>post apocalyptic setting
>nobody uses pic related
>they all just fucking walk
i have literally never seen a single bicycle in a movie or tv show set in a post-apocalypse
>post apocalyptic setting. >nobody uses pic related. >they all just fucking walk
Zombo ate the cycle
they won't be able to pander that way.
Yeah how are they gonna advertise the 2014 Hyundai sonata™ if everyone is riding bikes?
Walking dead s1e1 had one
>Walking dead
>They actually ride bikes
>its called the walking dead, not the biking dead, chuddie boy
bikes don't look cool in a gritty setting
Go watch turbo kid.
Bikes don't look cool ever
a wild biker appears
I've actually never noticed this. Good point OP.
they didnt want to get hit by car people who can do it without consequences now
maybe they can't get air for the tire due to the apocalypse
I thought about this too. Horses, bikes, carts, wagons, etc would be massive. There's so many surpluss bikes you could use them forever. Stap two to a cart and you could start hauling legitimtae goods.
>maybe they can't get air for the tire due to the apocalypse
You could just construct solid tires if you want something with less maintenance. It's less efficient, but they'd last longer.
>can't get air for the tire
Why post in a thread featuring bicycles if you've literally never ridden one or seen one irl? Tyre pumps are everywhere and they don't require maintenance or anything but a person to move their arms.
Bicycle tyres can be inflated with hand held pumps and patched with small repair kits. There's no reason not to use them instead of walking
It is probably because of American ignorance and laziness and hatred of bicycles
Germany figured this out in WWI
beautiful bike holy shit
I'd love to see a character kitted out like this in a post apocalypse
I was going to comment on punctures but holy fuck this solves it. Why aren't these wheels more common?
they destroy roads and are require more force to move than rubber ones
Im sure you could rig them out of lightweight chrome or aluminum these days, and just wrap a removable rubber layer on the exterior of the wheel.
You could, but the springs will still be less efficient than compressed air, which combined with the extra weight would make riding it a bitch, and wouldn't offer much superiority over walking, unless going downhill.
They make airless foam-core tires and there's some talk about one-piece tires similar in function to the spring design but they don't seem to be on the market yet, at least not from any reputable source.
Heavier than tubes
More expensive than tubes
Pressure not adjustable
I'm also willing to bet that it's not comfortable at all on anything else than asphalt
damn that looks cool
Looks litty ngl
why didn't they charge the french lines with these instead of walking?
Fucking NICE.
floor pumps lasts forever
well played anon.
Got an old army bicycle I want solid tires for and probably also new wheels. And a professional paint job.
What are some hopeless zed kinos like Dawn of The Dead?
I've brought this up, once. Someone said something about how biking everywhere would cost a lot more energy than walking.
It also bothers me how no one ever goes fishing or hunting.
>biking everywhere would cost a lot more energy than walking
Kinda true for mountainous areas.
Walk up mountain, dismount and push bike. Almost same energy as walking.
Coast down other side, much faster and no energy expenditure at all.
also easier to cart shit on the bike than on your back
Most intelligent American
You have not lived in a hilly area and biked and it shows
Lived in an extremely hilly area and biked tho and fro my entire life.
If cyckling up a hill is something that bothers you you could probably do with expending some extra energy.
You probably also did so loaded with gear and with a looming threat of being murdered the second you stop huh?
>biking everywhere would cost a lot more energy than walking.
You would only lose more energy going up hills.
>hunting
happens regularly
>fishing
rare but also happens
>biking cost more energy
yeah biking for an hour takes more energy than walking for an hour, but you get a lot farther in that hour
>Someone said something about how biking everywhere would cost a lot more energy than walking.
They're a fucking moron.
“I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometer. And, humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing, about a third of the way down the list. It was not too proud a showing for the crown of creation. So, that didn’t look so good. But, then somebody at Scientific American had the insight to test the efficiency of locomotion for a man on a bicycle. And, a man on a bicycle, a human on a bicycle, blew the condor away, completely off the top of the charts. And that’s what a computer is to me. What a computer is to me is it’s the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with, and it’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.” -Steve Jobs
did steve jobs believe in creationism?
He thought walnut casings would cure ass cancer.
who's steve jobs
ligma balls
> biking everywhere would cost a lot more energy than walking
Can you imagine how retarded you need to be to think this? Why would anyone ever use a bike then? Why would it exist?
Motherfucker trying to skate uphill.
To get to places in a good time frame? Just you expand more effort. In a zombie infested world you'd need your energy. Anon please
you can always ditch the bike and just get another one later, bikes are everywhere you come to a spot the bike isn't feasible throw it away and later pick up another one
yeah but your stamina bar will be low and you'll be fucking by zombies can't not enough stamina to do other actions
thats so fucking stupid, if you are tired ditch the bike
>make obviously joke
>retards respond seriously
what a sad state this site is in
The boy has been driven retarded by video games.
>Someone said something about how biking everywhere would cost a lot more energy than walking
ppppppppppppppppfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffttttttttttttttttttttttt
meanwhile, in reality
>fastest runner in the world
>pushing himself to superman limits
>going all fucking out, feels like he's gonna' die
>knees grinding away in real time, feet screaming, SUCKING on air
>a test of will
10 mph average with 2,300 calories burned... made it 10 km...
>old obese lady on a steel beach cruiser made in 1962 with streamers on it
>and a basket and she's wearing a backpack
>bike doesn't have gears
>*DING DING DING DING DING*
>"ON YOUR LEFT"!
the wind knocks the runner to the ground as she zooms by going 50 mph
Go watch The Battery right now.
>Someone said something about how biking everywhere would cost a lot more energy than walking.
and you believed them?
>Someone said something about how biking everywhere would cost a lot more energy than walking.
Get new friends
>biking everywhere would cost a lot more energy than walking
Thats literally the opposite of truth
calorie-wise biking is somewhere between walking and running so yeah as an exercise walking is more energy efficient. but if you consider your carry-weight limit and distance coverage in a given time frame (i.e. daylight) i think biking is just plain better.
Someone is a giant fucking retard and probably fat as shit since they don't even have an instinct for how bikes work proving they've never been able to ride one.
I remember once, riding my bike through the woods on a brisk autumnal afternoon after a decent rain down by the river, and enjoying a pumpkin ale afterwards, but that was a long time ago, when I was a much younger man.
🙂
harder to film dialogue when everyone is on a bike. also probably auto lobbyists who don't want people to think about bikes because they're a more sensible option for getting around your home city.
But I can't ride a bike. What do I do?
>because they're a more sensible option for getting around your home city.
I live in a major city. People don't ride bikes because they get stolen all the damn time, and taken apart at the corner hobo-operated chop shop that the city won't take down for some reason..
Because everything that uses that setting is a dumb show by idiots for idiots
Rated rubber.
>muh rubber
>t. never owned a bicycle in his life
The only issue I can think of is tyres rotting, but stored properly I think they would probably last many years but not entirely sure. As far as consumables go, brake pads, grease, chain lube, bearings and races (in hubs/headsets/bottom brackets/etc) wouldn't go bad. I think you just don't see bikes in shows and movies because it'd probably be awkward and boring to feature them, unless it's characters traversing long distance during a montage or something.
i have bicycles in my backyard that have been stored there since before i was born and their tires are fine just deflated
Have you actually properly inspected the integrity of the carcass and all that? Or do they just look "fine" on the outside?
bro, they dont have to pass an official inspection, its the apocalypse, if you can ride with them, theyre fine
if the tyre looks fine on the outside but you get a blowout while going downhill at 60km/h because the carcass was compromised you're in for a bad time
>outlasts you with no maintenance required
You wouldn't want a city bike, and definitely not a weekend bike either. They're nowhere near as durable and can't handle jumps that well because of the missing crossbar.
bro, a man rode clean across the entire USA in the days when "interstate road" meant "dirt trail" on a fucking penny farthing. For most of the 20th century those weren't "city bikes" they were just "bikes" and nobody used anything else unless they did sport riding. They stopped being the default only because A; cars were successfully marketed as status symbols, B; cars subsequently made roads too dangerous to ride slowly on, and C; road and mountain bikes were then successfully marketed to the few remaining cyclists as status symbols.
I've literally been hit by a car riding my old dutchie and while I spent a week in a hospital all the bike needed was the front wheel re-aligned. So long as you're not throwing yourself down a hill trail at full pelt, a "city bike" would do just fine.
I think it's because it makes it hard to film a dramatic scene while the characters are riding bikes, it would feel very jarring because bikes are used for more lighthearted scenes.
you could just show them riding a bike to get somewhere, not have talk while biking
Everyone who knew how to true a wheel died in the first wave
moron stole them
turbo kid
>movie or tv show set in a post-apocalypse
Most of them are set in America and americans don't know how to ride a bike or simply refuse, because it doesn't burn fuel, but calories.
only really usefull on flat paved roads
eh, if you lucked out with a really lightweight road bike it'd probably be worthwhile to carry around with you on tumultuous and uphill terrain, then use it on long stretches of flat and downhill. net gain.
riding out in the open is how you get shot
makes more sense to walk in the woods
Okay but seriously, why not?
waste of gas and you need to find someone who actually knows how to operate these things.
Use hot air instead of gas. Plenty of coal lying around. And you steer by adjusting your altitude to catch the different currents.
Always wondered how hot air balloons were directed. Was wondering if they landed and waited for wind to change direction…so your post has also made me realise that I’m a fucking retard.
Honestly, tho. How would that idea to steer a balloon even occur to your average 21st century child? They're just used to balloons floating and being at the mercy of the wind.
>mercy of the wind
Still though, you can use currents and jet streams to estimate where you want to go. Like how the Japanese used the wind to launch balloons from Japan that dropped bombs over the US
A glider or those australian ultralight copters make a lot more sense. Balloons are very difficult to handle and land, and your ability to steer agains the wind is next to nonexistent.
Who's going to trust their life to post-apocalyptic rope?
70s uk series “Survivors” uses one. Some Norwegians come to uk on it. And they go back on it…thankfully.
ok so you fly up
and then what?
Napoleon wanted to invade England with these
his big tactical brain knew air power was very important especially when it comes to england,he was just few centuries too early
>More efficient than walking / running
>Can carry a much heavier load w/ saddle bags / even pull a small trailer but go a bit slower
>better on your knees, obviously
>Very stealthy, can move around without making much noise and avoid attracting other people / zombies to your position
>can easily outpace zombies that walk much slower than a very slow biking speed
>can travel 100+ miles in a day depending on the speed / terrain
>Doesn't need any electricity or anything for maintenance, just some spare parts, a few spare tubes, and a portable air pump / tire patches
The one hard thing would be getting new tires when you wear out an older pair. Those would be really hard to come by in an apocalyptic world. But then again, this same exact argument applies to every single vehicle in an apocalypse. Can you imagine how fast those tires would rot on all the cars sitting on freeways abandoned? They would be completely dry rotted within a few years. I mean gasoline would already be practically unusable in those cars within 2 years, but the tire rot would make the cars undriveable anyways.
>The one hard thing would be getting new tires when you wear out an older pair. Those would be really hard to come by in an apocalyptic world. But then again, this same exact argument applies to every single vehicle in an apocalypse.
Depends on the kind of apocalypse. Will a lot of people die, or little to no people? If it's the zombie apocalypse or something, then, yeah, you can live like a king in that regard. Keep in mind, though, that other survivors will catch on to this, & many of them will probably hoard bicycles & supplies, especially if they're a group.
If it's a global EMP, like in Dark Angel or the epilogue to The World's End, where very few people have died, then bicycles will be a super valuable commodity that only the lucky or rich can afford in the post apocalypse. Hell, you will have to be extra careful that people don't mug you, rob you or try to kill you for your bike.
>Those would be really hard to come by in an apocalyptic world.
I disagree. I think you would find a bike every second house since people trying to get away from zombies or the like wouldn't take a bike. They would panic and get their families in cars while bikes are in good condition in sheds and garages.
>Those would be really hard to come by in an apocalyptic world
Bicycles are literally everywhere
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoBikesInTheApocalypse
You can't be alert while you're on a bike. On a bike, you're moving too quickly to fully watch your surroundings but you have none of the protection you would have from a car. What are you going to do in your post-apocalyptic setting if you're riding your bike and something happens where you need to quickly get out your weapon and defend yourself? If you're on foot, you can easily get it ready. If you're in a car, the car itself can be a weapon, can be used as cover, can offer protection while you react.
on a bike, what are you gonna do? Shoot with one hand while you pedal? Take both hands off and try to shoot while riding? Stop the bike, climb off, then start defending yourself? Not a good choice in any of those scenarios. Moving a little faster isn't worth the risk. The reason who you don't see bicycles in post-apocalyptic settings is because the people who tried to ride them were the first ones to die.
what a retarded fucking post
what do you think that there is a fucking armed ambush on every road in the country? you think that if someone was lying in wait with a rifle for you, youd survive on foot? get real you retard
We're talking about an imaginary scenario, kid.
> you think that if someone was lying in wait with a rifle for you, youd survive on foot? get real you retard
I think that if you're in the apocalypse pedaling your bike going squeakysqueakysqueak down a road full of burnt out wrecks of cars and you come across the inevitable zombie or raider waiting alongside the road, all they're gonna do is sit there until you come past and give your retarded ass a little push and watch as you go falling over yourself. Let me put it to you like this:
>walking: both hands free
>riding a horse: both hands free
>driving a car: one hand free, car offers protection and can be used as a weapon
>riding a bike: one hand free, bike offers no protection and cannot be used as a weapon
If you're in some post-apocalypse scenario, your main goal is staying alive, not risking your safety in order to move slightly faster.
Also, you'd just look retarded. Literally impossible to look cool riding a bike, which is probably the main reason why you don't see it in fiction. Nobody wants their protagonists looking like goofy motherfuckers.
>all this video game logic
>you look dumb riding a bike haha
americans and brownoids need to be genocided 2bh
How is it video game logic? It is impossible to quickly defend yourself while riding a bike. I'm sorry if you don't like that but it's a fact. Regardless of anything else, you'd need to stop the bike and get off if you had to defend yourself against someone attacking you. That takes time, time that you wouldn't need to waste if you were on foot. If I'm wrong then you're welcome to explain how other than whining with no substance.
>you look dumb riding a bike haha
Correct. Fictional setting avoiding putting characters on bikes is a stylistic choice as much as it is a practical one.
>americans
There is plenty of non-American ficiton about post-apocalyptic settings and none of it features bike-riding heroes. I know you're obsessed with America but you really don't have to drag it into everything.
Not him, but what kind of attack are we talking about here? Let's compare being on foot and riding a bike.
First scenario:
Someone shoots at you in an ambush, you need to look for cover. You can't just stand in the middle of the road and shoot at where you think they are. A bike will make it more likely that their shots miss and allow you to escape or reach a safe location more quickly.
Second scenario:
Someone on foot is trying to get into melee with you, you're both unarmed. You see them and simply avoid them which is easy since you're faster.
Third scenario:
Someone on foot is trying to ambush you by hiding very close to the road so you can't see them coming before they reach you. You're probably fucked whether on foot or on a bike, but again, the bike is faster and therefore harder to hit.
Fourth scenario:
Someone has a car and is trying to hit you with it. On a bike you have a better chance of reaching cover because it's faster.
I'll add to that that it takes about half a second to get off the bike. Really not a great point considering all the advantages of a bike.
>car offers protection
Not really. bullets go through them like knife through butter
>hero hides behind car door
>the ½ inch aluminium and plastic protects him from a 5.56mm bullet spray
Is crazy that people actually believe this works, too.
People believe what they see from Hollywood. Ironically, Last Action Hero did confront that
The engine block might stop the bullets
The engine block will, always hide behind it if you have to.
>Not really. bullets go through them like knife through butter
There are plenty of things to be worried about aside from bullets and a car will provide at least some protection against arrows, slings, melee weapons, and certainly anything unarmed.
it will also run out of gas and is prone to all number of mechanical faluires plus of course easily stuck, I highway full of cars thats it for yours, idiots trying to argue a bike takes maintenance then saying why not a car? are fucking retarded, a 10 year old kid can maintain a bike
There are cars everywhere. If your car breaks down, you grab another. Everyone has a car, while only weird guys with complexes own bikes. Look at this shit, you freaks can't even allow some hypothetical scenario where cars are preferable to bikes. This shit is your entire personality at this point, isn't it?
Gasoline expires in months
gas you dumb fuck gas, it runs out it goes bad 3-6 months maximum and thats in temperature controlled environments like the gas tanks in the grounds of petrol stations, also batteries, you can hill start if you can but sooner or later that battery will die and its not coming back ever, the ones sitting in cars not being used will die even faster, the hub caps will corrode all those cars you see sitting out on the highways in walking dead episode 1 would all be useless, and thats only 1 month in
children have bikes anon, every child has a bike and the parents of said children also have a bike so they can ride with their kids, what fucking bizzaro world do you live in? their are 10'000 bikes within 10 miles of you right now anon
>This shit is your entire personality at this point, isn't it?
what the fuck are you babbling about? we aren't talking about "cyclists" you retarded gay, those gays with their 20 gear mountain bikes w/e are not remotely relevant to this discussion except they would also contribute to the over all number of bikes available to take.
You know the least realistic thing about the walking dead? They keep finding gas. How long has it been in show? A group in possession of a military refining facility or something like that would fix this plot hole
they did ages ago, same time the comics, did, for a while they refined their own petrol using corn to make ethenol, but in the end around s8 they gave up and use horses and horse drawn carts, the only one with a consistent working engine is darryl's bike, who uses all the corn ethanol they can make
>Literally impossible to look cool riding a bike, which is probably the main reason why you don't see it in fiction
The only reason
Assuming the terrain/road is OK using bikes to travel from out post to outpost would be superior
If you just go the same way through a forest regularly a path naturally forms. Handy for bikes and dense forest bases are underrated. Good cover from the elements, shields light and noise to stop people finding you, easy to defend from zombies and space for safe treehouses. Also plenty of lumber on hand.
>stop the bike, climb off
I don't think you've ever ridden a bike.
Well, everyone seems to think that the best part about bikes is that you can carry a bunch of extra shit, so you've got a bunch of bags strapped to the bike and you're wearing a heavy backpack. How quickly are you going to be hopping off while keeping your footing?
in about 1/2 a second, you just drop the bike and stay standing
Well, it's good that you have such a high opinion of yourself but I'd still recommend some trial runs loading up a camping backpack and strapping a bunch of shit to your bike and seeing how fast you can get off it and get ready to defend yourself before you try it in the apocalypse.
I have already done that seriously what weird fucking world do you live in that ou've never ridden a bike or even have a basic understanding of one? this is like talking to a streetshitter about swimming, its like an alien technology to you
Absolutely retarded take, fuck you
youve never seen hoodrats do drivebys on bikes. you think they can afford cars? its doable
>85% of humanity dies
>15years later there are no shoes and new clothes left and people forgot how to wash themselves
>people turn to cannibalism because they are too retarded to hunt game
The Last of Us is probably the most idiotic post apocalyptic scenario ever
You could probably just eat feral cows and pigs.
Cities would probably be overrun with pigs because they can eat just about anything.
Honestly, most of the survivors are stuck in shitty quarantine zones with limited supplies and no running water. The small amount of survivors that are out in the wilderness are generally washed and well equipped.
maintennance plus after enough years bikes would rust and be useless
Dumb fucking moron. Is there's a sudden decrease in population, there's gonna be a shit ton more bikes lying around. Scrounging for them and such you could always maintain a steady supply of working bikes for an entire lifetime. Plus, you can make changes to them to make them last longer with less maintenance - our designs are built on the assumption you can get a lot of rubber. You can fashion much shittier tyres if you want to but they last longer and don't require rubber.
I would still guess that even simple machining and tooling would be still possible allowing for the construction of new parts. It's way easier than trying to get a car to work without fuel sources.
That's why I think a post-apocalypse socitey would be bike + horse focused.
Same goes for cars but in every zombie movie cars are everywhere even years after the end happened.
you win dumbest poster ITT and thats saying something
When my uncle died he had left his bike in a cold, wet garden shed. It stood there for 9 years.
A month ago I got it out and rode to my neighbours to ask if he had any jumper cables. Didn't need to do shit, tires hadn't even deflated.
The only reasons I think they wouldn't work is
>rusted or damaged chains
>risk of popping tires
>noise
>not as easy to use a melee on
>not as easy to draw a gun
>not able to use anything but a pistol or SMG
>no armor
>not as cool as motorcycles
>cyclists would make the main antagonist look like a girl scout
Ok PrepHole has written the next new apocalypse show. Between bikes, and a world full of rabid wild zombie pitbulls, that's a ratings draw, brother. The show is just men biking away from zombie pitbulls while women stop to say how cute they are, while they get mauled to death.
I bike up to a nature trail and set up camp near a game preserve and go hunting and fishing. I will probably die of intestinal parasites or pneumonia but fuck having to constantly kill zombies and other survivors because I hang around the dilapidated ruins of civilization like an absolute mongoloid dipshit.
sounds like portland
>inner tube goes flat
>chain breaks
>chud wears out
>brakes wear out
You've never actually had to maintain a bike before I see
ive ridden bikes my entire childhood and i literally never had any of those problems except brakes wearing out, which is a nothingburger unless youre doing extremely high speeds
sure anon how many miles did you average a week on your training wheels tell us more
i probably had a few thousand km on my last bike and i never had to do any maintenance on it, except tightening the brakes and switching the front and back wheel (back tire worn out from braking)
if youve never had a flat tire you didnt ride bikes much
obviously i had flat tires, but thats also a nothingburger, which a 12 year old me could fix by myself
Even in the event of all out nuclear war, if you find ONE bike shop or factory, then you're set for parts for life. And you can ride a bike less efficiently or with self-created parts, rather than perfect pritsine parts.
I have 5k miles on my bike and I haven't punctured a wheel in 2 years. Even so, fixing it takes about 20 minutes, less if you have a spare tube on you
They do in The Stand and in the final season of walking dead
I keep thinking a railbike would be really handy
>keep off the road
>faster than walking
>faster than even regular bicycle
until you hit a train
its the apocalypse why would you hit a train? if you found one just pick up your bike walk past it and put it back down
all the trains would still be on the tracks. derailed and stuff or sitting and rusting
I see miles and miles of unused trains every day and it isn't the apocalypse
and? go use another track then, there are miles and miles of them yea?
Not good for stealth.
Station Eleven does this
Best post apocalypse show
world war z
The used bikes in The Stand. Warning, do NOT watch the new version, watch the 90s version, and I really do recommend that one. It's sappy, and has a ton of characters, like any Steven King, but I absolutely loved that miniseries as a teenager.
The optimal choice would probably be a Danish Christiana-style carrier bike.
- Easy maintenance
- No need for gas or electricity
- Silent, won't alert zombies or people like an engine
- Can't tip over
- Good in unsteady terrain where cars can't go
- You can ride it without needing to keep perfect balance
- Can carry a huge amount of stuff or another adult comfortably (who can shoot sitting or kneeling in the front)
- Can be locked but not hot wired
>CAN be fitted with a lithium assist battery if you have access to a generator to recharge it which can basically drive it for you or make hills a breeze
damn that's badass
people would know not to fuck with you
Which do you weigh more, being alive or looking badass while dying?
The latter obviously
terrible choice, those are made for hauling kids and groceries in a city center with no semblance of an incline.
You want a high quality steel frame bike with lots of mount points like a surly touring or cargo bike, not a hipster wagon that wont be feasible without an electric motor
Honk honk! Green voter coming through!
Kill the soifag or the Karen and get yourself a perfect apocalypse bike.
It's probably just harder to film well and doesn't look as good.
Like if you bicycle a lot, you know that it's not always good for talking and stuff compared to walking.
Now if you have to emote and there are bunch of cameras trying to follow. It's just not that great time for anyone
Actually building my apocalypse bicycle atm.
What's your build was thinking of doing the same.
You basically need to find a trusted guy to build it for you. Not a rando, trusted.
Having made something light sturdy customized to my shape no accessory because I'm a twink so I'd be useless on something bulky.
>bicycle chain breaks
>welp, time to throw the whole bike away
>can't ride anywhere anyways because post apocalyptic settings don't have perfectly paved clean roads everywher
>he doesn't know chains are easily changed
>what are mountain bikes and offroad bikes?
Fatfuck American hambeasts, I swear.
burgermind
>he doesn't know chains are easily changed
Oh no, amazon is out of stock of bicycle chains in the post apocalypse. Hopefully they'll be back in stock soon
Please stop being retarded, it's nowhere near as funny as you think it is.
>Chain breaks
How the fuck are you going to pull that off? It's a reinforced steel chain.
>No roads so can't ride a bike
Burger hands typed this post
>>can't ride anywhere anyways because post apocalyptic settings don't have perfectly paved clean roads everywher
hello burger
remember to take your insulin
>t. retard who never rode a bicycle
>changed
Not even that, 99% breaking a chain means breaking a single link, which you can just pop out and make the chain one link shorter, which you won't notice on a chain that's been used for a while.
Also chains can take a lot of shit before they break, unless you got some shartmart brand bike.
This. Bikes are light maintenance. I've had chains fall off, punctures and brakes that do literally nothing, yet the biggest problem I've had with bikes is them getting stolen
Sounds like you don't have a bike problem but a moron problem.
Here we call em abos but yea
Ahh, Austria! G'day mate, let's put some shrimp on the barbie!
>I AM A FAT OBESE AMERICAN WHO HAS NEVER HAD A BIKE
Nice job exposing yourself, retard.
10.chains will last you a life time and weigh next to nothing. I feel like this thread is a bunch of fat Americans arguing against bikes because they don't understand anything about them since they've never ridden one.
>baby chicken or something
That.... that's not a chicken is it?
It's a time honored tradition
Shieeet
That is DEEPLY fucked up. Like, goddamn.
read the article its a negotiation with the parents who are compensated also the fat baby gets a banana after
Still bad.
well yea
fucking colonialists imposing their world order and disrupting local ecologies.
>its ok because they give the baby a banana if he survives
we really didn't use to give a shit huh
Look at that nice man protecting that baby from the crocodile
>When mom's not home
>Contracting for the loan of a chubby, rice-distended, squally infant is a matter of some negotiation with the parents
sides gone
did you lure the black guy into the cage with the chicken?
I doubt a rotting, walking corpse would have the strength to even pull the vehicle fast enough before disintegrating to validate this retarded idea
The TLoU ones at least don't rot, they're magic.
TWD zombies never decay unless the plot needs it and can do virtually anything.
>retarded idea
You are the actual retard, he was asking a question
Yes and I told him why it won't work.
but if twenty zombies are pulling the car, the weight would be distributed evenly among them all and it would probably work
10/10
not if you keep feeding them just enough
I Love You Sarah Jane
Turbo Kid
>burnt out cars blocking the road
>protags have to turn their car around and ride into the obvious ambush
>every single time
>meanwhile bikes can effortlessly move between car wrecks and be lifted over roadblocks
Even in an apocalypse the American's obsession with cars would continue to be their downfall.
OK, let's make a post apocalyptic movie set in the Netherlands, it can be interesting
mutts cities aren't walkable or bicycle friendly
A zombie apocalypse gang using bikes wouldn't be a bad idea when you consider the pros. You can cover a lot of ground in bikes and aren't restricted to using a rapidly deteriorating road net dependant on a non-existent infrastructure.
Sure motorcycles or ATV's would be more pleasant but where do you find enough for 10-20 people and how do you keep them in repair and gassed up, compared to bikes that are everywhere and can use parts from any other bike without a problem.
Holy fuck anon, I thinjk about that every time I see some post-apoc scenario! Bikes would be very useful, sadly, they're not cool for muh movies
out of my way fucking shits real apoc bike coming through
Wtf this thing is actually pretty cheap.
I'm about to cop this for the upcoming nuclear excgange and resource wars.
is it? how much? I had no idea just posted one I liked the look of and seemed practical
Like 3k if you don't get garden gnomeed, probably half that if you look for a used one that someone got for the novelty of it.
nice honestly might get one
what would make anyone think some piece of shit modern fad project would fare better than something tried and tested like a still running puch maxi that has been stored outside and neglected since the 70s?
It's a bike with a 50-75cc honda engine that gets 120 mpg.
It's an electric bike but better, especially after the grid goes down.
don't you want to cover those parts from dust mud foliage and debris
why? just ride through a river to clean it
Who's manufacturing the post apocalypse petrol?
You'll get a year of use before all the fuel turns bad, then you're pedaling with an overweight pushbike.
what petrol? what are you talking about? thats powered by electricity or man power, no gas involved, you can also ditch the entire electric motor rig if you want and it just becomes a really good regular bike
>A primary fuel tank plus the added fuel from two optional red side-mounted fuel tanks will take you 250 to 300 miles without a fill-up
wtf mate you can clearly see the fuel tanks in that picture are you blind?
pls look up the bike you are trying to discuss before you embarrass yourself further, thats a real bike look it up
yes this one
https://motoped.com/survival/
how the fuck cant you clearly see that it's got a combustion engine form that photo?
odd bro
lol you are correct however you can still throw away the entire thing and just have it as a normal bike, but fair enough, didn't actually bother researching that one
Satisfy my curiosity and tell me what you thought those tanks were for, water?
petrol, but I thought the bike had a 3 tier system, so petrol then electricity then man power, discarding the weight of the system before it.
for me, it would be the Chukudu
nice wheels bro
about time
Literally just a very shitty wheelbarrow.
Me on the right
pure sovl
>zombies start piling out of the woods into the road
>they swarm the car and the retards inside
>I gtfo through the woods where the zombies can't follow without tripping and getting stuck
SAYONARA broZ
the black zombies stole them all
is that from your new routine?
moron
Only gays and children ride bicycles
OP, watch Turbo Kid.
Thank me later.
>expending energy peddling instead of using a car, which is also safer is someone starts shooting at you
Yeah bro, use that bike after the apocalypse. Make sure you keep some useful supplies in your bag for me when I kick you off it and end you!
>can hear your car coming from a mile away
>set up pic related
thanks for the supplies bro
>which is also safer is someone starts shooting at you
You retarded or something?
Car go fast, hard to hit. You shoot at angle and bullet not likely go through to person. Get it?
You don't need to hit the person. If they hit your enigne, tyres, gas tank etc., you're fucked.
lol forgot pic
Wouldn't the road condition get so bad that biking is no longer possible??
I have literally never fucking ridden a bike, but whenever I watch movies and shit, the bike chain breaks and they are fucked. Are you all trolling when you say they are indestructible and easily replaceable (in the apocalypse)?
almost every single house in the suburbs will have at least one bike, probably more, also schools, train stations, bike stores etc, yes their are a ridiculous amount of bikes around, and i've never had a broken chain in my life, what is this movie you watched where the bike chain breaks? name one movie just one
everyone rides bikes everywhere from about the age of 5 here and I have never even heard of someone breaking a chain. they jump and get jammed and then you struggle with it for a couple of minutes now and then
yea you MIGHT break it once per thousands of kilometers
you can repair it in 5 minutes or grab another bike
Been riding bikes since I was a kid and 5 days a week for the last 14 years and I've never had chains break, every other issue I could mcguyver my way around long enough to get home and fix it for real.
I challenge anyone to find a single movie that has a bike chain breaking, wtf?
Post apocalypse movies often follow hardened badasses armed to the teeth, and there's no way to not look gay riding a bike
Was it in The Stand?
A guy roars into the empty postapocalyptic highways on a motorcycle, but gets in an accident and is terrified to ride a motorcycle again.
After a few miserable days of walking he realized
>”Wait a minute, I can ride a bike, holy shit I’m an idiot!”
and so he bikes
yes thats the stand but everyone rides bikes in the stand, it just takes Larry longer to figure it out because he's not that bright
Imagine trying to bike 100km whilst half starved and subsisting on whatever you can forage.
Its why horses were so important in the American frontier. Not because they are fast, they aren't, humans actually outpace them over long distances. They can feed themselves on grass during the journey, meaning you don't have to bring provisions for them, and they can carry extra for you. You ride it so effectively burn nothing during the trip compared to 100 calories for 1 mile of walking.
If you lost your horse far out enough in the old west, you'd starve trying to walk back to civilization unless you can hunt/fish/trap enough food during the trip back, which wasn't always reliable nor did everyone have the skills to do so.
bikes have gears, you can totally drone along on a bike while half dead. besides theres all kinds of debilitating injuries and pain you will get from walking and carrying everything on your back.
>Imagine trying to bike 100km
>ride in a day or walk 3 when you have no food
you are so fucking stupid
>caring about looking cool in an apocalypse
This is how you are guaranteed to die.
you ''need'' more?
Imagine pulling up to your tinder date on this
I don't have to imagine
>fixie
Yes
>fixie up hills or anything beyond flat terrain
who willingly tortures themselves like that though?
>torture
do you mean basic exercise?
multi-geared mountain bike is still a better option
yea correct
I think americans don't see it as transportation but only a hobby
Cyclists are all massive fuckin pussy gays so they'd probably be among the first people to be eaten alive like morones.
why would fit people be among the first to get eaten? if anything your fat car ass would be first lmao
>see a hobo walking down the bike lane
>EYYYYYY I'M RIDIN HERE
>he eats your face
>sprints past you at 25mph
nothing personell
I bet in the real apocalypse a gay on a bicycle who doesn't even carry a gun and is always light/mobile enough to run will survive, while the people hoarding equipment will all perish due to being slow and exhausted all the time
The knowledge of fixing bicycle pumps will become a lost art because all the smart people will be killed off
World War Z did it.
yes, we get it chatbot
World War Z has it
Fact, Americans don't bike.
I wish then they wouldn’t always be in the fucking way taking up a whole lane during traffic
People don't think that hard about it. Also it's harder to film people biking and talking as opposed to the simple walking and talking, so I'm sure the director and actors would prefer that.
i don't recommend the game, but the huge maps in 'Day Z' are made a lot more navigable on bicycles, being quiet, cheap to fix and useful on most terrain
Love cycling. Can't wait for it to warm up a bit so I can get back on the saddle.
the smell would be atrocious, and then you've got to catch a zombie too
>find abandoned car
>"haha I'll just take this"
>no key under the sun blinds
>"haha I'll just hotwire it"
>hotwiring modern cars is next to impossible and you don't know how
>"haha I'll just..."
Know what doesn't need a key, hotwiring a battery nor any kind of fuel, bro?
Nigs in the Midwest have been stealing new Kias and Hyundais like crazy
I don't want to have to put up with a Black just to be able to hotwire cars, anon.
yea they steal the keys, they aren't hotwiring fuck all
This is like a scene from a zombie movie that could never be made today.
Two prison inmates in orange jumpsuits are running down a road, followed by zombies. They jump into a jeep and one of them starts checking everywhere for the keys"
>White guy: "What the hell are you doing man, I thought you said you could hotwire any car!?"
>Black guy: "Yo I said I could STEAL any car! I don't think holding a gun to these dude's heads is gonna make them fork over the keys!"
>*Zombie slams on window*
>Black guy: "But you sure as hell is welcome to step out and try!"
Valid point, OP.
dubs of truth
you may have ruined most post-apocalypse movies for me.
>reads the thread.
wtf, have amerifats stopped riding bikes or something?
its baffling, like 1/2 the posters ITT have never even just ridden a bike around their local park before
This honestly bothers me a lot. I remember there was that show about the world losing all electricity and then everyone went back to riding horses everywhere. No bikes, no skateboards, no scooters, those all just vanished inexplicably. Took me completely out of the show.
>take a horse instead of a bike
>your horse gets bitten
How do you rate your chances against 1000 pounds of undead horse with a brain the size of a grapefruit?
They would be able to dump expositions into the viewers if they ride bicycles
My biggest takeaway from this thread is that there is a shocking amount of people that have never ridden a bike.
I thought that was something that everyone knew how to do.
I can provide one really great reason: No societal safety net.
Bikes are great, reliable, easy travel, and easy to fix if they break, but they also afford you literally zero protection in an accident. When cell phones and ambulances are a thing, that's no big deal, but in a post-apocalyptic setting, not only are neither of those things available, but all the other benefits of civilization (sanitation, road repair, etc.) are gone and the infrastructure is slowly falling apart all around you. You'd have to be constantly reminding yourself to take it slow and cautious because around the next curve could be a wrecked vehicle, and even something as innocuous as a small pile of trash in the road could cause a tumble. The temptation to throw caution to the wind and pick up some time-saving downhill speed would be ever-present, so while walking is slower and more effort, it's also nearly impossible to incapacitate yourself while doing it. The same is not true of a bicycle, even if it's as relatively minor a thing as a broken arm. In a post-apocalyptic setting, such an injury, along with the road rash, is a potential life-ender.
This is why Daryl riding fucking motorcycles around in TWD is doubly stupid - noisy *and* dangerous.
>but they also afford you literally zero protection in an accident
Which isn't really going to be a problem considering there will be no cars on the road, and the accidents you can get in on a bike by yourself are minor as long as you don't try to fuck yourself up.
are you fucking retarded? have you ever ridden a bike? there is exactly 0% chance you will ever hit a static object on a bike
I rode them all through my teens. I was once powering up a fairly steep hill at probably no more than 5-7 mph when my foot slipped off the pedal, causing me to lose control and crash. The first thing to hit the pavement was my left elbow. Nothing was broken, but it damaged the ulna nerve and gave me a significant roadburn. Pavement wasn't exactly top-notch either, so my arm looked a bit like it had been subjected to a cheese grater. I'm drawing on that experience and applying it to a post-apoc scenario. It's real easy for me to imagine how such an injury could kill you without access to antibiotics. I still ride, but it's with a lot more respect for how bad you can fuck yourself up on a bicycle. It only takes once. At least I got a cool-looking scar out of it.
this is the most red*it post i read since the start of the year
its your own fault you are an idiot, not anyone elses
lol
>I did myself a spill as a kid and did me a heckin frightening
please tell me not all burgers are like this, at least some of you know how to ride a bike right...right?
>be burger
>ride a bike for the first time
>hit a water hydrant
>die of a heart attack
do you often stab yourself with a spoon when you eat?
>uni-fliz part 3 revenge of the zombie
nice but you need 4 to maintain balance and a decent speed
https://voca.ro/1k4Kdk9ZXVPK