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The trains are insufficiently sexually dimorphic, and therefore woke.
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Dec 23, 2023 04:00
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withak posted:Amtrak brings us incest for Christmas.
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Dec 23, 2023 04:10
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my bony fealty posted:we got mcdonalds after. a real holiday highlight. these days, you can't even do that. nope they won't let you drive to a McDonald's it's true. I tried last week and they fuckin keyed my car and set it on fire?
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Dec 23, 2023 04:24
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Dec 23, 2023 04:51
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Platystemon posted:The trains are insufficiently sexually dimorphic, and therefore woke. One of these trains needs a huge rack. I dont care which.
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Dec 23, 2023 04:52
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PittTheElder posted:Yeah I would guess it's an objectively inferior bicycle with high rolling resistance and a lot of wear on the tires (treads I guess?), but it is very cool ya it'd be terrible as an actual thing its just neat it would struggle to turn, the tires cant lean it wouldn't handle shock loads well at all because those wheels don't have any suspension or inflated tire to absorb anything and even if it did have suspension the wheels look like they're very heavy so it would still be rough even on parking lot, probably lots of moving parts that dont like being slammed around it looks like the tread is just a loose rubber ply with a rigid flat siding that looks like it's just supposed to keep stuff out from the rollers if the roller wheels and stuff don't get clogged up with gunk and especially with a wheel in the front or way to drive the front wheel at the same time and it would crawl across any muddy grassy lawn on earth and up crazy inclines with good gearing, but it would probably wear you out more than dragging or carrying it because the wheels don't roll and it and has a tank -tread style drive sprocket at one end turning it like a pulley instead of an axle, the rolling resistance and parasitic friction losses are gonna be huge, you can hear the noise all of the rollers are making eating up energy that could be making the bike move. i bet it would chew the tread up really fast too since its unsupported Are there any bicycles that let you drive the front wheel at all? I guess it wouldn't have much use outside of Trials comps or weird ultra steep mountain biking
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Dec 23, 2023 05:13
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Sometimes people electrify front wheels with hub motors. They’re kind of awful but it’s cheaper than modifying the rear wheel.
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Dec 23, 2023 05:23
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If you drive the front wheel then you are dividing your available traction between throttle braking and steering and outside of being Marc Marquez good luck recovering from washing the front
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Dec 23, 2023 05:27
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FirstnameLastname posted:Are there any bicycles that let you drive the front wheel at all? I guess it wouldn't have much use outside of Trials comps or weird ultra steep mountain biking Does a penny farthing count?  A company called Tretta used to make really strange but cool 2-wheel-drive mountain bikes (and apparently road bikes), idk if they still do  insane chain positioning, still want it I think there's e-bikes that do electric FWD and pedal RWD too but that seems horrible to me
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Dec 23, 2023 05:28
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dreamin of semen posted:Does a penny farthing count? lmao do3s that have an axle to transfer from the left side of the fork to the right side above the wheel haha
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Dec 23, 2023 05:32
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Gunshow Poophole posted:lmao do3s that have an axle to transfer from the left side of the fork to the right side above the wheel haha Yeah lol. tbf I don't know how else they really could have dealt with "the front wheel still needs to be able to turn"  the bike mechanic half of me is going "fuuuuuuck" but the rest of me just wants a go on the cool bike
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Dec 23, 2023 05:41
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Seems like a good way to get grease all over your left leg.
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Dec 23, 2023 05:45
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that's a dang engineering problem for the ages too busy thinkin whether we COULD, nobody asking whether we SHOULD
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Dec 23, 2023 05:46
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500excf type r posted:If you drive the front wheel then you are dividing your available traction between throttle braking and steering and outside of being Marc Marquez good luck recovering from washing the front i was thinking a selectable thing like a drive transfer in a car, for people trying to mob up a 40° gravel incline or things like that itd obv. be pointless and unwanted 99.999% whatever use cases i just wondered if it was a thing dreamin of semen posted:Yeah lol. tbf I don't know how else they really could have dealt with "the front wheel still needs to be able to turn" very neat engineering tho FirstnameLastname has issued a correction as of 05:56 on Dec 23, 2023 |
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Dec 23, 2023 05:54
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FirstnameLastname posted:i was thinking a selectable thing like a drive transfer in a car, for people trying to mob up a 40° gravel incline or things like that If you think of pedaling and electric power as two separate things, then there is no advantage to driving the front wheel over the back wheel and plenty of bikes exist where you can pedal or use electricity as needed on the back wheel
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Dec 23, 2023 05:57
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Epic High Five posted:One of these trains needs a huge rack. I dont care which. train guys are more into caboose
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Dec 23, 2023 07:10
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https://twitter.com/JoshyBeSloshy/status/1738028073725964468
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Dec 23, 2023 07:50
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https://i.imgur.com/1rtAJIW.mp4 Run a brake on the fork by routing the line through the headset for more rizz. 
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Dec 23, 2023 09:38
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500excf type r posted:If you think of pedaling and electric power as two separate things, then there is no advantage to driving the front wheel over the back wheel and plenty of bikes exist where you can pedal or use electricity as needed on the back wheel i was talking about a purely pedal powered like the one bike someone posted, someone else mentioned the efwd bike when you're going up a v. steep incline you have weight shift back a bunch and have to lean forward to compensate so you don't tip & can steer going up a steep wet, dirt, gravel incline that can mean spinning the rear tire. which kills any forward momentum you have and then you tip over having the power split across both lets you avoid that & probably makes for smoother climbing bc you wouldn't have to worry about keeping momentum up nearly as much so you'd have a wider range of speeds to take things otherwise outside of that single situation tho no use really
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Dec 23, 2023 10:09
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeOS9pG6vjU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMUrJhet-1M&t=357s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX3A7GLtFqM&t=327s Platystemon has issued a correction as of 10:18 on Dec 23, 2023 |
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Dec 23, 2023 10:12
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lobster shirt posted:im in an exurb of a mid sized southern city and it takes ten minutes of driving to get out of the residential only subdivision. then there are fields. finally after all that: target and applebees. the american dream
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Dec 23, 2023 12:18
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FirstnameLastname posted:i was talking about a purely pedal powered like the one bike someone posted, someone else mentioned the efwd bike That also sounds incredibly like the kind of situation where you would be twisting the bike a lot, meaning your entire left leg would be greased as gently caress. I'm probably gonna take the cargo bike out later to get a Christmas tree.
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Dec 23, 2023 12:32
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BonHair posted:I'm probably gonna take the cargo bike out later to get a Christmas tree. 
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Dec 23, 2023 12:35
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BonHair posted:That also sounds incredibly like the kind of situation where you would be twisting the bike a lot, meaning your entire left leg would be greased as gently caress. Just use wax. *Offer not suitable for Danish climate
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Dec 23, 2023 12:47
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The latest NJB video on Montreal sucks.
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Dec 23, 2023 13:09
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I drove a new Subaru up mt lemmon. it was great and I got 30mpg the cyclists going up were crazy, I'll never be that fit
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Dec 23, 2023 16:49
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i say swears online posted:I drove a new Subaru up mt lemmon. it was great and I got 30mpg not if you keep driving up
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my bike has road gearing, my legs would catch fire a quarter-mile up i'm doing a tour of the texas hill country in march for a week or so @ 50 miles/day so i need to get my front rings downsized pronto
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Dec 23, 2023 17:39
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Ardennes posted:The latest NJB video on Montreal sucks. Montreal certainly seems to suck pretty bad, so it makes sense.
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Dec 23, 2023 17:58
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Steen71 posted:Montreal certainly seems to suck pretty bad, so it makes sense. Does it?
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Dec 23, 2023 18:16
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Ardennes posted:The latest NJB video on Montreal sucks. yeah its real bad
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Dec 23, 2023 19:20
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Sphyre posted:yeah its real bad Not entirely familiar with Montreal, what's the issue?
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Dec 23, 2023 19:35
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Sphyre posted:yeah its real bad He just goes too far. It isn't that Amsterdam has better biking than Montreal; it of course, but come on. Amsterdam is a historically more small-scaled European city where most of the urban layout was already fixed in 1920. Nevertheless, Amsterdam also has its highways, industrial areas, and awkward metro stops. If you want to be fair, even it isn't a paradise, and honestly, a lot of sidewalks in Amsterdam are still an issue and the public transportation is ridiculously expensive. Montreal just isn't ever going to be Amsterdam it physically can't. I think he really does a disservice to everyone by ragging on it for most of the video because it still has highways and suburbs like any other North American city rather than recognizing that a lot of work has been done, it is getting better, and that North American cities are just going to have legacy infrastructure. Not everyone is going to be able to move to Amsterdam or the Netherlands, that includes other Europeans. So I really don't get the point of it, I guess it hurt him personally or something. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 19:47 on Dec 23, 2023 |
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a very unique automobile that breaks (safety) conventions
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NJB does spend the first 1/3 of the video talking about what they are doing well. He implied he's going to REALLY rip into Philly and SEPTA next. Though SEPTA gets like a fraction of the capital budget of a similarly sized transit agency, so its not like they can have grand ambitions.
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septa sucks outloud but its cooler than njb will ever be
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Nitrousoxide posted:NJB does spend the first 1/3 of the video talking about what they are doing well. Then he immediately flips over and goes on a rant which undercuts all of that immediately. Also just going after Philly and SEPTA is just lovely, what next going after St. Louis and Detroit? Yeah, no poo poo they aren't bike cities. ----- Anyway, it really isn't just NJB but I think just that there has to be some level of acceptance that certain cities will or can push bike infrastructure so far. For example, Moscow, you can ride a bike there during the summer (although a lot of people use scooters now), but at the end of the day, it probably doesn't that much sense to re-make the entire city around bikes. The city has a massive amount of public transportation (more than Montreal or Amsterdam even when comparing for size) and at the end of the day it makes more sense to use that during the winter than bikes. Tokyo has side streets that are bike-able, but there is always going to be an impediment in terms of space (and just public transportation). Ardennes has issued a correction as of 20:48 on Dec 23, 2023 |
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neon jenesis bvangelion
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Steen71 posted:Montreal certainly seems to suck pretty bad, so it makes sense. Hi Steen. Sorry if you think I was mean to you on the FRM.
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