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?

  • 7bicycles [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I guess it’s also largely because you can just use cars in most situations. They offer more protection, storage space, and speed, while using less of your own energy (food). [...] Bikes don’t work when everything is so far apart like in the US.

    I mean if I stick with The Last of Us example, Joel and Ellie hoof it from coast to coast over a year, many times on foot. That's sort of my issue. Of course you'd take a car (and of course disbelief can be suspended about magic fuel with no shelf life) but like just toss two bikes in the back of your pickup truck.

    This gets even more egregious when it comes to fucking horses. You have no cars or ability to keep them running, you revert back to horses?