JFD
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Wouldn't be a bike!
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In a post-apocalyptic world, what is your ride?
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I always think of it going when going through the FOTC picturing the Nazi look-a-likes using horses to pull the Coke truck out of the ditch and then panicking when the bottles pop.
Mad Mike
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I'd ride my SP125 with my alcohol fuel still strapped to the rear carrier.
The movie was inspired by a short story published in Road & Track magazine in 1973 called “A Nice Morning Drive.”
You can read it here:
A Nice Morning Drive : How-To Library : The MG Experience
Library Article: Fiction piece from Road & Track -- November 1973, pp.148-150 at The MG Experience
It also inspired the lyrics to the song Red Barchetta written by our own Neil Peart, drummer and BMW GS rider.
Electric anything.
Quiet, so doesn't attract unwanted attention.
Envisioned battery issues are far overblown - will last decades unless abused. Solar panels far easier to find/acquire and utilize versus anything needed to make even ethanol.
Reliable. Far fewer moving parts.
Quiet, so doesn't attract unwanted attention.
Envisioned battery issues are far overblown - will last decades unless abused. Solar panels far easier to find/acquire and utilize versus anything needed to make even ethanol.
Reliable. Far fewer moving parts.
So when does this happen, next Thursday? 
How long do solar panels last? Are they easily repaired?
25-30 years in 24/7 exposure, and that’s just before reduced output becomes an issue - they’ll still work.
Decades more if only exposed when needed.
Repair is moot in an apocalyptic scenario. Just get more. They’re everywhere if you know where to look. They wouldn’t even be on the radar of probably 80% of survivors.
Anyone with a moderate understanding of electricity can wire them up in series for DC needs, or use an inverter for AC needs. They’re really quite simple.
Anyone with a moderate understanding of electricity can wire them up in series for DC needs, or use an inverter for AC needs. They’re really quite simple.
Roadghost
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If you could get a lion battery to last, it would be the obvious choice. Sellers are quick to pretend they "only lose 1% capacity per year" and other such nonsense. But the real world has people running them down too far, waiting before recharging, sitting on chargers for too long etc. The result is cell phones that are replaced by their 5th year. A lot of people I know with hybrid electric cars have replaced their batteries by the 5th year. Of course they will all say they followed manufacturers instructions, but whose to say they did? So, you get into a dystopian world where you're cobbling together solar panels for perfect wattage and expecting 10,000 charges. Since we're pretending, I suppose we could pretend.
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Sigh.
Comparing the batteries in a cellphone to any EV i apples and oranges for many, many reasons.
Hybrid electric cars do not need batteries every 5 years anymore. At least since the era of the very first horribly engineered Honda Civic hybrids.
EV battery longevity is just fine on anything made in the last 10 years. I OWN a 9+ year old EV. The battery still gets every KM it was rated for the day it rolled out of the factory with even at 150,000KM.
And basic electric wiring of a few solar panels and an inverter isn’t hard. Easier than making your own fuel, that’s for sure. The smart will survive. The stupid will quickly die.
Anyhow, In our theoretical scenario here, I’ll still take anything electric. Everyone else’s can ride their loud “doom bikes”, painstakingly try to distill their own fuel over and over again, source lubricants, and then risk getting shot when you announce to a 10 square kilometer radius exactly where you are every time you start it.
Comparing the batteries in a cellphone to any EV i apples and oranges for many, many reasons.
Hybrid electric cars do not need batteries every 5 years anymore. At least since the era of the very first horribly engineered Honda Civic hybrids.
EV battery longevity is just fine on anything made in the last 10 years. I OWN a 9+ year old EV. The battery still gets every KM it was rated for the day it rolled out of the factory with even at 150,000KM.
And basic electric wiring of a few solar panels and an inverter isn’t hard. Easier than making your own fuel, that’s for sure. The smart will survive. The stupid will quickly die.
Anyhow, In our theoretical scenario here, I’ll still take anything electric. Everyone else’s can ride their loud “doom bikes”, painstakingly try to distill their own fuel over and over again, source lubricants, and then risk getting shot when you announce to a 10 square kilometer radius exactly where you are every time you start it.
Ask a "Walking Dead" question, expect tongue in cheek answers.
I couldn't quite imagine the people that tend to currently own ebikes being the first to conceive of raiding their dealerships for batteries.
Not because of the overwhelming use of them by people that otherwise have trouble affording a car or have suspended licenses, since, you know, that's obviously a stereotype.
Myself, I would mark ideal as something as fuel efficient as can be with tires and ground clearance to encumber obstacles with reasonable ease. Quiet and as minimal (technologically especially) as can get the job done.
I'd say klr650 for sake of availability, with as many realities as makes it fun kept in the mix.
Not because of the overwhelming use of them by people that otherwise have trouble affording a car or have suspended licenses, since, you know, that's obviously a stereotype.
Myself, I would mark ideal as something as fuel efficient as can be with tires and ground clearance to encumber obstacles with reasonable ease. Quiet and as minimal (technologically especially) as can get the job done.
I'd say klr650 for sake of availability, with as many realities as makes it fun kept in the mix.
Yeah, you're right of course. Though you also err on a lack of imagination
Trials
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Sails maybe if you are a flat lander.
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