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>>931108
Is no one else here doing bike delivery?

Was hoping there'd be more talk about it

>>931161

check out lfgss.com

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I'm a messenger in Boston.

I often enter a state of roadlust while working where I become a complete and utter asshole on the street. Just today I came stupidly close to hitting a baby carriage. Wow I'm a jerk.

Got 2 aluminum track bikes made in Taiwan, a Nashbar Terra Alpha 5000 mtb, '85 Fuji League, and a '93 Bridgestone RB-1

It's wicked fun but I have a hard time relaxing. Adrenaline is one of the only things that I truly enjoy.

old steel 10 speed

Do us all a favour and just read the book, nigger.

Reading or even skimming through should be a prerequisite to posting on a board. You're failing it, no doubt. Now fuck off.

>>928557
Buy something with an actual warranty.

>>928557
LHTs make for a good commuter. My 2005 frame has been suffering under my 115kg for years without complaint. For 16km a day though, you could really get away with many solutions.

Let us dispel this fiction, this poster knows exactly what he is doing. He is systematically fucking up new bikers by implying people unironically recommend Surly.

Surly is garbage.

Rigid 90's MTB with slicks, 8km is not terrible far and does not require a fancy bike to arrive

Also 26" wheels will work better for 240lb especially 36 spoke wheels

Any bike is an "adventure bike"

>>930686
lol. adventure bike is definetly not a roadracer. or a citybike. its basicly the same shit as a cross/trekking bike.

>>930704

Oh just slap some knobbies on it and ride it anywhere.

Like any other job anywhere : ask everywhere and you start small.

>>926354
Buy yourself a few trash bikes, completely strip them and then build them again. Then after 1 week you can work in a bike shop.

>>926354
Nepotism.

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Not the curviest section but one of the best view spots.

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>tfw North Buckinghamshire
>tfw just generic rolling hills countryside

Nothing interesting to see really, generally pretty but quite samey. Hills are very steep and short but google maps doesn't do them justice.

Pic related was a fucking cunt.

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>>931078
Woops, forgot to say that was looking down the hill, this is up part of it.
>>930983
>>931065
Wish the roads I cycle on were as nice as that, fucking potholes everywhere here.

>>932186
Most of that money is tied up in liability insurance, actually. Back in the days of yore pilots of limited moral fiber would injure themselves and sue the aircraft makers. It became such a problem Cessna had to shut down its production for a while, they were hemorrhaging funds into liability suits so much

>>932195

This anon is correct.
It's become so bad that if you want a cutting edge airplane, you are forced to go the "experimental" route, which sounds sketchy to people unfamiliar with the industry.

Today's GA experimental aircraft are flying higher, faster, further, with lower fuel burns and higher useful load than anything being offered by the major manufacturers. They've got electronic ignition, fuel injection, tighter engines, slick instrumentation, some are all composite material, etc.

How do we go about changing the manufacturer liability issue so we can unfetter ourselves from obsolete 1960's technology? We create more demand for the product.

We need more GA pilots.

>>932198
All this being said, if I were a manufacturer, I would rip off everything Vans RV Aircraft and Burt Rutan's designs have brought to the table, with a pinch of the LSA market's new designs.

Think of what you could do with a production all composite RV10 style airplane with a Dynon and autopilot.

The Cirrus SR 22 came close, but with its old continental (yeah it's got FADEC but it's still an old design) and suuuper expensive avedyne, it's still not quite right. I dunno. Need more pilots.

>>932567

Wow! Not much you can do there buddy except maybe cut the frame and weld it together back again afterwards.

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>>932570


Maybe cutting the chain could do the trick too.

>>932571

I thought about it but I'd say no. Better to cut the frame and be on the safe side.

>>932406
I forget the name, but there is a whole site dedicated to this location.

Something like 13 ft. 11 in. .com

>>932428
Holy shit.. that asshole must have been going 100mph. The guy in the car would never have seen it coming and had zero chance to survive. Probably took his head completely off.

Dallas Ft. Worth International Airport

7 non intersecting runways is pretty awesome.

A diamond arraignment of 16,000 ft circles

>>932328
Denver is definitely way up there in terms of runway layout.

I also like when the runways are parallel and separated by having the terminals between them, like LAX, Phoenix, etc.

Good job not falling prey to that con artist. The only reason I could ever see that being a 65 Euro job is if you somehow managed to completely fuck your bottom bracket and the threads on your bike.

The first thing I do with problems like this is usually the same. Take it apart, examine everything, build a list of possible suspects, put every thing back together (and make sure everything is secure), test it again, then go through your list of suspects and try to think which is most likely to cause the problem.
By doing this, you find anything that's blatantly obvious once everything is apart and can usually find out what's wrong even if it isn't obvious. This is also important because you'd be surprised how often simply taking something apart and putting it back together fixes the issue.

Since I haven't been able to look at the bike personally, take my advice with a grain of salt. I think the worst likely scenario is that your axle broke, but you'd definitely know if it was something that severe I think. Regardless, that's a cheap enough fix once you track down a replacement. The ball bearings are also an easy fix once you get the right sized bearings.

Even if you can't find whatever is wrong, it's almost definitely the bottom bracket is the crankset wobbles on both sides. In that case, you can just buy a sealed cartridge BB for 1/3 of the price that the guy at the bike shop wanted.

>>932299

Cool. Thanks for reassuring me. The bicycle shops around here are really eager to try to con anyone they see as a noob.

I'll get to fixing it when I can get a hold of my tools.

>>932305
Yeah, bikes shops are like that in a lot of places. You'll see them get a lot of flack on this board. Generally people try to find one good shop in their area and stick to it.

If you don't already have one, pick up a bottom bracket tool. Which tool you need will depend on what kind of bottom bracket you have. The tool shouldn't cost you much. Completely replacing your BB should still be significantly cheaper even if you have to buy the tool and it will be handy later.

>>931819
On their 777s? I don't think they're the only airline to do that.

A giant flying metal meat tube...the sausage of the skies!

>>931819
how dare they try to run their business efficiently! The nerve of some companies.

>>931694
>visit >>>/diy/
>get help constructing what you want
/thread

That is an Ikea rack. What they did in the picture was simply to take out some of the bars in the middle to make it fit a bike wheel.

Clever idea and super cheap and easy to recreate as well.

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>>931873

Pic related is what the rack looks like (only a different size).

As you can see you only unscrew the bars in the middle with allen key screws either side and you're done.

I remember trump making a speech about how embarrassing americas trains and airports are

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I always remember what George Bush said when he was asked at a rally in 2000
>What will do for Public Transportation? I will improve the economy so you can buy a car and don't need to use public transit

>>931489
Who gives a fuck? You can't trust anything that a single one of them says, so why bother listening to them in the first place?

>A boy shouldn't run after a girl nor a train, for always there will be a next one.

It takes longer than that to drive directly, so no

>>931151

Nah bro, that's the last one, gotta get it for a connection north ( the last train north ).

>>931153

What? I'm not talking about Helsinki Train station, I'm talking about the Airport Train Station.