Have you ever thought about paying the ferry man BEFORE he got you to the other side?

Does anyone remember that story when the French built faster high speed rail by being sloppy than the Japanese did by being meticulous?

Supposedly (or so I've heard) the story goes that the Japanese wanted to build high speed rail but they were unable to make their trains go as fast as in France. Turned out that the problem was that in typical Japanese fashion the had meticulously placed their catenary poles at equal distances from each other, which when the trains reached a certain speed speed allowed a resonant frequency to propagate through the catenary which caused problems with power delivery to the train. Meanwhile the French had been more sloppy and put up their catenary poles at varying distances, which inadvertently eliminated the problem with propagating resonant frequency since each catenary section had a different resonant frequency.

Does anyone have a credible citation for this story? Or is it just a myth?

I still don't get countersteering, I've been cycling all my life and I don't think about "oh I have to move the bike to the right to turn left", I just naturally follow the path and move the bike and she moves exactly how I want her to
Then I learn about countersteering and I'm wondering if I've been riding wrong my whole life

hey /n/ this is my cat rupert i was thinking about taking him on the bus to see the sights of the city but i couldnt find any rules on it, do you know if can cats go on buses

i have a cat carrier but would he be allowed out to see out the window?

Can they become applicable for the air equivalent of trailer car? Can they help people flight in slow but somewhat more comfy travels? Or is it a pipedream?

A 1990 Motherfokker 50 crashed yesterday but no one died.
Based old plane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKVyT4nkofg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4FsDtgIKgM

If i take a class that teaches about boat repair at community college.
I can afford to repair a boat.

radical edition

Resources:
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
https://www.parktool.com/en-us/blog/repair-help
https://www.youtube.com/@RJTheBikeGuy/videos
Neutral Support News on Youtube

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What is the intent behind statements like "I'm not a cyclist, I'm just a person who gets around by bike"?

At a surface level it is obviously meant to (proverbially) throw other cyclists under the bus, but to what end? Would it somehow appease the anti-bike people if the person "blocking traffic" didn't agree to be referred to by the word "cyclist"?