Imagine a world where any trip longer the your grocery trip would be an airplane ridehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu5wLKryv-ghttps://www.insider.com/cameron-airpark-estates-california-neighborhood-designed-for-pilots-2021-2https://www.thedrive.com/news/38555/wide-streets-massive-garages-meet-the-neighborhoods-designed-for-pilots-and-small-planes
Ah yes the flyable cities... the ultimate blackpill...
>>1884323>where is my flying carIt's here, it's called an airplane/helicopter. You're just too poor and retarded to use one.
Do we have to have city planning around runways for this to work? How do we account for IFR flying?
Been there, drove it all. One decent size street, a few stubs. Its adjacent to some ghetto ass projects, "youths" walking in and out. Plus it's near Sacramento, so deduct a few points from what you may hear.Worth taking a spin through, though. Lot of planes in the yards...and a publicly accessible air-park is rare.
>>1886408I’ve landed there, Cameron park is cool. Houses on private strips are sorta common in that area around Sacramento
GeoffbrosWhat is he doingWhere's Vicky?
>>1885657Rumor was Geoff just couldn't satisfy her.
>>1885657Got cucked, broke up, now dating an old tranny. Many such cases.
What would happen if seattle decided to just turn I5 into a giant canal+bikeways/trams/public transportation on the sides? Maybe build more buildings or some shit, and have more evergreens and vegetation. The highway is wide as fuck and makes the city look like shit. It also makes the entire southern end of seattle just a drive-by town
>>1884321>Cars equal freedomImagine having Stockholm syndrome that runs so deep you uniroincally believe American propaganda that cars = freedom. If anything, the car is the single most freedom eliminating object humans have brought upon itself and the media pushes American car propaganda because money. Humans back in the day were significantly more free when they weren't debt slaves to the car companies who are debt slaves to the government who is a debt slave to big oil. Local governments wouldn't have had to go in debt just to build the infrastructure for their socially isolating sprawl>>1884365The government is subsiding your freedom. If the government wasn't subsidizing the cost of oil as well as paying for the manufacture of the car, 99% of humans can't afford a car. That cost is taken from all of us. There's a reason the dollar keeps inflating, let me rephrase that better, there's a reason the dollar is not gaining value. The government is kind of forced to however because it shot itself in the foot by creating policies that continues to promote car and car infrastructure as well as actively sabotage its rail infrastructure with poor freight-passenger rail sharing policies.Nothing about the modern car is freedom. You can't even offroad a modern car without proper modifications, how is it real freedom if you're stuck on designated roadways? The car cages the body like it does the mind.
>>1886396>The government is subsiding your freedom.Wait until you hear about passenger trains, airlines, ports, and mass transit
>>1886398Those forms of transport are alright because the cost/burden of maintenance is lower than the futile attempt at maintaining roads. Outside of the cost or burden of maintenance, those alternative transports bring positive revenue to a city while cars have shown to usually result in net negative.
>>1886400Sorry, but they're all subsidized.
>>1886396>seething poor: the blog post
Are there any rain solutions that protect the rider instead of the cargo / baby? I'm not a pussy but I'm tired of getting soaked in -3c temperatures
>>1882603full fenders keep road spray off your feet and legs and the bike. raincape keeps rain off you and the bike. its open bottom lets air circulate better than closed rain gear and you don't overheat (or not nearly as much)
>>1882603Maybe.
>>1882603A personal automobile.
>>1882603Make your own enclsed ff bike
>>1882603
I decided to kill a thread to brag that I just rode from the Pacific ocean to the Atlantic. Did it on a 1982 Specialized Sequoia that an anon here found for me on craigslist. Also this post is to spit on the fags that said I wouldn't do it.Also discuss bike touring, post your bikes, and ask your questions. I have a lot of questions too.
>>1885683>>18861862/2Find yourself a private camping park, an hostel, couchsurf or a tinder slut.Now don't go around being paranoid, you being Swede you probably have 10cm on the average Portuguese so if some random retard starts shit tell him to fuck off and ride away, 95% chances nothing bad happens either way.As for the rest if you find yourself needing a lift, bike tools or something when you reach Porto's region be sure to post here and I would have not problem helping you anon. I know there's another Portuanon here and he's from further south, Lisbon region, I'll try to redirect him to this thread to see what input he can give you.
>>1886165Yep, they were hugely popular before 2021, then just vanished. I did some sleuthing and found that the rims are from some random Polish company, so there is evidence that these bikes are put together in Easter Europe. The frame is a mystery, but again, after looking for an extra derailleur hanger, I found similar frames in Novara bikes, which are now defunct In any case, the frame on my bike is steel, solid as can be and I haven't had any issue with it. The name is beyond fucking stupid, I hate it with a passion and to add more insult, it's not a sticker but instead under clear lacquer. My strategy is to just cover it in stickers, especially those of each country I pass through.
>>1886186>>1886189>suburbs of Lisbon I took your advice and I've made some amendments to my route, pic related. The other reason was that Eurovelo 1's suggestions are abysmal, and add a whole lot of pointless detours I'm not interested in. So instead, through Setubal, and onwards to Montijo. I am a little sad since I wont do a photo stop at Cristo Rei, maybe when I'm on my day off in Lisbon. But I've been there before. >Now don't go around being paranoidI noticed that when you're on a bike, you're not at all threatening, in fact, it gets people curious and in some cases really open to you. I've had good experiences in the past, but in one country. >As for the rest if you find yourself needing a lift, bike tools or something when you reach Porto's region be sure to post here and I would have not problem helping you anon.You've seriously given me excellent advice already. I really appreciate it, it's likely it might make a big impact to the overall journey and outcome, so again, big thanks for the offers and advice :)
How do you deal with bike cases for one-way flights? Either I need to fly to one end of the tour and cycle home or I ride to the destination and fly home, acquiring a case there. The destination (Key West) is small so it would be impossibles to source a case there and backtracking to Miami would definitely be non-ideal. I think want I really would like is the to ability to order or send it to a secure address/business and then pick it upon arrival. Looking into the possibility of the UPS store or some kind of "porter service" being able to do this. The complexity of this type of planning suck some of the enjoyment of the simplicity out of it. Makes me just want to plan a more extreme round trip tour.
>>1886345You don't need or want a case. Go to a bike shop and get a cardboard box from them. They get them in all the time and throw them away. It will be free. A larger chain store will always have these boxes on hand but a smaller one you might want to call and ask them to save one for you. They will also likely have a bin filled with packing doodads, the fork end-spacers, plastic and foam, that you could pad it out with. You'll have to take the front wheel, seatpost, and bars off but the rest of the bike can stay pretty much together. When I ship a bike to someone I autistically wrap and pad it all and ziptie/tape everything together so nothing can move or rattle and it's all padded out but that's not really necessary for touring you can basically just put your stuff in there quickly and it will be fine. Just pay minor attention to ensuring the sharp things won't poke through the box. I think the box can usually fly with you as a piece of luggage. Then at your destination you can just throw it all away. Take a knife and cut/flatten the cardboard up and it won't be much for a recycling bin. Pretty easy to talk someone into letting you use theirs if there's nothing obvious and public to use. If you want to send it to somewhere you could send it to a bike store and give them a box of beers or something to let you assemble it there. Most bike shops will be filled with people who have toured or want to support you doing it.
I fear my time is upon me, how do I not die?
>>1884066Reminds me of those really early bicycles, before they thought of pedals and shit. Where you just run and then stick your legs out like a heron.Back when bicycles were this weird upper class thing for fancy assholes.
OP here,i have been beeped at a few more times because i didnt see a cyclists dismount sign infront of road worksalso i fell off my bike and fractured my wrist when it was raining omw to worki tried to go from footpath onto bikelane and the wheel slid out and threw me>>1882943i will get a gopro/dash cam at some pointproblem is the people who do it are normally speeding>>1882919thanks>>1885343no australia
>>1885900Anon those beeps are an lesson unto you from godHe says you suck at riding your bike and you need to up your game or ride the bus / buy a carWhat will you do?
>>1886282i will buy ebike speed delimiter so next crash kills me
>>1886290mucho basado
https://twitter.com/swyftcities/status/1605251995538845696?s=46&t=x7U-sZLAWnWEkVtvGk_0QAhttps://swyftcities.com/Some new startup wants to make large gondola networks in cities
>>1886104This guy gets it
Mexico City went all in on trams because they realized it was just easier than fucking up the surface streets, permitting, and the trams felt safe for all the mamacitas
>>1877010Destroy the left and the "right". Make defending onself and ones property with deadly force even easier. Much easier. Guns in everybodies hands.In two years public transport becomes useable.
>>1886276Literally the only thing that needs to be "destroyed" for public transportation to be viable is the fascism of cars
This is the kind of nonsense that just looks to suck dumb venture capitalists dry while some engineers and planners fuck around with the money on more realistic projects until they dissolve.
How feasible would it be to make my own bicycle out of scrap? I don't like the idea of being locked into the bike manufacturers proprietary ecosystem
>>1883193UCI treated him terribly and he kept making them look bad. What a legend.
>>1883540How much is UCI crooked compared to lets say the biggest sport crook FIFA?
>>1883545It's all fucked up.
I can't even make my own rack out of scrap
>>1883171you could probably build a crude fixie but honestly itd be so much more work than its worth for what would be an awful bikeit would be extremely based thoalso you do realize bicycles are all built from highly universal and interchangeable parts right?if you buy an old steel mountain bike itl last you forever and you can swap any parts on it new or oldyou arent locked into anything
For a positive change, post an area depicting your ideal style of urban development with the associated transport.My choice falling on Babelsberg in this case on the downtown core of the borough of Babelsberg in Potsdam just outside of Berlin, which has both a pretty extensive tram network, a highly central S-Bahn station connecting it directly to Berlin and Potsdam central station, while still remaining pretty quiet, walkable, and nicely suburban and mid-density.
>>1886253There is no niggers here. Sounds like an urbanite problem.
>>1886254>There is no niggers here.> is no niggers You're not even an american lmao.
>>1886255Europe is also full of niggers plus mudslimes.
>>1886256In EU more cars = more niggers.
>>1886257>/n/iggerbrain
Re-popularising hitchhiking would decrease demand for public transportation and would make cars up to 5x as efficient. I see so many cagies driving to their work alone in their shed on wheels. Why drive all that metal around if your car isnt full?Psyops like 'stranger danger' caused hitchhiking to regress, before it was normal and common practice.
>>1886056I'm not doxxing myself from my town of under 5,000 people, all I'll say is i live in Arkansas
>>1886061you could have just said that cunt
>>1886063you could have just not minded dick
>>1886048>if you pick up a hitch hiker you will get fined>land of the freeEvery fucking time.
wait wait hold on ... what if we made the cars bigger so they could hold more people. and what if, for convenience, we made them drive around on a schedule, so if you knew when the car would be passing by you, you could get in the car and be a passenger for as long as you needed to get where you're going
Which one bros?
>>1884852Neither, because both have suspension and suspension is cringe.
>>1884927>how is a bicycle transportationYou people are brain rotted
>>1884852The white one looks better.Now fuck off with your poor man motorbike.
>>1885882hate to be the bearer of bad news but that isn't a bicycle, lard arse.
>>1886064my bmi is lower than yours
Is it safe to say new york city has the most iconic bridges and tunnels?
Soo Line High Bridge between Minnesota and Wisconsin, completed 1911, still in service with Canadian National
Ouse Valley Viaduct in Sussex UK, completed 1842
French King Bridge in Massachusetts, completed 1932
Lover's Leap Bridge near New Milford, Connecticut
A bridge that spells out Lincoln Highway on its parapet in Tama, Iowa
Why don't you ride an electric unicycle? Don't you want to effortlessly zoom around at 30mph/50kph with no hands?
How do we make these dangerous weapons off our walkways and paths?
>>1885080we don't
>>1884473Here go. Gf has the Ks-16s. Honestly get the most use out of the Tesla T3 cuz I don't feel the need to go full space suit when I ride it. The master is fucking sweet though.
When I was in Lisbon a few years ago I saw a black Muslim man in impeccably clean Islamic prayer dress confidently speeding through the alleys of the inner city in one of these things.One of the most bizarre things I've ever seen, especially because I was not aware of the vehicle at that time.
General aviation- aviation in general. General aviation is not general enough for aviation."Only one way to pay off this debt" edition.Previous: >>1864892
>>1887330Chad seaplane can land on 70% of the Earth’s surface.Passed my instrument check ride this week. I heard a lot of horror stories about otherwise “flawless” pilots failing this ride for going 1 foot outside PTS, etc etc. It definitely has more to do with if you carry yourself well and are generally safe. If you act like a schmuck the DPE will pick any reason to fail you.
Is there enough interest for a /rotor/?
It's over
>>1887722I wish, but probably not. Even though gyroplanes might get more popular if/when the FAA finalizes the changes to LSA regulations. Technically, small helicopters like the R22 would squeak in under the LSA weight limit, so that might be interesting.
>>1887663>>1887673Troon pilots are explicitly allowed by the FAA, retard. That’s not what I’m talking about.
>giant in financial distress asking suppliers to defer payment of invoices>Specialized firing 8% of employees >wahoo reports bad financial newsIs this the new dawn? An era of cheap bicycles like on the 80s?
>>1884491You know Murphy's law dictates that the one component you didn't think to stock a spare of is the thing that will break.
>>1884491Get a spare gear hanger.
>>1884373>Sure its getting harder to find but it does exist.It's getting harder to find because they've stopped making the parts.
>>1883696I could see one of them putting remote kill switches for all major car brands on their 2024 line of bikes and sell them at 20 grand a pop like hotcakes.
>>1884333Which is funny because it has the same geo as a bottom tier hybrid from giant or spesh, while also being heavier
