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At least if you have a donkey you can shout your defiance and charge the windmills.
So we are doing the SHTF transportation thing again? Where are we going with the roads shut down and travel bans in place anyway? Just a few months ago people were being charged 1,000 pounds for trips to the supermarket outside their sector. Remember that? I remember complaints on here about relatives and close friends being forced to pay up. But that was not SHTF, was it? SHTF is complete freedom and absence of restraint, right? Utopia, go where you want, do what you want, TPTB have all died!
Well, if we are allowed to travel in this imaginary post SHTF world, I have three motorbikes/scooters that get at least 25m/L so I can run them from the dregs of abandoned vehicles for years.
They are quite sturdy and rugged and I do not have to pedal them up hill.
Then I have the Himalayan, which was designed to tractor over rough broken pavement, run on second rate fuel and carry a reasonable load of cargo. It has a range of 300 miles on a tank.
Amazing as it seems, any of my motor bikes is cheaper than a serious E-bike and less than most specialty road or mountain bikes.
You can pick up a good 50cc scooter for less than a thousand pounds. It will carry a 125K load at 30mph for more than 100 miles on a single tank of fuel. It you had your drivers license before year 2000 you do not even need a motorcycle permit or CBT.
My little 50cc will do better than the normally advertised specs but I am in the states and I have messed with the engineering on mine. I find it very adequate for runs to the lake for fishing and trips to the local shops now that the weather has moderated. That has finally happened in the past week.
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as far as I am concerned a Donkey would be for moving stuff about locally not bugging out or going very far.
post SHTF I dont know where people think they are going, any travel would be dangerous as we dont know where other people are and what their intentions, I will have enough to do where I am without going anywhere.
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It’s alright for some of us on here BP we have room and means but poor old Pete would be stuffed along with many others on here ! A bike seems the more sensible options for the majority .....Pete start working out pal !
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isnt that what prepping is about, improving ones situation should a SHTF situation arise.
I've been doing this stuff in one form or another most of my adult life.
most people who live in the big cities are going to be stuffed once TSHTF.
plan, plan and then plan some more.
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(4 May 2022, 13:19)Pete Grey Wrote: (4 May 2022, 09:37)Straight Shooter Wrote: It’s alright for some of us on here BP we have room and means but poor old Pete would be stuffed along with many others on here ! A bike seems the more sensible options for the majority .....Pete start working out pal !
At seventy chuffin eight dream on.
we are as old, or as young, as we feel, I've known people that were old at 50, my father for instance, but thats Straight's for you.
I'm not that much younger than you are Pete but that dosent stop me trying.
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