Why bicycles are better than cars in the apocalypse
When the world starts burning down in front of you, the last thing you want is to be stuck in traffic, idling away your expensive gasoline, waiting for the fallout to reach your rear tires. Running around doesn't seem like a good idea either. Unless you're the star of the treadmill, running around the wasteland trying to haul gear, supplies and foraged foods in your very expensive military grade backpack, you're going to need a functional set of wheels. Combustion powered vehicles are out because the simple fact is, there won't be any gasoline to go around. Sure you could run your own diesel fuel lab in the backyard but eventually even the sunflower oil will be gone and pressing new oil is just a waste of precious resources that are better used as sustenance rather than propellant. Every apocalypse-preppers wet dream is running around through the wasteland on a tricked out motorcycle or a zombie ready truck but the reality is much less appealing and sexy than looking ba...