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>>999470

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>>1073067
It couldn't possibly be that straping your child to a 3000 pound missle traveling a 60 mph is unsafe could it? You cunts kill more children than Hitler every year.

>>1073077
>if a kid on a bicycle rolls out in front of a car, is that counted as a motor vehicle related death?

I assume more people on bike die from cars right?

>>1073067
but the cyclist WAS off the road, it says they were trying to cross the road, not actually riding along with traffic

riding on the road, with all the other vehicles, is the safest place for bikes.

sage because "3rd butthurt idiot this week" doesnt need another thread

Get a bigger jersey

Get a mountain bike. Baggies every day.

>>1072763
stop being fat

this is the best thread on this board
fuck bikes

>>1071335
That's not a possum

>>1071335
did he touch on?

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>>1070453
Light rail isn't as sexy as proper rail

Has Bombardier caught up with streetcar deliveries yet? The LRVs for Waterloo have been delayed by about 7 months.

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>>1070456
>>1070453
Trains aren't as sexy as bikes

It just seems a very self sufficient and independent vehicle. If your motorcycle breaks down you need to call a tow service or repair service or friends. With a velo however you can always carry all the spare parts u need, plus you can ride in all weathers.

Also if you're out of electricity (fuel) you can still get home at decent speed, unlike with a car and you need to walk with a motorcycle.

I really like the extreme simplicity and robustness of a velo, there's so few parts and so little that can break

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-gmLK68GXQ

Is this bait? This must be bait.

My city's BRT has a flat fare of 35 cents

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>>1072419
What city?

Mexico City here.

Subway is 0.26 USD.
BRT is 0.32 USD.
Shared bike is 21 USD/year.

>>1071063
>CHARLES NOOOO!!!!!

F

>>1071063
Did he died?

Good job. I remember this bike when you first starting poasting it. That chainring could use a BBG bashguard on the outside imho

>>1070093
thanks, it's certainly come a long way but ive finally got it right where i want it, as far as parts go

Bashguard for what, though? I rarely ever have the chain come off the outside, and ive got a stop on the inside to keep it from falling in

>>1070094

what exactly do you do with this bike . commute ?

also can you explain a little why it is the way it is ?

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Posting my internally gear hubbed Flat Bar Road Bike.

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>road bikes
>flat bars

>tfw boardman-kun will not pick up on the reeking irony due to the 'tism
>tfw boardman-kun will think this is emotional support and not further bullying
allmykeks.svg

>why even live?
you're right, kys

>>1072071
Smaller cramped interior but jeez... across the Atlantic in 3.5 hrs instead of 8. And with people who can afford it, not the cheap losers on cheap flights. It would have been worth it.

>>1072079
>And with people who can afford it, not the cheap losers on cheap flights.
First class still exists, also Concorde's last days was full of ID75s

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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as "deralleur", is in fact, a derailer. There really is an actual French word for this, but it is commonly pronounced in an anglicized manner, as "de-RAIL-er" or "de-RAIL-yur." The actual French pronunciation is more like "day-RYE-EUH" but nobody says that when speaking English. The proper French spelling is "dérailleur," not "derailleur."

I am on a one-man campaign to replace the foreign spelling "dérailleur" with the English spelling and pronunciation "derailer." I have been using this spelling in all of my writing for some time, and urge others to do the same.
The word "derailer" (or "dérailleur") is actually a metaphor, relating the gear change to what happens when a railroad train goes off the tracks. In English, we call this a "derailment," not a "déraillement."

In fact, in the railroad industry, there is an obscure device designed to deliberately derail a runaway rail car. This device has always been called a "derailer" in English, and a "dérailleur" in French. All the so-called “derailleurs” on bicycles are really derailers.

http://sheldonbrown.com/derailer.html

Had a "friend" as a kid who used to call it a "drayler", very annoying. He also used to say something along the lines of "bazorst" instead of exhaust.

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>TFW you remember that Captain Bicycle is dead

dumb solution to a problem that doesnt exist

HURR DISC BRAKES ARE LITERALLY SWORDS AND ARE GONNA CUT THROUGH EVERYONE IF YOU SOMEHOW CRASH IN A SPECIFIC WAY

yeah because chainrings couldnt ever do that???

uci = nerds

The funny thing is this could actually be a little bit useful for mountain biking, it would give the rotor some protection to stop it getting bent and would shield it a little bit from water and mud.

>>1070030
Brake rotors rotate much, much faster than chainrings. Chainrings are also half covered by the chain. Chainrings also stop rotating on a crash.

>>1071587
1. build tunnel
2. send in the cars!
3. dynamite the tunnel
4. no more traffic nightmare

>>1071599
dubs confirm this is a good idea

sweet! tunnel blasting is always fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpDOcioBJyI

>>1071565
I don't think about them because they're PEDESTRIAN and BORING and STUPID and there's no reason any well-adjusted person would spend any amount of time discussing them, let alone posting entire threads about them. Seriously what's wrong with you train foamers? Did your mothers drop you on your heads as a baby or something?

>>1071576

>if you are baiting
here's a ((you))

>if you are not
Here's another ((you)). Now go fuck yourself with a pineapple, you deserve it.

>>1071565
Any transport with a fixed infrastructure will, as a general rule, be more efficient if it's electrified, since you already have the cost and maintenance of that fixed infrastructure so it's easier to have a continuous supply of energy, rather than re-fueling (or re-charging) at centralized locations, and then carry the fuel as added weight, plus the range limitation and the trips done to the fueling/charging points.

An exception could be a rail system like the US's, Canada's, and Australia's. Long stretches of simple and durable railroad tracks running through the middle of nowhere, requiring limited maintenance and with relatively few albeit long and heavy trains. In such cases electrification cost and its maintenance is possibly not economical compared to the savings in operational costs.

In the case of a people mover we're most likely talking of an urban, suburban or local interurban environment, with relatively high service frequency and frequent acceleration and deceleration. In such a case diesel propulsion makes little sense. It ought to lower cost of implementation, while cost of operation would increase in a more significant proportion to level of service being offered over an electric operation. As in raising level of service (frequency, capacity,...) in similar fashion will mean a proportionally higher increase in operational costs than the electric option.
This will likely mean that as demand takes off, it will be expensive to keep up with supply.

tl;dr it's stupid, make it electric. Or even better, get an LRT.