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am i retarded how is this possible
this doesnt seem sustainable in the long term
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>>1974968
way to ruin an interesting pic faggot. The original was pretty much the opposite.
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>>1987014
>when the ironic schizo turns out to be an actual schizo
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>>1974908
it isn't

most of those are turists
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make cars less heavy
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>>1987517
showmewhere thevil carbon touched you?,
YOU> points to jar on shelf.

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Welfare queens edition.

Discussing coming improvements in your city, or planning ideas to make cities more transit- and pedestrian-friendly.
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>>1988082
I wouldn't want to live close to the city center
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>>1988079
>The more bikers there are the less congestion/traffic there is.
I just don't believe you. Mainly because your kind spams it over and over with no evidence.
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>>1988082
>Not near city centers, which is where jobs are.
Maybe that's what needs to change.
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>>1988079
Where I live there is good bike and public transit. Biking is infrequently used because it's very slow, shitty and you show up wherever your going soaked in sweat. Public transit is used a lot but has lots of homeless addict felons on it so many avoid using it. It's also slow, because that's the nature of public transit.

So most people, if they aren't devastatingly poor, prefer to drive a private vehicle that is the exact temperature they prefer, comfortable seats, has no smelly bums who may randomly stab you and is playing the music they like.
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>>1988077
If you want anything done you need to get involved in some way or the other. Specially in shithole countries where corruption is always there

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If for nothing else, you gotta admit that a two-hour commute to work during rush hour twice a day and five times a week can get pretty tiresome.
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>>1987981
Except people make a choice to get on a motorcycle. By your logic we should ban anything that is statistically risky.

And to use anti car peoples’ logic, more motorcycles/less cars means you’re less likely to get hit by a driver on his mobile phone
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>>1988009
You clearly don’t grasp the problem that is urban sprawl. You have to start over from scratch in entirely different areas or Greater London repeats itself
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>>1988009
You also forgot that building new cities would create jobs in the construction industry and the infrastructure could be designed with modern lifestyles in mind. Road networks could be purpose built to accommodate BOTH motorised and active transport rather than trying to adapt existing towns that were built for a bygone era. Here’s an example. You build a bypass. Previously the road would’ve only been designed for motorised traffic. Now the same road is made with an extra lane (separate from the traffic) for pedestrians/cyclists. You can replicate such strategies all over the place. You can’t exactly modify existing streets when they’re lined with buildings

And let’s face it with population increase being what it is, you’re going to need new cities anyway
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>>1988033
>Government

Just say Jews, anon. It can't be ignored at this point. They ruin everything they get their grubby little claws on, they kill their host nation, and then they move on.

In a nation without kikes these wouldn't be rotting in the woods.
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>>1988056
>you’re going to need new cities anyway
Why?

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Is grant petersen's quote still true?
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>>1986430
>This one is getting stale too
Yeah, I don't know about that.

On the plus side, looking up "Grant" in the archives turned up so many of my shitposts over the years.
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>>1986403
dainty faggot hands typed this. meant for this dainty handed faggot i replied to here.
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>>1986058
>Giant Contend: $800
>Giordana short sleeve road jersey from wiggle co dot uk: $35
>Louis Garneau bib shorts from trashbar dot com: $50
>Bontrager Stravos Wavecel helmet: $90
>Cateye computer: $40
>Total: $1015

>Rivendell Vrouwfiets: $5500
>OD+SDA "Kasezome" Indigo x Dorozome Sashiko Jeans: $340
>Iron Heart 11oz Doublecloth Selvedge Ombré Check Garrigue Tradesman Shirt: $475
>Anton Krupika x Snow Peak 3-layer Rain Visor: $175
>OMATA One Steampunk Analog speedo: $550
>Total: $7040


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>>1986430
I have photos I took through his window of him getting dressed
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>>1986210
>>1986292
I almost went to the same high school as him.
Love that tune about throwing a girl to into frenchtown pond
>He's got the 8 track playing..... REALLY FUCKING LOUD

It disgusts me how today's so-called "cycling activists" are doing the work of the automotive lobby while thinking that they're the good guys.

Imagine if a bunch of politicians started pushing for a special residential area for a certain group, after having them habitually assaulted with weapons for many years. "We're terribly sorry about all the bloodshed but can't guarantee your safety, if you want to be safe, you have to go in this special place we designated for you".

That is what bike lanes are. We've tried "separate but equal". It doesn't work, because tyranny of the majority means a highly flexible definition of "equal".

People who have been riding bikes for many decades know what the game is. But zoomers and corona cyclists believe they know best. Instead of demanding justice, they demand segregation. Which is exactly what the automotive supremacists want.
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>>1985349
We have over 4 million miles of roads, Nigel (that's 6.5 million km). Plenty of those roads have bike infrastructure even bike stoplights. But it's not a priority everywhere.
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>Motorcyle larpers legitimately believe it's safest to be as close as possible to the two ton death machines without protection
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>>1973596
Don't delude yourself bicycle has no power and stability to keep up with cars pace.
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>>1986279
Don't know about SoCal but in a congested city full of stoplights, a bike can do pretty well
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>>1955863
The only possible reason you could have for thinking it's "safer" to ride in front of cars on a 40mph road rather than using the empty sidewalk that puts space between you and the multi-ton death machines is that you're a wanker and want to legally get away with inciting suicide.

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Have you ever defended yourself against a car while cycling?

I've considered executing U-lock justice a few times and knocking off a mirror or something, but it seems like a good way to go to jail or get killed.

Recommendations? Stories?
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When I was younger I punched straight through the windows on a couple of cars after they purposefully ran me off the road. Car windows are pretty hard though, it really fucks up your knuckles.

These days I just yell at them, doing physical stuff is really no good unless they actually get out and start fighting.
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>>1987953
Once main st was backed up and moving slowly. It has a bike lane. Jealousy strikes and the young men in the car decide to block the bike lane. Their turn ended up being 200m ahead. If they really were innocent, why gives me the finger?
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>>1981404
Personaly I got more problems with dog owners than car drivers.
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>>1982140
Based, our bike shop's mechanic rides drunk daily - man he's fast!
>>1988024
Being afraid of dogs is a sign of you being brown. Nigger
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>>1988043
Fuck you you selfish fuck. Keep your meat toy on a fucking leash and next to your leg.

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Why are there no container ports for the Great Lakes, like there are on the East and West coasts of North America?
Why is it only used for bulk cargo at the moment?
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>>1986561
hey don't joke about that, losing the fitz is like the holocaust for lakers
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>>1977691
>CSL Frontenac is wintering there RN.
Saw her unloading the last of her grain yesterday, and this morning she turned her AIS back on. Must be about to leave.
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>>1986561
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZSi__A5w1Q&list=OLAK5uy_nYB0rD9IbJyHi4Z-NlC9F3U-HPw3u0yq0&index=1
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>>1988047
White Squall is a big track
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>>1988052
Now it’s just my luck to have the watch, with nothing left to do
But watch the deadly waters glide as we roll north to the ‘Soo’
And wonder when they’ll turn again and pitch us to the rail
And whirl off one more youngster in the gale

But I told that kid a hundred times “Don’t take the Lakes for granted
They go from calm to a hundred knots so fast they seem enchanted.”
But tonight some red-eyed Wiarton girl lies staring at the wall
And her lover’s gone into a white squall

this is a train
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>>1987917

a hump cut that is moving through the yard until it connects to another cut
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>>1985219
>>1985234
i like the looks, but shit should've been converted to AC VFDs as soon as it was possible
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Any love for field-railways?
I get a warm tingling in my belly when I see them.
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>>1987917
RETVRN

America has globally, objectively low commute times. And generally the more public transit usage and walking there is the longer the commute.
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>>1987991
>the second thing you assert is both vague - moving from language like "objectively" to "generally"
ESL moment.
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>>1987587
Doesn't have much to do with transit vs cars

The longest examples of Japan and China are both extremely populous, having some of the biggest metropolises in the world. That naturally makes commutes longer, and those cities are so populous they would not be able to function if everybody was using cars (chicken and egg problem as well, since if those cities were built with little transit like the US, they probably would have never grown to their current size)

Also country comparisons of commute times are absurd. In a single country you have massive variations. For example in France many people in Paris have to commute more than an hour, while that's very common outside of the Paris metropolis.
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For instance here is an example of commute times in Japan by prefecture that I translated.
You can clearly see only the Tokyo region has long commute times.
The rest is pretty reasonable.
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>>1988029
>Doesn't have much to do with transit vs cars
It does. Public transit is slower than cars because of public transit's inefficiencies. But you'd be correct to say it's not the only factor.

Also, comparing country to country is a good idea. As it shows you what the average commute time of the average person in each country is. Sure some goat farmer in rural UK may have a 2 minute commute but he's hardly the average person.

It additionally disproves the constant communist propaganda that Americans "sit in traffic for 4 hours a day!!" when the reality is that Americans have relatively very short commutes.
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>>1988030
>only
only 1/3 of the country lives there
and keihanshin is still pretty bad, that's another 1/6 of the country

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That the track is narrower? That it's elevated (chicago already has elevated trains)?
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>>1985925
Not on your life my hindu friend
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>>1985872
>quieter
>faster
>smaller visual footprint, clean look
>less real estate
And probably was expected that all of the above would make making tracks everywhere cheap and simple allowing for fast, effective public transport that doesn't hog up roads making cities more futuristic.
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>>1986609
how do you know what be fake?
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>>1985872
The monorail is public transport that does away with gloomy tunnels (lunar and earth spirituality).
Instead it elevates the riders above the earth and water. This elevation signifies the solar type.
The lack of monorails in the West is simply a result of our cultural and spiritual decline.
And with popular media being one of the vectors by which our spirit is degraded, it comes as no surprise that a show as the Simpsons makes fun of it.
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>>1985872
Quieter than rail.
Mandatory grade separation so fewer homeless bums get killed.
No tunnels so cheaper and no place for homeless bums to sleep (and get killed).

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I’m pretty close to switching to an older bike, if there an objectively best era for vintage steel bikes?
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>>1987957
>>1987971
Brakes are campy, I know that much
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Just spent 2 hours drilling out a stuck cotter pin on my 70s touring bike with the help of another dude at the bike collective. At least it has cotterless cranks now. I unscrewed the bb cup on the other side and pulled the non-drive crank, cup, and spindle out as one assembly. Thank god they had another french bb cup laying around.

Oh the joys of old bikes.....
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>>1987181
But anon, 90s mtb's ARE hybrids
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>>1988007
Shut up bitch
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>>1987181
>>1987182
You have some taste, my man.

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How has cycling culture changed in your area?

About 10 years ago it used to be mostly younger people on older bikes who used them as their only form of transportation, fixie hipsters, and old hippies. Some roadies too ofc. Riding was much more unpretentious, it was just a fact of life.

Now we've been gentrified and the number of cyclists has gone down a lot. Partially because everyone who moved here drives, whereas everyone who used to move here was a poor and who biked. The majority of people who I see out these days are on fancy new trend bikes (gravel, etc) and are older. Still some cycle commuters, but not nearly as many. Everyone seems to be a bit more of a pansy when it comes to riding in the street too. Another trend which I see is that there are a ton of people on ebikes who ride really dangerously.

I feel like we lost our grit. Riding a bike seems to have become more of an exercise of consumerism than of rebellion.
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>>1987356
NYC? Those dead eyed African guys are all over
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>>1987356
>>1987432
just dropping in to say as a career courier (unplanned and unproud, was supposed to be an inbetween job but got hooked) of almost a decade, we have the thousand yard stare because it's statistically one of the most dangerous jobs in the US. Not just that but (with the exception of ebikers) it's one of the most physically demanding jobs, which means it's also one of the most mentally and spiritually demanding jobs because mind, body, and spirit is one. Now let me say this as a retired Marine, this job is like 10x more physically demanding than my PoG-life status was in the USMC.
>>1987337
20 years ago, cycling in my area was an actual way of life. We rode because riding was life. 10 years ago, cycling was a lifestyle, whether it was being a roadie, fixter, or MTBer, it was about showing off on social media first and that was alright for the era but we didn't do it because riding was life, it was about showing off on the grams. Now, riding has become part "social cycling" and part mental health relief. Half of the kids these days go out to ride because of "social cycling" which is a combination of protesting and cycling with goals of progressing urbanist goals, the majority of these individual followers are highly institutionalized with indoctrinated world views who become YesMen for the loudest YIMBYs. The other half are lost kids looking for ways to escape their mind so they go on group rides "wid da skwad" that focus on party pace because it looks good on the socials. On the bright side, riding is coming back to riding because it's a way of life more than it's way to consume. There was a point in the 10s where bikes became consoomerist af whether it be roadie or MTB, it was blatant consoom
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>>1987435
Well they’re 100% e-bikes here. And nyc didn’t even have Africans until like last year. I think they have the stare due to …other reasons. They seem to have zero sense of danger at all.

There’s also the literal army of 5 foot tall Latino guys who can’t even reach the pedals
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>>1987432
Yeah NYC

>>1987668
>And nyc didn’t even have Africans until like last year.
I lol'd because it's not even close to being true. But they definitely took over delivery since app delivery became the default. The latam guys were really fundamentally food service generalists. They'd work behind the counter at the deli, take out the trash, work the register, answer the phones. Dishes or kitchen work if it's that kind of joint. The african guys are just delivery, nothing else. So I think the latam guys just stay at the home base now doing the rest of the foodservice work and the africans just stay on their bikes all day getting their souls eaten by their ebikes.

The other thing is the newer ebikes (all african operated) are all leased, I think, from some fleet of ebikes for delivery guys. They aren't personalized. The old school latino ones would have glitter flags of their home country, crazy multicolored LEDs, sometimes something lulzy like "S-works" painted on the downtube or "type R" on the mud flaps. The new ones have no sovl. Just the factory paint jobs, and that's it.
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>>1987337
my town went form teenagers riding to school and middle age guys wanting to be the next lance Armstrong to junkies on e-bikes

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I'd like to buy whoever invented the thru-axle a beer. It's a fantastic invention and I have no idea how it manages to be so good. It makes replacing a wheel so much nicer than fucking qr skewers.
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>>1980676
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bump
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You make Tullio Campagnolo sad
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>>1984969
Good. He made everyone who used his products sad.
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>>1979422
what am I looking at here

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Speed limits shouldn't apply to cyclists. Even if I could reach 60mph on my bike, it'd still be infinitely less dangerous than a car going 25.
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>>1987322
You're an asshole.
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>>1986882
I live in Japan, bicycles don't have speed limits even in places where cars have limits, because a speedometer is not a required equopment on a bicycle, it would be unfair for them to expect to comply.
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Based
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In Germany, speed limits only apply to motorized vehicles.
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>>1988000
This. I constantly go 60km/h+ in 30km/h zones. Downhill of course. I once even got stopped by the police and they told me to go slower but couldnt do anything about it after i asked them. I just told them that i dont have a speedometer and just went on with my day.

Tell me your favourite loco and I'll rate it/base my opinion of you from it/foam at the mouth about it if it's cool or I haven't seen it yet. Pictured is mine, class 170 (in ScotRail saltire blue livery) they're kinda clunky and old but god do they ever make the best engine noise in the world, you aren't a railfan unless you've heard one thunder out of Glasgow central station. (Can you tell I'm a foamer for this thing?)
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>>1980928
3/10
>>1981138
7/10
>>1981142
4/10
>>1981266
7/10
>>1981369
8.5/10
>>1983325
8/10 I want one of these in H0 for a model railway.
>>1984007
7.5/10
>>1984021

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The last great in-house BR loco in it's best livery. Everything about the 60 and sectorisation liveries was simple but subtly appealing. Nothing over the top or overstated just clean simplicity but incredibly well made and badly treated and forgotten by the privatised companies despite it's quality.
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Taurus because it plays a cool jingle when starting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SDYdHzT7Qw
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Where my CPKC chads at?
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The class 93 is probably my favourite new UK locomotive. It's a shame Stadler didn't use this body shell when they made the 68 and 88.

>>1987958
>Tell me your favourite loco
>Posts railroad
GE or EMD fella?


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