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Anonymous Mon 16 Sep 2019 20:33:05 No.1391435 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1391939 >>1391988

Drillium edition

Last Thread: >>1385557

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https://yarchive.net/bike/index.html

If you want help buying a bike, ask in >>>/n/bbg

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 00:48:52 No.1391933 Report

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>>1391517
500 bucks tops

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 00:57:16 No.1391936 Report

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>>1391554
>who makes reliable cheap single speeds?

state bicycle company 4130 core-line
Mercier Kilo TT/WT
Raleigh Preston
Motobecane Fixie Record CF fork
Windsor The Hour

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 01:01:27 No.1391938 Report

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>>1391915
cycling has too much boomer nostalgia and fashion and cost reduction from manufacturers and general bad taste. most bikes adhere to UCI regulations which are quite strict. the first thing to do in terms of adding winglets/spoilers/etc would be to reduce aerodynamic drag rather than generating downforce or lift because aero is much more important than rolling resistance when you get over a certain speed and the average bikefag doesn't go anywhere near to pushing the limits of grip.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 01:05:26 No.1391939 Report

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>>1391435
Has anyone ever made a ghetto fit station using a stack of blocks to sit on and some dumbbells or some variation of this? I want to order a frame online but I want to make sure I get the right fit, so my thought was to measure the stack and reach and set up a chair/blocks to sit on in front of some dumbbells to represent the handle bars.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 03:42:24 No.1391988 Report

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>>1391435
I have been thinking about getting a couple of mountain bikes for me and the wife. We aren't going to be actually mountain biking like xtreme downhill, we plan on just riding mountain trails slowly/leisurely for a bit of exercise on the weekends. Any recommendations as I have no idea what I would be looking for. Havent been on a bicycle since I was a teenager.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 00:53:20 No.1391934 View Reply Original Report

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How do we convince NIMBYS that preserving the "character of a neighborhood" is a shitty argument because cities are and will always change

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 00:58:55 No.1391937 Report

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>>1391934
I too believe we should build a nuke plant right in the middle of Manhattan.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 01:46:13 No.1391949 Report

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>>1391937
There are very good arguments against nuclear plants and other major industrial sites in the middle of large urban areas, but the implied criticism here is of people opposing residential developments in a residential or mixed-use area.
People have blocked small apartment buildings that would have replaced parking lots, in a neighborhood of other small apartment buildings, solely because they don't want new neighbors.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 03:36:52 No.1391987 Report

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"It's inevitable" is the shittiest argument for any viewpoint, including yours.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 02:12:51 No.1391963 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1391964 >>1391983

Hey guys what do you think about this bike? They sell them in central america kinda cheap, they say they're good shit but not having any info online about them I'm sceptic. From what you see in this picture do you think it's decent?

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Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2019 17:06:40 No.1388895 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1391957 >>1391985

What flaws would you be willing to overlook to attain a cyclist wife? (or husband)

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Anonymous Tue 17 Sep 2019 20:30:58 No.1391860 Report

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>>1391855
>sanctity of this ride

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 00:28:34 No.1391922 Report

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>>1391233
I once went on one where she had to pee in public three times and I had to forcibly restrain myself from making her use my mouth as a toilet.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 02:00:35 No.1391957 Report

Quoted By: >>1391971

>>1388895

the hoe in that pic look fine af, would ride and cuddle with post-ride

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 02:42:00 No.1391971 Report

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>>1391957
>talking like a roody-poo
you have to go back to instagram

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 03:28:50 No.1391985 Report

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>>1388895
Her feminine penis

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Anonymous Wed 28 Aug 2019 16:53:32 No.1382637 View Reply Original Report

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You have the ability to restore 5 retired intercity rail routes, regardless of cost or commercial viability. Which routes do you restore and why?

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Anonymous Sun 15 Sep 2019 01:29:40 No.1390582 Report

Quoted By: >>1390593 >>1390594

>>1390546
By the intermediate cities I really meant the towns in between Pueblo and Santa Fe, which in my head will take up most of the travel time along the route. I do think that the whole route is totally fine as a standard present day Amtrak route, but if they really wanted to dominate the corridor's travel market and not just be a tourist line they need a train so fast that there will be enough Albuquerque to Colorado Springs/Denver travelers to make up for the low number of people getting on and off in between. Trying to look at an analogous example in terms of journey time, even Acela and the NE Regional have few Boston-DC journeys: those lines are built entirely on shorter journeys. If they could cut the time down significantly they'd be golden.

As an aside, Lamy gets less than 10,000 annual travelers on the Southwest Chief. Pretty sad. It's time to finally put the SF into ATSF.

And is Lowell good now? I just grew up with those stereotypes but I could believe it being better these days. Have you ever been to the streetcar museum?

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Anonymous Sun 15 Sep 2019 02:02:57 No.1390593 Report

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>>1390582
>even Acela and the NE Regional have few Boston-DC journeys: those lines are built entirely on shorter journeys. If they could cut the time down significantly they'd be golden.
The largest city in the country being the midpoint definitely helps with that
>As an aside, Lamy gets less than 10,000 annual travelers on the Southwest Chief. Pretty sad. It's time to finally put the SF into ATSF.
For a route, I'm thinking route it through Lamy non-stop until a new route can be built bypassing the town
>And is Lowell good now?
It's not the greatest, but it's far better than it was in the 90s, mostly due to the sheer influence on the city UMass puts out.
>Have you ever been to the streetcar museum?
No, but I've been meaning to. As a college student, I'm here for classes in the spring and fall, but I move back home for the summer to avoid those 3-4 months of rent lol

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Anonymous Sun 15 Sep 2019 02:05:19 No.1390594 Report

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>>1390582
Also,if you put a fat Park & Ride near Raton or Trinidad, and run non-stop between Santa Fe, there, and Pueblo, that might generate enough ridership. Sure, people will be driving, but at least it won't be the whole way to Albuerque or Denver

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Anonymous Sun 15 Sep 2019 03:58:23 No.1390639 Report

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>>1390492
i think if NJT tried to stick a terminal under greenwich village, they're be a coup.

a hudson tunnel would be cheaper down by communipaw terminal because there's tons of open land for staging the tunneling operations / moving cut. if NJT bought the abandoned trench alignment north of journal square, all hoboken trains could optionally run a downtown direct through communipaw to the station under WTC. You'd still use hoboken for ferry services / path connections.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 03:27:53 No.1391984 Report

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>>1389576
>Entire regions have become deserted thanks to it.
It's worse in NA. The 4th and 5th largest cities in the US have 3 trains per week, some states have nothing, the 3rd largest city in CA has no service, and Mexico's only passenger rail is urban rapid transit in Ciudad México, Monterrey, and Guadalajara

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Anonymous Tue 17 Sep 2019 23:13:30 No.1391898 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1391967

are nuclear steam trains the transportation method of the future?

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 01:51:14 No.1391951 Report

Quoted By: >>1391953

>>1391902
Honestly an RPG is a pretty hard counter to any form of fixed infrastructure, so the conversation is limited largely to stable, developed countries that don't have guerrillas in the mountains.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 01:54:37 No.1391953 Report

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>>1391951
Nuclear power plants are encased in concrete with a fenced perimeter monitored with surveillance cameras. Can't stick that shit on a train now can you?

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 02:26:59 No.1391967 Report

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>>1391898
if only there was some way to put a nuclear power plant in a facility somewhere and then transfer the power to the train remotely so that the train wouldn't have to carry the weight of the plant as well as its cargo

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 03:19:49 No.1391979 Report

Quoted By: >>1391982

>>1391901
This. One of the main benefits of not having an onboard energy source is that the train weighs less, which means it can go faster.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 03:25:44 No.1391982 Report

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>>1391979
But the wire also has to go with it. Imagine the spool of wire it has to have. Thousands of kilometers

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Anonymous Sun 15 Sep 2019 18:19:37 No.1390864 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

Quoted By: >>1391976 >>1391981

Too many NEETs and other types who have no life on this board, who have no idea, apparently, what living a real life is like -- or are living in some urban hive their entire lives and have no idea what life is like outside that.

Post your daily schedule in this thread *only if* there's no way you could use a bike or public transit and still get everything done. There's plenty of you out there.

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Anonymous Tue 17 Sep 2019 20:03:40 No.1391851 Report

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>>1391788
>anon talks about generic decently built environment
>absolute boomer gets buttmad and writes wall of text strawmanning about muh ebil inner city and wanting to have his mcmansion
>doesn't even comprehend that decently built environment doesn't forego that at all, but simply means that there's an urbanistic logic where both cities and suburbs are built around a denser core and then get progressively less dense, resulting in both urban-type and suburban type housing where you can still have your mcmansion and commute by car and sit in traffic, while others can live in an apartment and commute by train
Basically you're angry at people wanting to have a choice and some wanting to choose a different lifestyle from yours. You know, in Europe there's also American-style detached houses. Your whole rant is basically
>stop liking what I don't like

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Anonymous Tue 17 Sep 2019 23:58:03 No.1391905 Report

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>>1390989
So about that thread, where's the link?
I'd like to contribute on the optimal size of a Walmart parking lot or how many parking spaces you need for a Starbucks IF there is also a drive through.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 03:02:43 No.1391976 Report

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>>1390864
>a real life is living in some suburban hellhole where you get the worst of both worlds an need a car to go anywhere without a 20 minute walk
Suburbs were a mistake.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 03:11:22 No.1391977 Report

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>>1391125
>muh suicide net memes
Confirmed for Sinophobic smoothbrain.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 03:25:17 No.1391981 Report

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>>1390864
you mean suburbia? The suburbs are not only a joke but a conspiracy to get people to spend more on gass and housing. The only people who would move there are boomers who saw the 50s ads or their normie offspring who grew up in suburbia and just think thats the right place to live.

it has the worst of both rural areas and urban areas. You are stranded if you don't have a car, there is, and this is the real joke. no viable public transportation (which is mysterious seeing how its desperately needed) and you get the noise and traffic of an urban area. The suburbs creep me out, house after house after house for miles, it's like some abstract psychological horror. I wish i was born in some urban hive.

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Anonymous Thu 15 Aug 2019 23:45:36 No.1376488 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Thread 2 boys. Post your fixies and SS here.

Don't call me a fixter edition.

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Anonymous Tue 17 Sep 2019 09:09:16 No.1391660 Report

Quoted By: >>1391900

Bump.
Also 4$ gold chain.

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Anonymous Tue 17 Sep 2019 20:18:47 No.1391858 Report

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I love this thing.

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Anonymous Tue 17 Sep 2019 22:51:27 No.1391894 Report

Quoted By: >>1391900

What ratios you guys run?

I have a 52 chain ring and am looking for a cog for the rear.

Would be short commutes (about 30min) on mostly flat ground and I can sustain 20mph easily and indefinitely.

Anyone run something similar?

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Anonymous Tue 17 Sep 2019 23:15:36 No.1391900 Report

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>>1391894
Usual guidance is 3 to 3.5 as a gear ratio.
Mine >>1391660 is a 41:13, pr a 3.15. my average commute ranges between 17 and 21mph over 4-5 miles depending on traffic and wind.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 03:22:29 No.1391980 Report

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>>1383342
>faceplanting a bus is cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDoEeS4MVpU

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Trybo Bike Tech !T2TiVG4UMA Tue 03 Sep 2019 17:03:16 No.1385302 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Bike questions general - because no thread. Looking for inspiration. I've gotten myself this pretty NOS 2003 Merida Big Air frame. What whacky idea of a bike does /n/ have for it.

I'll probably make a video about building it.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 02:26:11 No.1391966 Report

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>>1391946
the wheel size isn't a big deal for the bike fit. for instance most crank arms are within just 5mm in length to each other. maybe the smallest adult bikes should be on 26 inch wheels but it's not a big deal either way and other things like the ride quality are more important than the visual proportions.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 02:31:52 No.1391969 Report

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>>1391958
You must be 18+ to use this site

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 02:59:11 No.1391974 Report

Quoted By: >>1391975

>>1391946
bigger wheels just dont exist

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 03:01:20 No.1391975 Report

Quoted By: >>1391978

>>1391974
https://www.unicycle.com/nimbus-32-dominator2-rim/
I'm going to gather some more information and make a thread about this over the weekend or the following weekend.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 03:15:55 No.1391978 Report

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>>1391975
looks like you'll have to have it custom built

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 01:22:04 No.1391944 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1391954 >>1391973

discuss

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 01:57:08 No.1391954 Report

Quoted By: >>1391973

>>1391944
where do motorcycles factor in, more painful than getting hit by a bike? I figure the cycle gets hurt pretty bad too.

Otherwise I think it's about right, one thing I dislike about cars is you have to trust whomever is driving them to not fuck up and kill you. I think that and the lack of "exposure" to the area around you helps to build what people call the "cager" behavior, since there's basically no repercussions for fucking up in a car unless you hit another car or a wall.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 02:12:11 No.1391962 Report

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Car is best option.
Walking is worst.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 02:45:38 No.1391972 Report

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ftfy

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Anonymous Wed 18 Sep 2019 02:54:41 No.1391973 Report

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>>1391944
pedestrians bumping into each other is probably closer to a fist fight
>>1391954
motor bike is between 100 to 400 kg and likely to be traveling at least twice the speed

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