Delta Cycle and Dimension stem raisers are being recalled because they can shift during use and pose a fall hazard.The recall affects about 500,000 units sold in the U.S., and about 8,510 sold in Canada. The affected Delta Cycle stem raisers are model numbers TD3318B, TD3318S, TD3418B, and TD3418S. The Dimension model numbers are SM1977 and SM1979. All of the models were sold in black and silver and measure between 5 and 7 inches high.Consumers should stop using the recalled models and contact Delta Cycle to schedule a free repair at an independent bike dealer. Delta Cycle can be reached at 800-474-6615 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday; by email or online.No injuries have been reported, but there has been one report of a stem riser shifting during use. The stem risers were sold at REI and local bicycle stores nationwide and online at designbydelta.com and Amazon.com from January 1998 through January 2024 for about $46
>>1992827They also feel like absolute shit to ride.
>>1992827You've clearly not met anyone who's bought a road bike, got a fit, went on a single club ride then found that they zero flexibility from a life of being a cager. This is the kind of shit that caters to that crowd. Plus old men who still want to ride the same bike they got in the 90s.
>>1992833I don't think that's a statistically relevant problem, but let's suppose it was, if some 70 year old MAGA boomer chose to walk past the rows and rows of upright bitch bikes and went straight for the TT bike with the Chris Boardman position and hurt his back that's his problem, "the industry" didn't force him to do that, he did that to himself
Sometimes I think these threads are made by a single person arguing between their personalities. No one cares about none of the crap you described.
>>1992827rent free™ and schizoposting™
Should I ever fly, then the plane manufacturer will be a deciding factor. I am not gonna step foot in a Boeing plane ever
>What bags do you use>What do you carry>Why are all saddle bags shit
>>1992738Because frame bags are more aero with a lower profile for when you're riding 30mph up those mountain goat trails.
>>1992738millennials/zoomers are mentally ill
>>1992661Picture one demonstrates how little you can carry in your vagina and arsehole.
>>1992738>why are we not getting a rack with panniers again?I ride both setups. One bike with classic rear rack and two huge side panniers + top pannierand a bikepacking ™ setup shown here>>1992693The handling on the bikepacking setup is better since the load is distributed all over the bike. The classic pannier setup is ultra rear heavy and pulls to the sides once you tilt. When I go uphill I wheelie way too easy.Tl;drRack + side panniers: more convinient but slow. Good for grocery shopping.Bikepacking with lots of smaller bags: great handling for faster and longer rides>>1992707>you guys know there are frame bags that fit the whole inner triangle?Yeah, but then bottles would have to move to the bars to be able to drink without stopping. Also possible of course>>1992696Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>1992661>>1992687>>1992693>>1992696but seriously how much do you think you can carry in this overpriced mess of setup? I saw some shittuber showing what he brings and it's even worse than what ultralight mental cases bring. He also claimed he had to sleep in same clothing and smell of shit because he couldn't bring basic hygiene items or spares. Are you seriously going to blow all that money on some bullshit bags just so you can be marginally more """aero""" but absolutely miserable at camp? Something is seriously wrong with people lately."Bikepacking" what a joke lmao
Performance enhancing drugs editionOld >>1972124
i go by these houses all the time and i never noticed how nice some of the colors are, particularly this yellow and orange one. houses should be fun colors.
>>1992794Florida hasn't had attractive homes since the first half of the last century
>>1992811i think these 70s era homes look kind of charming. though most homes older than that around central florida have mostly fallen into a state of disrepair. the majority of florida is pretty ugly desu, but i've never gone further north than ocala or further south than bradenton (i remember it being nice...?) or the north point of lake okeechobee (shithole). i'll probably tour around the state either around june or this winter so i'll get some exploring in.
>>1992814Florida is gross. We should saw this motherfucker off and let it float off into Cuba.
I found a wheel in a dumpster when I went to throw a water bottle away.
It disgusts me how today's so-called "cycling activists" are doing the work of the automotive lobby while thinking that they're the good guys.Imagine if a bunch of politicians started pushing for a special residential area for a certain group, after having them habitually assaulted with weapons for many years. "We're terribly sorry about all the bloodshed but can't guarantee your safety, if you want to be safe, you have to go in this special place we designated for you".That is what bike lanes are. We've tried "separate but equal". It doesn't work, because tyranny of the majority means a highly flexible definition of "equal".People who have been riding bikes for many decades know what the game is. But zoomers and corona cyclists believe they know best. Instead of demanding justice, they demand segregation. Which is exactly what the automotive supremacists want.
>>1992152Typical cowardly evasive cyclist response. Wanting to destroy the economy then just acting smug when called out on it. I pray you are run over soon
>>1992153>I pray you are run over soonGod helps those who help themselves. What's the point of all those bike lanes if you're not going to kill me?
>>1992143He's too dumb to pass a cyclist. Many such cases
>>1978893I've always wanted to ride my bike right into one of these
>>1992147You and every cager deserve to live a life of misery, far more than you currently do. I'm happy to help with that. Every honk tells me I'm doing it right.Oh, you want to run me down? Too bad, I can hear your revs increase and swerve out the way, keying your car on the way past. Oops? That's a 20k bill to repaint. You don't want every cager in your neighbourhood to think your poor, right?
why are guys like this so racist against anything that isn't old and farty?why don't they just ignore the people flying by them at 40mph having a ton of fun being super fit and not fat and angry like themselves? Why they such haters?
>>1988984Sorry grant. I won't do it again
>>1958388Road cycling has a lot of little bitches. Roadies are almost always cagies first and part-time cyclists second.I ride broken bikes, single speeds, gravel shitbikes with walking boots and covered in bags filled with my shopping and to see their mouth breathing faces when they catch up after trying to race you, is priceless.
>>1992333I'm a roadie and I haven't owned a cage since 1998, what now
>>1992349>I'm a roadieI can tell
>>1973002Touring triples are from the era before you could have wide range cassettes. The fact that there's only 5 cogs in the cassette in the diagram should tip you off, this is some 70's shit.
Today, Bay Area Rapid Transit formally retired the last of its original rolling stock that had been in service since the system opened in 1972. The occasion was marked by speeches from BART officials and a farewell excursion between McArthur and Fremont (where the very first train had run on September 11, 1972). I was there and rode the last train.
>>1992466Cool thread anon, kinda crazy how long those old trains have been around. Won't miss the old interiors though, I never felt comfortable on those plush seats imagining what type of unspeakable horrors it had experienced and absorbed.
>>1992755It's the Bay, basically every public surface is heavily coated in a thick layer of feces and hepatitis.
>>1992755Imagine how many people visit the ER due to being lacerated by drug pipes stashed in the cushions each year
THEY SHOULD OF NEVER CLOSED THE KEY SYSTEM REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>1992829forgot pic REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Quill stems are pretty editionRead this:https://www.sheldonbrown.com/https://www.parktool.com/en-us/blog/repair-helpOld >>1991219
>>1992775i bought some of these on sale for $7 each and dude they are W I D E, but weigh 666g.Probably going to get some cheapie hubs and see how they do. not too many (cheap) options for 28h 100/130-135 it seems.
>>1992787pic...
>>1992787I totally forgot about these being on sale. After doing 2 wheels it's fun and easy.hmmm might dip in for 2 since I have some 28h rear hubs laying around.Happy to hear they are wide and heavy.... as a big boi those are the rims I need, otherwise I go 36 spoke.Not surprised they are wide... most of my vintage rims are 18 or 19 OD and 15 ID.....
>>1992791What hubs do you have? Think I might get some Ambrosio Zenith hubs, 80 bucks shipped is about the cheapest I've found for anything.
Is there an actual advantage of DIY alloy wheels at this point? It doesn't seem like you save any money if you want something that isn't bottom of the barrel,, plus it's floppier than crabon and they're all so narrow
Saw this steaming by while hiking in the Marin Headlands on January 8th.Strange ship. Seems like it’s a few decades out of place given how small it is and how old it looks. Like the kind you would’ve seen in the 70s.
>>1992742>doing something as simple as maintenance is basically impossible.You lay a new cable.
>>1992742>>1992766If the cable physically breaks, the ships will literally fish for one or both ends of it with a grappling hook then resplice them to each other or a new length of cable. If there's an internal fault, they will also grapple for it, fix it once on deck, and repair the multiple cover layers. Or, they can lower down a robot to work on it.Neal Stephenson wrote a great nonfiction story about ocean cables in the 90s, https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/There are a bunch of books about the original trans-Atlantic cable. They used the Great Eastern to hold the cable, and just like today, the cable broke multiple times and they had to fish for it and splice it back together.
>>1992796Found a better view of the ROV. It's used aboard the same class of ships as OP's pic.
>>1990271at some point does it just make more sense to not perform regular maintenance or is this just a bad owner
>>1990254>ship>no masts>doesn't have 3 mastsNice boat.
>they used to serve McDonald's Happy Meals on United flights.we used to be a real country
Can't the planes just fit automated kitchens now? I want freshly cooked food. Not warmed up stuff.
>>1985928spoken by a faggot who has never tasted true freedom
>>1985926I honestly don't understand why this sort of thing (useing name brand food for in flight catering) isn't more common. I can't imagine it's any more expensive, and I imagine for a lot of implementations the logistics are probably easier. Benefits include a hightened sense of familiarity for the customer as well as the food probably being better than whatever dogshit they've got on the normal menu.I remember one time when I was a kid, for whatever reason they had instant ramen as a backup meal on a flight my parents took me on and it was incredibly good, since ramen doesn't have the problem a lot of other food does when it comes to reduced sense of smell at altitude, and the fact that it was just really warm and comforting was excellent. From a logistic standpoint that must also be incredibly easy since it's just a pre-packaged, unrefridgerated thing plus hot water, no need for anything like a microwave.
>>1985926>$129 each way, 1991 dollars>$600 round trip cost todayToday you can get airfare for almost half that cost (on the same airline, not even a competition with Spirit), and yes, the service is worse, but you get what you pay for. Back in the comfy days airfare was so expensive only quality white people could afford to fly, which is why things were so nice.
>>1992815You need to inflate using %GDP not CPI. Even GDP/cap is incorrect for luxury goods like air travel in the past.Fucksake learn how capital, wages and profits work.
What does /n/ think of tomorrow's upgraded, more inclusive bike lanes? Cagetrolls will hate this, but I for one think it is perfectly reasonable for bike lanes to be open to any vehicle that doesn't have an ICE or require a Class A CDL to operate legally. What's the point of bike lanes if nobody is going to use them!??!?
>>1988868yeah if there's one thing amazon delivery drivers are known for, it's being indian
>>1988874hello saaaar
>>1988889Do you have me confused for a SWE
If I catch you driving in my lane you son of a bitch you son of God I will pull you out of your car and deliver you to demons
>>1990824All roads are car roads.https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1713856257541994.webm
Many politics of southwest airlines editionprevious: >>1972682
>>1992430I think it's organic and more based on what gates are available for aircraft at the terminals. I never heard of a slowdown due to controller unavailability, would be really bad though considering we have lots of international arrivals.They did have to evac the tower for the 4.8 earthquake we had earlier, one brave soul was left behind on tower frequency lol.
>>1992397>>>/r/eddit is that way, schizo.
>>1992419>>ask me how I know>>1992419how do you know? Have you sniffed her seat?
I can confirm you can paint other planes with the radar in the CRJ
How bad is it really if I don't want to become an airline chud? I mean if I REALLY have to, then I will, but I would rather not.
I’m a pilot doing aerial work and approaching 1000 hours and I’m about to apply to a company, I have all my licenses and rating’s however since I graduated, I’ve only been flying VFR since there’s no ifr operations (even if I consider myself to be very good, If not better in IFR) but still tho, it’s been a year. Anyway, I feel like my knowledge in aviation has gone so low, like I feel like idk what I am doing but when I open the aviation books, I instantly know the answer. Like do you get it? If someone or an exam asks me, I’ll know the answer but otherwise I’ll be lost. Also are there any airline pilots that can tell me if the airlines train you well in terms of their operations and their IFR procedures and is it normal that 70% of the stuff I’ve studied in aviation, it doesn’t apply in real life. (For example I used to know the entire FAR AND CAR AIM by heart, now I know like 30-60% )
>>1992655I’ve had a few but they generally didn’t bother me. Once where at cruising altitude the fear/anxiety melts away. I walk around, stretch, nap, read etc. landing makes me nervous when I see the plane shake from the wind, but overall I’m ok with it because I know it’s almost over. Take off: the rapid acceleration, the sound of the engines roaring, and the gradual incline fucking terrify me. I’m not comfortable until we’re starting to level off.
>>1992793People think of planes as rooms and not vehicles. They maneuver and accelerate, and make lots of unusual noises. These transport-category jets are fantastic machines with significant redundancy and built very strong, don’t let the news fool you. We fear what we do not understand, but even if you don’t you should have faith in the engineering, construction, training, and procedural design of the operation. All you gotta do is show up, kick back and let us do our job, we worked hard to get here and I look forward to work every day.
>>1992799>let us do our job,Like these fine PIA fellows?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOOKYR5ZJbQ
>>1992802>PIAI speak as an airline pilot in the US, I wouldn’t be caught dead flying on a Pakistani airliner.
Jesus God get out of the plane if you're not confident in your ability to fly it.
What's the most retarded bad faith argument against improving transit and walkability you've come across?I'll start with "But but but, AMERICA'S TOO BIG"
>>1992691so are cars and boycycles
>>1992625>making cars unusable is functional infranstuctureRangeban all third worlder communist subhumans
>>1992699>cars in japan>unusableone of the highest vehicle ownership rates in the world
>>1989448>NJB is extremely basedHe must be paid by the Dutch government or something for how much he shills their infrastructure. The funniest was him trying to justify their shitty business parks as somehow better, which is so laughably stupid because those neighborhoods are soulless and even Dutch people think they suck.The funniest thing is seeing how little he understood Montreal and trying to complain about it, with Montrealers pointing how absolutely wrong he was on so many points. He's honestly just terrified of cars, and has evolved his entire personality (and now career) around whining about them. I can't wait for Youtube to pull the plug on the algorithm and kill off that stupid channel.
>>1989448>>1992751NJB just wanks over the Netherlands and conveniently forgets what they built in the 60sAlan Fisher actually offer good commentary and ways to improve NA
>be airbus>do nothing>stay winning because your only competitor can't build anything except a rehash of a 60 year old design that keeps nosediving
>>1990304Winning is when your plane is still not in service
>>1990127yeah so do the airlines it turns out. airbus killed the A380 too early.
>>1992675If jumbos are making a come back then why did Boeing just stop manufacturing the best plane they've ever offered?
>>1990074>Can't build plane>Can't build engines either
>>1990074P&W GTF series has problems across the board, and it's not a problem isolated to Airbus. A big part of the reason Bombardier had to unload CSeries was the delays and technical problems caused by the P&W GTF, which was CSeries' sole source engine. Embraer E2 is also having problems with P&W GTF. Mitsubishi's termination of the SpaceJet program was also at least partially attributable to the P&W GTF.
