# Any post-apocalypse fiction that prominently features bicycles?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 24, 2014, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-post-apocalypse-fiction-that-prominently-features-bicycles/691504 "2014-06-24T01:47:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-post-apocalypse-fiction-that-prominently-features-bicycles/691504/61 "2014-07-03T13:47:13Z")

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> [@rocking\_chair](#):
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> h10 n1 has a community that uses bikes as “police cars”.

I’ve seen cops patrolling on bicycles. (And on motorcycles, horses, Segways, golf carts – just about everything but skateboards or roller-skates.)

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**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-post-apocalypse-fiction-that-prominently-features-bicycles/691504/62 "2014-07-20T17:49:37Z")

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> **[Portland cargo bike disaster drill: When Cascadia earthquake hits, city's...](https://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/2014/07/portland_cargo_bike_disaster_d.html)**
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> More than 40 riders with cargo bikes and bicycles with electric-assisted motors – there was also one skateboarder towing a trailer -- maneuvered a 40-mile, scavenger hunt course around the city, transporting water, supplies and victims of a simulated...

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> When the next great Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake shakes Portland, roads will buckle, bridges will crack and fuel will be rationed.
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> In fact, according to the city’s disaster planning documents, much of the city’s transportation system will be useless.
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> Well, useless to cars, that is.
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> “When it comes to preparation for a cataclysmic earthquake, we’re playing catch-up in a lot of areas,” said Ethan Jewett, co-organizer of Saturday’s third annual Portland Disaster Relief Trials outside the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.
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> But Jewett said Portland has one emergency-response asset that most large U.S. cities can only wish they had at their disposal in a disaster: An army of bicycle commuters.

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**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-post-apocalypse-fiction-that-prominently-features-bicycles/691504/63 "2014-07-20T20:09:07Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> Interstate highways in particular should remain usable for centuries.

That is most definitely not true. Plants overwhelm abandoned asphalt surprisingly quickly.

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