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RubberElectrons

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Just a shiny male toy…

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I don’t care or expect public services to be profitable, just lower cost and higher quality than a private Enterprise version.

Do we need quality, clean, reliable drinking water? Then don’t depend on shitrag nestle, who will figure out how to make it a stratified subscription.

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A lot of your points, valid as they are, can be addressed if we have good transparency and oversight.

Let’s take advantage of how digital life has become, make reports accessible to the regular Jane/joe that detail where our tax dollars went.

NYC MTA sets Manhattan congestion price at $15 for most vehicles, just one MTA vote left before the first congestion pricing in North America (www.planetizen.com)

New York City’s congestion pricing program is moving forward with a $15 fee on passenger vehicles, reports Stephen Nessen in Gothamist, after the MTA board voted to approve it. The program now enters a 60-day public comment period before a final vote....

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It’s cuz most of us aren’t thin skinned piss-babies. Bit of noise in a very loud city, shut the fuck up and deal.

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Aww, someone’s mad they got stuck in traffic while the bike carefully rolled past. Aww 🤭

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Well aware. Working on remedying that, section 1252 needs amending.

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Some morons like to gamble, most of us don’t because of how low (aka zero) reward is vs risk.

But you’ll always remember the people in life making the insane choices vs the regular folk.

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I and most other people are riding around on stock engines with stock exhausts. Those confirm to stricter quiet standards in Japan than anywhere in the US.

To your second point, modern car engines have efficiency gains due to important innovations like direct fuel injection, whereas most motorcycles are stuck with port injection, a limitation currently forced by the fear of having a very high pressure fuel pump between rider’s legs…

In spite of that, total bike emissions are lower for the same distance vs a car, we’re not lugging an entire chassis, air conditioning etc. The result is that even carbureted bikes from the 80s could go 55-60mpg. Bikes also have much lower engine displacement, your v6 2L has about 2000 cm^3 of air and fuel burned per revolution, whereas most motorcycles are in the 6-800 cm^3 range, per rev.

Manufacturers could make them quieter, but that adds both weight and cost, more of one if you adjust the other. I look forward to electric bikes with great range, as I don’t really do more than 350 miles on my long trips unless I’m late for something.

E: looks like Japan relaxed their standards since 2013, per some internal documentation, see slide 9 for harmonized requirements. Still quiet, all things considered.

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It’s the only place I know where people have argued with each other on how to best help a tourist out.

Look, this is a city where you have wealthy business owners and blue collar folk living across the street from one another, literary geniuses and creatives living next door to programmers and engineers… the people who live and thrive here are makers and doers, in every avenue of human adventure we can yet think of.

That a bit of noise is all it takes to get you to miss how wonderfully unique this situation is, of all walks of life talking, reading, eating and living with each other, is a damning indictment of how tough you actually are, and how much you bring to the table.

Can’t handle it? Wahh.

E: Each downvote on this comment is an admission that you, the downvoter, are similarly rigid. Prove me wrong.

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You’re partially correct, older bikes didn’t have catalytic converters. Compliance with Euro 5 means all new models past… 2018 I think, must have one equipped.

As for noise, 75db is louder than a modern car, but we don’t have room onboard to dissipate a lot of the sound energy like a car’s long, standing-wave tuned exhaust does.

I don’t have a car, just a bicycle and motorcycle. I like them both, though I trust my bicycle more when there’s a blizzard.

P.s. I also like fortnine videos, he’s mostly correct (though dead wrong about physicists being the grownup version of engineers) but look at the data for yourself. Keep in mind all these values are far, far lower than they used to be. We shouldn’t stop striving for better, but we should keep things in perspective too: bts.gov/…/estimated-national-average-vehicle-emis…

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Certainly better than the alternative. Take care now! 🤭

RubberElectrons, (edited )
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Nah man, I absolutely don’t think that’s the case, not is that the case for any fellow city folk. My previous post should have made that real clear. We got all walks of life walking and talking, and a lot of us travel too. We see what we have, and what’s out there as well.

One thing you won’t see me doing is talking shit on other people’s home towns, because that’s low class and low quality thinking. I don’t particularly like small towns or suburbs for social reasons, some people do. That’s ok.

Wake up, do something interesting for a change.

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Cool. Still think you’re boring, only had noise to comment about. Cheers.

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Ah man. I hate to break it to you, but your last attempt at a girlfriend was right about you before she left. The lacking creativity and energy thing.

Good luck to you.

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Lol ah you got me with your creativity again. Oh it hurts.

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No thanks, citation-free dingus.

news.berkeley.edu/…/motorcycle-lanesplitting-repo…

RubberElectrons,
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Faulty logic appears to be a forte.

Why should I wait? Do you know what an air cooled engine is? I incur more risk in driving specifically for the benefits of agility and compactness.

I’m sorry that my ability to go past you makes you upset, but again, I’m exposing myself to significantly more danger specifically for the benefits including the ability to not be stopped by the car in front of me, much higher mpgs, lower cost of ownership, etc.

Do you get mad at bicycles because they don’t operate the same as cars? I pass you in the bike lane all the time on my bicycle.

RubberElectrons,
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For real, I’d actually forgotten about the kats till now

RubberElectrons,
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Might be voyager, but this link says the PNG had errors.

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Thanks MacNCheezus 🤦 lol

I was guessing Alaska maybe?

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Thank you so much, this was an awesome article and even more excellent shots.

People, not the climate, found to have caused the decline of the giant mammals (phys.org)

For years, scientists have debated whether humans or the climate have caused the population of large mammals to decline dramatically over the past several thousand years. A new study from Aarhus University confirms that climate cannot be the explanation....

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Cool things to ponder while I ride my bicycle to work.

RubberElectrons,
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Where do you recommend finding technical info on stuff like this?

RubberElectrons,
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Thanks. Where do they get it, looking for literature, e.g. corky Bell’s maximum boost.

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Dats fucked up.

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Lmao hello fellow engineer. Isn’t the iso view normally oriented towards the page center?

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