I wouldn't mind getting my hands on a DD bike to test it out for myself though.
I wouldn't but that would be entirely for the gizmo-factor
Hey if you are going by that digital drive bikes video, the video maker himself said he might have estimated the losses incorrectly due to regen braking and downhill grades which would recharge the battery a bit.
I'm not and it matters little - you're not beating 95% drivetrain efficiency except in the rare case where these things would be used nigh-exlusively like one of those coal elevators that run by themselves where you only have heavy people riding them downhill and lighter people riding them uphill.
However, the video maker also lists that battery plus digital drive brings the efficiency back up to be on par with chain/belt and gear systems.
You can slap a battery on a chain- or belt-driven bike and get even further
The uses for digital drive bikes he lists would likely be city commuter bikes,
Okay, you could pedal while standing still to charge it up - at least on a cargo bike (and there is one that does this, albeit the name escapes me atm) but then you're still just using effort to convert into energy with more losses. The physics just don't work out.
bike rental fleets,
Honestly if you're going for like rugged ass shit (and fuck the riding experience because it's only for short trips anyhow, i.e. rentals), I say RETVRN to prop shaft bicycles. Now those would be intensily hard to break. But I don't even think this is much of an actual problem, most bicycle rental companies have figured this out via a closed chain guard box and some farings and that's really not the part that usually gets dinged up or willfully destroyed
and especially cargo bikes
This comes closest to real world application imo, but that's more on the ground of loopholing regulations so you can still claim it's a bicycle instead of like an EV that would require licensing, taxes, registration or any such thing - which I'm not against- but then you still have decades of chain-driven recumbents and such to look at to figure out how to include one of those. It's not like "slightly longer bicycle chain and some pulleys" is really a hard engineering problem to solve
It's kind of cool as a what if or engineering challenges but for any real world applications I'm sorry to say, it's just dumb. A belt- or chain driven bicycle sits at like 95% efficiency or so as per drivetrain, you're getting way less than that here. And it's not going to be lighter or actually more rugged, it's just all the parts are internal and you've replaced "maintaining chain and sprocket" with "toss out an electric motor eventually"
You do not want to see a USA made up majorily of John Meyer-Zwiebel's
Sure, my argument is the window around that being the Supreme Court is shut
I really gotta do a deep dive into the world of modern mini-EV-contraptions eventually. There's just so much, so cool shit out there
I'm not sure it was intentional but the Secret to having a real easy run on Frostpunk 1 was to send engineers into the coal mines freely and ignore all their bitching since they're too small a faction to actually do anything
Some may get radicalized though.
Yeah around how republican (supreme court judges) don't adhere to fair play or whatever maybe, which they also do now. If there was ever a time to become radicalized about the US Supreme Court that was a few years ago
One of the worst things you can do to the environment folks. Don't bear children. Don't invite another being into this madness and suffering.
As is continuing to live so why don't you follow through on that line of thought here
Ah yeah, real old rich white guy hobby at heart, on account of how much the things cost (especially given how this isn't like that much better than just booking a hotel room or bringing a tent)
But then again I'd argue anyone of them getting into this beats them buying a truck-RV or actual boat or whatever. Old white rich cycle guys are often surprisingly leftist and radical for their age in my experience.
How have you seen anyone ride this, there's only one in existence as off yet? Or do you mean like bike campers in general?
It's a bicycle, also it's a boat, also it's a camper.
One off concept vehicle for now, but you can pre-order one for 18.000€, which I can't tell if it's expensive for a bike, or like reasonable for an amphibious vehicle, or pretty good for a camper.
Here's a look at it by some youtuber
I cross the border on this and immediatly 3 different police jurisdictions get into a shootout over what kind of licenses I need to operate this thing. I am taunting them the whole way by riding in shallow water, further complicating the situation.
Man I want one.
Even in just this specific scenario there's the fact to grapple with that losing one container of meat is akin to losing like 10 containers of grain because that's what got fed to all the animals that are now the meat on some oakland highway
Silent, doesn't need fuel, mobile, nobody expects it - seems pretty good
don't siege leningrad, take it immediatly
As tanks go: it is far better than Russia's T-90.
I can't speak towards whether the T90 is any good at whatever but this really feels like the Tiger tank argument all over where on a stat card it beats the shit out of any other tank except of course in the real world where it boiled to our wondrous wunderwaffe tank vs. 15 T-32s
If your customer is also your supposed close ally
debatable
base your entire military doctrine around air superiority
fight the other former superpower that also knows this and therefore has world leading air defence
??????
all my tanks broke
There's gotta be like 100 US STRATCOM guys shitting, pissing, screaming about this exact scenario to no avail as they keep sending more equipment that gets owned by a by some late 70s soviet stockpile shit with an accountable value of "Wait, why do we still have this?"
It's amazing to me the general reception to Generation Kill (HBO) was "wow!!! cool army!!!" instead of "good god!?"
I was ready to fight anyone on this but this comment has convinced me entirely
Okay, good, thank you for the input. What if I bolt that fucker on an Omnium Cargo
and use the increased height load plattform to do it myself?
Scholars have discussed this issue for eons, if I bolt a DshKA to a cargo bike, is it a technical? We need to find an answer
How the fuck is all western MREs 30€-a-meal tacticool m4 extrem trail hike: school schooter edition when, going by sold out online listings, I could get a chinese self heating hot pot for like 5 eurodollars?
These things would be insanely convenient to just toss in my bike bag and have a warm vegan meal on a cold days bike ride
When the spotlights to out I'm invisible, I'm a superstar, baby, you can google that, My guest bathroom, full of my trophies, neon coloured outfit so nobody misses me, broken voice, because I'm talking way to loud, I've gotta be an individual, otherwise they'll change me out I'll stand on a table or start to throw fists Why again is the conversation not about me?
I wave with both arms like a shipbroken man, if everybody isn't looking I'm not really there, I have 3 siblings but I am only child, The only thing, that shuts me up is:
Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, is Applause, Applause, Applause,
Applause is a drug, the first hit comes free Straight from the delivery room my first word was "me" "Mama, watch jump this" she says "Super, dear" "There is no boy on the world that does it as well as you" Crayon-paintings nicer than the garbage at the louvre Gold medals for my first attemps maneouvering, I stare at my watch as soon as other people talk, and because I can't be seen I'm afraid of the dark
I wave with both arms like a shipbroken man, if everybody isn't looking I'm not really there, I have 3 siblings but I am only child, he only thing, that shuts me up is:
Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, is Applause, Applause, Applause,
My Therapist looks at me and says "mh-mh, aha" I look forward to my funeral because I'll be the superstar, Name your children after me and also some streets in berlin, For this behaviour, they prescribed ritalin, today
Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, Applause, is Applause, Applause, Applause,
I've posted about the buffallo before, which is like a relief aid bicycle for poor nations, but here's Seth of Berm Peaks reviewing it, with details I didn't know hitherto. I posted about it before and it is fascinating to me so here you go.
To give context on seth here, he's quite obviously not a comrade, but he's also not a shit. Ad sponsors, yes, but I'd argue he always does point out you don't need all the expensive shit, it's just nice.
I think this might come as close to the nigh-perfect general purpose post-apocalypse vehicle as you can get. Seems thought-through. But read the other threads for possible critcisms on it.
There's twelve subsequent parts annoyingly made without a playlist but dude's killing it with these
Apparently an adaption of an old yiddish song, arbetslose marsh. You can hear the similarities.
You'd think we're all terrible online debatelords but I don't think any of us could beat 5 consecutive comments of "I see you have no more arguments left, good sir, and shall now disengage" while they're too raving mad to actually pull through
You plug this into your bicycle dynamo and out comes electricity to charge your shit with if you're going at least 12kph ~7,5mph.
Very cool for people who do multi day bike tours and having tested one personally: Yeah, rules!
You might have to do some finnicking with a powerbank that doesn't require you to replug it after it stops charging - I mean you're gonna go below 12kph eventually - but hey, you get some volts out of it to keep your phone or whatever other tech going if you're on a multi day ride with sparse outlets
Here's some data if you're into that sort of thing
Rides his bicycle to all the carbrained right wing events and gets nearly flattened by the Angstpanzer Future Modern 4.0L, yelling hopelessly into the void how the jewish conspiracy of the car has made people soy
A guinea pig is a 2 pound furry potatoe with no offensive or defensive mechanisms and it still has the courage to yell at a hairless monkey 200 times their size if they feel their offering of veggies isn't up to par, they know no fear. 3 of them will reduce a bell pepper to nothing but white innards in about 2 minutes, tops.
Imagine if they hungered for flesh. You're just out about and 3 guinea pigs just nibble off your entire shit below the ankles in like two minutes. You try to kick them to death but they're too nimble and keep coming back as their hunger is insatiable
Made by Adam Zdanowicz!
Now you might think this is a bad idea, but then I ask you; how else is Santa Claus going to get up to all those chimneys to deliver children their presents?
There's too much online discussion where the topic at hand is reinvented from first principles again, and again, and again, in what can at best be described as a strenous relationship to actual reality as every debateperson is loaded with the assumption that they are imbued with the sum total of human knowledge and therefore must never read any material on anything other than other peoples posts that are also reinvented from first principles
These people should all be shamed away from participating in any discussion until they better themselves, which is what lurk moar did.
The mod's just very well done but it's amazing how well the base game translates to VR. Talk about standing the test of time when your 2004 video game can be modded into VR pretty much seamlessly and then blow Triple and Double-A games that are specifically made for VR out of the water
EDIT: Thinking about it, Half Life 2 and it's consequences have been insanely culturally influential in the greater sphere. I mean from Gmod Youtube-Poops over to SFM all the assets are still relevant now due to skibidi toilet, and they're nearing 20 years old now.
I learned how to navigate by compass and map from Arma on the account of you kind of need to, to play certain game modes.
I have never learned shit from "educational" games because they all fail at being games. They're tests with some graphics added, that shit is boring and nobody cares, there's no incentive.
Under FALGSOC, every game would teach you at least one skill
EDIT: I learned Sneaking from Gothic because to sneak in that game you have some guy explaining it to you and that came in very handy as a teenager
Custom built bicycle by World Bicycle Relief NGO which provides Bicycles to underdeveloped, mostly rural, areas
More to be found at https://worldbicyclerelief.org
I'm too cynical to advocate for or against the NGO itself on account of not having researched it enough, It's founded by the SRAM owners (that being a bicycle parts corporation) and they have a for-profit subsidiary which just sells you that bike, but they claim some of it goes towards the actual charity. Seems an ok model.
But the idea seems, genuinely, pretty good. You give someone a rugged-ass bicycle that can be fixed via local parts instead of some dependance on anything else, they now have a pretty good bicycle and boy does that beat walking. Forgive me the obvious bias here but it feels, at least theoretically, pretty Sankara-esque, it's just instead of a tractor, it's a bicycle. Different use-case, same philosophy.
Especially that 100kg carry capacity rear rack, I mean goddamn. Most "adventure" bikes you can customer purchase in the west end at around 40 - 50kg on that front. Kind of want one now.
According to their own numbers they've given out 752.000 bicycles at about 150€ a pop.
EDIT: It also comes very close to the Apocalypse Bicycle that I posted about as the Humanitarian Bicycle idea about 2 years ago and that was from some guy just designing it for fun
What do we think?
I don't know why but i've had this stuck in my head for a few days. Is it weird creep shit or is it like endearing because old timey
The german train engineers are posed to go on strike over, among other things, a shorter work week and now the country is gripped in fear over "what if they can't run the trains anymore" as if I don't spend at least 30% of my rides standing around a train station that had all the benches removed because a homeless person was spotted 2 towns over once as the train I'm supposed to take just gets cancelled because "the train engineer is sick and we couldn't manage a replacement"
Same with every other public sector going on strike actually. The horror scenario everybody keeps describing if the union gets their way is just a description of things as it is. Imagine if the public servants had to work two hours less, we'd take 15 years to build an airport.