is the automobile industry culpable in more death, destruction, and suffering than the arms industry? would the world be a better place if we put more effort into public transport / human focused infrastructure?
>>1129569>bot sides r culpebule>if you have even ever sorted your trash u r hipocrit
>>1129217Cars kill people - directly and indirectly (pollution, extraction of oil and raw materials) on a massive scale.Would the world be a better place without cars? Since western society is spoon-fed consumerism and "invidiuality" most people will say no. Personally, I regard this a rhetorical question. The scale of mass individual transport is unsustainable and highly destructive.
the automobile industry has too much control over states all around the worldthey're a fucking scourge to the earf
>>1129217You are absolutely correct, and the environment and human sociability is paying the price for the automobile.
/BRT/ Bike Racing and Training -- Comfy road to dream of riding in the winter editionPrevious thread (currently on auto-sage): >>1113676IN THIS THREAD, we discuss:* Training for bike racing (road, MTB, track)* Bike racing tactics and strategy* Bike handling skills relating to racing (pacelining, maneuvering within the pack, blocking, when to attack, etc)* Your races* Pro races* Equipment choices (including power meters, heart rate monitors, etc)* Anything and everything relating to bicycle racing and trainingWhen discussing power, post W/kg (watts per kilogram), not just watts.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>1132407500 miles with 500-800ft climbing total
About 775 km a week, no climb.>tfw live in the Netherlands
>>1132409Impressive! That's a lot of climbing, mate!>>1132412Do you live in a particularly flat area or are you training for TTs?>>1132422I'm sorry to hear you don't live near any climbs.>t. forcing myself to climb a ton since most crits/road races in the area are climb-intensive as fuck. I've found that it is far too easy to lose much more time climbing than is possible to make up on the flats. Also I'm starting really love descending.
>>1132198>>1132190>set up a trainer for the first time after summer>old fan won't start>no time to go get a new one>decide to ride once without a fan>ride for an hour>the small towel I had was so soaked that is was dripping with sweat>literal puddles on the trainer matGet a fan. As for what comes trainers as anon already said they can replace training outside.
>>1132461>>1132190get an actual box fan too, not just a lil guy
>just got driver's license this morning at 25 years old because autistic loser>now gonna have to buy a car, pay for insurance, gas, maintenance, etc and not use bike as primary transport anymore
>>1132998>the entire point is to save money>no it's not>why would anymore spend $900 a month on their box of murderSo you're agreeing with me.
>>1132989>The entire point is to save moneyNot for everyone. For many cycling is a preferred form of transportation and for yet still more it's a means of protesting how ludicrous it is that so much of our city planning revolves around an archaic technology like combustion engines.
>>1132999most people don't do that though, they just circle the block like idiots until they find "their" spacethe $900 is just if you want to have a commute that's not 3x as long as it would be on a bike
>>1132998>$900 a monthI don't know where you live, but here, a $900 bike pays for itself in about 9 months if you were previously commuting on the bus everyday.
>>1132998>pleasantBikes are all kinds of good things, but not pleasant.
What does /n/ thinks of monorail?
There is almost nothing a monorail can do that a more orthodox system can't do as good or better.
>>1130103Cheaper than elevated train in traffic heavy city?
>>1130103>>1130194>>1130869My city was supposed to get a monorail like these, but its funding got...suspended.
At least it's not the hyperloop.
I wish there could be one monorail thread without bugman pop culture references
East Japan Railway Company (JR East) now shows how crowded each car in the next arriving train is so that people waiting on the platform can prepare to get on the less crowded car instead of increasing crowding on more crowded cars.Would something like this be useful on your city's metro system?
>JR>Metro
>>1132721>look, autist claiming Yamanote is a commuter line just because it's surface rail
>>1132733Metro = Tokyo Metro + Toei Metro
>>1131402>confortable
>>1132733> He doesn't understand rapid transit suburban rail and mainline rail. > What is S-Bahn
They finally threw a low trail fork on a cross check and in the years every big brand will be pushing low trail modelsWow neat. They're digging deep now. Gotta get that n+1 but somehow. > "Honey, these panniers I bought 2014 are USELESS TRASH, I *need* a new $1,000 bike so I can carry one bag of groceries on my handlebars like the cool bike mechanics on the internet"Seriously though if the fork is avail for $100 I'm buyin
>>1132426>heavy loads on the frontYeah no thanks I like steering.
>>1132835The base price on that is well over 5k, not counting the extra add ons.
>>1132894>nigga, what the fuck are you posting that shit forIt's ibob you dum fucc
>>1132797>linking to iBOB on 4chanBruh, 4chan is about the most unBOBish thing I can think of.
>>1132923they're actually having intelligent and civil conversation so yeah you're right
Just admit it you ride a bicycle because it's similar to a horse.
>>1124401Should've made a shitload of horse jerky(...if I got that story right)
2 words senpaiHorsePussyOnly reason to ride horses is to really 'break them in' if you catch my drift. If you like jiggly butts nothing is better.
Hi/g//fit/izen visiting for adviceSo i have an earox.I had it fixed so it would go around 95km/h. Sport exhaust, powerfilter and all that. It used to fly but now it doesnt anymore.I didnt let the engine warm up a few times. Did i fuck up my engine or can I still fix this?
>>1132677fug nigga!I do have a yamaha aerox too!I'm buying a car soon so I'll get rid of this oil fryer
>>1132677>Riding a scooter Why not get a real bike my man? I'm not sure why you bothered spending money on that thing.
>>1132685sell it to me, I need one of those
>>1132686Christ. What a beautiful bike. The front looks good but the tail is kind of meh.
>>1132729I personally like the tail, but it's not for everyone. It's the most popular naked bike in Japan.
How do we move large amounts of people up and down hills? Something better than buses. I am making a fictional transit map based on my city. Hamilton, ON
>>1125421are you an urban planning student?
>>1126303https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_steepest_gradients_on_adhesion_railwaysSeems like Lisbon Tramway can do up to 14%
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>>1125993There is one in Dresden, Germany. It's not only a suspension monorail, it's also a funicular. Works like a charm since 1901.
The best ones:EscalatorsRail (any)Elevator dug inside the hill
This is cool.>high speed rail is how to build http://www.farmmachinery.tv/hi-tech-china-s-high-speed-rail-is-how-to-build
Hey /n/, what's stopping me from building a small single-seater airplane from plywood and balsa or whatever and slapping on pic related for 350$?Seems way too inexpensive to be real, sounds absurd that for as little as 450$ you could build a functioning airplane, 11.5hp ought to be easily enough to get me up and flying, right? it runs on gasoline as well so no expensive nitro required. Maybe i ought to make it my daily commuter, a lot cheaper than buying a used car for example.
>>1127825>contraceptions
>>1127825Never trust self made contraceptions.
>>1127836Kek
>>1127400This is amazing
>>1132815Innit though?
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ge-review/shrinking-ge-rattles-investors-shares-hit-5-year-low-idUSKBN1DD0H3http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/business/single-view/view/ge-looks-to-sell-rail-business.htmlThe entire transportation division, along with lighting, and "industrial solutions" (circuit breakers, etc.) have been put up for sale (ABB signed on to acquire the industrial solutions division) with oil services possibly the next on the block.How does this news make you feel?
>>1130690Three: GE (and whoever they sell their transportation division to), Caterpillar (of which EMD is a subsidiary of), and Wabtec (of which Motive Power is a subsidiary of). The marketshare between them is pretty even, I think.It'll be interesting to see who buys it. China's CCRC could obviously make a move here, so could someone like Cummins or Detroit Diesel. GM (EMD's former owner) could get in on it too, and for that reason I wouldn't rule out something out of left field like Tesla either. Trains make money, and there are plenty of businesses interested in making money.
>>1130719>Tesla using GE's locomotive division as their reliable cash stream to buoy up everything elseThat's just crazy enough to work.
>>1126071that was the AC6000. Absolute piece of shit, just like EMDs SD90MAC. Only ones left are AC4400s internally with AC6000 shells. GEVos (evolution series) put out 4400 hp.
>>1126054>>1127498GE makes a better product than EMD and has done for for two decades. I think EMD's corporate culture was so used to resting on its laurels they stopped innovating.>>1126056>>1129150That piece of shit is almost assuredly some kind of tax write-off>>1130719GE is the biggest, EMD is comparable, Wabtec is much smaller than either.>>1130720>Milking one division to fund anotherThat always works out so great for the division getting sucked dryComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>1132791Not necessarily milking them dry; Tesla lives on venture capitalist funding and injections from Musk's own pockets. Having a division that DOES turn a profit to prove that the company is somewhat solvent would go miles to keeping its existing gravy train flowing. Any funding the loco division could throw the car/truck division's way would just be the extra cherry on top.
ITT post pathetic or great excuses for bike lanes in your town. This is the average "bike" lane in my town. Not even 100 feet later it unironically says to yield to bikers when turning right.
>>1127083that's actually very nice, looks smooth toohopefully cars don't try to park there
>>1127097as a general rule, if a "bike lane" isn't at least 4 inches wider than my handlebars i just take the lanethis happens more often than you might expect here, and my bars aren't even that wide, a bit under 2'
>>1127905the crashes usually happen when people turn right without looking over their shoulder at an intersection, or when left turning traffic accelerates hard to fit through a gap in cross traffic and doesn't anticipate having to yield to the crosswalk
>>1128269What the fuck
>>1126843That's all you deservet. cager
Why did Americans do this? How long have they been cucked by automobiles and big oil?
>>1132232>>1132270I don't see a problem, if you move to LA and are surprised the traffic is bad, you're a retardStill beats sitting in a tube with feral urban youths
>>1125091They're like giant Christmas ribbons of hate and frustration.
>>1132176t. Randal O'Toole
>>1132296Simply remove the urban youths.
>>1132315Urban planning is a bugman profession.
Comfy 80's train editionPrevious thread >>1092113
>>1132713This is /n/, not /b/. No one's gonna dox you.
>>1132746I prefer not to risk it anyway
Why the fuck are old people the biggest NIMBYs of all? They're going to die in like two days, why the fuck do they think their opinion is relevant
>>1132861What else are they going to concentrate on.These are people whose world has been getting progressively smaller and smaller, until there's very little left outside of their lawn.
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