The food sucks

I guess it's finally time for new thread.
what are your touring plans for 2025? cooking up some months long big adventure or just few small trips every now and then?
maybe you're already on a tour or just finished one recently?
I'll be going across the Europe to Santiago de Compostela, starting in April.

Night Rides Edition

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>Parallel’s battery-electric cars — which can run alone or together as an autonomous platoon of up to 50 cars — can each carry a single container

https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/fra-approves-first-test-program-of-autonomous-rail-cars/

Phase 1
>2 mile section of track with no crossings

Phase 2
>30 miles of track
>no other rail operations
>crossings flagged

Phases 3+4
>84 miles of track
>incorporating track warrant authority

Phase 5
>actually hauling containers

Phase 6
>160 miles
>incorporating system into usual railroad operations
>containers now have test loads

Phase 7
>"limited" revenue cargo
>"platooning" operations of up to 50 cars

Amtrak makes me so sad man.

How did we fuck up this badly ameribros?

"Wofür ist das?"-Edition

Anything public transport in German-speaking Europe is fair game.

Why are modern train stations not built with beauty in mind?

I'm so very tired of adjusting brakes and replacing brake pads. Convince me why pic related is a bad idea?

Since the days of Repack the sport exploded and splintered into various specialist sub genres, but for me this is what cycling has always been about, simple bikes out in the wild, taking on terrain that shouldn't be bike friendly.
Here's a nice film that covers the birth of the sport from the perspective of a photographer who was part of that American story, tons of cool images.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsbJojnbdYY

Of course off road cycling has many points of origin, in the UK we have the 'rough Stuff fellowship', which claims to be the oldest off road cycling club in existence and predates the Repackers by several decades, here's a link to a thread that talks about that.
>https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/rewriting-mountain-bike-history.226245/

No doubt throughout the history of the bicycle right across the planet, small groups and individuals independently 'invented' mountain biking' by simply taking whatever bikes they had and riding them in the wild. It would be great to learn more about the history of mans off road cycling adventures and perhaps discover where this amazing sport really was birthed.

Share any images and stories here.

Road signs. What do you think of them? Which country does them the best? Would you change anything in the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals?