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No one can help?

>>1026570
Have you tried Google?

Shitpost

>>1023168
That's wrong, asian girls love being assaulted at trains.

>>1023168
I've seen it only one time irl, i was on my bike with a friend going downtown at a bookfair.
we cut time using the old road of the rural town behind our suburban neighborhood, we saw a taxi driver driving slowly road side following a maid blowing kisses and shit, I didn't get if they knew each other or if they had a bike, but then it became very evident when he was telling her to rub him and shit, at one point he got off the taxi and followed her a couple of blocks, The dumb-ass got the taxi open and shit, I wanted to get the taxi and drive it somewhere else for the lulz, I might have done if i had a place to put my bike, a few minutes later the guy came running and drove like hell going away..


What a bizarre view.

>>1022496
>some cyclists behave badly
>therefore ALL cyclists must be bad

Can't into LOGIC, can you OP?

You're an idiot. I'm surprised you can manage to put together coherent sentences without it sound like a 2-year old got at Daddy's computer and was just banging randomly on the keyboard. Must be terrible having to go through life with a two-digit IQ, OP, you have my pity.

..and, of course, what correlates to this, is that since you're documentably dumb, you must be a terrible, totally incompetent driver. Wouldn't at all be surprised if some of these 'incidents' you're complaining about were somehow your fault and not the fault of any cyclist. Tell us, OP, how many tickets and accidents do you get in every year? How many points are on your record right now? Any DUIs? Are you required by the State to file an SR-11? How many times have you had your license suspended? Revoked? Do you have to have insurance that requires you to pay by the month? How much per month, over $100? Come, OP, you're anonymous here, you can tell us.

>>1022496
>biking at night with no reflectors and dressed in all black
The rest is 'meh', but this one gets the hate flowing.

>>1022510
>>some cyclists behave badly
>>therefore ALL cyclists must be bad
No, just most of them where I live. The children on bikes tend to be pretty safe and I don't think I've ever had a problem with them.

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>>1007613
Amtrak is 50 years late.

>>1007613
How much will the new rolling stock speed up services though? I was under the impression that the infrastructure was the main cause for the less than high speeds.

>>1007613
>modular design
Isn't literally every train ever a modular design?

I think most MoW equipment looks other worldly. Whether it's a regulator, tamper, TRIPP, or spiker/gauger, it all looks weird and doesn't do what you think it would.

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>>953224
>I think most MoW equipment looks other worldly.
MoW?
I Googled "MoW equipment" and all I got was pic related.
t. bike fag

Oh, and Google tells me OP's pic is shooped

>>953229
What, you didn't try Wikipedia first? It's Maintenance of Way i.e. track maintenance equipment.

Get a duck call so if they come in again you can quack back.

>>1027526
should probably just keep a shotgun under the counter loaded with birdshot

>>1027525
>then they leave, no talking to us or buying stuff or anything, they literally came into our shop just to let the tards look around and fuck with our carbon wheels and quack at us

so the LBS is a worthwhile social endeavor that has a purpose after all - who knew ?

minivelo for big guys.

>>1026990
for you

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Pimp and like a true pimp you make the bitch pedal and you ride in a pimp chair in the cargo part of the bike.

>>1026551
>kinds of services that could be delivered on a cargo bike. Any ideas?
Delivery company delivering packages. Only viable in big cities, with big congestion of cagers and traffic jams during rush hours.

>>1026557
Yeah, but I'm not keen on being a courier again. It's a fun job for a while, but there's no skills to add to the mix. Most delivery companies are essentially app/customer interface based.

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However you feel like brah

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buy a decent used bike for $800 and a little bit more on kit, spending all your hard earned money from summer on just bike stuff is pretty financially stupid tbqh. And i think you are being a lil too optimistic about racing.......

Side note, does anyone else find the cervelo s series ugly? the s5 frame geometry look ugly as fuck to me.

>>1025677
haha, i'm just going into college and am fortunate enough to have parents to pay for the majority of it.

this is just a hobby, racing just for the fun of it / to have the right to say i'm a 'racer'

I bought a car, now I never use it except to visit my parents

I'm really stuck on the idea of my next car will be the cargo version of a Transit Connect so I can just walk my bike into the back without taking the front wheel off. Not sure if the short wheelbase one would be long enough or if I should go with the extended.

Yeah I really need a car to go to the college.

>>1014851
Needs to connect to Larkspur Ferry before it's useful.

>heavy rail with grade crossings

It's like I've gone back in time.

>>1014861
thats how suburban, inter-urban, and regional works

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I think I f*cked up my major interview last week. I had waited for this kind of a opportunity for years and feels bad thinking that I might have blew it.

Gonna hear the results in a few weeks, this anticipation is growing every day.

Oh but those widebody jets would be so awesome.

>>1013871
How did you fuck it up?

>>1013867
Got the oral portion of my initial CFI done, and letter of discontinuance because weather got bad. So this is living in limbo... oral went well, but I'm exhausted so it's probably good I get to start fresh tomorrow morning.

>>1013406
Without dedicated right of way, there are literally no advantages over trolleybuses.

>>1013411
This.

I think the appeal of streetcars is mostly aesthetic. If they ran on their own ROW they're pretty efficient and can also hold much more people than even a 60ft artic bus.

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>>1013406
>>1013411
A bus can have a ROW just like a tram could. Their main advantage is CAPACITY, since modern tram systems (Portland is one of the exceptions) allow capacities far larger than any bus ever could. Here in Barcelona our 2nd gen tram system allows for 60m long trams, which would carry over 400 passengers per unit. For a comparison, a double articulated bus can carry about 180, and will have many problems navigating tight corners.
There's currently a project going to extend the tram into the city center along a street where the bus lane is totally congested and buses slow to a crawl. The proposal is for one tram every 3 minutes (perfectly viable since traffic light cycles are 90 sec, ie one tram every other green light), which would add up to a capacity of about 8000 pax/hour (400 x 20). Right now there's about one bus (~80% are articulated on this street) every minute, which adds up to around 7200 pax/hour and generates such congestion that it's the slowest bus corridor in the city despite having a bus lane. Running more than one bus or tram or whatever every 3 minutes isn't a viable option in the long run, and would allow for just 2400 pax/hr.

>tl;dr a bus and tram in ideal conditions offer capacities of 2400 pax/hr vs. 8000 pax/hr.

Now the thing with ROWs is that if you're going to get all that capacity, and build special infrastructure, you want to take full advantage of it. That's why it's often said and quite true that a 2nd gen tram without ROW makes little sense. They'll just have even more difficulty navigating city traffic than buses.

>tl;dr trams can have much more capacity than buses, and ROW gets even more out of that. Non-ROW'd trams are a waste of resources

>>1026932
It's better to know how to, and be licensed to legally operate a motor vehicle than to be unable. You can have a license but not own a car. Assuming you live in the United States, there are circumstances in which being able to carry the kind of cargo or passengers a car is capable of containing matters. Medical emergencies, for example, taking a friend to the airport, or ever being somewhere outside of a city for more than a day, are simplified tremendously when you have the options a motor vehicle affords you.

As far as building a bike, if you're budget-minded, you're really best off getting something used but in good shape from a local shop that has decent components on it.

>>1026932
Nah, you should definitely buy a complete bike to start out on.

Putting a bike together from parts is only cheaper if you already have all the necessary tools, knowledge that will keep you from making costly mistakes, and can source parts inexpensively. The retail price of parts plus the retail price of a frame always adds up to more than the retail price of a complete bike, and that's before you factor in the time and labor involved.

>>1026932
>I'm a child that thinks I know better than everyone else.
You should listen to your dad, retard.

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>>1025631
Here's your template /n/

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Why do Americans shart in the BART?

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>>1025634
Because they are europoor shills