Are bicycles worth stockpiling for an imploding economy?
I'm stacking silver, gold, ammo, homesteading supplies, animals, etc., but I thought people might find bikes useful too.
It's fucking cold here in the winter, so I'm not sure what use they'd get / how in demand they are as transportation, but I figure it might be worth a shot.
Do you anons think it's worth it?
Should I hoard computers instead?
Will people want any in a hyperinflation?
What'd be the rate of silver bullion to computers?
I figure a bike would be 2-3oz depending on condition (in a hyperinflation where bikes are actually in short supply, only about 1oz in the current market), and a computer would be 2-3oz as well.
Should I hoard video games / media like the do in Cuba (El Paquete Semanal-esque) and sell it to people on a weekly basis?
But I think that'd get illegal real fast, and the glowies would fuck me up.
>I'm hoarding
Anon....... The bank run is over. The FED has healed the markets with its voodoo. No need to prep anymore. Destroy your schizo bunker and step into the light.
>throw the life boats overboard 'cause the titanic didn't sink YET
Dummy.
PRICE OF MILK HERE IS STILL 2X WHAT IT WAS LAST YEAR, AND CLIMBING.
Nothing ever happens. Preppers from the the 1970-80s - convinced of nuclear holocaust are, now full on boomer schizos who shit and piss themselves in public while barking at the moon. Y2K prepping gen x'ers - convinced that the world will collapse without computers have all hung themselves. Do you want the same fate?
>tldr nothing ever happens
Which is why I don't make prepping a lifestyle, anon.
I cannot imagine devoting 3/4 of my day to /misc/ schizo shit, but that doesn't mean it isn't true 3/4 of the time.
I primarily focus on growing my own food and hobbies, but every day, I take an hour or so to know what's going on, prepare, and plan emergency contingencies.
I don't live the schizo life, but I'm in tune with it as much as the next guy.
Prepper =/= survivalist. Being a prepper just means that you're prepared in case of a SHTF situation, be it earthquake, flood, cyclone, or civil unrest. If you do it well, it doesn't really cost you anything, it just prevents you from living "just in time" style and makes you more resilient to dire situations. Think about Katrina or chimpouts, its definitely not a bad idea to have some food and ammo stashed in your house just in case.
Screencap this and look at it Thursday evening and tell me nothing ever happens then. Fuckin worlds going into the toilet and while it is funny to see the system's apathy indoctrination work against it from time to time, this isn't one of those times. You need to take steps to become more independent.
But hey, maybe I'm just a schizo right?
Maybe like many posts on this site it isn't organic or it's a coping mechanism to prevent panic.
Meanwhile the steepness of the inverted yield curve has worsened
Checked, aquire extra tires, pumps, and patch kits.
DOUBLE-checked and based - thanks anon, it's a good idea, I completely forgot about those.
I'm thinking of maybe stockpiling a few of those cheap "TOOLS FOR THE HOMEOWNER" kits with like a hammer, some sockets, and a screwdriver in them to sell too.
I don't know about tool resale, that might be more of a post civilization collapse thing. But if you have room I would recommend basic blacksmithing as a hobby. I have a couple friends who got into knife and tool making & they've made some neat things.
Fair enough, I'm definitely considering picking up smithing - I really wanted to try getting a pottery kiln, make pots, have a lot of clay in my property that I could purify, but it's fucking expensive.
I also really wanted to make those wooden scooters they have in Africa, chukudus, I can see myself making them with dolly wheels to carry bags and things easier, just for fun.
And carpentry's a useful hobby too.
Looked into blacksmithing a few years ago, but never got into it because I couldn't find a decent anvil.
Maybe this year though.
Just looked into the chukudus, can't figure out what the spring is for. Also I would think it would have trouble going up hill. A cart seems all around better.
It's a very primitive suspension.
Actually, it's funny, because of the inclined frame, the center of gravity makes it easier to push up a hill - they're actually designed for that, and also for easy downhills.
But a cart is definitely better, don't tell anyone anon, but my secret plan all along has been to hoard bicycle materials for building wooden carts.
Actually,
exactly like this.
I suppose wood isn't best, but I was hoping to use it for the sidewalls of a trailer, old-school plank truck-bed style wooden sides.
I was going to do precisely this, even bought a welder a month or so ago.
So, cheers to that.
I really fucking wanted to import those one-cylinder Chinese diesel engines with the large flywheels, insane torque, and low RPMs, but they're banned here.
I was thinking of converting cars to run on woodgas, since I live innawoods, and it's genuinely more sustainable than batteryshit or oil.
Who knows.
Honestly, I want to chat with you anons sometime, you're all pretty fucking cool.
Just in case any of you are interested
[email protected]
If you can weld, you can convert junk bikes into bike carts and sell them. You can even sell them right now to eco-hippie types in bike-friendly areas. You could make them with wood but it'll be shit.
You could train goats to pull carts and sell ready-trained cart goats with the carts. It's traditional yet less expensive than an ass or a horse.
Cars with diesel engines anon.
WW3 will begin with the scramble for food and diesel, and will be fought on top of Chevrolet Luvs, Ford Rangers and Toyota Hilux'es.
Bikes are simply not reliable for stealth, nor moving quick enough.
the shopping carts at the grocery store are nearly free, and they will have a greater utility than bicycles alone in the post-apocalypse. millions of homeless people cant be wrong
I kneel
Off-road, brother.
I live innawoods and the gravel roads here would destroy shopping cart wheels.
Plus, farmers and the like need dollies for carrying things around, and we've got those weird sidewalks here with the large concrete expansion joints, shopping carts get stuck in them.
Shopping carts are used by the homeless precisely because all the homeless live in urban centers.
It's also funny how people literally don't understand what frogboiling is.
>dude they had kids cutting off their dicks 10 years ago, totally dude, I promise it was commonplace
>nothing ever changes, chud
>yeah everything costs 2x more but it always cost 2x more
>there've always been microplastics in everything
Literal doublethink, Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.