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Re:Hey disaster novelists: Remember bicycles by Ghandi on Monday February 11, 2013 @06:13PM (#5204048)
Would likely help with the whole 'sound attracting x kind of post-apocalyptic monsters/raiders' thing, at least a little, too.
Re:Hey disaster novelists: Remember bicycles by FreeKill on Monday February 11, 2013 @07:39PM (#5204444)
Although, with everyone else dead, it would be an ideal opportunity to ring the little handlebar bell all the time without worrying about a punch coming from the sidewalk :)
Re:Hey disaster novelists: Remember bicycles by derleth on Monday February 11, 2013 @10:48PM (#5205093)
You could continue to blast full-speed down sidewalks and blow through red lights, so no change there.
Re:Hey disaster novelists: Remember bicycles by derleth on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @04:10PM (#5215695)
Whoever downvoted this either doesn't know how cyclists actually act in the real world, or does know and doesn't want to admit it.
Re:Hey disaster novelists: Remember bicycles by bitwize on Monday February 11, 2013 @06:56PM (#5204262)
And on a bike you'd probably be faster than even the "fast type" zombies on foot. Definitely the slow ones.
Re:Hey disaster novelists: Remember bicycles by gojomo on Monday February 11, 2013 @08:26PM (#5204625)
Until they learn to ride bikes. Hey, has that zombie permutation been tried yet?
Re:Hey disaster novelists: Remember bicycles by harlanlewis on Monday February 11, 2013 @08:41PM (#5204682)
They're making zombies that can love and learn, so we're only one movie away from bikes and two from cars. At this point they don't even need the makeup - just show some folks going to work and call it a zombie movie.

Come to think of it, that's been done (some French indie award winner dealt pretty heavily with work & family reintegration of the risen.) The genre is thoroughly tapped.

Re:Hey disaster novelists: Remember bicycles by daeken on Monday February 11, 2013 @08:45PM (#5204699)
> Come to think of it, that's been done (some French indie award winner dealt pretty heavily with work & family reintegration of the risen.) The genre is thoroughly tapped.

Any idea what that film was? I must see it.

Re:Hey disaster novelists: Remember bicycles by ldh on Monday February 11, 2013 @09:03PM (#5204765)
Sounds like Les Revenants: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378661/
Re:Hey disaster novelists: Remember bicycles by harlanlewis on Monday February 11, 2013 @10:20PM (#5205034)
That's the one, thanks for linking. I had forgotten the name.
Re:Hey disaster novelists: Remember bicycles by michaelbuckbee on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @12:21AM (#5205323)
Shawn of the Dead touches on aspects of the similarities between zombies and workers.
Re:Hey disaster novelists: Remember bicycles by bitwize on Monday February 11, 2013 @09:40PM (#5204912)
Semi spoiler: Warm Bodies has a zombie that drives a car.
Re:Hey disaster novelists: Remember bicycles by acomjean on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @01:49AM (#5205554)
A cross between "Premium Rush" and any Zombie flick? I'd go see it.
Re:Hey disaster novelists: Remember bicycles by dspeyer on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @01:36AM (#5205526)
Bicycling is certainly quiet.

When I'm walking and a bicyclist passes me, I generally don't hear them coming until they're past. Likewise when I'm bicycling around a pedestrian, they don't hear me unless I deliberately make noise.

I do hear pedestrians.