Where did it all go wrong?
>>1813565>Only Amtrak is too dumb to do it.I guarantee you their reasoning for it is more logical than one an autistic foamer made on 4chan
>>1813565Crying with laughter at American attempts to be a real country.
>>1813597So go become a millionaire by introducing this brilliant new American boarding system in China, Germany, Japan, etc. Those guys will pay the big bucks for efficiency.
>>1813623I don't care how the rest of the world does it
>>1813689I'm not that guy; but you're clearly the autistic one.>I simply cannot be wrong online!
sheldonbrown.comparktool.com/blog/repair-helpPrevious Thread: >>1812180
>>1813974its nice to have a break from shitposting and bickering
>MF-TZ500-6>MF-TZ510-6>MF-TZ20>MF-TZ30Just... What is the difference between each? Shimano just mentions that 510 is better resistant to corrosion. That's it.Also megarange 6s is shit?
I'm tight on cash and want a basket, and I'm not paying $15-20 for what's essentially a box with a coat hanger cook, what did ya'll do?I might just super glue a box with coat hangers
>make seat close to leveled to the ground>ass hurts>tilt it up>balls hurt>tilt it down>feel like i'm sliding off
>>1813983I bought a k mart basket for $6 and cable tied it on
Post your ideal style of urban development.I propose the Bremer houses as they used to be built in the north german port city of Bremen into the 1930s:>allows everyone to continue having their own house>allows excellently to mix houses with multiple units with single family ones. >takes up a fraction of the space of freestanding single family homes.>dense enough to be decently bikeable>dense enough to be connected by tram>cozy and quiet side streets>allows fairly large gardens in the backyards>allows mixed use development for small shops, restaurants, cafes, doctor's offices and small officesCan anybody provide something genuinely better than this?
>>1811127>just bike in the road, also get the fuck off the road, people have every right to get angry at cyclists in the roadThis is how dumb you are.
>>1813403First there was one upg thread, now there are two, the jannies actually deleted a third one. So once one got let in, "urban planning" non-transportation bullshit was shitting up the board in no time.
>>1813379What mechanical aspects of transportation would you like to talk about?
>>1813437I count 5 urban planning threads right now. Most concerned with what houses look like.
>>1809386Everyone I know who lives in LA is like "I live in a shithole lmao" and just deals with it somehow
What are your favourite traffic lights, /n/? I like the big, bulky yellow ones.
>>1803715Colour blind people are FUCKED with this one.
>>1802381
>>1802381I liked the ones we used to have that used neon light tubes as their light source.The colors were so soft and saturated.Now they've all mostly been phased out in favor of soulless LED shit.Also have this autistic trove of French traffic lights. We've had so many different styles over the years.http://feu.routier.free.fr/slt-permanente.htmlJust click the logos under "Visualisation".
>>1811576In NY we have these. NJ has a similar thing for it's streetcars.
>>1802388How about the Karl Marx pedestrian lights from Trier?
lets see them theseus ships, commuting whips, oddballs, etc.
>>1812774It is the exact same frame, I have a different fork on mine now since the original fork was bent and pulls to the side, but I might try to straighten my old fork someday
>>1813691>It's just a generic enthusiast road bike, it should be a dream bike of an average cyclistWhy would an average cyclist dream of something that is entirely performance oriented? Most of my bikes are a mix of comfy/speedy, but I respect totally comfy bikes too. A bike like that sacrifices a lot in the name of speed, which is cool in the same way something like a ferrari is cool, but it isnt something I'd actually want to ride every day, the same way a ferarri isn't something I'd want to drive on a regular basis
>>1810055after riding bikes with gears for years it feels so good to return to simplicity. checked
>>1813949if it was reliable i would drive the fuck out of a Ferrari every day that would be awesome
>>1813969As someone who has driven a rough performance vehicle daily for several years in the past, it’s awesome for a week, month at best if it’s really special. Then it’s just dumb
Does /n/ agree with Mr. Cuozzo's latest opinion piece about ebikes? He's been right about bike stuff before. For example September 1, 2018, when he dropped the ultimate truth bomb on the 5 boroughs.
>>1802146Ebikes should have license and registration like motorcycles.
>>1812760no. maybe an powercap
>>1812733Terrible posture.
>>1802203
Nothing against e-bikes, I just hate the bike app-couriers who drive like maniacs on them.
Would modern overland freight shipping in America benefit from a broad gauge rail network like the Breitspurbahn?Specifially a 10 foot gauge where giant flatcars could be loaded with a total of 18 53 foot intermodal shipping containers (2 across, 3 high and 3 long).
>>1813571Well there are autobahns all over America, nothing stopping other good nazi ideas
>>1812284I can't really imagine this is anymore practical than having longer trains on regular gauge railways. It would still take the same amount of man hours to unload and the cost of upkeep and construction would be significantly higher.
>>1813267you can already do this
>>1812459The main limit is terminal capacity IIRC. if you have enough locomotives you can add as many cars as you want.
Nobody talks about Esk8 editionThe purpose of this thread is to discuss various light electric modes of transportation, such as ebikes and escooters.Reputable Dealershttps://alienrides.com/https://revrides.com/https://www.ewheels.com/https://e-rides.com/https://www.euco.us/https://eevees.com/https://www.voromotors.com/https://fluidfreeride.com/
>>1813293I'm not really a fan of really expensive ebikes. There's really not much value in them
>>1813316what has value then?
>>1813928Decorative statuettes of anime ladies presenting their anus to the viewer
>>1813928building one yourself. I can easily price out a bike that would destroy the one you posted for $3k. Problem is that ebikes have a bunch of gay regulations so companies add a bunch of silicones valley bullshit to get you to buy it
>>1813953>destroy the one you postedE-Bike Wars, we need to make this happen
What's with the rise of preachy Youtubers who hold only the extreme opinions?
>>1811932We need a genocide of youtube urbanists
People on this board a guilty of the same extremism that is peddled by these youtubers. Cars and transit can live together in harmony, I live in NJ, I own a car, and I live near transit. Some days I enjoy driving, other days, I would rather take transit.I absolutely love park & rides, I think it's a good way of transporting people into dense downtown urban areas.
>>1811962good move
>>1813956the car-centric status quo is extremismif you take a moderate position then the compromise between your moderate position and the car-centric status quo is the car-centric status quo
>>1813960>park and rides are car-centric extremism
not from todays ride but the weather has been just charming. cheers
>>1813207>"IM LITERALLY DYING">136w/135bpm
34C when I headed out for 3 hours this evening, was still 29 when I got back around 9. Drank both bottles and was still thirsty. At least this year the outdoor drinking fountains in the main park are on this year. Refilled both bottles and drank them both.
>>1813933Finish yourself off you weak cunt
>>1813934Post your rides in 100+.
These fountains are convenient, but quite slow. The flow rate is restricted compared to the ancient ones they used to have. Too bad drinking fountains are concentrated in a single park. Rest of the city only has 2 outdoor ones.
Been googling nonstop but I dont fuking get it, correct me if I'm wrong: Public transport is cheaper for society so why don't people use it? Because not a lot of people use it that drives up costs and it becomes expensive, quality and coverage suffers too, making the problem even worse. And even pouring a ton of money into public transport is not enough to make people switch, so taxing them more seems to be the only way for them to get their shit together. All I find is braindead neantherthal takes like: >huhr I'm a salesman I need to drive so many places!!>duhr you can't put a trailer on a bus!!Only a minority needs a car on the regular, for rare needs they can be rented. For people that really really need/want them exceptions can be made. Really you only need the taxes to transition away from cars, once they are gone you can make them cheap again, or even better you can just threaten people that taxes will go up in a year if they don't get off the road, and you won't even have to raise taxes at all.
>>1813237Not only did Americans do exactly that but for cars, but the fact that American cities have ultra wide streets means that essentially nothing needs to be destroyed to fit in good public transit.
Public transportation is for NPCs
>>1805194This is why people hate you petite tyrants. Tax behavior you don't like.
>>1805194We have a Car tax in Brazil. It doesn't really fix anything.
>Public transport is cheaper for society so why don't people use it? Because it sucks and people hate it.
RETVRN
>>1813874bump
>>1813869I could never take this self driving car bullshit seriously for that and other reasons.Like, one of the major selling points of cars is that they're not fully autonomous. That you can drive them yourself, anywhere you want, at any point in time, even to places where there is no proper infrastructure, where roads don't have proper lane markings, etc.That's the real value a car gives me. Why would they waste millions of dollars on a technology that is such a small improvement and adds so little to the overall value of the product in comparison to just that mere fact? Most auto makers seem hellbend on removing the steering wheel once level 5 becomes feasible. They're wasting millions of dollars, gazillion of man hours on creating a technology, that has no point. Makes you wonder: Is a car without a steering wheel even a car in the literal sense anymore?Wait, let's ask ourselves another thing: Where would a fully autonomous vehicle be most useful? On the highway or in the city? In the city, right? Wait... personal transport vehicles that move autonomous through our cities... Oh wait, we already have those, it is called PRT and as it turns out, they're much cheaper to build, run and maintain because as it turns out, instead of creating a digital super intelligence and collecting millions of hours of training data for said digital super intelligence, (or alternatively: mapping every single public road in the US down to fractions of an inch and feeding that into an algorithm, in a car that has been equipped with LidAR, Radar and a fucking NASA computer) WE CAN JUST PUT A FUCKING RAIL SOMEWHERE AND CALL IT A DAY. What people need to understand: cars already drive on infrastructure purpose build for that exact class of vehicle. If we want the car to navigate that infrastructure autonomously but it just can't do it: maybe just standardize the infrastructure? And again you realize why rails exist.
>>1813862It's going to be very difficult and many people will be forced into public transport for decades or more. The reality is driving will be for the upper echelons of society and anyone making below so much money will not have the privilege.
>>1813913This. The US grid simply isn’t ready for all the demand of significantly electric vehicle, and I don’t think most countries are. The infrastructure just isn’t there and won’t be for some time to come.
>>1813843Anyone who thinks that horse is unironically a better choice than a car is straight-up delusional. Assuming you're retarded and get a car payment on a new car, that's $1,000 per month on a car (more due to higher fuel prices and inflation), but a horse needs housing (you can't leave it out in the sun), feed (which rises with fuel costs), maintenance (vet care and toenail trimming) WILL exceed well over $1,200.
I'm planning on ordering such a thing. https://www.jetsonaero.comWhat am I in for?
>>1813889Yeah, but they never fly it only a few meters above ground, which makes me wonder could this thing even take off if it wasn't for the ground effect and coincidentally my commute to works also is a bit longer than just a few hundred meters and doesn't only involve driving though grasslands.
>>1813856Honestly even worse than a car
>>1813901ground effect only works effectively on flat land or water. That's why every ground effect vehicle has been designed to travel over the ocean. In the video they fly over trees which would totally fuck your ground effect. Anyway this is just a toy. FAA is never going to let you fly a vehicle to the grocery store and your kids school or something.
>>1813943Fuck the FAA just go anyway and shit on people from the sky.
>>1813947yeah there's no way there wouldn't be consequences for that
Do these things work? Or pointless gimmick?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66KPtappr-c
>>1813719Most tire inserts on the market today are tubeless specific. They're mostly marketed towards mountain bikers for running lower pressures while protecting the rim and keeping the sidewalls stiffer. Some are even run flat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYx9maKh9fE
>>1813719It's very difficult to pinch flat a tubeless
Tubed inserts are fucking awful
What interesting new developments are there in the world of public transit and railways?I heard hydrogen and battery powered trains are slowly picking up speed and could offer a good alternative to diesel on non-electrified/electrifiable routes, but what else?Are there any new advancements in signaling automated operation, construction of railway infrastructure, trams, buses, etc. ?
