can we start a Bike Porn thread?
those beauties you'll never own
>>916472
mmmm
pesto
Simply bellissimo
porn coming thru
Cheer me up /n/,
My bikes just been stolen, I'm an incredibly broke speech and language therapist student from the UK. I'm on placement at the moment, I spend 4 days a week treating patients and 2 days a week working my part-time job to try and scrape by. On my one day off, while I was studying in my room, someone broke into my back garden and stole my prized possession - an old shitty hybrid bike (It was the best thing I could afford and I loved it).
Cheer me up with pictures of aesthetically pleasing bikes.
> inb4 "nice blog post"
Are you a girl? That sounds like a girl profession.
If you're still young and have a passable body, there is an easy solution to your financial difficulties.
>leaving your bike outside
>leaving your bike unlocked
Dumb cunt
>>895859
Ahaha no sorry bro I'm a guy, although speech and language therapy is definitely female dominated (I'm the only guy in my year group of 63 people).
go fuck yourself edition
The world needs more round tube aluminum frames
almost pulled the trigger on $30 vinyl protection tape until I saw the thickness of 0.015mm, literally the same as duct tape thickness. Apart from aesthetics, is there a difference? Reapplying it is not an issue, going through 10 rolls of duct tape equals to two strips of protective tape in terms of price. Not on a mtb, just a gravel grinder.
>>918516
Duct tape is sticky crap that looks hideous and starts fraying at the edges.
This is the thread where you get help with purchasing a new or used bicycle, or bicycle parts. Please refer to this thread before starting one of your own. Post as much information as possible to get the best help:
>Height and inseam
>Budget
>Local Craigslist (or your country's equivalent)
>Intended use (commuting, racing, touring, etc.)
>Terrain type (flatland, mountains, offroad, shitty pavement, etc.)
>Any other info you'd consider pertinent
Remember this is a slow board, so please don't get desperate.
>>914413
I really wish /n/ had a little more traffic.
But maybe that's why I like it here
>>914416
I wish it was even slower
Need a front dérailleur for a biopace triple 26-36-46
Since it's not round, do I size up or down when I'm checking specs of dérailleurs? Also what dérailleur is gud.
Icon of Amtrak, staple of freight railroads, and bane of furfags everywhere. What's not to love?
I've actually had the privilege of riding on a train pulled by one of these industrial giants, going down the line, passing stopped highway traffic, thinking to myself, "OUT OF THE WAY FUCKERS, CAUSE WE'RE A GODDAMN TRAIN!"
So yeah, you get the gist.
>I've actually had the privilege of riding on a train pulled by one of these industrial giants, going down the line, passing stopped highway traffic, thinking to myself,
Caltrain, ACE, Metrolink or Trirail?, those are the only two operators I can think of that still use F40s and not F59s.
By the way the F40PH meme was forced by Ham549 of 1chan
>>912645
SD uses F40s on the Coaster
One of my first HO scale locos was an F40. They look really pretty in the snow for some reason, senpai
Why is there no thread on this? There should be.
Post anything related
Experiences
Stories
Future plans
Bike set ups
>>911424
Ha, I'm going tomorrow for 3 month!
>>911427
where to my friend?
planning to go to Iceland for four weeks in the middle of may
first real long tour, feeling really pumped
>browsing heat treated steel frames
>browsing titanium frames
>browsing stainless frames
>hurr durr i wont tell you the weight
>its a custom hand built frame
>its better because voodoo bullshit
>if you are about weight go buy carbon
Literally, why would I buy a super exotic metal frame without knowing the weight?
Why would I not just get traditional butted steel if they're going to be like that?
Expect a minimum 3lb frame. Any lower and it's prone to cracking
When you compare ti to carbon, the weight might put you off
Even a lot of carbon frame manufacturers stopped giving frame weights years ago.
One of the reasons why is this: manufacturer A will make 50 frames, weigh them all, then list the lightest one they weighed as the weight.
manufacturer B's marketing team decides that in order to compete they need to claim their frame is a few grams lighter than A's frame, so they do.
Manufacturer C's marketing team sees this B's weight claims and goes lower, without even knowing what their frame weighs.
Next year A has a "New design" that is 20% lighter, but it's not or they'd get sued because of the thing falling apart.
A few years ago I ordered an Alpina Fork for my Track bike and it came in weighing over 120 grams heavier than what they claimed. Just the fork, 120 grams. I chose the fork based on it's rake, I would have returned it if it were flexy. It worked fine.
If some salesman tells you what the weight of something is I wouldn't believe him. What's the point of asking a snake oil salesman if snake oil works anyways? Look for customer reviews and pictures of the product on a scale post sale.
>>917466
>Even a lot of carbon frame manufacturers stopped giving frame weights years ago.
Most of them give frame weights for their light weight frames, and except for a few brands, they're usually spot on (if you remove the hanger, cable guide, screws, and anything that can come off)
Let's have a thread dedicated to electric freight in the U.S. and Canada (hard mode: no interurbans)
Please, no discussion of the Milwaukee Road's dieselization or the politics involved. Feel free to discuss the western portion of the railroad itself, though.
BC RAIL FUCK YEAH
>>777663
>Let's have a thread dedicated to electric freight in the U.S. and Canada (hard mode: no interurbans)
>but also abitrarily eliminate any discussion of one of the most successful and longest electric freight operations in the United States
Shit thread.
The Virginian Railway ran electric freight over their trackage in the Appalachian Mountains. The electrification was completed in 1925...
FUCKING BUS DRIVER JUST IGNORED ME
WHAT THE FUCK
I'm 20m late thanks to dipshit
Maybe he didn't want a dumb feelposter onboard.
>>918263
I went on v and took first fitting reaction I saw
I don't know how to use these smartphones for internet stuff
Any rail fans here?
Not a fan of steam.
>>918082
I used to think steam engines and trolleys were old-fashioned and boring when I was a kid.
Now I think they're fascinating, though I admit my interest lies primarily in the latter part of their histories.
>>918083 #
I always liked steam due to ttte.
Interesting to see how people got into trains.
What does /n/ think of sandwichbike
Heavy bikes, and I suppose they flex somewhat, is this some kind of meme-bike again?
>>917757
neat idea, too expensive
>>917757
solution in search of a problem. still uses standard seat tube, bottom bracket, and headset-- which is in some kind of plastic headtube substitute?
the fuckin rear dropout is facing backwards. looks like you gotta break the chain every time you need to fix a flat.
why do retarded non-cyclists think their ideas are worth a god damned thing? why do they always re-design bikes? why not faucets or grocery carts or something?
Will he make cycling great again /n/?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbHNk5oZQK8
>>917724
He will make non-cycling transportation great again, Trump hates cyclists now and made fun of John Kerry for being one.
mfw he blew all that smoke about that race and then it folded after like 3 years
what was the route anyway?
>>917748
>what was the route anyway?
A single lap around the physical manifestation of Trump's ego.
Navigators of /n/, how often do you refer to paper maps/charts?
Would you/your industry be totally screwed without GPS?
What is your primary backup if GPS fails?
As an aside, do trains carry maps? If they have to go though multiple switches who's in charge of keeping that straight?
>>917628
Trains do not carry maps. They'll carry a timetable, but really, most crews just know the territory and where the crossings, switches, signals, and industries are.
>>917628
If she runs aground and blows a hole in her hull, would that mean the captain popped the Morning Cherry?
>>917628
I've been an infantryman in the Guard and have recently been flying as a civilian pilot, OP. I can tell you about military maps and aviation VFR sectionals, but not nautical charts
Both rely on a couple of common parts: You find a point with latitude and longitude, and the grid north is different from magnetic north, which your compass reads, requiring you to add or subtract the Grid-Magnetic, or GM, angle, before you go anywhere. They also mark key terrain, they have a massive legend to give you a reference of what's on the map and how to find the GM angle, and people generally overthink both
Other than that
>Military
Coordinates are given a prefix and broken up in even numbers, usually 6-8. The first four denote the grid square your point is in, read longitude-to latitude, right and then up. You then take the next 1-2 digits and use them to locate your point. So, if you're looking for point 12345678, you would find latitude line 12, then longitude line 56, and then use your protractor to go right until you found 1234, and up on that line until you found 5678. If you're trying to get from 12345678 to 13315669, you find those two points, draw a straight line between them, and use your protractor, oriented north, to find the grid direction. Then, you factor in your GM angle, get out your compass and point yourself in the appropriate direction and walk. There's also usually a very detailed depiction of the terrain and a lot of color-coding to help you understand what sort of vegetation you are going into. There's also Hidden Valley Ranch Salad Dressing, or the five major terrain features: Hill, Valley, Ridge, Saddle and Depression. Hill and valley are obvious, a ridge is a series of peaks, a saddle is the area between two high-points and a depression is an area of land lower than the surrounding terrain.
(cont.)
What's /n/ think of longboards? I see hundreds of them around college on the daily. Are they worth it for cruising around campus or the neighborhood? On the topic of worth, what will an entry level, fully build board run you and what will putting down the mad money improve? Also why are bikes better?
longboards are fun, I learned to ride on one and then kind of felt lame on it after a while. Now I have a normal board with some big wheels on it that I like to cruise on a lot more, its smaller, lighter, and more manueverable and I can plausibly do a trick on it if I ever practiced that. I had one of the tiny plastic penny boards as well and they are a blast I would use it to bar hop and never had a major issue even when heavily intoxicated.
I just got a unicycle which I am attempting to learn but the curve is pretty steep, Soon enough though I will be drunkenly terrorizing cars on one wheel rather than 4
>>916547
>longboard
>unicycle
Reported for underage
>>916550
He could be an undergrad
Does it look fine for 150$
Another look
>>916333
if it fits and is serviceable by you, yes.
I want to use it for shopping trips ( 2 miles from my house) and long trips for downtown at work (about 6 miles)
