Rambo Hunting Ebikes: Every Prepper Should Consider It 

@Jeffro Especially having the means to fix a bike without a shop nearby only with just the gear on your back. Extra spares/repair kits would be a great trade.

Yeah sure I think that was called being a kid before 2000...

@@acanadianineurope814 Agreed. I disassembled, cleaned, greased and reassembled my first coaster brake hub when I was 12 years old.

@@kiellinn6233 I’ve put that skill set in my wheel house. I still have the bicycle repair stand I got for a high school graduation present 35 years ago.

Maintenance cost of a bicycle and an e bike is pretty low compared to a vehicle, good luck trying to get a car computer to work or replace one during shtf unless you've accounted for all the parts that could fuck up after the fact and put them in a faraday cage. An ebike with a little bit of electrical knowledge is much simpler than a gas engine, and easier to repair

Store in a metal box to protect electronics from attacks.

how does it perform in cold weather?

@@jabbawoods As he said, the battery does loose some of it's capacity in cold weather. But the fat tires would be good on snow.

@OH8STN Ham Radio - Looking forward to a video on that Julian! de HA5RV

To do what he's talking about, you need, 2, 3 or 4 extra CHARGED batteries. It takes min. of 4 hrs to get to 80%. And that's a smaller battery. You ain't getting fully charged with a 200 watt panel. You're gonna be sitting around all day, probably longer--assuming the sun is even out. C'mon, guys. Use your head.

5to10 years yea right dude

Got one for $560. Gently used...

I have only built 1 but it's a mid drive with a 3 speed internal gear hub no derailer

@@Matthias_Fischer I wouldn't want to have that if shtf u can't carry shit riding it

@@Matthias_Fischer I have a car

You're a smart angry old man.

yes which rima to u have, mine get bend if u carry 40 kgs load

"I don't have to outrun the bear; I just have to outrun you."

Yes, when she reads your comment. 😱

LMFAO..... Glad I dont have one of those anymore.... nuff said. LOL

@@ES-mc3cc She's worse than the bear...trust me.

One less thing to worry about!....LOL

My dads the same, about to turn 70, has health issues though so not as capable as hed like but he spent his adult life doing multisport so very fit. Mum suggested an ebike since he cant bike as much as he use to, he refused and wont get one as long as he can still turn the pedals , i think that mindset will keep him going till hes a bagobones haha! I think shes gonna get one to join him, first time shell be able to keep up in 45 years haha :) happy riding

Well done.

The trail systems would be easier to maintain than roads in a grid down situation.

Unless you own a secret luxury basement bunker you're a target for cannibalistic marauder. If you own a secret luxury basement bunker you are just postponing the inevitable. Prepping is just glorified stupid boy scout games, it's fun but don't expect to survive when the SHTF.

@@PeterKnagge 4 years of food 20 acres secured, Ninja Skills, Plenty of armor and bang bang juice. Not worried one bit.

@@Craigslist420 Cannibalistic marauders will hunting everything regular hunters hunt except they have one more item on the menu, other hunters. There's roughy 8 billion people on the planet, that's a lot of food. SHTF will be a criminal's fantasy, where they get to use all their prison skills without any repercussions.

I understand your happiness about bicycles. My goal is to do my prep runs into town on my bike. 32 kms for groceries.

@@elizabethraworth64 I recommend a ebike at that distance or a comfy seat

@@frankmundo4300 I am thinking I need one if only to make faster the 6 km trip to my grandchildrens school for emergency pick ups. I will have to be able to haul 80 lbs and fishing gear as well.

I use mine all the time.

Good reasons all way around.

I have to agree.

Don't forget there is a bottom end on the temperature for the battery too. You don't want to freeze the battery.

@@jabbawoods gotcha. You're absolutely right. I'm lucky in that my climate would never reach those lower temps. I have to watch the temp more carefully in the summer months, but usually if I'm in the shade it is almost never a problem

@@cardiogirl798 varies. If you're looking at the ones that cost less than $1K then generally 200 to 225lbs. Most all of them that are more than $1K are in the 300lbs range. Keep in mind that a rider that's over a weight limit would likely still be able to ride but speed/range will be significantly affected. You'll be able to find RU-vid reviews from riders of varying weight classes that can attest to a particular model

@@cardiogirl798 gotcha. well depending on your budget you may be able to mount a seat or handle bar basket on some of the more premium scooters. Nothing beats a bike for carrying a payload (small pets), but the one thing with a scooter is that it can fold up and would be easier to load into a car. I do like the swappable battery feature of some of the e bikes but the price range on those are often in excess of $3K

I do the same with my 2015 front-hub e-bike. All we need for long-term emergency is some extra electronic parts, the control box especially.

So what happens in the shtf if marauder types come for all your livestock and your camp? Defend to the end or get out silently with your Ebike? 🤔

@@MichaelScarchilli-M4Marketing If you have ever read history books, you would know that mountains aren't preferable for sieges. Unless they have an RPG

Burley has some great trailers.

Get one with a Heated Tail-gate, for winter time pushing....maybe something Bright RED, to stand out better, broke down along the road. Safety First.

Good to see you here man.

Unless your windshield's bulletproof, I don't see that working out to terribly well in your favor my man.

That is what I am thinking. I need a super heavy duty one. Probably a cargo trike.

Wow, can you actually have three ways of moving the bike? Does it need 3 tires?

Nice Idea you should make a vid about it. I’d watch it.

iReturns: I agree building a custom version is a great idea for the mechanically inclined at must less cost. Powered by solar, gas and human.

Really heavy

I have 2 of them I will install, one for each back tire of my trike.

Not very efficiently. You may get slightly more range, but it would be insignificant. The power would only be generated going down hill and coasting. Much like a non plug in hybrid car.

@@stuarthirsch That's pretty much what I thought and is the reason why cyclists tend to only use them for their lights at night, and if they are lucky, to charge their phone on-the-go.

those hubs have been around for decades, yet they are useless for any meaningful generation.

Which saddlebags work best with an e-bike?

@@swervedriver5260 Mine came with an option to buy them. You may need a front or rear rack to drape them over the rack and then tying them to the lower struts. Mine is a cheap set but I'm sure there are quality sets in bike shops, ebike shops or motorcycle accessorie shops.

exacly and not to carry stupid panels on my back

Most already do, it's a feature called regenerative breaking so you store a little juice when breaking or going down hills. As the other commenter mentioned, you won't go very far pedaling with it on as the drag will wear you out quickly.

Dynamo hubs. Though they don't generate much.

this is the very reason i have not bought one yet. i would be to worried about theft that i would not use it. go in the store for 5 min come out and................gone!!! there needs to be more conversation about how to minimize this glaring issue that no one will talk about

@@arnoldreiter435 You can add trackers to a bike till they find it and toss it or break it. Another issue is the range of the tracker. You have to use it as quickly as possible for it to be any good.

Would it be vodka or tequila ?

Vodka

@@frankmundo4300 I need more vodka in my preps.

We use to tape hand warmers to them to keep the battery warm. It helped but sadly in the winter you loose range.

@@tomjjackson21 ill check it out if it's at any of the shows out west.

I remember you and me had a conversation about this😁

Thing is, this isn't about saving money, it's about USING money to save LIVES when money is useless.

I agree. The way I prep: If I will use it regularly when nothing bad is going on, I buy it. So we bought solar. But I wouldn't buy an expensive e-bike on the whim that I may perhaps someday use it to bug out. I'll figure out what to do if it gets that bad.

@@miketheskepticalone6285 that is, if you have money to blow though.

About the same amount of time as the 4WD, that is until you meet the first cannibalistic marauder's IED!

Unless you own a secret luxury basement bunker you're a target for cannibalistic marauder. If you own a secret luxury basement bunker you are just postponing the inevitable. Prepping is just glorified stupid boy scout games, it's fun but don't expect to survive when the SHTF.

Buy in few years. That's what I will do. Now they are expensive...just like 1st iPhone. More producers will be into it.

They should charge by pedaling, sucks they don't

Having spare parts and a little planning can go a long way. Spare tubes (6 or more) perhaps a few brake pads. Perhaps cable linkage. The backup battery he spoke of, plus one more to store away. An extra charger/ wiring and even a charging setup similar to what he showed as backup. That is a lot. But buy-in parts and save it up over a few years. Keep plugging away. Plan it out. Think up solutions not just problems.

Bike tyres don't usually "go out" but they do wear out over time. Tubes can get holes but are easy to patch and cheap to replace, 10-15 minutes is all it takes to replace a tube for me. I only use thorn resistant tyres now so very rarely get punctures. Battery systems on ebikes are simple and easy to diagnose, basically just a modified battery powered drill. A basic multimeter will trace any problems down but I have never had an issue.

Other parts you absolutely need are chains and spare cassettes. Mid drive motors put a lot more stress on the drivetrain. If you're not careful, you can end up with really short chain and cog lifespan. As chains wear, the distances between the pins slowly lengthen. If you don't change it soon enough, it'll cause premature wear on your cassette too. Another factor to consider is that the 9 -12 speed drivetrains use narrower, more expensive and fragile chains than bikes that use 7-8 speed drivetrains. A replacement 8 speed chain can be as cheap as $12, whereas the higher spec versions can sometimes be triple or quadruple that price. Hydraulic brakes are generally very reliable, but you'll still want to get the supplies and learn how to do a brake bleed. Mechanical disk brakes are a lot simpler, and bombproof, but you need to make regular adjustments to them to keep them performing well.

There aren't any Zombies yet thank God! I'd have to agree with you though, I'd rather be incognito than speeding through uncharted territory. I would value this prep as a means to escape huge hordes of banked up traffic to get to my bug out & real transportation though!

I’d always carry 2 extra batteries. Or double your expected distance of travel

@@addiroids However that also means you have 2 batteries to recharge.

@@stuarthirsch And more weight to carry.

@@VenRocK69 or just get an ebike that doesn't have crap range

2k wow, and here i imagined like 1k maybe 2k

10k? I have a Lectricbike (ebike) and I love it. Think I paid $600.

I also have a nice steel e-bike [forget expensive aluminum] that I go everywhere with- $780. total. This old guy can now handle hills, headwinds, off-road, etc with no strain

The first thing I get for my bikes is fenders or mud guards. 👍

Otherwise it would have been a 15 minute Gilbert Godfreid impression

*sigh* fenders are now 'optional equipment'. You can still ride bike without electric help.

I used to ride with some semi-pros in the winter. I have to agree, a good mtn bike tire is about as fat as you wanna be....

And fixing an ebike electronics would be simple you just need a throttle and a switch, and you can make a switch from aluminum, and make a redstone esque resistor with graphite and a piece of paper

That's why I'd stick with a basic 80s bike. Much lighter than an eBike so can be shouldered or pushed over obstacles, and cheap enough that if you needed to discard it for any reason you're not going to cry at the cost. Ideally I'd have thought anyone bugging out on a bike should do so with caches of supplies already buried in suitable locations.

what planet and what harm? stop trusting everything they tell you.

Why would you pay $15K for an ebike when you can build one for less than $1K?

You can buy them for less than 1000 . My wife and I picked a pair of them for less than 1500

@@mynameisnobody5462 I've built 3 for 1k, including my 52v 750w mid mount Bafang.

@@ebikeengineer ya I didn't know how much they were because I didn't look before and was surprised that the were kind of affordable.

I believe a hybrid crossover bike is the best all round choice.

Yep, riding off-road tires on asphalt is really loud and takes a lot more effort.

Thankyou for your expert opinion. I trust someone with true hands on experience to know the products capabilities & limitations. For me the saying goes: It's the Turtle who always WINS the race! Plus the turtle has a very big club! 🤣😂

And that's it. It's a pity you can't see your miracle) unless ...;)

BIKE TOOLS: FIRST, let's start with the obvious basics... road-tools. These are the EDC tools every biker carries on the road. Tire patch kit with tire irons and patches and glue and all that good stuff... and, of course, a good portable tire pump. (Make sure you keep them in a good place; I keep buying pumps and losing them. Recently, I did some cleaning and organizing and found that I have THREE good bike pumps. Glad to have them and now I know where they all are.) Have one bike pump on your frame OR in your bag. (I prefer in the backpack.) Chain-repair tools. Extra chain links. Chain oil. Chain cleaner doohickey (which you won't need often). Carrying a spare chain is heavy... but if you're on the move and need to keep going (like Going Home), then swapping your chain is the fastest way to get back on the move. After that, your broken chain becomes a source of replacement links for repairing the chain if your new chain breaks. (Best move is, you set up camp and repair the broken chain with spare chain links, so it's ready in case of another broken chain. This is rare... but if it happens and you have no spare parts and no tools... your bike just became a large, clumsy scooter. Only good on the downhill. You have to walk it uphill. Bad Prepper. No freeze-dried cookie.) TOOL-KIT. Get at least one compact portable bike multi-tool. These have all the allen wrenches and stuff you'll need for basic road repairs, including some screwdrivers for adjusting derailleurs and the like. NOW... let's address the BIG TOOLS. Every biker needs a full load-out of Home Bike-Repair TOOLS. A Bike-Repair WORK STATION. The BASE of your bike-repair work-station should be a good bike repair rack. This is a tall, stable rack with a clamp that holds the frame of your bike up off the ground, so you can work on it at eye-level. Bending over or squatting is counter-productive. Get a repair rack. You'll be glad you did. (Ladies, be ready for your male biker friends to say "Hey, babe, nice rack!" cuz they will.) The NEXT big part is a good table-mount wheel station. This is a hub for building, repairing and tuning bike wheels. Get at least one and learn how to use it. You'll be glad you did. Get a set of tools for repairing, tuning and rebuilding your bike wheels. Consider this your wheel repair work-station. Have a full set of wrenches and screw-drivers and pliers and other bike-repair specific tools. Go to a bike shop and ask what tools you'll need for a home bike-repair workshop and LEARN what every tool is for. I'm pretty sure that MOST of what you'll need to do to repair most bikes will be covered by your collection of allen wrenches. You just gotta learn which size to use, where. Get (another) chain-repair tool for the work-shop. Have more spare chain links. Stock up on cables for brakes and gears, etc. Also, get brake/gear cable tubes. (I almost forgot these.) Get cable cutters. (My bike cable cutters are delightfully sharp; I loves them.) BIKE REPAIR LIBRARY. Get bike repair books & DVDs. (Download videos onto your phones and thumb-drives, too.) KNOWLEDGE and Experience. As you ride, you'll discover new and interesting ways for a bike to fuck up. Oh, Joy! A Learning Opportunity. (I heard that groan.) As things fail and you learn how to repair or replace parts, those experiences add to your Biker Education. First, you'll learn that it's possible for that to fail... second, you'll learn what to do about it and how to repair it... and finally you'll understand how to prepare for the possibility of that failure happening again in the future (which usually means yet another expensive new tool added to your portable bike repair kit, Yay!). This is why bikers look 'Biker-Nerdy' the way we do. Experienced Bikers are all Preppers. (Even if they don't think about it that way.) As much as possible, stock up on replacement parts. Whole wheels and parts. Tires, tubes, rims... all the wheel stuff. Whole chains (for every bike you have). Seats, peddles, handlebars. Frames... everything! (If the bike-repair section of your garage or shop looks like a well-organized homeless encampment in Hollywood or Seattle... or a bike-repair shop... You're Doing It Right. YOU WIN! If you can replace and repair anything that can happen to your bike(s), Post-Shizzy then you're Prepared.