How often do you consume some post-apocalyptic media and people slog it on empty highways or whatever for miles and miles on foot or revert back to fucking horses for some reason? Like I can suspend my disbelief that somehow there's just shittons of fuel laying around everywhere that magically doesn't spoil for decades but even then there's so many scenes where the characters are struggling to walk a distance or take forever and you could literally do it in a quarter of the time on a bike.
They're comparably easy to fix, they don't require keeping a whole ass horse alive, they're fairly abundant everywhere and the fuel is you. It just fucks with my disbelief. What, do these people walk through what remains of the suburbs, looting houses for supplies and just ignore every bike they see?
Rule of Cool maybe?
I guess people don't consider bikes cool because we can't destroy the environment enough with them
I mean Premium Rush and Quicksilver exist and they did okay, I guess? I can even understand it from gameplay perspective if we're talking video games because the map scaling gets weird, but like - you walk through town after town in the Last of Us and complain about your weary, hard way and it's just...pick up a fucking bicycle you morons. Teach Ellie, it takes half a day, it saves you weeks of travel.
And then they arrive in their brothers compound which is doing okay for the apocalypse, allthough certainly not great, but everybody there is apparently fully onboard with the luxury of a fucking horse stable. The roads are okay! You might have to heave your bike over a log or something but jesus fucking christ eat the food instead of giving it to the dumb horses.