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The Walking Dead has a bicycle for I think two initial episodes but bicycles would run out of consumables (tires/inner tubes/chains/cables) though it might be b
by stevenwoo 6y ago
The Walking Dead has a bicycle for I think two initial episodes but bicycles would run out of consumables (tires/inner tubes/chains/cables) though it might be better situation than automobiles running out of non spoiled gasoline in a year once industrialized manufacturing stops. The rubber in tires/tubes can rot/degrade with uv exposure and cables rust. Different use case from post apocalypse but I have to replace multiple chains/cables/tires per year on multiple bikes.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoAnd that's different from cars, how? I think cars have 100X the moving parts, and 100X the issue. Bikes would outlast cars by a decade, minimum.
- stevenwoo 6y agoMy bicycle tires cost almost as much as car tires and last 20-30 times less miles than car tires (2000-3000 versus 60000 or so). Run of the mill bicycles rely pretty heavily on industrialized production. It's all speculative but regularly used bicycles would be fairly useless after a few years due to wear and tear and lack of replacement parts - the specialized parts could not be cobbled together from scrap (unless one lived in Japan next to an old Shimano factory or Italy next to Campagnolo). If only used sparingly, yes, then the bicycles would last a long time unlike gasoline, but if one has to restrict one's use, might as well go back to using horses.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoOne would get inventive (just as auto drivers would have to). Hard rubber tires, perhaps made from strips of auto tires (!)