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>>1010846
That's not the W&OD Trail. That is perhaps a pic from one of the connecting trails but not the W&OD. I ride the 90 miles on the trail down and back at least once a week.

That being said, rural exploration in exurban areas is the best. North of Leesburg in Waterford, Lovettsville, Taylorstown, etc. is the shit for NOVA folks.

>>1010875
Yes it is... it's in Vienna. That connection you see is heading into a park. I took the picture with the trail behind me.

But yeah, I love checking out little areas off of the trail, especially Herndon town center and Reston tow center.

Check out the Carolina bbq brothers in Ashburn. Great little local place right on the trail. https://g.co/kgs/x95mza

any bike will do 4u

go see the used 90's mtb thread.

>>1010696

Do you have any good bikes that you'd recommend?

>>1010479
>barcelona
>model of urban planning
something tells me you've never been to spain

>>1010482
it says
>model of 19th century urban planning
which Barcelona basically is. Doesn't mean it's a model for anything

>>1010479
>>1010482
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>>1005913

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I like to read, but somehow I haven't come across many /n/-related books I like enough to recommend. I'm looking forward to reading Road to Valor soon, I've heard good things about it.


>Bikes
Bicycling Science by David Wilson
-Great primer on the physics and physiology that explain how bicycles function and are ridden. Also includes some general background on the development of bicycles and other HPVs. Worth reading for any mechanic or rider who wants to really understand why things work the way they do. Only thing this book lacks is a comprehensive section on suspension, hopefully that will be included in the 4th edition.

-Bicycle Quarterly (Magazine)
Really good writing, great photographs, interesting topics. Highly recommend if you're interested in randonneuring -type bikes, the history of European cycling, and technical reviews of products currently on the market.

-The Dancing Chain by Frank Berto
Actually I don't recommend this one, I'm mentioning it here to save you the trouble of tracking down a copy and being disappointed. An excellent book when it was published, this has since been superceded by material available on the internet.

>Cities
- The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler
This is a delightful book about urbanism and planning - it has its flaws, but being dry is not one of them. Kunstler is a passionate author and if you've not encountered his work before it will open your eyes to a new way of looking at the world.

- http://usa.streetsblog.org/
A collection of many blogs, and every weekday morning they publish a collection of links of articles and stories from around the web that touch on transportation, mass transit, planning, and urbanism in general.

>>1009519
you should get on your bike and fuck off back to /pol/ m8

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>>1009514

I read this. An entire book about bicycle wheels.

Imagine your grandpa is drunk and has autism and wants you to know that everything you know about bike wheels is wrong

After I read it I sat down to true a wheel and made it much much worse. The wheel is still sitting in my basement three years later

>>1008801
That's what cars will do to you.

One anon on here once made a good point. He wrote that if you look at car commercials, you'll always see the car speeding by on a scenic and completely empty road to the sound of soothing music. When the reality is that most of the time you sit in traffic or are looking for a parking spot, to the sound of horns and yelling kids. You react to cyclists this way because they interfere with that dream of speeding down a free road, which you associate with your car. The 'is' state is different than the 'should' state and that is frustating to you. Then you aim your frustration at the apparent target, the cyclist in front of you.

>>1008801
Why do you feel the need to insult people who choose appropriate, comfortable clothes for riding their bikes?

>>1008818
It's not an insult if it's true. Is calling someone white an insult? Is calling someone black an insult?

>>1008596
As for exactly what tools you'll need, I'd wait and see what comes with the bike and also how much assembly/tuning is required. But you'll probably only need 4 and 5mm hex wrenches, a phillips screwdriver, a pedal wrench, and grease for the pedal threads and seatpost. Frankly, if you're starting with absolutely no knowledge at all, I would recommend you pay a bike shop to assemble this bike (or at the very least do a safety check on it after you assemble it) to verify that bolts are tightened sufficiently, that your headset is adjusted properly, and wheels reasonably true. You can learn to do most assembly tasks yourself by watching online videos (adjusting derailers and brakes will be the main tasks), but there's lots of things you'll miss if you've never ever worked on a bike before.

>>1008596
Not a bad choice. Ride errday, give no fucks, and stay safe.

>So I bought a bike. A decent one (I think?). After a bit of research, I settled on an Airborne Guardian.

It's a solid choice. It avoids the biggest flaw of most entry level mtbs, which is crappy suspension.

The wheelset is strictly bare bones, and it's going to take a lot of muscle to throw around tight corners because of it's weight.

>which I heard is alright for road use?
If you do lots of road riding, get road tires. You lose 15 percent efficiency or so with knobby dirt tires on road, but it's not going to explode or catch on fire or anything like that. If you expect to ride all day on the road, it's obviously the wrong choice, but that's not exactly a suprise.

>Anything I should research about basic maintenance and such? I'd really appreciate any advice.

Sheldon brown. All of it.

>>1008030
why do you want to buy a cheap touring bike if you're ready to pay for airplane to asia back and forth, for hotel and for train/buses between city ?

if you're not wanting to go from one city to an other by bike why not just rent a bike in one city, fool around, go to the next city by bus and then rent an other bike ?

>>1008030
A very bad and heavy aluminium road bike with Shimano MTB gears is laughlinly expensive in Brazil. You would have to pay at least USD 800 for it and that's a Brazilian brand with bikes made in China.

In other words, you should bring your own bike. And you will need fat tires so that it doesn't brake with te first (dozens) of potholes.

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>>1008032
The reason for a cheap bike is so its no big deal if it gets stolen.
I imagine renting bikes will get expensive and be hard to find sometimes

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Dumping a few pics to get things started.

What's the best single-engine non-military helicopter and why is it the AS350? Oh right, sorry Airbus, the H125?

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One of my first instructors and eventually co-workers flew this fat slug for awhile.

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>>1008351
probably, also check if you could fit the tire on your rim and chainstay clearance

>>1008354
Rim is recommended 25-38 so that's all good and I measured everything on the bike, should be plenty of space.

I wouldn't worry about switching tubes. People with fat bikes will run a 2.4" tube in a 3.8 to 4.8" tires to save weight which is a considerably bigger jump.

>>1010430

>no bell
>no fenders

No u grandpa

>>1010430
>hacking on people who don't do things the way *I* want to do them, so *obviously* they're wrong and need to be mocked on an anonymous Afghani terrorists' cave-exploring picture sharing website
I don't even HAVE a mountain bike and I think you're a rediculous manchild for posting threads like this.

I'll bet you don't even *own* a bike, OP. What are you, confined to a wheelchair and to being indoors 24/7/365, and massively butthurt because of it, so you lash out at whoever you think you can get away with? And then you have to do it here, on 4chan, because you know nobody can censor you except for the moderators, and since this is /n/, you'd have to post CP to get your post deleted and you b&. So we have a permagimp posting somewhere almost nobody cares about, about shit nobody really cares about. Can you get any more pathetic than that? I don't think you can, at least not on 4chan. IRL I'll bet you're even more pathetic, though. I've known people with permanent disabilities, and they come in two flavors: the ones that pull themselves up by their own figurative bootstraps and achieve well beyond anyones expectations, and the ones who whine and verbally bully and demand because they think they're entitled. Guess which you would be?

Not even sure you're some permagimp or not, of course. But some kid stuck in a wheelchair is still a better person (and posts better threads) than you do.

Kill yourself. You'll do the world a favor.

>>1010436
Bell is immensly underrated. You can warn people when you overtake or ring before you go in corners that don't have good visibility.

Fenders are a sign that you don't just ride on the weekend in hermetically confined save spaces, also known as "bike parks"

>>1010446
Nice copipe

>>1003800
Long Beach Transit was the first company to get them. I thought they were cool but GMC got out of the bus business. Enjoy them while you can because New Flyer,Novabus and the remaining Orions still rule the streets.

>>1003800
Toronto got rid of all the RTS's just this year. The Flyer D40LF's are next to go, next year. After the Toronto will be nothing but Orion VII's and Nova LF40's/60's.

literally 3rd world in 80s

I mostly agree, but as much as I love small wheeled bikes I think there are uses that call for larger wheels and more solid frames. Still though, for grocery runs, commutes or drinks I do take my folder over a full sized bike.

>>1010177
I must admit, you do have a point about some applications needing a more sturdy frame. Do you think, with sufficient R&D investment, it is possible to meet those standards with a folding bike?
I found that unless exceeding 30mph the smaller wheels have never been weaker for me - cobbles feel mostly the same if using 1.5 inch wide tyres but YMMV.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWuv8hNz44s

>>>/bbg/

>>917095
get a part time job and buy something a little bit better

save up if you already have a part time job and buy something better

>>917095
I found it on Walmart's site.

It really is a piece of crap, probably made in China, Walmart bike. No-name components of questionable quality. The wheelset is built on single-wall alloy rims, which is probably the biggest weakness of all. I wouldn't trust the thing any farther than I could chuck it.

Frankly the fact that it's a Walmart bike is enough by itself to disqualify it, but the details are it's not made to last.

Save up several hundred more and go hunting on Craigslist for a used bike with name-brand components and a decent wheelset. You'll be much happier in the long run.

>>1008060
why is your seat so high in your track bike? BB height and pedal length don't seem to account for that difference

>>1008076
Track bike is not mine, the guy who rides it is pretty tall

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i know you're all going to make me cry