Bikes, a thread reborn

[Mortblanc]

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.