Anyone following the Nashville transit referendum?
Nashville’s seen incredible growth the last decade but has basically zero transit (and not even an Amtrak route) and terrible traffic. Transit is the most obvious dollar-for-dollar improvement you can make for residents there.
https://nashvillebanner.com/2024/09/05/nashville-transportation-referendum-2/

"Winter randonneuring" edition

Resources:
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
https://www.parktool.com/en-us/blog/repair-help
RJ the bike guy on youtube

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This is the longest-produced train in the world (manufactured for many decades, many more modernized 55 years later) that has since passed on to the legends of railfans and its cult fandom as the unmodified units are phased out in favor of the Stadler FLIRT, Newag Impuls, and Pesa Elf.

What does /n/ think of the EMU eternal, the i5-2500K of trains, the venerable EN57 manufactured by Pafawag of Wrocław?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWQ3iLVr-0E
>That cylinder is a mass dampener also known as a J dampener in physics.The purpose is to neutralize high frequency low amplitude oscillations.Mass dampeners are currently used in Moto GP and were banned in F1 in the mid 2000s.The mass dampener can also be placed on the fork,above the bottom bracket and as shown on the rear swing arm/triangle on a full suspension bike.
have these been used on road bikes yet? i have a stiff track bike fixie, anything that could improve performance or comfort would interest me. i haven't paid attention to bike stuff lately so idk if it has been mentioned on GCN/GMBN yet. GCN has done a lot of videos on tire pressure so i could see them experimenting with tuned mass dampers.

How oftenndo derailments happen? I'm genuinely curiousbif they're a weekly thing or a yearly thing for a given company.

I took miku flying with me the other day :D

Art deco transport bros... we're back.

I've been getting into the steelisreal, rim brakes are good enough side of youtube lately, and the clickbait has gotten me thinking about my next bike. How much truth do you think there is to these memes that say that high end steel isn't like the cheap shit I think of when I think of steel? I refuse to consider cantis and if I get disc steel I'm told that's no better than carbon because it's "overbuilt" at that point which "defeats the purpose". So it has to be dual pivot classic road frame made of thin walled fairy tubing, and no I will not elaborate because we all know why.

So it looks like if I'm not too hung up on getting a name brand duende meme bike I can probably pick up what looks like a pretty good steel frame for under $3k. Possibly even less. But then I'd really have to go with some pretty narrow, hard, puncture-prone tires, and I just don't have the energy for that shit. I haven't struggled with inner tubes and frame pumps in pelting ice cold rain by the side of the road in years and I like it that way, latex blood runs through my veins. But TPU was invented, and that's caused me to begin doubting my faith.

Would I be consumed with post-purchase rationalization if I fell for the steel meme? Are steel bikes and rim brakes the cast iron of bikes? Opinionated attention whores who need to have something to argue about at all times so they pick the most argumentative pointless crap that has a grain of truth that gets overemphasized at the expense of the big picture? Or is there something to this memery?

Before you start your angry typing, I am a mamil with crabon and aero and absolute black and all that stuff, so please, be accurate with your strawmanning. I can supply some other personal aspects of myself if you wish to find something to be aggressive about but I trust I have given you enough information to get irrationally angry over bicycles.

Has anyone who mountain bikes NOT broken a bone?

>idk disc brakes just seem kinda pointless unless rain exists?? why would you need that anyway?
>gears? who needs that? unless terrain exists that is not flat!!
>master links? pish posh that's for freds, you don't need to take your chain off? why would you do that?
Why do these kinds of statements go unchallenged on the bike internet? Instead everyone just nods and goes "how wise, you don't need things, that's for buyfags! Jews and transsexuals are trying to trick us into things no one needs!"

And if you push back you're "toxic", this is why I can't do social media.