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Discussion starter · #24 ·
Are you guys really serious? 😳
I don't even have a biddy bag packed.
laugh I wouldn't worry too much over it. Our TWs (or most any motorcycle/scooter) would be cheap transportation around our regions should the fuel prices skyrocket. Here reg. gas is $3.19.9 this morning. Not great. Not too bad, either. But chatter is that oil could go to $140bbl or even higher due to this mess in the ME. Thinking about ordering another Rotopax.
 
laugh I wouldn't worry too much over it. Our TWs (or most any motorcycle/scooter) would be cheap transportation around our regions should the fuel prices skyrocket. Here reg. gas is $3.19.9 this morning. Not great. Not too bad, either. But chatter is that oil could go to $140bbl or even higher due to this mess in the ME. Thinking about ordering another Rotopax.
And THAT is what the TW, or the Trail 125, or PCX, are all good for.

If the spigot gets turned off, but life is otherwise orderly. It's a way to get to the butcher, the baker, the relief-package maker, on minimal gas.

If the Big One goes down; or if we have Mogadishu-style civil war, block-by-block...well, if you're in the resistance and running messages, the TW will be useful. Otherwise, we're all gonna hunker down.

The bugout bag better be light, and your destination better be on one tank of gas. Because when the gas is gone, it's shoe-leather time.
 
I think you guys have been watching way too much Walking Dead....o_O:alien:👹

Being in the USCG you are always prepared for the unexpected. Always ready, Always there. - but damn, you guys make me look like a nonchalant. If I had to Bug Out, it would not be on my TW, it would probably be on my Tracer or even the Majesty scooter for that matter. Both fast and go much further and carry way more.

Gun rack on the scooter - Now I have a project.
 
If I had to Bug Out, it would not be on my TW, it would probably be on my Tracer or even the Majesty scooter for that matter. Both fast and go much further and carry way more.
It all depends. It might make more sense to bug out by car. Or by bicycle.

Or even, to stay put.

I would posit, though, that a dual-sport would make more sense once the zombies start putting up roadblocks. Your scooter is gonna be limited by the shoulder of the road. In a crunch, you can go cross-country on a TW, or any enduro.

You won't be able to outrun a chase car, but you can go where no pursuit rig can. Plus, it's light enough to get inside, to hide or for the night.

The danger, once the zombies organize, will be traps - deadfalls on the roads, or piano wire strung across roads or trails. Going slow would be better for you.

So would setting up something to cut choke wire in front of you. Allied jeeps used to have a knife or bar upright on the hood, to break choke wires before they got to the passengers in the jeep - which would often be traveling with the windshield down. So...a brush-hog blade set vertically up, from the axle to about six feet up...maybe?
 
Discussion starter · #32 ·
To answer Loghousenut's question, 9mm. Its still cheaper than the others. Its still readily available. There are a lot of quality handguns available that aren't likely to fail you. Check out Palmetto State Armory's "Dagger". Its a Glock 19 Gen. 3 clone but $200 cheaper. I have two and like them better than my Glock.
I have two 'Get Home Bags" in my truck should I get stuck out someplace and delayed returning home. Last Winter an entire section of I95 in Virginia was shut down after a surprise snow storm. Vehicles and their occupants had to spend a very cold night out on the road... no food, no water, no extra warm clothes. I also carry a satellite phone.
I'm old and have a bad attitude so I believe I will be sticking should things get ugly. I saw a meme yesterday with a guy saying that he loves coffee, hunting, fishing, and likes about four people. I can relate.
 
The Zombie Apocalypse Bike fantasy doesn't stand up to the test of reality. Enjoy the fantasy but acknowledge it for what is is...a fantasy.
Last night when it was evacuation time never considered firing up the TWs so wife & I could flee a wildifire together leaving home and pets behind. Reality was 2 trucks needed to take cats, cages , dogs and provisions to endure several dayson our own as shelters don't take pets.
In a serious disaster I'm not going to ride away and try to survive by taking stuff from others by force, too many will be trying to invade my sanctuary to take over my stuff. More than one of you have stated that if the baloon ever goes up the're coming to my place. One can't carry very much fire power on a bike and I can probably pick off any zombies on bikes coming my way.
 
Discussion starter · #34 ·
The Zombie Apocalypse Bike fantasy doesn't stand up to the test of reality. Enjoy the fantasy but acknowledge it for what is is...a fantasy.
Last night when it was evacuation time never considered firing up the TWs so wife & I could flee a wildifire together leaving home and pets behind. Reality was 2 trucks needed to take cats, cages , dogs and provisions to endure several dayson our own as shelters don't take pets.
In a serious disaster I'm not going to ride away and try to survive by taking stuff from others by force, too many will be trying to invade my sanctuary to take over my stuff. More than one of you have stated that if the baloon ever goes up the're coming to my place. One can't carry very much fire power on a bike and I can probably pick off any zombies on bikes coming my way.
I think the entire bug out 'thing' is more fantasy than reality regardless of vehicle. Being out on the road just makes you a target. If one's location is that tenuous then they should have already re-located to a safer area from whatever they envision occurring. The TW, or any motorcycle or scooter, to me is just another tool in the tool box. Its cheap transportation for running errands and short trips should fuel costs become outrageous, which I think they will. In the meantime its just fun riding it, and having a bit of fun is a good thing!
 
That fresh meat delivery idea might work like the Donner Party of local fame. However they are my TW friends, getting old with meat is likely a little dry and stringy. Couldn't deny them acces to fish, fowl, red meat and fresh water in exchange for a promise to help repel other boarders. Besides Donner Party after action report showed that survival rates for family groups was much higher than that for the more solitary members so we should form a cooperative tribe. Interesting that the migrating group's leader, George Donner, was the first to be eaten. Just don't try to eat me!
 
I've spent most of my life acting in a way that makes people think that I am a survivor. The guys at work were having a lunchroom discussion about sh hitting the fan and one of the guys popped up with the notion that if he was stranded on a desert island he'd want to be trapped there with me because he knew that Id know what to do to survive.

One of the older guys said "Rick, Ron would be eating your liver and making jerky out of your butt cheeks as soon as the coconuts and mangoes were all gone".
 
If it gets that bad, the buzzards will starve because all the road kill will find its way onto BBQ grills. :p
A lot of zombies will be disappearing, too.

Not the Donner Party way. No...I have given some thought to this.

Nobody want to have Grandma for supper. Thanks...I'll pass.

But there is something we ALL love....BACON!

Find a way get and raise PIGS.

Pigs will eat anything. Windfall apples...garbage...weeds and brush...

old shoe leather...roadkill...stray zombies...even might eat the slug buried deep within.

Perfect way to recycle the inconvenient. Not so efficient; I once had a farmer tell me, it took four pounds of grain for one pound of gain...of flesh growth, cattle or hogs...

I wonder if that's true of zombies, too. Take a lot of 9mm slugs to keep the hogs fat...
 
I think the entire bug out 'thing' is more fantasy than reality regardless of vehicle. Being out on the road just makes you a target. If one's location is that tenuous then they should have already re-located to a safer area from whatever they envision occurring. The TW, or any motorcycle or scooter, to me is just another tool in the tool box. Its cheap transportation for running errands and short trips should fuel costs become outrageous, which I think they will. In the meantime its just fun riding it, and having a bit of fun is a good thing!
You're right, it's mostly a fantasy. But for some of us, it makes us a bit uneasy about our situation.

I live in an apartment; in what is a decidedly urban zone. In the mountains; it's a condensed town, only about four miles across...but we have about 80,000 people here.

That is a lot, when the Albertson's runs out of Hot Pockets and Hungry-Man dinners.

The obvious solution is to get off my dead ___ and BUY some land. Well...even ignoring the exploding PRICES of raw Montana land, the question becomes, "Where?"

As far away from people as possible? That sounds good. What about AFTER? If we have this sort of Apocalypse Now scenario...when the dust settles and the zombies are one with the Earf...there ain't gonna be no more Mobilgas.

Your world is going to compress a bit. Your workable horizons will condense to what you can cover in half a day, on the soles of your busted-up shoes.

Horses are the obvious answer. Well, horses don't breed that fast, and meantime, a lot of zombies and other mindless types will have tried horse meat, to tied themselves over. Horses are gonna be more spendy than F-250s are, now.

So. Closer to town, or far away as possible.

And what if the Apocalypse isn't what you anticipate? You expect a Night-Of-The-Living-Dead, with crazed city zombies coming at you; and instead, Ding Jong Un launches one of his glow-in-the-dark toys, with the aim of hitting the ICBM missile silo not far from here.

And he misses, but not by much. So my ramshackle hut is blown away and I'm lethally irradiated. Whereas, back here in the Big City (Montana-style big city) I could have taken shelter in any of a hundred or so concrete structures, and missed 80 percent of the radiation.

And then, after. Emergency rations, given out in populated areas. Nobody's gonna be loading a horse wagon to trundle a pallet of MREs to me, out in the country.

And on and on. So...since I can't know...I'll just leave it to Providence.

If I bug out, it will probably be with the truck, with my bug-out bags, with a couple of cases of MREs, and some water. Haven't decided where yet, but there are a couple of ghost towns not that far away...ready-made structures, if not so comfortable, at this point...
 
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