that where I live.
