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  • #152
    degrassinoel
    Registered Users Posts: 10,731 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    norrie rugger wrote: »
    A Bicycle does not really count as it is not that fast and provides zero protection.

    Stealth is the best protection!


  • #153
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    degrassinoel wrote: »
    Stealth is the best protection!

    Being out of reach and having a boom stick is the best protection.

    A bicycle is only stealthy in relation to noise, you are still on the open streets and highly visible


  • #154
    degrassinoel
    Registered Users Posts: 10,731 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    visable but without making any noise, no noise means no attention. besides, fueling a car is a lot harder than fixing a puncture on a bicycle.


  • #155
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    degrassinoel wrote: »
    visable but without making any noise, no noise means no attention. besides, fueling a car is a lot harder than fixing a puncture on a bicycle.

    What about storage/shelter/protection (when you are spotted)/Long range mobility/Speed/Offence?


  • #156
    degrassinoel
    Registered Users Posts: 10,731 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    norrie rugger wrote: »
    What about storage/shelter/protection (when you are spotted)/Long range mobility/Speed/Offence?

    storage? backpack, sellotape stuff on the bike.
    shelter - dont need any on a bike, it's lightweight enough to throw over a wall while you make a dash for a treehouse.
    protection - stealth: avoiding a confrontation is twice the armor you're ever going to need.
    long range mobility - your body is your fuel, travel as much or as little as you want without raising much attention. 2 minutes cycling at an easy pace is enough to take you out of earshot, nevermind sight. The perfect reconnaissance vehicle.

    speed - whatever you can handle yourself. You dont need a ferrari to escape from a zombie(s) you just cycle off.

    Offence: ever been hit with a ulock? if you want an offensive vehicle, get a tank.

    imo, the bicycle is the vehicle of choice for the zombie apocalypse.


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  • #157
    magnumbud
    Registered Users Posts: 2,531 ✭✭✭magnumbud


    would have to say i dont think bike is that great if your surrounded you cant exactly push your way through and are doomed i tells ya


  • #158
    degrassinoel
    Registered Users Posts: 10,731 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    magnumbud wrote: »
    would have to say i dont think bike is that great if your surrounded you cant exactly push your way through and are doomed i tells ya

    If you cycle into a crowd of zombies and get surrounded, you deserve to die!


  • #159
    magnumbud
    Registered Users Posts: 2,531 ✭✭✭magnumbud


    degrassinoel wrote: »
    If you cycle into a crowd of zombies and get surrounded, you deserve to die!

    ha not what i meant i mean you go into a shop to get supplies you come back and the street is now over run. if you have a car/truck/tank you can make a run for it and try to get into the vehicle. if you only have a bike outside you are stuck


  • #160
    degrassinoel
    Registered Users Posts: 10,731 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    lol i know :) same can be said for a car/van/tank, if the street is that packed you're boned and need a helicopter on the roof :)

    and you should have done some bike recon first instead of just driving up to the shop and stealing those mannequins!


  • #161
    magnumbud
    Registered Users Posts: 2,531 ✭✭✭magnumbud


    degrassinoel wrote: »
    lol i know :) same can be said for a car/van/tank, if the street is that packed you're boned and need a helicopter on the roof :)

    and you should have done some bike recon first instead of just driving up to the shop and stealing those mannequins!

    no if you get into the vehicle all you have to do is mow down the crowd of zombies


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  • #162
    degrassinoel
    Registered Users Posts: 10,731 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    magnumbud wrote: »
    no if you get into the vehicle all you have to do is mow down the crowd of zombies

    if the crowd is so large you cant get through it on a bike, a car wont get much further either. Unless you've a snowplough on the front of it.


  • #163
    magnumbud
    Registered Users Posts: 2,531 ✭✭✭magnumbud


    degrassinoel wrote: »
    if the crowd is so large you cant get through it on a bike, a car wont get much further either. Unless you've a snowplough on the front of it.

    ya but the cant bite through class. also i would have put up so metal meshes around windows. alot safer in the car than in the shop


  • #164
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    degrassinoel wrote: »
    storage? backpack, sellotape stuff on the bike.
    shelter - dont need any on a bike, it's lightweight enough to throw over a wall while you make a dash for a treehouse.
    protection - stealth: avoiding a confrontation is twice the armor you're ever going to need.
    long range mobility - your body is your fuel, travel as much or as little as you want without raising much attention. 2 minutes cycling at an easy pace is enough to take you out of earshot, nevermind sight. The perfect reconnaissance vehicle.

    speed - whatever you can handle yourself. You dont need a ferrari to escape from a zombie(s) you just cycle off.

    Offence: ever been hit with a ulock? if you want an offensive vehicle, get a tank.

    imo, the bicycle is the vehicle of choice for the zombie apocalypse.


    Oh I would have a bike too but it would be strapped to my truck/Dreadnaught
    degrassinoel wrote: »
    if the crowd is so large you cant get through it on a bike, a car wont get much further either. Unless you've a snowplough on the front of it.

    Kind sir, may I direct you to
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=80286513&postcount=138


  • #165
    degrassinoel
    Registered Users Posts: 10,731 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    norrie rugger wrote: »
    Oh I would have a bike too but it would be strapped to my truck/Dreadnaught

    lol :)


  • #166
    degrassinoel
    Registered Users Posts: 10,731 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    magnumbud wrote: »
    ya but the cant bite through class. also i would have put up so metal meshes around windows. alot safer in the car than in the shop

    I beg to differ :)

    From the set of WWZ

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma8l5udOlvc


  • #167
    magnumbud
    Registered Users Posts: 2,531 ✭✭✭magnumbud


    degrassinoel wrote: »
    I beg to differ :)

    From the set of WWZ

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma8l5udOlvc

    he was stupid enough to get out. and didnt break the glass as a zombie :-P


  • #168
    degrassinoel
    Registered Users Posts: 10,731 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    magnumbud wrote: »
    he was stupid enough to get out. and didnt break the glass as a zombie :-P

    doesnt look like that to me.


  • #169
    magnumbud
    Registered Users Posts: 2,531 ✭✭✭magnumbud


    degrassinoel wrote: »
    doesnt look like that to me.

    didnt see your one jump through the window. still im fairly certain this is a once off and the zombies of my world are the slow stumbling kind not the kind that can run and jump


  • #170
    degrassinoel
    Registered Users Posts: 10,731 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    that's nice, kind of negates your point about being trapped by zombies in that shop though..


  • #171
    magnumbud
    Registered Users Posts: 2,531 ✭✭✭magnumbud


    degrassinoel wrote: »
    that's nice, kind of negates your point about being trapped by zombies in that shop though..
    How? slow moving zombies were trapping people in places a long long time before running zombies started appearing in movies. all the original of the deads for example. resident evil games etc all slow moving zombies well capable of trapping you in a shop with no escape if all you have is a ****ty bike


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  • #172
    degrassinoel
    Registered Users Posts: 10,731 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    And we're going miles off topic here again. In fact, this is a discussion best suited to it's own topic.

    Bikes are better than cars :)


  • #173
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    degrassinoel wrote: »
    And we're going miles off topic here again. In fact, this is a discussion best suited to it's own topic.

    Bikes are better than cars :)

    Twist your ankle and tell me that


  • #174
    magnumbud
    Registered Users Posts: 2,531 ✭✭✭magnumbud


    degrassinoel wrote: »
    And we're going miles off topic here again. In fact, this is a discussion best suited to it's own topic.

    Bikes are better than cars :)

    changing the subject as good as admitting defeat :-)


  • #175
    degrassinoel
    Registered Users Posts: 10,731 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    magnumbud wrote: »
    changing the subject as good as admitting defeat :-)

    Stay on topic please. You were asked once already. Please read the forum charter.


    Edit: Norrie Rugger, multiquoted you meaning to respond to your question but was sidetracked. Yeah, twisted ankle, can still cycle, obviously not as well as one could drive with a broken wrist, but it's possible.


  • #176
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    degrassinoel wrote: »
    Edit: Norrie Rugger, multiquoted you meaning to respond to your question but was sidetracked. Yeah, twisted ankle, can still cycle, obviously not as well as one could drive with a broken wrist, but it's possible.

    OK I make you a deal.
    I will have my dreadnaught and you have the bike, that is strapped to the side of it. You run supply runs and, if you come into trouble and have the Z's chasing you, then you make a direct line to the truck where we will be waiting with the heavy weapons to provide cover.

    Best of both worlds.

    We prepared boardsies will have to look out for one another, in the aftermath.


  • #177
    Remmy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Remmy


    I would go for an early nineties Izuzu trooper diesel. Every second farmer seems to have one where I'm from so an easy supply of available parts should not be an issue. Plus as mentioned there are plenty diesel tanks littered around the countryside if needs be.

    Strapped onto the side I would have one or two cheapie bicycles. Should the 4x4 cease to function or should I need more stealth I would kick it vietcong style and pack all my supplies on a bicycle and keep truckin on. ;)

    BicycleSuppliesTrail.jpg


  • #178
    Grizzly 45
    Registered Users Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭Grizzly 45


    sell26.2 wrote: »
    petrol shouldn't be a problem at all. think of all the unused cars lying about. just syphon the petrol out of unused cars. there would be unlimited supplies of petrol all over the place. you could drive around with a 50 ton tank and never worry about fuel problems. plus a daily fuel search and retrieval would break up the general monotony of day to day living under the invasion

    EXCEPT petrol and diesel have very short "shelf life" before they start to go bad.In some cases less than a year.Not surprising,as they are designed to be used pretty quickly so wht add extra long term storage chemicals??
    Ever leave petrol in a lawn mower over Winter and have to drain the tank in Spring because the thing wont start and the fuel looks waxy and pale??
    Stale petrol..Soo all your fuel be it in underground tanks in garages ,or in car tanks will eventually go bad.
    Unless you get a good supply out and treat it with fuel stabiliser before Z day,your "Road warrior" plans of survival arent going to last long..:(

    Syphoning it out of cars...Has anyone TRIED this recently on a new model car[post 1996]?? It is virtually impossible to do anymore with all the safety features built into modern cars like anti roll spillage valves and anti SYPHON devices:D
    Unless you are lugging around some garage equipment,this is going to be a bit of a non option..Sorry!

    Might be worth considering four hooves rather than two or four wheels instead.
    A Horse or a "Harse" is usually available around the Irish city and countryside,they can carry a fair ol load,pul a cart or plough at later stages if trained to it.Dont need much fuel apart from grass,some oats and water ,are alot faster than Zs,can reproduce once a year,and when they are too old they make a tasty dinner..[Ask the French!:pac:]

    Drawbacks,they can be smelly and dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.So you do need to have some experiance of handling them and treating them with RESPECT.[Useful post Z event skill maybe,learn how to ride a horse..Doesnt have to be to RDS show jumping standard]
    Need to have some tack,like a saddle and bits and bridle,although you can learn to ride bareback,and improvise a halter from some old rope.

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • #179
    thermo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,438 ✭✭✭✭thermo


    Grizzly 45 wrote: »

    Syphoning it out of cars...Has anyone TRIED this recently on a new model car[post 1996]?? It is virtually impossible to do anymore with all the safety features built into modern cars like anti roll spillage valves and anti SYPHON devices:D
    Unless you are lugging around some garage equipment,this is going to be a bit of a non option..Sorry!

    yep, only last week, i found the handiest way was to lift the back seat and remove the fuel level sensor 2 mins or less work to remove and i only needed 10mm and 12mm spanners to remove the sensor.


  • #180
    Tzar Chasm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,069 ✭✭✭Tzar Chasm


    Even easier way if you don't intend to use the donor car again is to just slide under it and punch a hole in the tank ;)


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  • #181
    RiderOnTheStorm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭RiderOnTheStorm


    always liked the look of the Unimog, and a recent post in the Campervan thread (a couple are touring S.America in a converted Unimog http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056793283 ) renewed my interest in them, from a Zombie Apoc point of view.

    unimog1.jpgunimog2.jpg


    Follow this link to see Unimogs (campers & explorer versions) for sale :

    http://www.xor.org.uk/unimog/uksell/uksold.htm


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