The Queen of /n/
>>1087324
>retarded tats
>queen
NO..
I thought Natty Batty was the Queen.
>>1087379
Goddamn, those thighs could crack your head like a walnut. Wear a helmet.
How many of you ride bicycles in city environments, and how do you feel about passing?
Been a couple of times now, I've passed somebody and I hear some kinda negative sounding remarks from behind me. What's more annoying to you; to have someone pass you or to just kinda have them behind you forever?
(I know the answer is to not give a fuck and I'm 'autistic', but for my curiosity)
If someone is riding faster than I am I don't care if they pass me
The problem is when they accelerate to pass you and then start riding slower, so you inevitably catch up to them, so they accelerate again, or pass you back as soon as you pass them, and so on. A lot of folks seem to feel like it's a race all the time.
>>1086624
Alright; cause I'm far from the best cyclist in the world, I just happen to bike in a city where people wanna ride these heavy ass citibikes or beach cruisers. Like, I want to be nice, but me coasting is going to run up your ass compared to that.
>>1086622
They are just butthurt that you are faster.
I'm doing my first bike tour in a week, it will last for up to 1.5 months. This will be the most noteworthy thing I've ever done in my life. I've never travelled before so I'm a bit nervous. I just started riding recreationally last week. What advice can you give to me?
I will camp out in nature and wash myself and my clothes in lakes. I'm not sure how I'll this will happen so I'll practice a bit beforehand. I've read that dishwashing soap is the most multi-purpose soap, should I bring this instead of a detergent? What tools and spare parts for the bike should I bring with me? What clothes should I use?
>>1082974
>I will camp out in nature and wash myself and my clothes in lakes. I'm not sure how I'll this will happen so I'll practice a bit beforehand. I've read that dishwashing soap is the most multi-purpose soap, should I bring this instead of a detergent? What tools and spare parts for the bike should I bring with me? What clothes should I use?
Your tour starts in a week and your plan is to wash your clothes in a lake? how are you going to dry them?
My advice is to bring baby wipes for your ass and armpits and sleep in a hotel once in a while to shower and maybe go to a laundromat
Good luck OP my man it aint easy but its fucken rewarding.
Wilderness wash for soap.
Lets see your rig
Service between Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach starts in July.
Miami portion opens up late August/early September.
Phase II aka the Orlando Leg was set for earlier 2018 but is up in thin air now thanks to some of the counties along the route.
>>1058831
Okay? Too bad Florida turned down all that HSR study funding when it was available.
>>1058850
eh, its better than nothing.Plus they have made a few offhand comments about possibly making an extension to Jacksonville sometime after Orlando which makes a little sense since FEC's (parent company) headquarters is located in Jacksonville so assuming its true and depending on if there isn't to many speed restrictions, we might see it have a faster average speed than the Acela Express
>>1058855
> eh, its better than nothing.
Well, I can't argue that.
Resources:
http://www.parktool.com/blog/repair-help
http://sheldonbrown.com/
https://www.ebicycles.com/bicycle-tools/frame-sizer
Anyone have any recommendations for CX bike rims? I'm looking for something light and tough, 700c clincher, for rim brakes, 22-25 outer diameter.
I've been running cheap Sun CR-18's on my CX bike (that I treat like a rigid MTB) for the past few years and although a good wheelbuild and proper maintainance have kept them from going out of true, the aluminum is soft enough that the rims themselves have gotten dinged and bent more than a few times.
Is there such thing as a 12-14-16-18-20-22-24-26-28-30 10spd cassette?
And is there any reason why this wouldn't be a good idea?
getting a bike from a pawn shop how fugged am I
How do you get "in the zone"?
>I hurt myself a month ago because I was too eager, first ride today and almost crashed again in the exact same way.
Without being drunk, without running over obviously sandy/gravely areas, without being hit by a car, how does one crash?
How long has it been since you removed the training wheels; a week? Week and a half?
>>1092311
MTN biking. Group was going fast and I felt shame.
>>1092313
Ah, guess that's fair. Didn't even consider; I'm the asshole.
Why aren't we using teleportation portals yet? We need to stop wasting our efforts on stupid shit like autonomous cars and start working on actual efficient methods of transportation like teleportation portals
Why use portals when you can sit back and enjoy some delicious cake?
>>1092089
I think you've spent a bit too much time with the Companion Cube
I agree OP, it will change the world as we know it.
We are closer than you think! I will get back to you guys later!
Is this airport cursed?
Why do they keep turning off instrument landing system (ILS) and take years to repair that shit?
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Report-Air-Canada-flight-came-100-feet-from-11287266.php
They have more important matters to mind than airline safety. It's San Francisco.
>>1090881
>turning off instrument landing system
Not sure exactly, but ILS is good for straight in approaches. SFO has some nighttime noise abatement procedures that require a curved approach over the bay (to keep away from neighborhoods). So ILS is not so useful.
On a related note: What ever happened to that Asiana pilot, Wei Tu Lo?
>2017
>perpendicular runways.
I'm a laughing.
Oregon is going to have a $15 tax on every bicycle sold over $200. First state in the U.S. to enact something like this.
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2017/07/oregon_just_passed_the_only_bi.html
Kids bikes exempted. Like that matters.
This is a dangerous precedent. Taxes are almost never repealed, and they're always increased over time. It may be $15 now, but 10 years from now, who knows?
To be fair, Oregon does not have sales tax, and this takes the place of that in the case of a bicycle sold new. The money raised by the bike tax will go directly to projects "that expand and improve commuter routes for nonmotorized vehicles and pedestrians."; we'll see about that.
The governor hasn't signed it yet, but is expected to.
Your state could be next.
How does this make you feel, /n/?
Cagers hate bikes. As self driving cars become a thing bikes will be pushed to the side for "saftey".
Same shit they do with guns. First its a small tax increase, then its so many fees the normal joe cant pay for it and its defacto banned
>>1088800
I wouldn't worry about so-called 'self driving cars', the technology is mostly media and marketing hype. You'll be an old man before humans are not allowed to operate motor vehicles, assuming that ever happens at all.
Bicycles will never be 'banned', ever, so I wouldn't worry about that either.
Don't turn this into a 'cager hate' thread; there are plenty of those on /n/, if you want to discuss that then go find one of those and post there. This thread is about a specific subject and I'd appreciate it if it was kept that way.
>>1088820
I think it's quite possible that bikes are going to be banned from using roads.
flight god edition
>>1088421
Faggot edition
>JFK International Terminal 4
Wow. So he just travels through the airport dressed like that?
Question
So I know not all Class D airports have radar services in their towers. But, if they have the capability to tell what freq your transponder is squawking, then they must have radar, right?
This photo of the Concorde (Flight 4590) is as beautiful as tragic, but I can't stop looking at it.
Concorde appreciation thread.
>>1087678
Why doesn't your city have a monorail?
It already has a duorail and such a new system would suffer from incompatibilities everywhere.
>>1085954
thats not a monorail
this is what a monorail looks like. op pic has two rails just weirdly on the side of a concrete block not on top of it.
Has anyone here ever worked as a bike courier or bike messenger?
I'm considering do it for a relatively short time ~1 year while I work on my portfolio/skills for what I want to do for my long term career
I think I'm in shape enough, I'm just wondering if anyone has any experience they would be able to share
I work as a bike delivery guy. I deliver food though, I don't think those "TAKE THIS ENVELOPE TO THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN YOU HAVE 10 MINUTES" jobs exist anymore.
Job is fun, not really too tiresome, you get free food, only work 4 hours a day which is enough for me to make a humble living, can't afford any luxuries though.
Keep in mind companies will ask you what's up with that one year hole in your resume, and you can't tell them you just rode your bike around. Also make sure your delivery company has accident insurance, because you WILL crash
>>1095363
>I don't think those "TAKE THIS ENVELOPE TO THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN YOU HAVE 10 MINUTES" jobs exist anymore.
They do, because there are still (and always will be) plenty of instances where only an original physical document will do and/or only a 'live', original signature on a document will do, therefore someone has to physically take a physical document from one place to another.
>>1095365
Well sure, but they're specific instances. I doubt you can have a job that consists of nothing but such tasks.
I just bought this bike because it's 60% off and it's a 2017 model
however there's an issue, i'm a guy and this is supposedly a female bike
I suppose my question is does it matter? I'm just using it for work commuting and peoples opinions don't matter to me, but I admittedly dont know a lot about bikes and stuff
was this an okay buy /n/?
https://www.rutlandcycling.com/bikes/hybrid-bikes/dawes-poppy-2017-british-cruiser-ladies-hybrid-bike-blue_377456
It's a big problem.
Since they 1980 bicycles are built with advanced gender detection technology. Once the bike reaches 15mph, the saddle scans your body to see if you have the correct gentiles. If the incorrect gentile comes up in the scan, the front wheel immediately locks up, throwing you over the handlebars like a catapult.
just make sure you dont hit 15mph and you're fine
>>1095191
LOL I doubt i'll be getting to 15mph, I weigh 250
Beach cruisers are never a good choice. You'll probably ride it once or twice then leave it to rust on your basement.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/448515/alex-batey-rip
>This will be a day none here at National Review and NRI soon forget. This is the day Alex died.
>Long ago and far away: The previous mailroom guy having been let go (he permanently borrowed a VCR), NR was in the hunt for a capable, experienced person in a very unglamorous but busy and, for NR — where endless material was sent out the door daily — essential operations person. Alex Batey had chosen not to leave with Mobil when it split New York for Virginia — he had a house after all, left to him by his late parents. He also had ample experience in Mobil’s massive mailroom.
>So I hired him. And for a quarter of a century, Big Al (fact: he wasn’t big) was the most punctual and reliable of NR workers. A loner of sorts (never married, no kids, a strange mix of shy and nosy), a creature of definite habits, smart (a head filled with facts useful and sometimes not), he fit right in with the NR cast of quirk-enhanced characters.
>Lunch was at noon, on the dot, and it always looked unappetizing (sorry Al: by the looks of it, cooking wasn’t your gig), he always took vacations around federal holidays (often to Canada — we busted his chops about his faux secret family in Montreal), and he never played sick (nope, Al never got the flu like others do the morning after a Giants night game). He came in early, got his coffee, made his rounds (every morning, he came by to say hello), was gone at 5 (had that bus to catch), attended all office parties (but never touched the booze), and on any given day did all sorts of grimy, sweat-inducing tasks that would have had anyone else kvetching.
>But Al never did. Maybe that’s because there was plenty of permissive downtime at NR, which he could and did fill by reading travel guides to any country (I can see him at his cluttered mailroom desk hiking through Fodor’s Guide to San Marino or Frommer’s Guide to Sierra Leone), by wandering the office offering commentary (sometime head-scratching, often quite sharp, always preceded by a chortle) and usually unsolicited advice (“You shouldn’t use Equal.” “Really Al? I don’t remember asking your opinion.”), or, more and more as the years wore on, giving rapt attention to his PC screen, watching YouTube videos of bygone wrestling matches featuring Bruno Sammartino and Chief Jay Strongbow and other ancient heroes (Al knew everything about professional wrestling — he was an encyclopedia and was determined to share his wrestling newsletters with his colleagues).
>Yep, Alex loved to share his passions. The beautiful model trains and buses he saved for were delivered to NR, and after opening them with care he showed them off, tossing in a gratis lecture on why this 1932 Whatchamacallit Steam Engine was more accurate than his 1947 HolySmokes Diesel. His home basement was turned over to this hobby, wall to wall, and he took countless pictures and videos of his beloved layouts (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkwHqLXy8V0Bbk5OzAX157Q)
>Al fit into one category: Al. The son of a New York City police officer; Al had a social awkwardness offset by a relentless itch to engage; he was exceptionally bright, decidedly uncool, and acted no different talking to Bill Buckley than he did to the NR receptionist (although I doubt he tried to interest Bill in Japanese anime). He defied physics: You could see Al a block off, bouncing down Lexington Avenue, somehow his body moving in every direction at once. He could take a joke, and he could give in return (the chortle followed these). His politics were as elusive as his trip to . . . Sierra Leone. Still, he was one of us. Unfittable, Alex Batey fit in here.
>This week, something was up. Something was wrong. His gastro system — it was on the fritz, and he was . . . unnerved. Al went to the walk-in medical clinic located next door to NR. Little good that did: The next two days, he called in sick. And he was. Very. Russ Jenkins, his boss and friend and guardian angel, told him — get yourself to an emergency room. And: Don’t Come In.
>Al being Al, today, he came in. For the last time. A little after 10:00 a.m., trying to deliver the new issue of NR, he became disoriented and started to collapse. Aaron and Mila caught him, sat him in a chair, Alexandra called 911, Galina got his records. As for Al — he couldn’t breathe or talk. The EMTs arrived, gave him oxygen and an IV, and took him to the nearby hospital. Lindsay Craig followed to make sure someone was there to have his back. The doctor told her: Big Al was in grave condition. By mid-afternoon, he was dead — a massive infection had swamped his lungs and stomach, overwhelming his system.
>Why in God’s name did he come in to the offices of National Review this day? To me it is obvious. Alone in the world except for a loving sister, who lived far away, Alex Batey knew that he had arrived at the hour that will arrive for all of us. But he didn’t want to die alone. And he didn’t.
>Over its 62 years, National Review has had three editors: Bill Buckley, John O’Sullivan, and Rich Lowry. Al Batey was privileged: He could call all of them friends. But they too were privileged to say the same of Alex Batey. So am I, and so are shocked colleagues, some who have wept at the news of his passing.
>Rest in peace, Big Al. We’re praying Jesus is your tag-team partner.
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