what is your opinion of helmets \n\
>>1430155if i had a penny for every time i saw this lame ass 2007 meme posted...
>>1430257>copeThis is /pol/ for "I don't have an argument and I still want to shit fling, but I want to sound detached and edgy too"
>>1430359another cope
>>1430359While this is true, you can't really expect someone to respond to shitposting with arguments.
>>1430342if I had a penny for every time I saw this 2007 meme effectively refuted, I'd have zero pennies>>1430359>everything I don't like is /pol/rent free
What are this year's must-have accessories to be an Unracer™? I don't want anyone to think I'm one of those cyclists, ugh. This is NOT a race!
Why are europoors so obsessed with burgers?
>>1430449they want the greasy footlong
>>1430431a commuter helmet with a thousand different stickers on it
>>1430449boooooooooooooooorgeeeeer
>>1430437>when you have a diversity quota to meet but there's only 1.5 black people around.
>needs oiling every few months>shorterns the life of rolling stock and rail due to the shock of passing over>CLICK CLACK CLICK CLACK literally why
>>1430304Sounds and looks better
>>1430275>not applying the brakes to the wrong train
>>1430268>>1430262I don't think type of joints matter, if speed is lower than 130 km/h. If speed is higher, you obviously want to weld it, because at such speeds you can actually crack a wheel, and nobody likes flying chunks of steel flying at 180 km/h
>>1430284Wood absorbs energy, like an additional shock absorber.Concrete - nah
>>1430497*260 km/hThe upper part of the wheel travels at 130 km/h relative to the train that travels with 130 km/h relative to the rail.
You should use these. There is absolutely no reason not to. If you reject these because they are not ''cool'', you are a tosser. Also, of all bikes, mountainbikes are the one who needs FENDERS the most. Think about it. It's time we put this trend in motion. Do you see dirt bikers riding without fenders? Of course not ! >inb4 clogs upthere are special fenders that prevent this but still provide fender action.
>>1430346BasedBut not far enough. Every derailer should be encased in rubber. It is insane that they are not already
>>1430399We just need to make the spoke protector cool again. The cheap brittle plastic needs to go
>>1430385>mfw they add cages to zwift after bike steering (which is jank as shit rn) and braking>cage mode is a lvl 100 unlock>you can obliterate entire races
>>1430346I have all of that and that>>1430355on my commuter bike that also folds.I'm considering to add a rear basket mount.On my MTB I have some basic fenders and a kickstand, during races I remove the rear fender and kickstand to save weight.On my Roadbike I have none of that, because it is just meant to go fast, not to be practical.
>>1430370Hey man, if you love frostbite and 20mph freezing wind in your face so much then go nuts. Some of us just prefer to avail ourselves of the same comforts that 99% of humanity has voluntarily chosen since the invention of fire and shelter.>>1430369The stress it takes to fuck up a derailleur/hanger is a tiny fraction of the stress it takes to fuck up a frame. That cage will break long before your dropout does, especially if there's a wheel mounted.Still, looks retarded.>>1430439False. But spokie dokies are extremely pro.
>>1430349Yeah Peloton is fucked man just let it burn. A decent road bike + smart trainer + Zwift subscription is the same price, and you can take that bike off the trainer and ride it on the road too.
>>1429898Hey, fitness and self-improvement are great, but that's definitely a bad and cringy ad.
>>1429941>I have no medical issues at allExcept obesity, which is a well-documented medical issue.
>>1430134>People who fucking hate winter and don't have the ability to move somewhere warmer.I spent 2 years in Michigan without a car and biked everywhere year round. Buy some studded tires and harden the fuck up.>>drive 300 miles and pay for a hotel just to wake up at 4 AM to go ride on some boring-ass rural gravel roads for 6 hoursJust bike outside your house, dude.
>>1430345>being born with a vagina >disadvantages
> I think public transport is painful. It sucks. Why do you want to get on something with a lot of other people, that doesn't leave where you want it to leave, doesn't start where you want it to start, doesn't end where you want it to end? And it doesn't go all the time. ... It's a pain in the ass. That's why everyone doesn't like it. And there's like a bunch of random strangers, one of who might be a serial killer, OK, great. And so that's why people like individualized transport, that goes where you want, when you want. - Elon Muskwas he right?
>>1430165>draft bus>stab puss
>>1430167Drafting busses in the winter is comfy as fuck, they've got these big vents on the back that spill heat out in addition to their size simply blocking the wind.
>>1430093>Let's spend trillions on rolling homeless encampments
>>1429887>if i can just blame it on everyone else, i can avoid any political responsibility and continue to do nothing but complain! americans are so fucking lazy.
>>1430038>>1430038i was in norway last week and a homeless lady started screaming at my mom to get her to give her money, because we made the mistake of eating our meal at the bus stop where they had a covered seating area it's not just compton and africa.. it's the richest countriest in socialist europe in ten years the nordic model will be just as full of violent homeless schizos as san francisco and seattle
Do you like garbage trucks?
Yeah they're pretty coolI used to watch this video all the time, really enjoyed it for some reason (even before coming to /n/)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06xpoVe6ZoQ
That was my dream job until I was like 14.
>>1429700WM is the sheistiest waste removal service ever. My parents have a business with their waste contracted to WM. One time my parents' business had an influx of waste, overflowing their bin. WM refused to pick up unless an overflow bill was paid. They sent pictures along with a couple hundred dollar extra bill, it was so BS my parents contracted to FloodBros the same day instead. Monthly fees are now like more than halved as well as no issues with bin overflow.Anyways, I hate riding behind garbage trucks but I find the logistics of waste services fascinating
Unironically garbage collectors and sanitary workers do more work for society than any other job. They are the ones that should be celebrated not the fucking troops or cops. A clean street will do more to prevent crime than a cop doing 20mph through a residential neighborhood.I will never ever make fun of anyone with this job because they are the ones that make the world go round.So if any of my a/n/ons are a sanitation worker, you deserve the best.
>this whole thread
>use public transit>other person gets on>they're a loud schizophrenicWhy does this happen every time?
>>1427104>pelosiPelosi represents San Francisco, not Los Angeles.
>>1427885Well if they're from SF and living in LA then maybe that explains why their homeless
>>1425484You crammed 190 whores in there, what are you bitching about.
>>1425484Holy heck I never knew that was that dumb.
hahah cause libtards lol
Yes homo edition.Last Thread: >>1424282Resources:https://sheldonbrown.com/https://www.parktool.com/blog/repair-helphttps://yarchive.net/bike/index.htmlIf you want help buying a bike, ask in >>>/n/bbg
>>1430426Campy Island is mostly lovely if you can afford to stay there, but the Dungeon of 8 Speeds is a Bad Place that even the grand wizards of Miche have abandoned.
>>1430413Certainly. I was just guessing on what's the reason for having a variant of the same ergo but with a longer lever
With bottom brackets, 68mm refers to the body of the cartridge and the second number is the length of the axle poking out either end right? My BB doesn't list the second length, I can just measure it and it won't matter if I'm out by a mm or two, right?
>>1430489It's the entire spindle length, yeah. it -probably- doesn't matter if you go off by a little but sometimes your fd's limit screws have no adjustment left so can't handle any more change, and sometimes your clearance getting smaller is an issue and it does suck to make your q-factor gratuitously wider. Also the BB in your bike now is not even necessarily the ideal length.
>>1430490I just measured it twice and read it as 115mm. Shimano make 115mm BBs so I suppose I'll just go with that.
Stunt gone wrong because of a wind gust or something
>>1430373First time I heard about it. There's a video with multiple perspectives. It's pretty intense, everyone made it out alive. One of the pilots even landed the planehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p6hqMnsLFY
Idiot pilots couldn't maintain separation.
>>1430415>One of the pilots even landed the planeIt's missing an entire wing...
>>1430373They were in pretty much the worst possible places in relation to one another, neither pilot could see the other plane. I'm not sure if they were trying to hold formation or if they didn't know they were so close to begin with but if it's the former they violated pretty much every cardinal rule of formation flying, most importantly the one about keeping the leader in sight at all times.
Your attention please!Size your frame correctly. Stop using 30mm setback seatposts. It looks dumb. It looks like you bought the wrong size bike. Same goes for you dorks riding 130mm stems. Cut that shit out. You look like you stole a child's bicycle and slapped on some accessories.>but I like the way it ridesNo, you are objectively wrong and you've just trained yourself to like something bad. An imaginary line drawn between the tips of your bars should touch the leading edge of your headtube and the center of your saddle should be directly in line with your seat tube.Thank you for your attention to this important matter.
>>1428685A shorter frame with a longer stem is more responsive.
>>1429590>seattube angles exist you knowIn no way does this negate the point, in fact it simply reinforces that ridiculous setback seatposts are dumb
>>1430266Having odd proportions is a pain when buying bikes. You gotta look through geometry charts to try and figure what has even a small chance of fitting you. My problem is that I have super short torso and long ass legs, especially my tibias are long. So I'll have a super high saddle but can't have too much reach. Luckily I'm flexible and can work with plenty of drop. But I have either a zero setback or set-front seatposts on all my bikes because otherwise I'll be pushed way too back.
>>1430308I've got a friend with simmilar issues.He needs a ridiculously tall frame, about 65-70 cm, idealy with 200-220mm cranks and a 70T big ring because of his absurdly long legs and low cadence while requiring a pretty short reach and tall as fuck stack height.Wich is funny because I'm the exact opposite and can push up to 32 km/h in 34:28.I'm considering to use the seatpost of a folding bike, a steerer tube extender and a steeply pointed up stem to build him something that fits at least a little.
>>1429589It's not "all" of the QBP bikes. Maybe half? And they tend towards dirt/downhill for the ones that are. The only All City bike I see like that is the Electric Queen.Most road focused bikes have 5-7 frame sizes.Every single bike across the entire company has a geo chart too.
90s mtb threadcommuterscheap tourersgravelrigid forksunracingracing all projects welcomeprevious>>1400519
>>1430184Thanks, I will just oil it and not worry about cleaning the rust off for now.>>1430185Rode for the fist time on a modern mountain bike just recently. It's hard to tell if the confidence it gives you is waiting to bite you in the ass. I mean downhill on gravel on skinny 26" tires you are fighting to keep them from digging in, with plus size and larger tires it's like you are gliding over the top, but I wonder if they are just waiting to dig in and it will be harder to notice/control because you are not feeling it as much.
I want 26" back. Am I the only one?
>>1430182nice but still needs fenders
>>1429837Posting my before-suspension-implement version of my Rocky Mountain hammer race. Upgraded literally everything, full hydraulics with a vintage hs33 on the rear, xtr rear hub, bottom bracket, NOS turbines, Salsa 26er fork, basically its not a partsbin piece of shit anymore. Headtube decal on the way too.>>1430055I have got to put together one of these, i got an old kuwahara mesa frame laying around with the same sorta parts. i should make a klunker out of it.
swapping the fancy ceramic pulleys i cleaned from the stupidly short cage xt mech to a longer one.
The Dutch are electrifying their busses. By the end of 2020, 20% of all buses will be electric already.
>>1429886I thought ti was because trolleybuses were on ran on a rubber (insulating) surface and needed the additional wire are the return whereas a trolley could use its steel wheels contacting the track. Heard that a long time ago and didn't understand, still don't obv
I fucking hate the Dutch.
>>1429947An electric circuit needs a live line and a return line. Hence a circuit. Think of it like a pump, water pipes and a water wheel,where you want to pump water through the pipes to move the water wheel. The pump needs the water to return after moving the water wheel so that it can pump it again, so a circuit of water. Roughly, that's how the electrical circuit works, it needs the electricity to return to the generator. Railways use the rails for this return, but trolleybuses can't, so they use the second wire. Does that clear it up? Now a streetcar can share the live wire of a trolleybus overhead line, as in the pic, and it still uses the rails for the return, while the trolleybus uses the second wire.A problem would arise if you somehow connected the two wires directly, as the circuit would overload as you've removed the resistance. Like if you remove the water wheel from the water circuit and the pump overloads because the water moves ever faster, that would be the simile. Hence: short circuit. The circuit lacks a resistance and overloads. Thats where the circuit breaker switch comes into play, it breaks the circuit to prevent the electrical system to catch fire from the overloading heat. The pantograph is simply a contact surface, but it's wide, so if it were running on the trolleybus wire it could touch the return wire, thus connecting both and causing a short circuit.
>>1429563>Definitely a huge improvement over diesel fumesYes it is
>>1429943what city/region? this reeks of southwestern british columbia.
What American city should be the next to get light rail? My vote goes to Nashville:>rapidly-growing>rapidly-developing city center with multifamily buildings>areas around center gentrifying>increasing median income>horrendous traffic problemDo it.
>meme railDoes Nashville have the 4 or 5 lane boulevards needed to run 2 tracks down the middle and have island platforms? If they're going to run it against the curb. Then it's going to suck just like all the other poorly implemented meme rail systems in the USA.
Tulsa, OKneeds better public transit the busses are extremely unreliable barely exist giv light rail
>>1430420Lawton Oklahoma
>>1430453Podunk little army base town
>>1430429I prefer rail on the ground as it slows automobile traffic and makes everything quieter and safer.
Wash and polish those fine steeds. Refine those camera angles. Dare to post your bike and avoid the wrath of the evil (Youman)
>>1429939>>1429934[shrill note from a conch shell echoes across /n/]
>>1430436spookyi wouldn't eat any food in the land on the other side of that tunnel
>>1430436>that setbackJesus, are the swept back bars really worth it? Must feel like a recumbent, pedaling from so far behind the cranks
>>1430450I have really long legs. it just feels like a downward motion.the spinacci bolted on the front of the bar is where all the real riding is done. I love the swept-back part for city stop-start, surveying traffic, and just general casual riding.
>>1430436I want you buying Marathon Almotion when these wear out
