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Let's discuss bike tires here.
>pic related currently using
>27.5 x 1.60 (650b x 40)
>1000 miles in
>pulled a few glass shards out
>extracted a broken glass bottle shard that was wedged 6mm in the tread at an angle
>no punctured tube
>no flat
>rolls great
>doesn't weigh as much as a Marathon Plus or Mondial
>installing them wasn't too bad either
What's your daily driver? Do you run tubed or tubeless? General thoughts, experiences of tires you've ran with?

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E10 Series Edition

Old Thread: >>2014518

What are the advantages of these things as opposed to, idk, a bus?

As you guys may know, theres now huge subsidies coming from the WEF or the EU to remove car traffic from city areas

its a bit sad because some of these towns and cities used to have extremelly walkable main streets in the early 20th century, beautiful cobblestone pavements, etc, and it was all removed for cheap asphalt when cars became the thing. Now the pedestrian pavement is often just cheap concrete or modern materials imitating older cobblestone.
You even see some retarded mayors destroying an entire 19th century park to replace it with concrete and fake grass and it just breaks my soul. How can we conserve and preserve true traditional urban planning and 19th century walkable standards?

This thread is for talking about railways, and things related to railways, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - that means we're all about big intercity trains, modest rural trains, long freight trains, trips, tracks, trams, subways, stations, you get the idea. Trains are cool.

If you're planning a journey, take a look at the nationalrail.co.uk/ journey planner - tell it where you're headed from and to, and it'll show you your options before handing you over to a train company so you can buy a ticket. Doesn't matter which train company, they'll all charge the same price for the same seat on the same journey. Overseas visitors - trip.com and thetrainline.com are your best option.

Here's a few links:
~New rolling stock currently on order, listed (trainlogger.co.uk/units/)
~A Visual History of Railway Rolling Stock in Great Britain (gaelan.me/br-stock/)
~The Man in Seat 61 (seat61.com/) - easily the best rail travel resource out there.
~Geoff Marshall (youtube.com/@geofftech2) - likes trains. Mostly harmless.
~Jago Hazzard (youtube.com/@jagohazzard) - London train history. Ditto.

...and some cool 'open data' stuff:
~Realtimetrains (realtimetrains.co.uk/) - live train timetables: ideal for keeping on top of ETAs and platforms.
~Openrailwaymap (openrailwaymap.org/) - not quite 'Google Maps for railway infrastructure', but close.
~TIGER (https://tiger.worldline.global/home/) - live departure boards.
~Traksy (traksy.uk/live/) - live signalling information.
~London Underground Live (www.londonunderground.live/) - a real-time, geographically-accurate Tube map.

What's happening?
~The railway is being put into public ownership: gov.uk/guidance/great-british-railways/
~Phase One of High Speed 2 (Birmingham-London): hs2.org.uk/
~The Transpennine Route Upgrade - upgrading & electrifying the Liverpool-York mainline: thetrupgrade.co.uk/
~The Midland Main Line electrification (no website...)
~The East Coast Digital Programme: nextgenerationrailway.co.uk/

Postan my old folder of /n/ images since I found it on a usb drive in a drawer. These are circa 2009 I think.

Share your daily rides, post pics and stats. Complain about hills and mosquitoes.
you do actually ride your bike, right anon?

old thread >>2045380

If all children's (geared and break-pad) bikes were banned and everyone rode fixies (adult bikes), then we wouldn't need any of the polarising debate over 'bike infrastructure'. We wouldn't need to slow down traffic through cities or dig up roads and pavements, everyone would be a lot safer and bikes could flow freely among cars.

Is it finally time for governments around the world to ban geared bikes (at least for people above the age of say, 10) and give up on the idea of seperate bike and car infrastructure, letting all modes of transport to flow freely among eachother?