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why are bicycles nonexistant on post-apocalyptic stories? Bikes are present (and maybe even integral to) some post-apocalyptic films like, Testament, Turbo Kid
by dfxm12 6y ago
why are bicycles nonexistant on post-apocalyptic stories?
Bikes are present (and maybe even integral to) some post-apocalyptic films like, Testament, Turbo Kid, The Stand. There are some media with no gas powered cars, like Adventure Time, and probably more.
However, for better or worse, Mad Max set the trope that the fight for fuel is often an interesting conflict. It's easy for a gas hungry viewing public to understand, at least!
- jansan 6y agoYeah, Max Max would certainly have a different feel to it if he rode a folding bicycle throughout the movie.
- floren 6y agoShare The Road Warrior
- dfxm12 6y agoOn the flip side, bikes might have a different feel to them if they were the transportation of choice of action heroes. Action stars don't do cool things, they make things cool. I imagine Aston Martin sales will bump up after the next Bond film gets released. What if Bond got around town in a Bianchi?
- blackrock 6y agoOne thing I never understood about Mad Max, is where did they get the gasoline for their spiked-up cars from? Plot hole.
- stevenwoo 6y agoThere’s a running refinery in several of the films that is a stronghold for a clan usually. It’s better than the Walking Dead Tv show having cars run for years after industry shuts down , or they siphon gas from some rusted piece of junk.
- blackrock 6y agoHah. So in this Mad Max world, the local clan employs a petroleum refining engineer. Which now begs the question: where did they get the oil from, to feed into their refineries.
- stevenwoo 6y agoThat is a good question, maybe they had some reserve of local supplies like those cylindrical tanks we see near most refineries in the East Bay or East Texas, and the usage would be pretty low because there's only the clan cars and trading to think about, also, Australia does have some petroleum reserves so we could pretend they were near some of the last active wells. :)