well I learned something about cycling today - did not know electronic shifters existed. That's wild. Yeah you won't find many of those hanging around in the apocalypse, I agree.
I used to ride 60km of road like 4x per week about 10 years ago - these would make a lot of sense on a road bike. Not sure the use case for mountain, seems like a lot of things to go wrong given the amount of variables (brush, dust, mud etc) that interfere in mountain biking vs. road biking.
Carbon fiber? Super easy to fix, if you raid a hardware store and get an epoxy repair kit. With metal frames, you are fucked without electricity and proper knowledge of welding and heat treatment - and some alloys cannot even be welded without very specialized equipment.
A bomb-proof three-by-nine should be fine, a fixie would be golden (but bleh). At some point chain lube will be necessary, and later chain replacement might be necessary, but it'll take a while to run though existing supplies if lots of folks are dead. And by that time it might even be feasible to start making new basic components.
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u/Jezbod 2d ago
I like the utility bike to get down the tunnel quicker.