I know it's a scripted show, none of it being real.

Still, half of the challenges drip a gallon of oil onto the ground because ha ha Hammonds Car has a leak. Or maybe we just drown one in the british coast line, all fluids in there. Or make a car that cannot be driven safely on public roads, then drive it on public roads.

Especially made worse by the fact that Clarkson complains endlessly about health and safety. I assume, it beeing a BBC-Production, they stuck to it. Which poses the questions of why can you drive the least safe car on public motorways or just dump gallons of oil everywhere and still be compliant. Doesn't seem like Health & Safety really does all that much for Health or Safety.

Just realized I never talked about these. I think these are a gods-end for the urban cyclist. They're panniers that can be converted into a backpack. Pictured here is an Ortlieb Vario PS, but other brands make them - some better than others.

I think they're king for urban cyclists with lots of stops as you can convert them in give or take 3 seconds from one to the other (if you've not bought garbage) and have so much more comfortable carrying capacity compared to classic pannier with a single strap and you can take your valuables with you.

Pictured here is a Red Rebane Exo, allthough across the Pond Surly makes something like this in their Little Dummy Bag line.

Just wanted to throw the knowledge out there that these exist, as they can be a problem solver for some particular situations.

The bike in the title pic is an Urwahn Stadtfuchs, which are 3D-Steel-Printed frames and they do actually look like that. Kind of a hilarious choice to use a high top tube frame for this, I guess the company figures if you're the type of person to transport a guitar like this you also have handlebars lower than the seat instead of using a stepthrough frame.

Historically, there's a lot of overlap of companies that did bicycles but also guns. It's basically the same "small scale" metallurgy that makes it work. As I've noted too many times before it's odd that in every apocalyptic scenario nobody ever thinks to use a bicycle, it becomes especially egregious once somehow post apocalyptic gunsmithing enters the mix and still no bicycles. That's the same skillset!

Everytime I look at it in a place I know somewhat well it does include all the nice options for a sunday ride or whatever but it also always shuns more direct routes that are cyclable.

This might be the algorithm giving more weight to greenspace routes but I don't think it's that. It's just data visualitation but in this case this comes with the following problem: nobody but the leisurely sunday-ride people use Gmaps for bicycle navigation in any capacity.

Not knocking that, mind you, but if you're a "serious" touring cyclist you'd get into at least Komoot pretty quick, maybe even standalone biycle GPS. All the everyday transportation cyclists probably just don't use GPS for 99% of their routes because they know the way and there's no point.

Here's where I think it gets carbrained, a lot of people use Gmaps for their commute because it can dynamically route them around congestion or roadblocks. But these things don't apply to bicycles, there is never bicycle congestion and even most roadblocks you can usually just ride or walk through on the pedestrian path or something and even removed from that, considering how hostile to cycling much of the world is you probably don't wanna stray too far from your usual route to just ride along the 6 lane arterial for a while. But they just took the car approach and applied it to bicycle. And sometimes I wonder if people use that as a resource, I mean things like B-Router is deep iceberg cycle pervert shit, and conclude there is no good cycleable route to where they're going and take the car

• Spur Cycle knockoffff
• Crane Bell knockoff
• 3-Tone Bell (never two tone)
• Electronic or air pressure horn
• Clown Horn

That's it, that's the list. Everything else is worthless, especially never buy a Knog Oi.

It's a disco elysium fancam made so well I consider that segment from 1:05 min onwards to be canon because it is so fucking good

Slogan from the german speaking left, now seemingly having largely fallen out of favor, for poking fun at the police and military

Listen, if I was in charge of $random_geopolitical_issue things would've gone a lot differently. Don't ask me what I would've done differently or, god forbid, how. It just would've. I would've done something to set right the injustices suffered by my nation. I am also going to weave and bob any question as to what specifically this would entail, on account of I am not educated enough to make this call, but my trusted advisory council of experts, of which I have 0 idea of how any of them got there or what their qualifications are, would've concocted up the solution that finally propels my state into the global hegemons and makes everybody love me.

You got your 5 basic senses; taste, sight, touch, smell and sound

and then you get further into it and there's like position.

And then you get further into it and there's like "position relative to your other positions, removed from everything else"

And then you get further into it and there's like "your hormones do something iunno"

And then, I propse, a bunch of Estonians stumbled upon even more advanced senses by way of inframaterialism. They fucking cracked the code on all the subconsciously influenced senses. They're all your senses filtered through your some parts of your uncionscousness. Shivers is the gut feeling you get when the bar fight turns sour. Esprit de Corps is when you notice your organisational circle acting out. These are common, human experiences!

So much of EDC seems to be centered around either surviving alone in the woods for days or alternatively using your tactical pen to stab a terrorist to death and John McClane the building. I'm John Suburban and my EDC includes a gun, a ferrorod and a tacpen with built in seatbelt slicer and window breaker (none of which I ever trained to use, but am assured will use competently after a flip over car crash into a body of water).

Which is a shame, because I think EDC stuff is cool. Little nifty tools! What do the denizens of this here website chapo.chat like for non chud EDC applications?

I'll start off with some favourites,

• a small AA-powered flashlight by EOLite (self-explanatory I think)
• a Gerber Dime (basically one of those small swiss army knives but the pliers are a nice touch for a lot of things, like not touching the garbage juice)
• a keychain presta-to-schrader adapter to reinflate my bicycle tyres at any given gas station, should the need arise

Currently also building a bicycle EDC-Pouch where space isn't limited to pocket size, would love to hear what other people use.