Imagine The Walking Dead started in 50 years from now. The way things are going now, picture this scenario:
>A survivor is walking down a lonesome road.
>They arive at a small resort and there’s a car covered in dust and dirt in the parking lot.
>They approach the car and check whether it still has some bio fuel left in the tank.
>Still plenty.
>They look around spotting a decayed body close by.
>They search the body and are lucky to find a ‘keyless’ key belonging to the car.
>There are no door handles and the battery inside the key corroded away.
>They break the glass and open the door from the inside.
>Finally inside, there’s still no way to start the engine without the key.
>They have an idea.
>The digital wrist watch on the body should have the same battery as the key.
>After a bit of tinkering with some tools they get the key working again.
>They press the ignition button.
>The displays light up but the engine remains quiet.
>The displays show error messages:
ERROR CODE: ND47089
Tire pressure sensor subscription expired
Please schuedule service or enter payment information
Engine start failed
>MFW
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Bikes are the apocalypse ideal vehicle. They are immensely underrated on apocalyptic media.
LouNeko@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Or just use Heelys like a normal person.
blueamigafan@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Omg just imagine the war boys from fury road gracefully gliding down the road screaming ‘witness me’ 😂
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Bikes have a limited lifespan in the sense that tires wear and degrade over time. Other parts can be replaced, repaired, welded. But tires will degrade within 2-5 years even when unused, depending on exposure to the elements.
Still much better than gasoline’s fast degradation of 3-6 months of course.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I have rode the bike I had when I was a kid several decades ago. The tires themselves were good just had to change the air chambers.
Maybe they were not good for profesional cycling but for moving around I didn’t notice anything wrong with them.
blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
You should read the book “Wolf and Iron”
kender242@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Nemesis Games (Expanse Series) had bicycles. Not the strongest book in the series but Amos and Peaches learned how well bikes worked when the shit hit the fans. Very thoughtful authors.
thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
The game Generation Zero got it
5too@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This was Amos’s preferred (planetside) ride for a while in The Expanse!
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Lol check out modern bikes with electric shifters.
Flemmy@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Man those electric stuntbikes with a screen are hot asf. But they are dangerous.