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>>994415
>Sukhoi
Never
>COMAC
Ten, twenty years and they'll be a major player
>Mitsubishi
Never

>>994420
I'm pretty sure you got that 100% backwards.

>Sukhoi
Has reached the West with customers like Interjet and Cityjet

>Mitsubishi
The only company in the list to have firm orders from relatively large airlines in the U.S. (Skywest and Eastern). Though I agree their chances are smallest

>COMAC
ARJ is a massively delayed (and thus, obsolete) ripoff, and the C919/C929 are vaporware

>Irkut
Who?

I'd like to see the Tupolev 214 and Antonov 148/158 enter the western market.

>>994424

Who is skywest and trans states going to operate the MRJ for? I'd love to know what legacy is going to give up scope out for 78 seats for the MRJ70 let alone the bigger 90 variant in today's pilot shortage environment.

>>990148
Oh my god this is adorable I want one right now.

>>990262
It's a Piaggio Ape 50 they're street legal in Europe.

>>990307
Street legal here too apparently.

I'd love to get one just to put like a little bed and shit in the back of it. Seems like it could be ridiculously comfy.

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>>987797
What the shit anon?

I rode to work in the rain, possibly was hailed on.
The overnight people I was there for had their work truck brake down so I went home.

Hopefully it helped me prepare for my eventual Highway 101 ride.

>>987534
on the plus side, I got to see water in the wash and I saw a hawk swoop on a bullfrog.

>He doesnt eat the insects that fly into his mouth

Not a real cyclist

>>943180
Because our cities were designed that way.

walkable cities are expensive as fuck to live in.

at least living in the burbs and having a car, also gives up a car to go places with.

>>943180
Zoning laws.

Because kids don't complain about stupid bullshit and demand luxury.
I would LOVE is all buses where outfitted like school buses, with the leather bench seats.
Less to be destroyed.

>>1000296
Maybe where you live. Ours just have special symbol and colour.

No standing room on a school bus, everyone needs to be seated

Absolutely not - you want more people staring at their phones while biking or driving instead of looking at the road?

>>999939
Tabasco or Sriracha?

>>999945
Franks
>>999944
It's just a little glance. Drivers don't even have to be near their phone.

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+1 for trains

>>999728

Quality trainposting family

All these years and what a shit ass slow ass bitch ass board.

I bet some fixie fag is going to claim it.

Bring your bike to a shop Op

>>999273
My local bike shop charges out the ass, it'll probably cost me a lot more than I'm willing to pay.

>>999276
Then learn to do it yourself? I don't know what you're looking for.
Oh wait, we do. There's a reason Google is useful. And it's not for ads

Any extra holes, especially ones without spokes attached to them will make the rim more flexy.

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not uncommon on fat bikes, but they have a lot more material to prevent flex.

>>999214
If there was a decent way of getting the nipples in without drilling the bed holes I'm pretty sure they would gladly avoid drilling entirely.

For example mavic threaded inserts.

>>999203
This subject is better suited for:
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I'd get a fuck of a lot of KOMs if I could teleport from start to finish.

>>999222
I agree....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOM
I think...

Better than faggots that earn the DNF stamp.

Quitters are infinitely worse than slowfags.

I did school marathons back in junior high and high school. I was fat and the fatter dudes would always complain about knee pain and the teachers would drive them back, leaving me dead last for 4 years.

Effort is still effort, I lapped more than those who didn't even try.

I'm posting this mostly because I ran a race recently and came in towards the end with the whole Finnish being quiet, and a few miniutes later, when the last few people finnished, there was an uproar which reminded me of when I was in hs, whenever I came in last, that clap would make me feel sick afterwards and during. (And it was not just fautige, under a timer I was just wheezing by the end, not sick)

None since I switched to bibs.

I've never had the need to use it

Do you use this on your butt cheeks or your asshole?

Smallest OnGuard bulldog ulock, good enough to lock frame and front wheel.
Also having an ugly looking bike helps

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In addition to my heavy chain lock, I also have a disc lock. Thinking about getting another so my bike is on full lock down.

Some 65 euro ABUS U lock.

As a grease monkey mechanic Ive seen too many people saying "my bike got stolen but I locked it up with a fairly beefy chain lock"

I suppose the bike thiefs just carry heavy-ass bolt cutters here or the thinner shackles of a chain lock are too easy to cut.

Do mind that I never keep my bike locked in a foreign place for more than 15 minutes so my choice of lock isn't that important I suppose.

>>998377

BUSES:

Pro
>Has any of the same advantages as private automobiles.
>But passengers can just chill out while somebody else has the stress of dealing with the road and its many idiot users.
>But can also carry lots of people.
>Route modification is easy.
>Cheap compared to trains.

Con
>As with any mode of public transit, the quality of service is entirely dependant on the quality of the service provider.
>Hard to carry anything larger than a backpack.

TRAINS:

Pro
>Can carry even more people than buses.
>Can go fast.
>But passengers can just chill out while somebody else has the stress of dealing with the rails.

Con
>As with any mode of public transit, the quality of service is entirely dependant on the quality of the service provider.
>Restricted to rail lines and rail stations, expensive to expand.
>Expensive compared to buses.
>Hard to carry anything larger than a backpack.

AIRPLANES:

Pro
>Like a butterfly, can go ANYWHERE.
>Are safer than most other modes of transportation.
>Can go REALLY, REALLY, REALLY FAST.
>But passengers can just chill out while somebody else has the stress of dealing with the sky and its many dangers.

Con
>Is really expensive.
>Can be uncomfortable.
>If you crash, you will die.
>Take-offs and landing restricted to airports.
>Good only for inter-urban transportation.

This is just off the top of my head. Got any suggestions or improvements?

>>998377
>Bicycles
>Can be expensive compared to walking.
>Bike thief is common and easy
Is it really a con if it can be so easily mitigated? You can pick up incredibly cheap bikes that are still much faster than walking and not such a big deal if they get stolen, being so cheap they're less likely to be stolen, and a decent lock isn't expensive and makes the bike even less likely to be stolen.

>Either you will be putting your life on line by riding on the streets with 4,079 pound death machines or keep to your little cycle paths. Which can often be rare, especially in Get-shot-sylvania.
That depends entirely on where you live and is not an inherent problem with bicycles.

>>998382
>Is it really a con if it can be so easily mitigated? You can pick up incredibly cheap bikes that are still much faster than walking and not such a big deal if they get stolen, being so cheap they're less likely to be stolen, and a decent lock isn't expensive and makes the bike even less likely to be stolen.

Even with the cheapest BSO and shoes from Walmart, you'll still have spend at least 100 bucks more for cycling than walking (per year; that cheap shit will fall apart fast).

>That depends entirely on where you live and is not an inherent problem with bicycles.

I think it indicates that bicycles, unlike buses (or motorcycles perhaps) cannot really share the road with cars as a mode of transportation effectively. People don't safe on them. Only by providing them with their own infrastructure, with varying degrees of separation from the road and often shared with pedestrians, will allow people to use them in any great numbers.

That in turn, makes them more like trains and their tracks, in a lose sense. That infrastructure cost some extra money, which could be placed as a con for bicycles.