Thougts on lowriders?
I built one in the spring. I want to repaint the frame. And work on the seat.
And finished. The seat came from an old 1970's exercise bike i saw on the side of the road.
>>1574164fucking pimpwould love to cruise on this smoking a blunt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrWnH7cV_-c
>>1572186>the amount of tension has nothing to do with how difficult the wheel is to build.Yes it does. More tension results in more wind up and an increase chance of stripping the nipple.
>>1574164What frame is that?
Are there any pro cyclists who do not look like lanky little femboys? This is not bait; I am genuinely trying to see where the path of training takes a person and if it's a 80 pound girl then I think I am going to have to find a different hobby
>>1575230I trail ran for years and I can’t hold a candle to these lanky faggots
>>1572125is /n/ secretly gay? I feel so much better now.
>>1575230Get a power meter, and consider TrainerRoad or Training Peaks for actual structured plans. GoldenCheetah is a good data-view tool. You'll never have that natural edge for hill climbing, but you can improve your wattage with structured training.
>>1573324based
>>1572607I bet you look like a lanky retard
I love this kind of style:
>>1575917
These bad boys are still in pretty widespread use in the UK.
>>1575914>>1575915>>1575917>>1575919'strayan EMDs are soooo comfy.
>>1575904Noice.>>1575798Yeah into Memphis Central Station. It's weird because back in the teens and 20s, the Rock Island and Frisco were both controlled by the Reid-Moore syndicate, so you would have thought that they would have shared the bridge into Memphis as well. Also, Rock had to cross over IC and back into Memphis Central.
>>1570766>>1570767>>1570785>>1570786>>1570787They were only big by our standards, most countries, even in Europe, had far longer goods trains.If only coal mines updated their loading facilities, we could have had huge trains pulled by beasts like the LNER P1 (pic related) at 60+mph.However, because of the tiny, low capacity, and effectively un-braked wagons, the trains that these could pull were longer than the passing loops on the mainline. So these were scrapped instead.
What's the deal with these ro-ro car transport ships? Does one guy drive all the cars or do they have a whole bunch of people.
>>1575293Pretty safe to assume, though. Starting with (((Pilot Fees)))
>>1575279>they have a whole bunch of peopleThis. It's casual, zero-hours work for people who can deal with 'we'll call you with two hours' notice a few times a week' kind of arrangements, e.g. retired people. It's exactly as you imagine it - ten, fifteen or so people show up, they drive the cars off the ship and onto the marked lane on the quay, and then a minibus shuttles them back to the ship ready to drive the next batch.Source: passed them doing this on my way to work many times, back when we were in the office. It's like seeing a glitch in the Matrix, where a handful of identical cars all pass you one after the other lol
>>1575282wasn't it Joni Mitchell who said paradise is a paved parking lot
>>1576129No, David Byrne said he wish he had a lawn mower if he was, in fact, in paradise.
>>1576129yes, in a move that would in fact have reduced traffic congestion on the outskirts of Paradise, which Joni singularly fails to point out
i'm looking to buy an RV or motorhome to travel the country in, and i see a lot of RV's on craigslist for suspiciously reasonable prices. 7000 to 11,000 dollars. i'm looking for someone who knows a few things about motor homes.is it safe to travel thousands of miles in an RV that cost 7,000 dollars? or should i be expecting to break down a few times? what's a reasonable price i can get an RV to travel the country in? also i live in the united states.
>>1576044>>>/o/
Did you know that the original Model T ran on ethanol? Then when the 18th Amendment passed, they couldn’t make alcohol-based fuels anymore. It was like a deus ex machina for the petroleum industry. > In 1925, Henry Ford tells The New York Times that ethyl alcohol is "the fuel of the future" which "is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust -- almost anything. There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years."
>>1575381Nothing is a coincidence in politics or businesses.
>>1576009I sure hope that's the case because leaving stuff up to chance is a sign of bad work.
>>1575907Dirt cheap, reliable to a fault, and super comfy, what's not to love.
Oil companies learned early on how to manipulate our government.
>>1576011Good work for sociopaths means bad decisions for everyone else.
Why not inject helium into a totally uptight frame? You're guaranteed to travel faster.
>>1574851>troll physics>>>/b/
>>1575144That's all wrong! Replace that truck with a bike...
>>1574851>helium>not lighter, cheaper, unlimitedly available hydrogenScared to set your bicycle in fire, Mr. Oh The Humanity?
>>1574851https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_(rocket_family)>The Atlas boosters would collapse under their own weight if not kept pressurized with nitrogen gas in the tanks when devoid of propellants.>The rigid fuselage is heavier, but easier to handle and transport, eliminating the need for constant internal pressure. based department?
>Rear ends a HST doing 5 MPH at 15 MPH because the driver is being distracted by the ass TMS>Crash structures only designed for collisions above 22.5 MPH>Derails>Still out of service a year later>Good job hitachi, nice "shinkansen technology" train you have thereRead the report here;https://www.gov.uk/government/news/report-132020-collision-and-derailment-at-neville-hill
>>1575354>shinkansen technologyWhat? A-trains are just shitbox friction stired commuter trains. Same as pic related.
>>1575354>The driver’s lack of adequate familiarity with the train probably arose because LNER had not recognised that his training needs were greater than for his peers.kek
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>>1575054Chain cutters and a truckload of gravel.
Is there any way to solve/fix the federal capital of Argentina(buenos aires city)?I have an apartment there but i havent moved yet(we have a tenant) because of how crappy the city is.Is there any long-term proyect that could save it?I think it has potential.
>>1578657The long term project is for them to stop voting for kirschnerists. Most problems there are of economic nature, I think
>>1576422Some burbs don't even let you have a shed. Other times it's a long lengthy process.
>>1570734Whoa. This is so neat, I haven't played cities skylines in years but didn't remember it looking like this. Any mods, dlc, add-ons?
The S. Korean market regulator signaled such merger is completely out-of-question when it was floated by Asiana's creditors three years ago, but it's now saying it will be allowed given the fact that the airline industry as a whole will shrink not just in the short term but also in the long term.https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-deals/Asiana-Airlines-shares-jump-as-Seoul-considers-sale-to-Korean-Airhttps://simpleflying.com/korean-air-asiana-merger/How do you feel about this? Would other countries follow suit? What if United and American merged? What if Delta with Southwest? Emirates and Etihad? Lufthansa and AFKLM? EVA and China Airlines? Would IndiGo buy out GoAir and Vistara?
>>1573962>more consolidation We truely are in the darkest timeline
>>1573962>What if United and American merged?Not unrealistic, but I doubt it would happen without any kind of anti-trust investigation.>What if Delta with Southwest?Totally contrasting business models. Southwest would be better suited merging with Spirit, but really not Delta.>Emirates and Etihad?Unlikely, and I doubt the UAE would stop the Dubai-Abu Dhabi rivalry.>Lufthansa and AFKLM?Lufthansa Group is massive enough, and is now largely German state owned now. It's also the core member of Star Alliance, while AF-KLM are also pretty massive and are the core member of SkyTeam. EU would never let it happen, both corporate conglomerates would also never go for it.>EVA and China Airlines?Similar airline alliance mess, but Asia is probably a bit more resilient.>Would IndiGo buy out GoAir and Vistara?Idk. Don't Indian airlines go bankrupt all the time?
If there's going to be consolidation among the major US carriers the weakest of the Big 3, which would probably be American right now, will get split up between United and Delta, kind of like how Conrail got split between CSX and Norfolk Southern (as opposed to one company absorbing all of it)Regardless of how it went down, one of the major airline alliances would stand to lose a lot of market share, it might completely shake up that sector as well.
KE-OZ merger is now going ahead. Star Alliance is going to lose a major member in Asia.
>>1573962>>1574009Another livery bit the dust
Does anyone else have the problem of running out of places to ride? I'm mainly speaking to Sunbelt cyclists here.My city's Southside is awesome for bikes but I feel like I've rode all there is to ride in it this year, and the other parts of the city are either ghetto (with shit roads) or suburban with giant roads and speeding cars.
>>1573085Wyomontalabama XDDDDDDDDDDDDd
>>1573085>just dox yourself bromaybe you should go back to r-ddit yourself
>>1573091except saying which state would be like saying "scotland" or "bavaria". it's literally not doxing yourself. "my state" is laughably vague, considering how big the US is, and it's behaviour that 100% comes from r*ddit.
>>1573085Imagine being as autistic as this retard.Whatever state he’s in is completely irrelevant to the post. I don’t care.
>>1571576
They can't be the worst train on the tube especially knowing the 2009 stock exists which have aged like milk
>>1574520They don't flush the bogs onto the track either, which confuses and angers me
>designated shitting trackhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/03/uk-railway-firms-faiil-to-clean-up-waste-dumping-act
>>1574520>>1574521>>1574523based.last time I looked there were literal piles of shit on the tracks of the local platforms (1-4) at manchester piccadilly.
>>1574559>literal piles of shit on the tracksI suspect they're not from Pacers, nor HSTs.
>>1575343th- that's racist!
BWAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA. absolutely pathetic. Decades in the making
>>1575076no
>>1574334You can't escape a burning plane at 10 km altitude either. How many planes catch fire in mid-air? Not much.
>>1573790ekranotrain when
>>1575285a plane can divert to an alternative destination. airports are basically everywhere except the sea, and in the last resort you can still try to land in the sea or on any flat strip of land.plus you've still got limited options for aerial firefighting: you can try to blow out a fire on the outside of the plane by diving to increase speed, and you can open the cabin doors after depressurizing to let smoke exit the cabin. by contrast, a train would need new purpose built stops to be able to evacuate between stations, and opening the passenger doors into a vacuum to clear cabin smoke would kill everyone on board.
>>1575289>vacuum>would kill everyoneIts just depressarization Its the same problem that requires oxygen masks.Don't forget we live in a world where its possible to get safety certification on CO2 fire extinguisher systems on boats, that literally kills people on activation.
LBS niggers 6 months ago>it's totally normal to use gorilla tape as rim tape on your new wheels :^) we do it all the time :^) :^) even on the fred-tier stuff (^: :^) (^:My tire 2 hours ago>*BOOM* hissssssssssssssssssssMe 1 hour and 50 minutes ago after removing bike from trainer>how the fuck am i supposed to get all this tape goo out from under the rim bead?
>>1575212>and yes. If the NYPD was 50% defunded it would just literally not have been 'completely abolished'.NYT - and therefore mainstream lefties - seem to think that qualifies as "abolishing", judging by their headline, so I'm afraid you're on your own on this one. If you somehow think that "only" eliminating half the NYPD would somehow be a good thing, you can check for yourself how it's been going:http://compstat.nypdonline.org/
>>1575217abolishing is a non-literal termIn that case, one which is explained as such. 'completely abolishing' is a literal descriptor. One which was not clarified. this is devolved into absolutely nonsense semantics. and newspaper headlines are famously disingenuous, they're sensationalist clickbait. What you're forming your argument around now is clickbait. Believing clickbait is one thing, re-iterating it and holding the entirety of your political opponents to it is another. Even when explicitely they say otherwise under the headline.and AGAIN >I don't have a strong position on this. I can't argue with you. It just annoys me to see people lie and misrepresent one another having the discussion.
>>1575217>Mutts can only think in binary "are you for or against" terms,
>>1575199>leftists all think the same thing>you have to agree with it or you are demonized >that one thing is completely abolishing the police>here are some (flawed) singular examples of this >therefor that proves all leftists think it are you stupid
>>1575218Yes, congratulations, you've won the semantic argument over whether or not you should say the police were "abolished" if there are still technically be a few therapists and desk workers nominally called "police" left. Now if you could please fuck off so the adults could talk, that's be great>>1575221>a few establishment cucks timidly disagreed with the most radical proposals from the BLM mob and damn near got lynched for itTrue diversity of thought.
So, hear me out. What if, after this COVID stuff, they brought back flying boats as a luxury flying experience, just like they did with the Orient Express? Not first class jetliner prices, but several times a normal ticket for extravagant service and spacious accommodation. No one takes the Orient Express for speed, the same should work for a giant flying boat experience. Just imagine seeing this massive beast floating lazily through the skies. Magnificent.
>>1568226>>1568226>>1568226>>1568226This. "Luxury" transport outside of private jets and first-class seats is a meme
>>1570861>24 engines
this shit looks so fucking comfy
>>1573066>>1570861Imagine the maintenance.
>>1575092imagine the smell
