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You’re right, it’s a no brainer. And to add: It’s a very common critic of all post apocalyptic scenarios that noone considers to use bikes which are rugged enough to be used especially in such circumstances.
In The Stand, one of the characters rode a motorcycle but then stopped because he kept having visions of crashing and dying alone in a ditch (there was also a bunch of other psychological trauma involved). He walks for hundreds of miles after ditching his motorcycle and then one day he suddenly stops and thinks “why the fuck haven’t I been riding a bicycle?!” And then just laughs at himself.
That is hilarious, it is definitely easy to forget bicycles are anything more than toys, we were all raised in car-brained societies to basically see them as children’s toys (not that children have anywhere to ride them Stranger Things style in the modern hellscape of car infrastructure that is aggressively hostile towards children riding bicycles).
You’re right, it’s a no brainer. And to add: It’s a very common critic of all post apocalyptic scenarios that noone considers to use bikes which are rugged enough to be used especially in such circumstances.
In The Stand, one of the characters rode a motorcycle but then stopped because he kept having visions of crashing and dying alone in a ditch (there was also a bunch of other psychological trauma involved). He walks for hundreds of miles after ditching his motorcycle and then one day he suddenly stops and thinks “why the fuck haven’t I been riding a bicycle?!” And then just laughs at himself.
That is hilarious, it is definitely easy to forget bicycles are anything more than toys, we were all raised in car-brained societies to basically see them as children’s toys (not that children have anywhere to ride them Stranger Things style in the modern hellscape of car infrastructure that is aggressively hostile towards children riding bicycles).