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New York, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Boston, DC, and Atlanta.
The rest are sprawling wastelands that we don't talk about.

>>1020939
>Atlanta

no… Atlanta has incredibly shitty urban "planning," which is to say, they built everything according to need at that moment and never "planned" anything. the streets in the small downtown area are offset from each other, in at least one case due to the infra the original landowners laid and the city just absorbing it (the Fairlie Poplar section is diagonal to everything around it.) Midtown pretty much makes sense (except where it doesn't) and the interstate cuts through it and creates some really counter-intuitive bullshit (Spring street is one-way southbound in Midtown and one-way northbound Downtown.) all the other intown neighborhoods tend to be cut off from each other or have their pattern destroyed by interstates or railroads. Everything else is massive shitty sprawl.

Why not just go to Europe?

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Tattoos and piercings unwelcome, as always.

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>>1047516
Agreed

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Does this count?

>>1046824
>low quality bait

Nice Bait.
1x is genuinely very nice if you can afford a proper setup. I hear complaints about cross chaining, but you spend most of your time in the middle, only using the low end for harsh climbs and the high end for long downhills.

>>1046829
I think the meme is actually the size of the cassette, not 1x specifically. 50t on its own isn't a problem but it's usually paired with 32t or less up front to give stupidly low gearing for babylegged casuals. If I was dumb enough to buy Eagle I'd run something like 38t up front.

Sorry idk how to

>>1048912
this.

fuck i just turned 33 and dont know how.
but i am trying to learn though, manual on the bmx, wheelie on the mtb. never will be done on the road bike.

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It looks like it was V-brakes, that's really weird?

>>1049298
It's safe to say that is not a Pinarello - apparently there was a steel Pina touring bike called the Promenade, but its frame was nothing like what we can see from your picture.

I'm thinking that it's a repainted French bike (everything but the wheels and derailers are French and from the same era), possibly a Peugeot Vagabond? If you want a positive ID, we'd need detailed pics of the dropouts and lugs, to find out whether the headset/bb are french/italian/britsh, and any serial numbers. It would also be a good idea to post these pictures on bikeforums C&V, lots of knowledgeable folks there.

>>1048987
I'd call you a giant manbaby who doesn't know how to spend money, but this isn't the board for that so I'll just point you in the right direction:

>>>>>/o/

>>1048995

it's a job project, I may not know how to spend money but I know expensive as fuck penis enlargement vehicles aren't the thing.

thx

>>1048987
Just buy a Brough.

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>got any winter projects /n/?
I borrowed most of the components off this Falcon San Remo (531c) frame about six months ago, and then it sat while I slowly gathered parts (and a desire to rebuild it). Here's how I finished putting it back together last week, I've had it out a couple of times and it's a sweet ride. Needs a stem 1cm longer and some shallow drop bars to be perfect, but it's not uncomfortable as pictured.

>>1045782
Neat
What pedals are those?

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Gone tubeless since this pic.

Sports are not /n/. How about trying /sp/? Bikes are allowed on /n/ solely as they apply to getting places, not as for sports.

>>1045640
Sorry. That makes sense.

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QT
>>1045640
We let you guys have your toy train threads, don't be so uptight

No, those are all of the downsides.

>>1045001
neither
get a good 90s rigid steel mtb. with slicks.

>>1045048
>get a good 90s rigid steel mtb. with slicks.
Is this the meme we say to outsiders, like /g/ telling people to install Gentoo? No thanks. We can do a lot better.

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>be me
>be femanon
>riding my rigid 90s steel mountain bike
>dressed casually, no cycling specific clothes (unless a helmet counts)
>on a paved bike path
>enjoying the nice spring weather
>begin to come up on someone from behind
>a fat guy
>wearing full cycling kit
>including Air Attack helmet
>on an S-Works road bike
>he hears me approaching and looks back
>he quickly looks forward and starts pedaling as hard as he can
>I'm keeping pace with him without even trying
>he keeps looking back at me
>literally every 5 seconds he looks back
>looks visibly distressed, as if afraid that he is going to be passed by a girl on a mountain bike
>he keeps looking back every 5 seconds or so and this goes on for several minutes
>we get to a climb
>he slows down to an excruciatingly slow pace so I pass him immediately
>when I get to the top of the hill I look back out of curiosity, he is only a third of the way up at best
>a few minutes later, stop at one of my favorite rest stops, a nice park overlooking a lake
>about ten minutes later, fat guy passes by
>stares at me as he passes
>a few minutes later, get back on my bike and resume my ride
>not long before I've caught up to fatty again
>he looks back and sees me
>he immediately stops, gets off his bike, turns it upside down, and starts spinning the wheel as if inspecting it
>clearly pretending to have mechanical issues to justify stopping, when really he just doesn't want to be passed by a girl on a mountain bike
>ask him if he is okay or needs help with his bike
>"yes I'm fine thanx. just having a bit of a rest"
Pic related, looks almost exactly like him.

>>1028054
ayy lmao the old pretend to inspect your bike haha

>>1028048

i live at a house behind the main lookout of a big city bike track. The amount of Fred is out of controll. Literally Thousands of FREDS stop outside my bedroom window in the morning. The noise of all the cleats clicking and and unclicking forces me to sleep with earbuds. There is a constant drone from all the braking on GARBON rims.

I promise to document all this one day for the amusement of /n/. You think you have seen FREDS ? ILL SHOW YOU FREDS.

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>>1048689
>Decide to drop 10k on a car.
>Any Golf

>>1048689
Is that a stiff 90s with slicks?

>>1048702
>stiff

>>1048686 (OP)
>>1048687
It's a late 60's, early 1970's department store bike. It doesn't have much resale value, maybe $50-100 tops because it's a generic, low-end object without any 'collectible' status, nor is a desirable bike from a sporting perspective.

But on the bright side, it's an extremely valuable commodity in a different sense: it's an extremely inexpensive and reliable mode of transportation. Replace the tires, brake pads, and cables as necessary and put clean grease on the bearings every few years and you've got a great little machine that will get you to work or to the grocery store everyday, and cost you maybe $100 to keep in good working condition for 5+ years.

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>>1048693
>>1048686
Oh hey, it's a Steyr-Puchs bike from Sears. A Free Spirit, I think was the brand name. Of the non-Raleigh built 3-speeds, those were the best of the bunch. Better than the Schwinns and Huffies of the same era, and definitely better than every other department store bike of the time. It's worth a little more than the average old 3-speed, maybe $120-$150 in pristine condition, because of its Austrian heritage.

But as the other anon said, that's a really good mode of transportation. It's made of high-quality Austrian steel, so it will hold up really well. It's also got a 3-speed internal hub, so it's literally perfect for tooling around town. An internal hub means the shifting gears are on the inside of the hub, so they're protected from the elements and thus much more reliable. You can also shift gears while standing still, which makes it uniquely suited for traffic.

All in all, real good find, anon. It's a good way to get /fit/ without spending shitloads of money on gas, it's a really reliable bike, and it even gives you a certain "pedigree" in the English 3-speed circles. 10/10 bike, I hope you keep it and ride it for many years and miles.

I just went to the store and figured it would be a good idea to get a little skateboard to go down hills since walking is a huge pain and the board will save me a bunch of time and could be fun. Really wish I had thought of this the first semester.

>>1047877
thanks for the idea, but I wouldn't want to be all sweaty and tired for my first class of the day.

>>1047881
>a few blocks
>tired and sweaty
You're going to die of a heart attack at age 31

Fuck off /ck/ you're not funny

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>>1047272
>'go 'za LOOOOL !!!!1!
Go die in a fire, aspie.

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4you,

>>1045519
I got yelled at in Tokyo for going in the women's only carriages

I think its because the way they squeeze them in so tight during peak hour

I wouldn't mind gender segregated buses desu, as long as the women aren't allowed in the men's carriage

>>1045519
3rd world thing honestly.
I understand carriages for pregnant women, elderly, children etc.

>>1045519
Sweden or Japan?