Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I mean it about touching bikes being calming

There's something very reassuring about a machine that doesn't need petrol or electricity but can still take you 100km in a day

Got some spare tubes, a patching kit and some basic tools, maybe $20 worth, all fits in the bottom quarter of the saddlebags no problem leaving room for lots of snacks, and with that much it'll just Keep Going

As long as my legs work, this machine works, and there's enormous comfort in that.

Bikes make you aware of the power of your legs.

Weird gendered thing about the top versus bottom halves of your body: most women I know are aware of how strong their legs are, whereas when a bloke thinks about his strength, like he's gonna try and move something heavy, he tends to think of his arms and chest and back. I've seen many fresh new trans lads suddenly becoming more aware of their shoulders or biceps for example.

Which, like, even a really strong person's arms don't have nearly as much torque or endurance as the most thoroughly ordinary leg. So after a couple of times of looking down at my little ten-dollar Sunding speedo/odometer and seeing Just How Far I'd gone, I think it kinda altered my relationship with my legs? Like now, when I have to do something that needs a lot of strength, even like unscrewing a big rusted bolt, I keep thinking of how this would be much easier if I could let my legs do it instead of my arms? I move differently, I stand differently, I'm more aware of this whole half of my body I've been under-using

And I say this to the women and femme and AFAB people in my life and they're like ??? you didn't know??, and the not-bike-riding cis blokes I talk to about it go ??? oh huh yeah I guess, wild???

It's almost as if modern american carcentric life has hidden my whole entire legs from me lol

Soo, I fried my #framework motherboard.

I'm looking for a framework 13 motherboard, intel 12 or 13 gen.

DM me if you upgraded your laptop recently. I'll buy the old one from you.

Retoot appreciated.

[RSS] iPod Clickwheel Games Preservation Project

https://hackaday.com/2024/11/04/ipod-clickwheel-games-preservation-project/

The definition of irony is posting this on a social media site.

#SelfCare #TimeOut #reading #books

Planting a winter crop of amsterdamertjes.

❌ i can't figure out how to put that thought into words
✅ i can't serialize that thought

Another form of adding extra rails to the track (tho not for running trains of different gauges) is installing guard rails, also known as catching rails

Those are most commonly used (and often mandatory) on bridges and in tunnels. Their purpose is making sure the train keeps running in the same direction and doesn't fall out of the track in case of a derailment

#railway #railroad #trains #railinfodump

Usually, when traveling by train between countries that use different railway gauges, passengers need to change trains

However, sometimes on long-distance or sleeper connection, an alternative solution is used – bogie exchange

The entire train is rolled into a maintenance depot, then railcars are decoupled and lifted off their bogies (the element that wheels are attached to) using a special crane

Bogies get rolled out, and a new set is rolled in to align with a car and lower it back down onto it

That procedure is used for freight cars e.g. on the China-Russia border, but also it's a standard procedure for passenger coaches, in such cases doors get locked for the time of the operation and passengers remain inside while the cars are worked on

This allows multiple long-distance connection from Ukraine to Europe to exist, before the war and COVID also allowed multiple Russian trains to enter European rails

Video showing how it's done: https://youtu.be/2nI467sc-Eo

#trains #railinfodump

You've heard about bogie changing to make a train able to run on a different track gauge. And if you haven't: https://bark.lgbt/@rail_/113135310666591799

Now prepare for another silly railway technology to tickle at that problem: double-gauge tracks.

Installing two sets of rails (or adding a simple 3rd rail) onto the same section of the track to make it able to support trains of two different gauges at the same time

Solutions like this are not uncommon in places with old historical narrow-gauge infrastructure connecting with modern standard-gauge tracks, countries using two gauges (Spain…) as well as in bordering regions of countries using two different gauges

It's cheaper to construct compared to having two separate tracks using different gauges, and simpler and cheaper than gauge-changing technology (that is also being used e.g. in Spain)

#train #trains #railway #railroad #railinfodump