Russia seems pretty damn confused about whether the future is oil or not, or rather just in denial about oil NOT being the future.
Daaaang, somebody needs to clone that trailer design for ebikes. A flatbed with an optional waterproof cargo container would be sick. Axle looks kinda pinner tho
Kinda looks like a car topper on a small bike trailer. Probably wouldn’t be too tough to make one.
ICE motorcycle engines are incredibly loud. Going electric therefore makes them harder to spot.
Also worth noting that outside of war motorcyles are incredibly loud too, and I hate them for it, why can’t my big ass car make more noise than a tiny ICE engine?
What the hell kind of nonsense normalized motorcycles with zero effective noise mitigation on them?
My least favorite experience while standing on top of a beautiful mountain is managing to still somehow hear a stupid Harley Davidson from like 30km away accelerating onto the highway. When your silly midlife crisis vehicle with a tiny engine makes more noise than a fully loaded 18-wheeler engaging its jake breaks, you are officially an asshole.
I can’t wait for the day motorcyles are all electric, the amount of silence that has been arbitrarily demolished by unnecessarily loud motorcyle engines is suffocating lol.
A couple things. First, loud pipes save lives. Second, your car is much louder just remove the headers.
Loud pipes save the lives of the people driving around on them, mostly, so not sure that’s a good argument
It refers to the fact that driving motorcycles around cars is extremely dangerous. Driver’s often ignore motorcycles and loud pipes are the one thing that keep a lot of motorcyclists from being run over.
This myth is still going strong I see
I am a bit of a seasoned driver and I grew up in the Seattle area. I have had a number of close calls and the motorcycles being loud was 100% a protective factor.
You can pretend whatever you want, but clearly I can’t agree with you.
Yes. That’s what I said.
I am pretty sure you said
“Loud pipes save the lives of the people driving around on them, mostly, so not sure that’s a good argument”
Save the lives of people driving around them is not what loud pipes save lives means. I was just pointing that out. Cheers!
Second, your car is much louder just remove the headers.
Yeah but why
You literally said why can’t your big ass car make that much sound. It can, much more than a motorcycle.
They know it’s not oil. But they have the necessity of stretching that oil as far as they possibly can.
I don’t disagree with that assessment, but from that perspective one of the broad longterm drivers for the onset of full-on-war in 2022 was driven by the structural dead end that russia set itself up with with regards to the green energy transition leaving them in the dust with hardly any domestic industry focused on it.
Setting themselves up to fail, they could only see Europe’s attempt to begin to slowly move away from dependence on fossil fuels, russia’s included, as a direct impetus to war because they were already out of options.
In other words, launching the “3 day special military operation” was part of that stretching.
These were choices russia made and committed to in their stupidity that made the warpath the only path they would accept in their hubris.
