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eBikes would be best vehicle during apocalypse, right?
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I agree that bicycles generally are the vehicle of choice for a post-apocalypse scenario, but I'm not convinced an eBike specifically would be the ideal choice.
Horses can carry more than bicycles, are faster over short distances, better off road, require no spare parts, and run on grass.
IIRC a horse with a broken leg is not self-repairing but beyond repair.
Any vehicle that's beyond repair is beyond repair.
The threshold to reach there is different. I can replace my bicycle rim and tyre when it's mangled, i can't replace horse leg when it's broken.
What I'm saying is that horses with broken legs - and they break relatively easily - never heal fully, hence people shooting racehorses after they fall even once.
Not that I don't think it is cruel, mind you.
Be cruel not to shoot them. The pain of the initial surgery aside, you have to suspend the animal in a sling the whole time it's healing. Can't do that with a massive herbivore because their guts get impacted. That's a lot of food and no walking to keep the shit flowing.
But you can still use the parts on other cars...
Horses, however, have high "emissions", in a manner of speaking. :)
Quite insightful! I wonder if the sheer number of bicycles compared to horses would make bicycles more like passenger cars, and horses like light trucks?
Oxcarts would be heavy trucks, then.