Best bike to own come the APOCALYPSE

[Heimdall Einherjar]

Ok, so the politicians, lobbyists, lawyers, and corporations of the world have really screwed up bigtime and mushroom clouds have festooned the skies over all our major cities, and government and society are crumbling rapidly leading to chaos.

As a survivor of this chaos, getting around will entail the flexibility to go off road, because many major highways will have collapsed and possibly roving warlord gangs are holding the remaining highways for their own use, or for hefty tolls, however there are still plenty of miles of flat road which will require a lot of speed to chase down or run from the warlords' assault buggies.

Thus, you'd want a bike that can race convincingly on the roads, handle rough dirt roads at high speed and survive utter off-road chaos, all while going easy on gas as you'll most likely have to take lives to obtain even a gallon, and remaining easily fixable and hard to damage.
You'll also want enough torque to carry a lot of cargo, and the stability to stay straight while you fire an AK-47 or a shoulder-mounted missile, or wield a chain whip.

What bike would this be? (I'm guessing I will hear one answer a lot)

And for the record I'm not actually anticipating this happening, this is just for the hell of it.

[Scoutmedic]

Coming from a complete squid, I'd say the Buell Ulysses.

[Heimdall Einherjar]

Good choice although I'd almost be unwilling to put such a beautiful thing in harm's way.

[Aggroton]

ummm...anybike seen in madmax...

or this.
http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx ... MWED66.htm

The USA Marines Corp (USMC) have taken the popular Kawasaki KLR650 Miliary Edition and together with Hayes Diversified Technologies (HDT) of California converted it to run either diesel or aviation kerosene fuel. It runs a very impressive 120 miles per gallon at 80 miles per hour.

[Heimdall Einherjar]

ummm...anybike seen in madmax...

or this.
http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx ... MWED66.htm

BINGO.

That's what I was thinking of in the first post.

[Aggroton]

another site you might enjoy being a newb...i was one last year....

http://www.blackletter.org

[Heimdall Einherjar]

Hah, looks interesting!

But as for the diesel KLR, the thing about that is it's probably pretty slow to accelerate and doesn't have much top-end.

The armageddon bike would need a lot of speed when it hits the roads, so you can get from one fortified mesa colony to the next and keep up with escaping tiltrotor gunships long enough to launch your Stinger SAM.

[Aggroton]

dude...they dont make slow diesels anymore. i bet thats as quick as any 250 4 stroke dirt bike.

[jmillheiser]

Hmm what would mad max ride now?

BMW HP2. its a 100hp dirtbike

[Gadjet]

KLR650

Preferably the military version that will burn just about anything for fuel, but the basic gasoline version will handle things quite nicely.