>Roads were absolutely, definitely the issue, and the article slides that in while pretending to refute it - bicycles 'called for improved roads' not because th

>Roads were absolutely, definitely the issue, and the article slides that in while pretending to refute it - bicycles 'called for improved roads' not because they didn't need them, but because they did. Ever try to take a beater bike out on a rough trail with washouts and rocks? Its murder on the rider and the bike. I don't know about that. I pretty much grew up only having crappy second hand bikes and spent more time riding through forests and trails than streets. There was a couple summers where pretty much every day was wake up, get on yhe bike, meet my cousins and friends and spend all day riding through the forest. I never had an actual mountain bike, or even bikes with working brakes sometimes, i've taken bmx's through mountain trails, bikes where the chain pops off every half hour, some pretty sketchy bikes. Street riding actually freaks me out more. I don't like being on roads and sharing lanes with cars. Give me a rough forest trail on a bike any day over that. >Here's a more interesting question: why are bicycles nonexistant on post-apocalyptic stories? Bikes are pretty handy in Cataclysm DDA for town raids. I guess a logical, in universe reason could be the extra calories spent on riding a bike wouldn't be worth burning in an environment where food is scarce and conditions may be brutal.