"20mm Post-Apocalyptic Motorcycle Weapons Released" Topic

I could get behind playing Car Wars with these…

When is someone who has actually ridden a motorcycle going to sculpt riders with weapons NOT in their throttle hand?

You cannot really ride a bike with a gun/chain/anything in your throttle hand.

What CPT Jake said.

They all ride British bikes. Throttle's on the other side.

Indian Motorcycles, perhaps?

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What is with all of the mohawks in post-apoc setting?
I would think there wouldn't be too much hair product left…

Brit bikes (and old Italians) had the gears on the other foot, not the throttle. With very few exceptions, throttles are always on the right twist grip (and modern Brits have the gears on the left too as well [like pretty much everyone else]).

The only way you can use a weapon on the right hand is if the throttle is designed not to spring back close when you release it (some have been).

As I recall, modern (British) Police special protection types on bikes are taught to fireleft handed.

John T

CPT Jake, get your ed dirty realism off my fictional toys, you damned dirty realist!

I misremembered my Happy Days, then. The episode where the Fonz's knowledge of motorcycles kept the accused out of jail.

Indian Motorcycles, perhaps?

The article states the Indian motorcycles were the only motorcycles to have the throttle on the left-hand side..

You all sound like the old women of the Apocalypse.

"Why are you using your sawed off shotgun right handed?
Why do you cut your hair in a mohawk?
What is that smell?
Why are there so many flys?
Why can't you join a nice scavenger gang like Mrs. Murphy's boy did?"

What is with all of the mohawks in post-apoc setting?
I would think there wouldn't be too much hair product left…

If it's a post-Nuclear-apocalypse I don't think there would be much hair (or teeth) left either…

Make belive figures in a make belive world, guys. But if necessity is the mother of invention who says in a future world where you need your gun hand free, you could find a way to reposition the throttle. Besides gamers like their figures to be armed.

in a world where everything is jury-rigged, wouldn't it be easy to put the throttle on the left hand side?
Or at least wouldn't it be easier than finding ammo to practice with and learn to shoot left handed?

Easiest of all, and probably what would happen based on numerous motorcycle attacks around the globe in recent years, is to have the guy riding bitch armed and letting the driver drive.

But then again, admittedly I AM a darned dirty realist when it comes to bikes and bikers…

Honestly, there are so many left handed figures (look at Studio Miniatures 'survivor' range for example) and so many sources on how a bike works that it just disappoints me that sculptors can't get this one tiny thing right (see what I did there!) at least once in a while.

Jake

Say it loud, say it proud CPT Jake. Between the off handed BS and the apparent complete lack of standard bikes and dual sports in the Great Apoc, i have zero time for the representatives of the genre.

A sidehack with an armed 'monkey' seems the best option in reality, since firing at anything while avoiding debris, let alone just staying upright in wildly varying terrain onehanded…yeah, a sidehack.

Or the new Spyder with a gunner on the back. ;-)

If armed bikes are the military standard, then they WILL be re-designed to allow the rider to shoot with his right hand.

In war, nobody is going to deliberately put themselves at a disadvantage. As soon as one guy puts his throttle on the left side, everyone else will follow. A right-handed throttle will be a dangerous anachronism in a post-apoc world.

Why do you assume that motorcycles in the future will be static? They will adapt just like people will.

Except there have been, and are to this day, motorcycles used by the military. And the rider does NOT use his right hand to fire. And these are not specially designed bikes, they are bikes pressed into service by untrained post apocalyptic gangs.

Motorcycles used by the military are not intended to be used for one-on-one fighting with other bikers that are similarly equipped.

And the most untrained post-apocalyptic biker will be quite able to maintain his own bike, and modify it at will. Otherwise he won't last a month.

Moving a throttle to let him use his best hand just isn't going to be that big a deal. Humans are inventive. Don't sell us short.

1979 called. It wants its sculpts back.

My bike had a after market throttle lock, push the thumb down and cruise down the highway with no aching wrist. Easy to jury rig.

porfirio:

HAHAHAHAHA!!

porfirio:
You are right I need a time machine ASAP.

Lucius:
And the most untrained post-apocalyptic biker will be quite able to maintain his own bike, and modify it at will. Otherwise he won't last a month.
"I agree"

Thanks guys, the more comments, the more intrest and orders
are generated.

Sorry Jake the realism thing don't seem to matter to the people that have ordered the Biker set. But I have made a note to put in left handed weapons arms if I do any more bikers.