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>>1093248
That's stupid, might as well just have dedicated regular roads for buses or go all the way and build light-rail.

What's its advantage over busway?

>buses can reach motorway speeds
Where I live buses stop every 500m so there's no way they can go fast.

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Here's an 0-6-4T at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan. It's an extremely rare wheel arrangement, apparently.

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>>1090051
I see it's still running.

Unlike Gazelle which will forever be a museum piece now.

Anyway, here's Gazelle in her working years.

>>1090041

I saw this bitch on Thomas the tank engine today!

>>1089688
Buses are boring and pedestrian as fuck and I don't know why anyone would spend even 10 seconds dicsussing them.

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>>1089688
Who fucking cares?

>>1089688
they're for poor people

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So I've got one of these Woodland Scenics foam incline/decline kits. I've never used one before.

If I want to fasten this to a foam surface, do I need the special "foam tack" glue that they sell, or would regular wood glue work?

>>1055058

Glue is poo
give it a too
rive it a moo
and go to the loo

>>1055058
Regular glue would probably work.
you might also stab a toothpick or something into both. I haven't tried it but it seems to make sense.

Bike currently has 29" x 2.1" tores I keep around 35 pis. Dont know how thicc I can go, but might just go to its max, maybe 2.5"? And maybe 28psi. Tubeless out of the price Id like to spend... To go slower

Panniers full of bricks would be cheaper.

Have fun burping like madman in downhill corners with your fatso tires. You are just searching excuse to buy a new bike, aren't you?

You mean like first, second third class? We have those in real countries.

>>1098385
>first, second third class?
Yes.

>We have those in real countries.
For city public transportation? Care to provide examples? London? NY?

>>1098383
>encouraging 'segregation' of 'haves' and 'have nots'
No, fuck you.

Besides which your idea duplicates effort and is pointless and stupid. Rich people that don't have a car call a cab or Uber/Lyft/rideshare service, they don't take a goddamned BUS anywhere. Also people have CARS not because they're anything as stupid as 'status symbols', it's because things as stupid as a BUS or a TRAIN only go to specific places and you can't carry a shitload of cargo with you. When Soccer Mom needs to take a minivan full of Soccer Kids to a Soccer Game she isn't corraling them onto a BUS and then making them walk several miles to from a bus stop. That's stupid.

Then you go on about 'lowlife'; you yourself obviously don't think that public transportation is for anyone BUT 'lowlifes'. You're an obvious BIGOT and probably RACIST to boot; please kill yourself.

People LIKE personal transportation. They have ALWAYS liked personal transportation, for TENS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF HUMAN HISTORY. That's not going to change either, EVER. Public transportation is FOR THE POOR and always will be; it's DESIGNED for the 'lowest common denominator' on purpose and that's it's role in society.

ENJOY your public transit, especially if that's all you can afford. Be HAPPY you have it, that your government gives enough of a fuck about you to PROVIDE it. Otherwise you'd be walking everywhere, and only ALLOWED to have a job that's within reasonable walking distance. How would you like to make half or less of what you make right now because you can't get there fast enough on foot every day? Or better yet, be glad you don't HAVE to ride a bike everywhere -- especially when it's freezing out, or pouring down rain, or SNOWING, or MONSOONING, or whatever happens in your shithole country in the wintertime.

Oh, and without personal transportation? Your 'roads' would all be GRAVEL at best, not nice smooth pavement, because there wouldn't be any MONEY in taxes to pay for them.`

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Yeah, if:
a) You're a retrogrouch
b) You need to frequently disassemble your bike for easy transport
c) You're super bored and like inconveniencing yourself because your other bike has Di2 and you enjoy blogging about going back to basics to an audience of nobody
d) You're going to go on a tour where the itinerary includes Aleppo, yak herding in Mongolia, and fighting gigganiggas on Mars, places where even the slightest risk of barcons or STI grenading is not acceptable and you absolutely must have the simplest and most reliable method of changing gears that there is.

Otherwise, make like a loli and get STI

>>1098303
>I found a potential bike but it has downtube shifters
that is maybe a minor mark against the bike, but not a big deal
if you like the bike then buy it, if not don't
downtube shifters are a bit inconvenient but they are simple and reliable
if you're mainly focused on transport, i'd recommend barcons over anything
but for more performance oriented riding, brifters are really pretty nice
also note that it usually isn't too hard to go from downtube shifters to barcons

You can just add STI shifters you know.

>>1096852

For commuting you don't need suspension. So that is one point away from the hybrid bike.

Flat bars (on a hybrid) mean only one hand position. Most people find this uncomfortable.

They are typically heavier for a given price too.

Just do this.

Get a cheap bikesdirect bike, spend 40 dollars on the fattest tires you can put on it. You'll be perfectly happy.

Avoid
>triple chainrings
>Cheap suspension forks
>cantilever brakes.

If you live on flat ground, just get a single speed.

http://www.bikesdirect.com/products/cross_bikes.htm?gclid=CjwKCAjwk4vMBRAgEiwA4ftLs0ntevVf2I0JnF1lWDn_sCTjvXlRDUK8zB3PS4aejxWtMLVcWdwcQBoCjwQQAvD_BwE

Start here.

>>1096857
Not bad except triple chainrings are fine and even highly recommended if you live in a hilly area.

>>1096852

Why get a road bike? Most of them cannot take a fender or wider tires. It is better to get a cyclocross, touring, gravel, etc., bike. Road bikes are actually not faster since thin tires at high psi are actually far slower.

If you get a road bike, I swear I will ship you go the infamous city of Chengdu.

Twinjets were allowed on intercontinental flights

>>1094834
This. Trijets are far less efficient than twins and regulations no longer require more than two engines for transoceanic flights.

And now we're seeing the slow death of quadjets. Although this time it is purely because of efficiency rather than regulations on top of that.

>>1094834
>>1094839
Do you think Boeing or airbus will develop any more quadjets, or is the market simply not there?

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Pilot took these ones

What kind of propulsion do your tugs have?

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>>1057428
all three of ours are traditional twin screw

>>1097337
It's not a thing and never will be.

What part of it's in a vacuum so it's frictionless and can go faster do you not understand?

>>1097344
That's not how it works. For fuck's sake, they just tested it in the desert and they were literally unable to get it up to the 250 mph speed they were targeting.

>>1095458
Pump, a bit slower but doesn't run out. Also probably cheaper in the long run, depending on how often you get punctures.

>>1095458

How do you not know that co2 is pretty much for racing Freds? If you don't race, don't fuck with co2. Bicycling Magazine even had a rare, startling article where one of their writers and his Fred friends even mentioned they don't know how to use their co2 pumps because they never tried them...

>>1095485
im not so well infomed about freds.. just read about them here. i just see a lot of co2 stuff for sale and its cheap so i was just wondering as my old pump died.

>>1090461
>The state is building out the tracks while operations are to be handled by an international company including rolling stock

What? Is this true or just a cuck fantasy you made up? If so that's just even more reason to shut this shit down.

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>>1090464

>>1090464
http://www.hsr.ca.gov/docs/programs/eto/ETO_PreBidFlyer_June_2016.pdf

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>>1096802
What good is freedom in a world where there's only one choice to pick? Automobiles are great technology, but without any rational oversight, American cities have become places where one transportation mode has gained a near monopoly, to the detriment of citizens who have been reduced to mere consumers.

What good is capitalism if people are deprived of the fruits of their labor? Food, water, shelter, clothing... add gasoline and high-interest car loan payments to the mandatory living expenses of average Americans. The invisible hand of the free market has been shackled to a steering wheel.

>Bicycles are made in China,
Bicycles are made in the Republic of China aka Taiwan.

>>1096802
>all cars require registration, licensing, insurance, and computer system to track you at all times
>missing out on exercise, the ability to go offroad, and portability
I can't imagine anyone who actually likes freedom would use a car
Bait thread, but there are people who actually believe this stuff, and the Chinese are more free than USA anyway