On Mon, 09 Jul 2018 10:46:54 -0700, Jeff Liebermann
wrote:

So, there's the problem. All you need to do is package the "prepper
bike", "survival bicycle", "forest bike", "zombie chaser", or
whatever, into something that can be marketed to those with more money
than good sense. I think the first step should be to give it a better
name. As I recall, before "mountain bike" became the de facto
standard, Bicycling magazine had a contest for a suitable name, which
attracted quite a bit of (free) attention. Starting a fad would also
be helpful. How about wrapping knobby tires with chicken wire or wire
mesh to create "armored" tires suitable for riding through the forest
off of the trails? I'm salivating at the possibilities here (or was
it the coffee)? Anyway, if you need a swift kick in the imagination,
you know whom to ask.

I just realized that such a "prepper bicycle" will spend 99.999999% of
its useful life slowly rusting away in a garage awaiting the zombie
apocalypse or when the SHTF, when thousands of riders will emerge from
hiding and attack. Therefore, it is not necessary that a prepper
bicycle be efficient, light weight, or even comfortable. It merely
needs to be easy to store, quickly to deploy, and ready to ride. This
is quite different from a traditional bicycle, where the owner rides
the bicycle on an irregular basis. I gotta think about this more
carefully.

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