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What does /n/ think of this? (nsfw)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solstice_Cyclists
degeneracy
Degenerate as fuck and unhygienic as fuck. I wonder if they hose off their saddles afterward.
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>>966245
I lost 1 ball bearing like pic related(not mine) from my headset, is it absouloutley necessary to find it or can i just leave it? also if i do leave it should i place it top or bottom?
>>969388
replace it with a bearing of the same size. If you can't replace it, for whatever reason, place it on the top of your headset.
>>969388
>I lost 1 ball bearing like pic related(not mine) from my headset, is it absouloutley necessary to find it or can i just leave it?
You'll be fine. Some people even prefer to leave a 1-bearing gap in headsets intentionally. Also, if you replace one bearing, you should replace them all. Having bearings from different batches means a very slight difference in size (even if they're the same grade, brand, etc) and that's bad.
>also if i do leave it...
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After a short 8 mile ride my bike was getting easier to pedal the problem is I had to pedal more often to go the same distance as before. Anyone know what the problem is?
Found this neat interactive street designer;
http://streetmix.net/
Show me your ideal urban street setup /n/, or if there is a section along your commute or regular riding that is poorly designed try recreating it here and let's discuss how it could be made better.
>>967176
I live in a sprawl death zone where walking/biking/transit might as well be illegal and this is what most of the roads near me look like. Some of our arterials even have full acceleration/merge lanes that are actually longer/wider than the interstate highway that cuts through the city.
>>967176
24 meters wide street in an area with buildings 2-3 levels high? Are you american or something? If you want some public space, just made a square, park or play ground.
Because this is one of problems in US transportation - huge as fuck streets making longer distances (affecting walkability and public transport), lowering tax income per maintained area (new asphalt, snow plowing, water pipes) and so on.
Read strongtowns blog to get idea what I am talking about.
Also that building setback offered in website...
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>>967184
Hello fellow flyover.
Post your deets and maybe make a friend!
>LA area 323
>Road bikes only
>Crippling social anxiety, will probably never get back to you
>>963678
>Crippling social anxiety
Same and I'm insecure so I won't make friends with people that are not friendless like me.
>>963678
I have friends that ride bikes, but they're all intimidated by the idea of riding a little more than 100 miles in a day for some reason. It's not like these people are out of shape either. 100 miles exactly is pretty much their cutoff for some reason none of them has been able to articulate :/
>>963687
The single friend I have won't go over 30 miles. Personally, I find rides longer than 6 or 7 hours tend to bore very badly. I'm sure others are similar.
Sup /n/
We're a team from [BOARD REDACTED] applying to an intelligent cities hackathon. We're going to use the traffic data and help citizens move around.
Doubles name our team please, we're stuck
>>972288
Since you got dubdubs I vote for DUBDUBS
>>972300
WINRAR
>>972300
Lel it's decided then
Hey, i was wondering if anyone knows what bike this is, all i know is that it's a Husqvarna
>>972253
Engine and stuff is in a box to the side, pretty damn rusty too
>>972254
very nice op, how much did you pay for it?
By the way, I like the railway company Tteyuu Keikyu.
うp主は日本人だお。
From what i hear, the swedish rail network is a joke. The least bit of snowfall south of Gävle disrupts the whole network.
sorta slow and useless but trains down in California are fun
high speed rail sorta an ongoing, multibillion dollar joke here.
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I started riding my bike to work rather than driving. This is the commute I take on the way home. Google Maps says it should take 45 minutes, but it takes me about 30 minutes. I'm not sure if I'm doing a decent job based on the elevation change, but 4.5 miles x 30 minutes means I'm only going an average of 9 mph which is pretty slow.
The weird thing is that going TO work, I'm mainly coasting down the opposite of this path, and it takes between 15-20 minutes to do it. It seems like it should take more than twice as long pumping up hills vs. coasting...
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>>971958
>seems like it should take more than twice as long pumping up hills vs. coasting down them.
Do you have traffic lights and stop signs on the way? That probably accounts for it.
>>971974
Yeah but it's the same stop lights there and back. It just seems like going uphill for 5 miles with a few pretty steep hills (one is a 1 mile long 8% grade, and a few half mile long 6% grades) should take way longer than 15 extra minutes
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Hey /n/ I am looking for a cheap bike computer. I just need a basic one, like speed, max/average speed, clock, distance, stopwatch, etc. I'm looking on Amazon but a lot of the cheap ones (like $20 or less which is my price range) are just Chinese crap.
You guys have any suggestions on decent cheap bike computers?
Also I want it to be a wireless one, if those are better than wired ones
>>971951
>better than wired ones
why in the fuck would it be better
it never moves so why do wires matter? are your brakes wireless?
>>971959
Maybe he wants to easily take it off
Wireless is cheap, my career commuter was like $12
So today was bike to work day in my city (Denver). I had to ride because I discovered my vehicle had a flat. Holy fuck it was horrendous. Normally the main path in town (Cherry Creek path) is a gangbang of asshole riders, but it was 10 times worse and voluminous today. Riders were just being assholes to other riders. What a shit idea. Why is this allowed?
>Also, move back to where you came from you assholes.
When it was ride your bike to wotk day in Austin, i missed out on all the free stuff the city and LBS gave out. I really didn't even notice a difference from my normal commute. Kinda worthless day, but Alternative Transportation Day was kick ass.
>>971760
>Alternative Transportation in Austin
Like this?
>>971760
remember last year when a sudden downpour and hail happened and cherry creek got flooded?
I had to commute to foco so I'm not doing a 100+ mile round trip and working 9 hours but some of the office types did.. it was kinda nice seeing a mostly empty parking lot and so many bikes their racks couldnt fit them all. They lined up about 20-30 bikes on the lawn, no locks or anything just a nice town where you can trust your shit to still be there at the end of the day.
does anyone here have to deal with air pollution?
bike riders especially.
i live in this city and theres pollution alerts all the time.. dont know if i should go out and train or not :( sucksssssss
halp , dont let me feel alone :(
>>971315
I ride in the city every day. I basically ignore those alerts , but then, I'm in NYC not Beijing
I don't remember the source or anything like, but IIRC people sitting in cars take in much more air pollution than cyclists or pedestrians.
Any confirm?
Anyway, I don't really worry about it that much. I'd rather deal with air pollution than a sedentary lifestyle
Why can't non-Americans into highways?
>>971119
They can. Europe has a massive freeway network on which the vast majority of freight is carried. I'm genuinely shocked sometimes that so many US transit and cycling advocates don't seem to realize how dense the freeway network in Europe is.
>>971119
You understand that that map only shows a tiny fraction of all highways, right?
In europe there are only mud paths
/n/ I NEED to see your steel-framed bike. I don't care if it's lugged or TIG welded; fancy-pants nose-in-the-air pedigree or that old 50lb Schwinn Varsity, just post itt with year, make and model.
>>957753
Why so specific
Repost
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Post your favorite dead transportation companies (railroads, shipping lines, airlines, trucking companies, etc.)
>>901881
More like fallen fags lol
those would be some cool beer labels
What is your favorite railroad livery?
>pic related
I am pretty biased, though.
>>887956
>Duluth, Missabe, and S. Railroad?
