Stop cycling. Sell your bikes and start a healthy life of a respectable man. Stop ruining your prostate, spine, nerves and joints by crucifying your vunerable precious body on a bunch of tubes and gears. This is neither natural or sane thing to do. Stop shaming yourself, being a pathetic miserable sideroad roach, sweaty, smelly, dirty, looking likea clown in circus turning those wheels and entertaining those normal people watching you through the windshields of their comfy, luxirious SUVs, saying smthn like ''Honey, look at that man in the ditch, is that Rob that studied with you at highchool?'' ''Yeah hon, that's him, he was a nice kid back then, sad to see him fallen from grace. Give him a signal? Nah, don't want to embarass myself in from of the others. Btw, are we going to Dupont' wedding this weekend?'' So, hope you got the point, get a life. Also, some motivation from Jeremy, he's more elaborative on that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJZlhECK0Ps

Pocket rocket edition

Previous thread: https://archive.nyafuu.org/n/thread/1542287/

Home construction per household is now at its lowest levels in nearly six decades, according to researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. This isn't just a problem in San Francisco or New York, where home prices and rents have gone sky-high. It is also a problem in midsize, fast-growing cities farther inland, like Des Moines, Iowa; Durham, N.C.; and Boise, Idaho. In Boise, an analysis by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development showed there is a demand for more than 10 times the number of homes being built right now.

A fascinating AEI dataset shows that entry-level houses are worth on average 50% more than they were at the beginning of 2012. That's a significantly faster appreciation than the "move-up" segment of the market, which has risen by 38% over the same timeframe.

Denver, Seattle and San Francisco have seen entry-level homes rise in price by more than 75% since 2012, while Las Vegas prices have risen 89%.

Context: The cost of building any kind of housing has never been higher, thanks to a confluence of factors. President Trump has slapped tariffs on Canadian lumber (which remain in place even under USMCA)

Affordable housing isn’t affordable to build," the National Apartment Association's Greg Brown tells Axios. As America urbanizes, the apartment shortage is growing even starker than the shortage of houses.

Rising house prices also exacerbate Nimbyism. The more your house is worth, the harder you're likely to fight against upzoning initiatives that increase the supply of housing in your neighborhood. The fewer the units being built, the more that supply constraint pushes prices up in a vicious cycle (that's great for existing homeowners' wealth).

https://www.axios.com/us-housing-shortage-crisis-prices-17eba84d-6ad4-4860-9fa1-34b00b22e08f.html

Are larger cities or smaller cities better for economic growth and a strong middle class?

What bike lights do you use and recommend?

Contesters may contest!

Transit-Oriented Development Edition

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If you have access to a machine shop with a chinese 10x22 benchtop lathe and a mill of a comparable value is it possible to make this cheaper if you build as much of the bike yourself and buy the rest?
Is it feasible to do it at a third of the price in materials+parts not including tooling&time?

>less than a week since it was allowed to resume flights
>already an engine failure

It never ends.

Which cities have the best weekend trip airports? That means you can pass through customs in a few seconds, light queues at immigration and quick, frequent and easy transport to the city centre.

Best and worst thread.

I already nominate "Frankfurt" Hahn for worst.