How hard is it to get into repairing and building ebikes and scooters
I think the biggest issue is getting parts and documentation
>>1992113unless you're a sparky/engineer or you repair electrical goods already then probably very difficult. I've heard of courses/qualifications starting to pop up but really it's fucked because of the changing standards/no standards and actually getting parts since nobody supports these bikes past a few years. Oh proprietary software too.I fix electric bikes but we refuse to deal with the electrical components because it's a nightmare. Which doesn't make it easier because you're sending it away to a dealership that also cannot fix it and doesn't support it anymore and you're just relying on the dealers ability to hassle the company into providing support.
im looking for a Vehicle that looks just like my clock right hereit can be a moped or something else
https://janusmotorcycles.com/
>used to riding motorcycle and cargo ebike >fix the flat on my old shitty bicycle to get some exercise on a nice day>trail angle super aggressive and unstable>center of gravity stupid high>leaned all the way the fuck over, can't see shit>wheels feel comically oversized, steers like shitNow I am a fatass that knows nothing, can someone explain why I would need the stupid geometry outside of racing, which I will never do? Explain to me how pic rel wouldnt be better than a normal bicycle if you just want to have a fun experience riding
>>1986983oh no wonder, yeah I've been to philly, bought a bike there once and took it home on the train. the riding is granny-tier. pancake flat, narrow streets, and blind corners, you don't even need gears because there's no way to go more than 15mph unless you're suicidal. sucks for you I guess
>>1986299>>1986663https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCAwg9OMa84
>>1986299are you riding a 29er mtb?post bike>>1986309kys>>1986762yeah this the com being high is unsolvableits rly not an issue anyway but interesting to note>>1986966who the fuck never goes 30?i go over 40 every ride but i live in a hilly place so i wouldnt expect the average person to do that but 30?cmon fucking anyone can hit 30 on even the most gentle downhill
>>198696617mph is my average lol
>>1986299so moe I'm gonna cryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMJaMy-0ChA
>This is a>Red Line train to>Shady Grove
>>1992085>Heavy Anglo accentSLATER... AND... KENT>DING>Heavy French accentSlateur... ET... KENTE
>>1992266>Forgot the pic
>>1992213If you build homes for the average BART hobo, they will just tear out the pipes and wiring and sell them so they can keep getting high on the street. For some people the only way to help them is through force, and if that doesn't work the best solution is a final one.
>>1992276Oh and fentanyl dealers plus the bankers who launder their money should be flayed alive and left on screaming display on Market St, that would also help resolve the problem.
>>1992233Exactly. Can't believe people still vote for these dipshits thinking that they'll solve the housing problem.
Show me the most degenerate shit you've ever seen
>>1991823That's most definitely an unreliable, finnicky two-stroke. These sorts of wrench jobs are all sorts of things, but the one thing they aren't are hassle-free and headache-free mobility options. Dropping in a hub motor, bolting a battery to your bottle mount and zip-tying a few extra wires to your frame is literally ten times easier and ten times more reliable.
>>1991475Not too bad, could be fun. I'd pick different tires thoSomeone post the Dutch city bike with Zipp wheels
>>1991482would
>>1991475look like a cheap homemade gravel, not to bad. but only 1 brake to do offroad seem hazardous
Columbus Spirit edition.Resources:https://www.sheldonbrown.com/https://www.parktool.com/en-us/blog/repair-helpOld thread>>1988691
What are my options for replacing pic related? The barrel thread snapped and I don't care to fix it. It's 160mm rotor, I don't really care about stopping power, I regularly ride caliper/v-brake/hydraulic brakes and it makes no difference to me.So cheap options are preferred. Are v-brake adapters any good?
>>1992272I used to do it all the time when I worked downtown. alu road bike on mavic with 23s. the hard part was hopping up. gotta get a lot of speed and road bikes don't want to hop as high as mtb. but if you have to speed and ups it'll go just above curb height. of course, Matryn Ashton could hop over a fuckin chair, although he would lower his seat.
>>1992342have *the speed
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>>1991715>heattecharen't those warm? seems bad for summer
here are some of minehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjKHh5To_4Ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByB1RgqPXtshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FbWLTegeJshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVOb8-cEWnI
>>1989151based, where they belong.
Cab forwardsAlso the gas turbines
>>1989148Anything that's not the Big Boy reallyI like old PRR stuff because their locomotives were oddballs compared to most other roads since they built most of them in house
>>1990197CHOO CHOO MOTHERFUCKERhttps://prrt1steamlocomotivetrust.org/
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You've been stalled for over 10 minutes dropping from 37,000 feet, and with 2000 feet left this madlad says he's been pulling up the whole time, how do you respond?
>>1986325>plane crashes>it was da troonz!!!
>>1989429Bonin was a Troon? Interdasting
>>1985598And it wasn't 10 minutes either. More like four
>>1984764
*DUAL INPUTs in your path*
Post some cool /n/ webms you have
>>1986534I dunno how it works, but doesn't this seem like a tiny amount of chemical to fight a fuck huge forest fire? Like using a spraybottle vs a campfire.
>>1989503I imagine if you were to take that spray bottle and use it on a piece of cloth before tossing it on the campfire it could have the potential to change the way the cloth is affected by that fire? are they really dumping it on the actual flames, or on the stuff that's about to get eaten by the flames?
>>1981642But why
>>1989503it's primarily used to create boundaries that don't burn to contain the fire, using it for direct fire fighting is a little wasteful, it's an agent better utilized strategically than tactically
>>1984533/a/n//
>https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1777034064534331450>A Southwest Airlines flight bound for Houston immediately returned to Denver Sunday morning after a removable sheet of metal covering one of the Boeing 737-800’s engines sheared off during takeoff.
>>1991216Your position is dumb, you are dumb and you should feel bad.
https://airlive.net/news/2024/04/10/jetblue-b6842-to-new-york-jfk-is-returning-to-dublin-follow-u-turn-over-the-atlantic/Airbus just has better PR. Every week JetBlue and United has a Neo that shits itself.
Unitedbros is it time to dump Boeing? I'm tired of them shitting up aviation in this country
>>1991216you forgot "the cowling was made by the DEI diversity indians"
>>1992164>mfw Delta made so much money in the past 5 years just from not having yet Boeing 737 MAX>their order is only for MAX 10, even that might get cancelled as Boeing hasn't been able to get it certified by aviation authorities in time
What the fuck is wrong with these mongoloid slackers? They completely underschedule longhaul trains everywhere outside the NEC so almost no one can use them for shorter trips and then wonder why ridership is in the shitter. Each route should be minimum 3x a day per direction.
NEC here, I don't know that feel
>>1992027I see both sides of it in Seattle. The Sounder regional trains are great up to Vancouver and down to Eugene. Then there's the Empire Bungler.>want to go to Spokane>check train schedules>one (1) train each way per day>depart 4:55pm>arrive 12:37am>after all the hotel checkin desks are closed>fuck you unless you've got family nearbyIt's not like there's no demand, they run BUSES from Seattle to Spokane and back, but they can't manage more trains per day because ______?
>>1992029>but they can't manage more trains per day because ______?they don't have the moneythe answer to pretty much every question about amtrak is "they are chronically underfunded"
>>1992023Yesterday I called amtrak customer service to change my ticket because the website kept crashing. The hold music was RnB and a sassy black lady picked up. Truly an american institution.
>>1992160The Civil Rights Act / EEOC creates an effect I call the Shaneequa Event Horizon, where because sassy black women are impossible to "out diversity" (because they vote 96% for Democrats) any federal agency will eventually fill up with them until the agency fails at its core responsibilities and they get outsourced. If this happened to Amtrak and passenger rail got deregulated we'd see a 10x in available trains.
Ebikes should require registration and an active insurance policy. $15 million in liability insurance per bike, minimum, to cover the average damage they do every time they explode. That doesn't even cover the loss of life but it's a start. Possession of an unregistered ebike or unregistered parts such as batteries should be a mandatory minimum sentence of 5 years in prison and being banned from touching another ebike ever again. Second offense is life in prison, you can't prove me wrong.>but muh cost of deliveriesMuh cost of rebuilding the entire block after it was leveled and rebuilding the lives destroyed, cash me outside howbou dah?
I've come round on ebikes and battery electric vehicles in general OP, I agree now. Not only are the batteries dangerous and less energy efficient than gasoline/other ICEs, they let people think that they can have personal transportation and still help reverse/lessen climate change, when the only real change will come with a heavy reduction in personal vehicles and greater focus on public transit which can be powered by energy transmission from static generated electricity (ie. third rail or overhead wires fed from nuclear and renewables).The government should start clamping down on electric AND traditional ICE vehicles. Stop subsidizing fuel suppliers and auto manufacturers (ICE or internal), heavy penalties for companies found to be using lithium sourced from human rights violating countries (and in cases on countries relying on forced or underage labour, military intervention if necessary).
>>1989353because everyone in a position to do something realizes that the whole delivery app gravy train is a major force in gentrifying the cities, if you ban the ebikes you destroy the profitability of these apps, which eliminates the well paid tech jobs, which suppresses demand for the cool gut renovated loft apartments in old warehouses, which is terrible for property values, and the whole house of cards falls downbasically it's better to deal with some fires (which pretty much have their impact limited to brown people anyway). it costs less, it keeps the firefighters busy doing something related to their jobs instead of getting into brawls at irish pubs and using their union connections to avoid drunk driving arrests, and it might even clear up some precious land to build the next colony 1209
England too
Run away!
>>1992111Stop burning hundreds of people to death every year would be a start
Why is every bridge built in the last 20 years a cable-stayed bridge? They're kind of soulless and boring.
>>1988726I heard a zoomer unironically call it that the other day and I was at a loss for words
>>1990213I think I get it. The road bridge (connection) crosses the water viaduct (separation)
>>1988721>They're kind of soulless and boring.You want soul and excitement?
sovl coming through
>>1988721They're cheap, they're cheap, and they're cheap. Also, they have a bit of visible drama to them that arch bridges don't have without looking as busy as a truss bridge.
>they're kissing
Kinda nuts that literally ONE company in the entire world has a monopoly on all train coupler systems.
>>1991303explain. there are plenty of different couplers, and AAR at least has multiple manufacturers
>>1991331Everyone uses Dellner
kawaii
Some kind of mix up resulted in FedEx shipping me these instruments. I thinks it’s a gyro and related instruments. FedEx refused to take it back.No tags or documentation in the crate they came in to let me contact the shipper or company they came from.
>>1991847>>1991848It's a very basic russian/soviet gyroscopic artificial horizon for aircraft. The words on it are "caution gyroscope'. I believe the 06811314 are the mm/yy of mfg and s/n
>>1991873>glows in the dark>but why?
>>1991855the brand is called Bad Dragon.
>>1991878I forgot about the lume. But what is the point in xraying one? Unless you are trying to re-activate the lume?
>>1991873They're russian.
