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  1. Originally posted by THE LAW

    ok...so THE LAW was riding back from the liquor store yesterday after a long and grueling day at work. In addition, he had ridden through some pretty hellacious weather on the ten mile commute home from work. you get the point, yesterday sucked.

     

    ...back to the story...THE LAW's riding back from the liquor store at around 10 last night with 30 cans of the cheapo local brew on his handlebars ready to get busy on his living room couch.... needless to say, 30 beers on a roadbike is a disaster waiting to happen. less than 100 yards from home, THE LAW hits a bump and takes the spill to end all spills into some family's halloween decorations. Sweet comforting beers were all over the sidewalk and THE LAW had give one to a restaurant employee who saw the whole thing and helped THE LAW and his poor beers up off the ground. it sucked.

     

    ok...that didn't have much to do with bikes, but it had to do with THE LAW falling off of one and it keeps this topic near the top.

     

    he he heeee...

     

    you're the man LAW. that had better been pabst too buddy...

  2. Originally posted by HESHIANDET

    fr8ohhhhhhhhhh, my man. sorry i couldn't be there. trust me, i wanted to, REALLY BAD! lets just say i didn't do shit and i hated every second of it. Im off to ct next weekend- but im free the one after that, so watch out playa.here i come!

    dibs, i've never ridden on a track before. so im kind of in the dark as to what i need to do to actually be able to ride on the track???im sure i'll figure it out and put a retarded amount of time and money into it though.

     

    no sweat mang. we did fr8s by the pound, ate burgers and i got really damned drunk. give a hollar and we can set up the festivities.

    $$ later mang $$

     

    dibs i'll give a shout.

     

    you guys be safe, later

  3. hesher. what's slangin babey?

     

    dibs. i knew you checked this often. i wanted to tell you your site is dope. i just had a pretty thorough looksee. i'm diggin your stuff. you guys keep rocking. or riding. or whatever it is you doods do. drink. you guys prolly drink a lot. yeah, that's most definately it.

     

    hesh i brought the fellas over to the famous burger stand last nite. cheese fries and burgers had by all. cept dusty. beardo must be wearing off on the guy cause he got a grilled cheese.

     

    later gents.

  4. slack action and other tidbits

     

    all by kabar.

     

    Everybody has heard about Slack Action, but not everybody understands exactly what it is. The railcars are built with couplers that automatically close when two cars are banged together in humping, when humped over a hump crest, or by "flat-switching" the cars in a small yard with no hump. When a switchman cuts out a car on the crest of the hump, he has to do it at just the right moment. The unit powers up in reverse (humping is done in reverse--the unit pulls the string over the hump, then starts backing up so the cars can be cut out, humped, retarded and switched into their new string) and gets the string rolling, then he slacks off the accelerator and the car to be cut (called a "cut") rolls up slowly to the hump crest. When the switchman sees the unit is off the power, he pulls the pin (it's a lever that goes out the side of the coupler) opening the coupler, releasing the "cut" and allowing gravity to roll it into the hump and the master retarder. As the car rolls down the hump, the switchmen in the crest tower hit the MR, and you can hear the squeal of the retarder shoes rubbing the outside of the train car wheels to slow it down. Couplers can handle an impact of about 5 mph, no more. There is another retarder farther down the hump line, called a "group retarder" but I think my local yard doesn't have one. The car rolls until it hits the string of cars in it's CONsist. When it hits, the impact closes the coupler, and it locks automatically.

    There is about 1"-3/4" slack in the couplers themselves. The couplers are connected to the "draft gear." The draft gear isn't really gears, it's like "gear" in terms of somebody's stuff, rather than a transmission gear. The draft gear can move in and out about 12"-14" max. So when a unit starts to pull a train, the first car hits slack action after a foot. The second car, after two feet, and so on. On a long train, say 80 cars, the unit may move 85 feet before the FRED moves an inch. Slack action is much more violent in the back half of the train, like the tail on a bull whip. As the train "stretches out", you hear slack coming down the string b-b-b-b-B-B-B-Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom-BOOM-BOOM-BANG! and all the sudden your car is jerked into motion. Stretch out is also called "draft" like in "draft horses." It means "pull." Then, if the engineer gets on the brakes, the train starts contracting the same way, but it's called "buff." It sounds the same b-b-b-B-B-Boom-Boom-Boom-BOOM-BOOM-BANG! and suddenly your car is slowing down. It is now "buffed in." What this means to people in railyards is that they need to be aware that trains can move at any second, especially a long string. The units way down on the other end of the yard may suddenly get powered up and told to move, or get "called." Or the string your car is on can be hit by a midnight rambler at any time, as the hump crew suddenly starts making up a consist. BE ALERT AS TO WHAT IS GOING ON AROUND YOU. Really tight crews have at least one guy (maybe a rookie) serving as a spotter, watching for ramblers, bulls, cops, etc. If you're hopping, you definately need to understand slack action to the nuts. ALWAYS HANG ONTO SOMETHING. Don't ride freestyle or skylining. Only FNG wannabes do shit like that. HIDE. "No exposure without purpose." That's what I think, anyway. (Yo, Collinwood, your shit rocks. "CK, rock like him," and Ride Safe.)

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  5. that dickies thing is quite the phenominom. it's pretty funny to think about it.

     

     

    keep going with this stuff. i've read the whole damned thread and i don't even own a huffy. sorta.

  6. Originally posted by HESHIANDET:

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    i don't know how b-town is but in philly the messengers are all pretty tight. if someone sees some ganked shit it usually gets ganked back. Kinda weird but i know of a few occasions of this happening. good luck.

     

    hesh are you sporting the green dickies? my man seems to think the messengers have the green dickies on lock out there. school an un-educated fella

  7. i'm one for flying over the couplers when i cross but i usually go under grainers/hoppers when have to cross but fuck that. i knew it's a bad decision but getting dead all of a sudden seems a good incentive.

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