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i thoroughly enjoyed it.
had a few good laughs.
they overdid the Lance joke though.

>>1089406

Ahhh thats good to hear. Normally cant handle those guys to be honest

What an insufferable cast

Terrible idea. All that wasted space could be used for general purpose lanes and alleviate freeway congestion.

I figure if the median space is already there, and you have no other suitable or open right of way for a new train line, then sure it might be a good idea. I'd rather they fill it with trains than more lanes which on their own may not always fix congestion. Of course, if this is some dinky two lane highway that really needs at least one more lane, or shoulders, then that may be more pressing.

>>1088631
Great idea *IF* the railroad actually owns the right of way. Maintenance is super easy too. There's no need to hi-rail to the work site and there are no crossings to mess with. It could be a problem for certain dimensional loads and double stacks, though.

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>>1088584
Oh I nearly forgot here's a link to the map download

http://oldshoes.ca/broville

Bump for interest

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and I just realized I posted the wrong outdated map in the OP

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>>1086062
pretty shit for a city that claims to be high tech af

yesterday i saw a guy with a big bag of aluminum cans sleeping on the bart. i wanted to take pics of his feet and shoes, but that would be rude, they weree disgusting. he got up and started peeing on the door then walked off at the next exit, i recognized him from the neighborhood i used to live in, i once caught him stealing metal from my scrap pile.

earlier that day i was on an airplane and the guy next to me had his and his son's seat changed to first class becuase of some terrible smell (im assuming he meant me) i figure youre probably quite a rich AND snob if you can afford to pay $300+ to not have to smell something for 3 hours. i usually dont shower with soap and about 30hours prior to the flight i had washed with soap so something about the natural oils and microorganisms being stripped off your body. most of my disgusting dirty laundy was in my checked luggage

>>1086064
>earlier that day i was on an airplane and the guy next to me had his and his son's seat changed to first class becuase of some terrible smell (im assuming he meant me) i figure youre probably quite a rich AND snob if you can afford to pay $300+ to not have to smell something for 3 hours. i usually dont shower with soap and about 30hours prior to the flight i had washed with soap so something about the natural oils and microorganisms being stripped off your body. most of my disgusting dirty laundy was in my checked luggage

...what?

>>1064053
Good start. Get rid of the brakes, mount toe-hook pedals and an air horn.

>>1064053
flip them bars brah

you win /n/ forever if you weld a derailleur hanger on the back of that memecycle and hang a mid or high spec derailleur on it with no connection to the actual drivetrain.

>>1064057
No, with connection to the drivetrain, shifter cables and shifter attached, but no other cogs to shift to.

just buy a dengfu or hongfu

It seems a good portion of bike parts are made in Taiwan nowadays, I wouldn't be surprised if it was really good.

>>1092868
Listen: Components are components. Unless they're counterfeits, if they're brand-name then you know what the quality is. The frameset and wheelset are another matter entirely. You've never heard of this company before? Do you have ANY idea what their quality control is like? Are there ANY reviews from credible sources available to you? That's a big portion of what you're paying for when you buy a bike from a well-known top-shelf manufacturer: confidence that the product you're getting isn't going to fall apart on you like some of the horror pics you've seen of CF framesets that shattered. It doesn't matter if they have a 'race team' or not. For all you know their 'race team' is a bunch of nobodies who don't really care if the bikes fall apart or not so long as they have a job. You also don't know whether the bikes their factory 'race team' is riding are better quality than what they're selling the roundeye Americans like you; they could be giving only the best quality to the race team and selling everyone else the shitty ones, assuming fat lazy Americans aren't going to ride it hard enough for it to break anyway. So that's what you've got to consider: is it good quality materials and construction, and is their quality control and quality assurance held to a high enough standard that you can have confidence in the product you're paying for? Or is it paper-thin low-quality flawed CF, poorly designed, and only 'inspected' cosmetically, so it looks good but is structurally flawed? You have to research that and decide for yourself whether it's a good risk or not.

single-speed gaspipe piece of shit in winter weather will "never break down"

what exactly do you define as breaking down? That's not so impressive tbqh

I've had the chance to work on a couple of mamacharis that have made it across the ocean, and they're nothing special aside from the fact that they typically come equipped with lots of useful accessories.

There's no reason that Walmart couldn't sell the exact same bikes in the US at the same price point as shitty "mountain bikes," but they don't because there's almost no demand for those bikes here. A big reason why Walmart bikes are so terrible is that the folks who assemble them are contract workers who don't have adequate time, training, or motivation to adjust those bikes properly before sale, and that leads to failures from poorly built wheels and lack of lubrication.

If I had to, I'm sure that I could commute for a full year (I live about three miles from my work), including through winter snow, on a Walmart/Kmart/Target special, as long as I got it new and was able to adjust all the bearings and tension the wheels before subjecting it to use.

>>1092809
Because most people ride a bicycle for fun or for fitness, or for transporting just themselves, therefore they don't need a cargo bike. Additionally your average recreational/casual rider isn't an athlete and only of average fitness at best and isn't going to do too well climbing any hill on a bike that weighs 30 pounds. You aren't going to shell out thousands of dollars for a 15 pound race bike and bolt a bunch of racks and baskets and panniers to it, either. Totally different kinds of bikes.

If you want a utility bike, then get a utility bike or a cargo bike, and you be sure to enjoy chugging up those ascents on something that weighs 30 pounds. Also enjoy paying up to as much as a mid-level race bike for one because they're a very limited market kind of bike and therefore aren't cheap either.

Fuck.

>>1092537
You're on your own m8

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>>1092537
>can BMX on a BMX bike
>can't BMX on a road bike

pls respond

Marin looks to have better parts, have you tried riding either of them?

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>>1092256

does cycling reduce iron in the body or are you using it as slang for buying tools/equipment?

>>1092251
Because your body has to pump blood at higher speeds than would normally be possible because you're exerting more energy than you usually would to get to speeds that would otherwise be impossible by running, your blood gets worn down and thinned as you cycle, depending on how strenuous you're working and what distance and so on. So your cells get more tired from working harder, faster, for longer, and since you have to keep a constant oxygen intake, your blood iron starts to decrease. You can overcome this easily by simply working at a garage and handling the tools, as iron ions get absorbed by your skin as you work. Just make sure you're not using work gloves, of course.

>>1092262
What the fuck?

A parked one, outside of a bike path.

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Mine is the coral reef
Cages should be banned and dumped into the ocean after careful environmental planning

>>1091913
>>>/o/

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Although the HSR station outside the city was kinda bearable, since it's only used for HS trains to Madrid and Barcelona, the problems began with the new HS line along the coast (currently, the existing line is one of the most heavily used in all of Spain). This new line is to join the existing high speed line at its current station. This would mean that all long distance services would now stop at this far-out station, while the centrail station would see regional, commuter and freight trains. Tarragona would thus be the only main city along the mediterranean corridor without long distance trains stopping within the city proper.

Pic related is the scheme projected by the government. The line along the coast, which was upgraded to semi-HS in the 1980's would be converted to std gauge so as to join with the existing HSR line. The central station would get combined std and iberian gauge, but only to allow freight trains to pass through. There will be no flying junction for trains coming from the south along the coast, so from the station Cambrils Nord to the branch toward the Tarragona central station there would be essentially a single track for those trains.

For once, the central government isn't the only one that's to blame. This whole story has to do also with the old line which, just south of Tarragona, passes throuh many cities which have grown a lot in recent years due to tourism, and it runs right through the very middle. Spaniards being the train lovers that they are, obviously started crying out on how terrible and dangerous this line is. Ironically, it is also the only regional line in all of Spain which actually makes money. Not just that, they also insisted on getting actual HS trains, and not just semi-HS trains like they've had for decades now running on iberian gauge at 200km/h. Well, they got everything they wanted.

And now that the closure of the stations Salou and Cambrils nears, suddenly they've noticed their fuckup, because they didn't think that people actually use the fucking train because it's right in the middle of the city.

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However, not all is lost. There is a proposal that would offer a quick but effective fix to this. It's not perfect but it could work.
The idea would be to use the multiple gauge in the Tarragona central station to allow high speed trains to stop there. For this it would be necessary to build a flying junction where the line to the central station branches off the HS main line. And then another branch between the central station and the HS line to Barcelona.

This country thinks public transport is for poor people and we're afriad if we build trains that black people will come to out suburbs and rape is. End of story.

Is there even anything in Milwaukee? Besides some abandoned beer factories, and mass graves from all the serial killers? What even is the point of Milwaukee?

There should be HSR between Chicago and Minneapolis. Between Chicago and Cleveland. Between Cleveland and major East Coast cities.

HRS between Chicago and Milwaukee makes about as much sense as HSR between New York and Scranton. I mean yeah, in the ideal world, I'd love to see HSR fucking everywhere, but I'd probably start with places that need it most.

>>1091696
This is accurate. America is basically in a constant Cold Race War.

>>1091117
There are no cars where I live.

>>1091147
Your basement?

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>>1091117
Our city has quite a few pedestrian streets. There is an effort to convert a main avenue downtown to a walkable car-free transit boulevard.

>>1090799
Topeak joeblow max ii
9/10 would recommend
25c
check every ride
lower than recommended, only just though

>>1090800
Thank you.

May I ask what your weight is and why you choose to ride at this lower tyre pressure?

Any others want to share their experiences?

>>1090804
150lb, lower pressure due to comfort and dealing with potholes.
Wanting to move to 28c sooner rather than later