Armies and bicycles

[carvalho2008]

 

[carvalho2008]

 

[carvalho2008]

 

[carvalho2008]

 

[carvalho2008]

Folding Bike

 

[carvalho2008]

 

[carvalho2008]

Bikes with Portable Balistic Shield??

 

[carvalho2008]

 

[publiusr]

Love that bike litter. The CarvX is a four wheel recumbent bike of interest…and I have seen similar ones with wilds suspensions drive in ditches

 

[kocovgoce]

my opinion is to be a combination either with an electric motor or a 49 cc motor and thus achieve a range of 100 km in one day. The engine must be mounted or removed by the soldier himself.

Velosolex

 

[kocovgoce]

carvalho2008​

My idea to use kevalr blanket аnd roadster(bicycle) for better stabilization

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[publiusr]

Recumbant, for at least some metamaterial concealment/cover.

 

[Stovepipe]

Dont forget the infamous German theft of bicycles to evacuate themselves from Holland near the end of WW 2. To this day, Dutch football fans, when they play Germany at football, chant " we want our bikes back!". They also stole every car, horse and cart and even wheelbarrows to shift themselves out of Holland.

 

[Grey Havoc]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism/comments/zamq6u

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism/comments/zamq6u/attack_of_the_bicycle_dragoons_19_cen/

 

[Stovepipe]

Bikes also have a use as load carriers like the Viet Cong used them; the bike was reinforced to carry loads and was not intended for cycling unless the road or track was relatively good. The VC transported men and equipment in short relays, often as little as 5 km a day depending on road or track conditions and to avoid aerial surveillance. A person pushing a bike would cover 5 km at least, with a load of mortar bombs or rice or ammunition or anything that weighed no more than about a kilo or two per piece. When they got to their rest spot, they would hand the bike over and rest and refuel themselves and then go back along the trail, either solo or with an empty bike and pick up more cargo for the next relay.