Posted on 10/12/2015 8:47:34 PM PDT by Kartographer
The Motoped Black Ops is a shameless, shallow grab for attention that has 100 percent done its job on me. A zombie hunting moped? Seriously? But the product behind it is actually pretty sweet. A highly customizable moped with a 500-mile (805 km) range, 200 mpg (1.2 L/100km) efficiency and heavy-duty engineering. It easily converts to an ultralight dirtbike if you swap the 49cc stock engine for something larger, and its long travel suspension should make it pretty capable on dirt tracks.
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Uh....there’s another $1K-$2K dripping off of this tricked out version.
I’d replace the crossbow w my AR.
Carry backpack on my front for better balance.
The first thing I did when my sister and I inherited two farms in the 1980's was to try to refurbish the old well with a pump. I had a well company look at it but they said the casing was broken. I kinda of knew what that meant but wasn't sure.
Now the water table has dropped, and we've had to go really deep. I don't know if a well hand pump would work on a deep well or not. I don't know a lot of things obviously.
I think hand well pumps have limits of about 50 feet.
I think a hand pump should work on a deep well, but you’ll need additional water on hand to prime it. You might want to rig a windmill to it to make it easier.
230 million cars in America and plenty of garden hose laying around.
Just sayin'
I’d buy it in an instant, if it had a bench seat and pegs for my pillion.
Rope. Bucket. Shaft. Crank handle.
Yup, except the actual weight of all the data on the Internet in 2006 was about 50 grams. It is now about a kilogram. (Based on some studies I’ve read). LOL
I forgot about water to prime it! When I was a little girl I was happy occupying myself with priming and pumping water from a cistern by the back porch at my grandmother's house on the edge of town. We had huge windmills on our 2 farms. On one I believe I remember they had to go 200 feet for a new well because the water table dropped, and the water is no longer sweet. It stinks of sulphur (rotten egg smell). I don't know the depth of the well on the farm I ultimately got. The old windmills are long gone now and there's too much I don't know about a lot of things.
On a relative's farm, one was so tall, I loved to climb but got halfway up, looked down and got scared so came on down. Our relative was too afraid to climb to the top to change the light bulb so my father used to do it for him.
I considered getting a wind turbine but am so glad I am free of those monsters and the contractual obligations.
I have looked at the little winstream windmills and, may yet invest in one.
It's a little off topic for this but I've put thought into heating. There are no fireplaces and back when we had tenants, they bought some cheap soft coal which got soot on the whole upstairs. So on the way home I was telling my dad what the wife was showing me while he talked business with the husband. The upshot of that was my dad put in a two-way furnace for them; it burns propane and wood. A different relative who lives in that place now has saved a lot of money in his leaner years burning wood. Friendly people thereabouts would tell him where there was a good tree downed for firewood so he would go cut it up, haul it home and use it.
I got the other place and expect the furnace not to last forever. I definitely want to replace it with one similar to the one on the other place but don't know if I want it loaded with wood from outside or inside. Outside would be bad for me now but would have been ok years ago.
Knock down or fully built .. I'm also assuming parts to scavange your old bikeassembled
How much for the modped?
“And with the grid down, traveling the world by moped, you charge it where?”
Small solar charger,,, REI.
“And if the apocalypse involves nukes, all that calc goodness might be fried anyway.”
Not if I stored it in a faraday cage before the attack, like an old microwave. Wrapped in foil.
BAM!
More weight. More complexity. I’ll stick to math skills and a magnetic compass. It worked for centuries.
Until it gums up from sitting after a couple months and then clogs your carb/injectors. Short term - no problem. Long term - no combustion. No Moped.
And just how many people know that much less keep their foil wrapped phones in their pockets and unwrap them with each use?
It’s not like China calls and schedules a nuking.
Looks good as your reserve vehicle for mounting on the back of your 4x4.
Might need a better seat if you plan on using that 500 mile range, though.
...solar panel charger on the handle crossbar & the FLIR infrared option for the smartphone would be good. Might want to load some roadmap images just in case the grid+GPS sats are down, too.
I do, I just leave it at home in its foil wrap. And when we meet up, now I wont let you use my phone. And no one will know where you escaped to.
Plus, ill come here to FR and update. And you won’t even know when we are talking about you.
All because you didn’t buy some foil.
“Might need a better seat if you plan on using that 500 mile range, though.”
500 miles on that is an experience best left to the imagination. I think it might be better to hole up wherever you were at that time, and find a local wife until the war is over.
And don’t let her ride your moped. She might get away,,,, 500 miles away.
Well I couldnt! Some guy bought it all and wrapped up the COLO where FR is housed, A buncha miles of transformers and a generating station. There was none left.
Besides, anyone with an Iphone is certainly a communist anyway and likely DID get a warning from Apple... ;)
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