I often hear echoed for SHTF "buy a bike" but I see almost no discussion here on what to look for in a good bi/k/e. I've been looking at folding bikes recently. If its a situation where you need to get out, then the freeway is going to be packed with unprepared normalfags. So keep this in the vehicle until you either run out of gas or get stuck in traffic, then ditch the vehicle for the bike. Then if you end up being able to catch a ride later on, it can be folded back down when they don't have a handy bike rack to store it, so you don't leave it behind.

I was also looking at electric bikes, but I wouldn't go near that unless I had some way of reliably charging it.

>>619663

Depends on the size of the bag and your form. If it's a big BO bag, you'd want a bike rack to mount it to. If your wearing a loaded chest rig or plate carrier you'd definitely want to mount it to a rack. Also have to think about where you're gonna keep your rifle.

>>622072

I actually bought that folding bike since I posed the original question >>619661 it's breddy gud.

It's all about WHAT your preparing for. Want something to hop on the road and pedal down the freeway? A single speed will be fine. But being so far in the open begs the question of why you would want noise reduction. If you want to be quiet on a multi-gear, just stay in a middle gear and pedal slowly. And I hope you live in a flat area, because once you try rucking actual gear on a rack I was hauling ~10 pounds in my test rides you are going to want those extra gears

As far as fixing bikes go, I'd value picking bikes with universal parts over abstaining from complex bikes from fear of breakage. A 200 dollar walmart bike usually has rivets and plastic chink shit parts that are hard to replace. Once you get to 500+, parts are as interchangable as an AR's parts. But even as difficult as Walmart bikes are, a bike is overall NOT a complex machine to fix. Every town has a walmart, and every walmart has a bike section packed with basic parts for replacement. Most towns have bike shops. Like 1/3 of people in the US have at least one bike in their house. Finding bike parts is way easier than finding model specific car parts.

Buy and own tires for what you anticipate your environment will be. Road riding takes more energy on fat mountain tires, and rough trails or cross country will blow out road tires. And practice moving 50+ pounds on a bike

>>622073

All well and good until you stop being able to power your e-bike. Again, it's about WHAT your preparing for. I hope that motorcycle doesn't have any electronic components or you'll be nearly as fucked as all the out-of-shape normalfags. I saw a guy that had a motorcycle AND bicycle packed in a kitted out van. That's the dream setup right there.