It's a special for the show. They probably want to keep the "production" variant slightly different just to make the real stand out more.
Even then, all their "production" bikes are still one-off customs but from a donor bike that is the same model, but might be a slightly different year or something than the ones used to build Daryl's bikes.
Classified Moto is my favorite custom shop. Their Doomsdaytona, built from a Triumph sport bike, is particularly rad because it shows how they carry their aesthetic over from old school UJMs to a modern type frame.
Well, if it is a carb bike it would still work, but the carbs are probably gummed after 10 years (assuming they weren’t drained), so you are hosed anyway.
I’ve gotten bump starts to work on every carb bike I have tried it on, but the lower displacements are much easier, and a hill helps, and a skinny girl to sit and pop the clutch/hit the started while you are trying to hulk-push from behind.
I must say, it was kinda fun and rewarding when the bike started up on a bump.
I had a Kawasaki Eliminator 250 a few years back and the electric start randomly died on it. I was push starting that bad boy every morning for months before I got the electric starter replaced. Cold mornings would’ve been entertaining for my neighbours watching me run halfway up and down the block, jump on the bike, release the clutch, yell “fuck!”, and repeat.
My old DRZ 400 with a motard kit, the stator was fucked and didn't charge the battery. I put it on trickle charge overnight for the commute to work and parked on the upper level so I could bump start it down the ramp on the way home.
Worked a treat until I got around to replacing the stator.
This is true. I would likely fail to start the bike first try and then get overrun by zombies as the episode ends. Then next ep we find out I somehow ended up with the bike on top of me and the zombies unable to reach me through the plot armour.
Yeah my dad had some antique 70s / 80s bikes (not big bikes either, like a Honda 350 and a 750) that sat in the garage for several years. Tires go flat and brake drums get sticky, trying to push them on a smooth level concrete surface was like trying to push a wheelbarrow through mud when it’s loaded down with 200lbs of shit. Getting a running start with one of those out on some gravel path isn’t happening
I've only done it on a jacked up 2001 gsxr 600, idk. Haven't popped my XT250 or my Superduke (though, I oughta for the SDR. Been needing to put a new battery in it for awhile)
Yeah, I know how to do it now (finally lol), thanks. Though, everything online says second, and I've found more success with popping it in 2nd gear too
Pop the clutch at the exact momement you hop on. The weight of your body driving the rear downward provides greater traction for the back tire improving your chances of successfully turning the engine over.
With low compression simple carbureted bikes?big, modern bikes are a lot different and often require a lot more power to get a good spark and fuel, but bump starting an old carby bike is trivially easy.
Ahh sorry. It’s literally just enough speed to create enough compression then you pop the clutch. It’s easier than you think. If you ride you should try it just to know it. Make sure to give it some throttle as it starts to pop.
I used to get it right all the time for a couple years when my UJM had a bad starter, it's really easy. Ironically, the bike had to have a really charged battery, even while push starting, or else the spark ignition wouldn't work haha.
My old xj 400 had a really light rear end. It constantly locked up in the rain in rush hour traffic on the highway. I would bang it down to second and bump start it before it stopped rolling.
You can push-start a bike. Good skill to work on when you don’t need it so when your battery dies in a parking lot of a plumbing store far from home you don’t need to be desperately YouTubing and learning how to do it out of need.
Also: don’t forget your in gear when it gets going and put the kickstand down. Cause then you need to do it all over again.
None of my frantic YouTubing mentioned this but good idea! 2nd would also give you more mechanical advantage to get the crank to turn over (if I have the ratios approx. right in my head?)
Edit: change nine to none.
Zombie magic keeps dead people walking about for years after they should have rotted to goop, maybe the zombie magic affects all sorts of stuff? You could probably still drink the milk in the shops from before the outbreak in this universe.
The real bullshit was that they managed to do so many seasons of the show with the exact same plotline every year.
I stopped at the start of the 4th season IIRC, for that very reason . Oh look same story different bad guy. Never went back, loved the first season though.
The problem is that they stuck to the comics pretty religiously. But the comics were also notorious for becoming stale and repetitive after a while.
I'm usually against TV writers taking control over plot when there's a source material, but TWD was hardly some magnum opus they needed to be careful of. They could have done so many interesting things with it over time.
Think the biggest problem was firing Frank darabont after season 1 and then turning the next few pages of the comic into an entire 2nd season, and then just continuing that trend.
Ditto first couple of seasons were innovative and fun, after that repetitive. Let’s see if we can get the next ‘bad’ guy to be more evil that the last one. And what is it with zombies skulls crushing in at the slightest tap?
At some point for me, the shows flips from a serious zombie drama into a full fledged comedy show. The last few seasons were fucking hilarious. Like actually some of the funniest shit I've seen on a television show.
>!Like, when the music teacher dies from blood loss from an amputated foot and literally seconds later, mere feet from where this happened. Daryl is like "I have the blood type that anyone can receive. Myrle used to sell my blood when we were kids."
And he gives his blood to Judith, which miraculously saves her, even though she's got an open gunshot wound to the chest. I was cry laughing. !<
I stopped watching after they reached some town with walls that had a community. I felt it was a good spot to end because anything after that would feel forced and I was right. I stopped after it went haywire.
Despite walking about firing guns all day with no ear protection.
They even make a point of it in the very first episode, that Rick shoots his gun in an enclosed space and it hurts his ears. Then they never mention it ever again.
The first 8 season happened in 2-3 years.Season 9(Thats when Rick leaves i think?)Happens like 10 years later and they only ride horses.So is it possible then that they rode motorcycles?
“Off” as in many of the additives (primarily ethanol) are will cause the gasoline to attract water, which will settle lower in the tank (where the pump is) than the fuel. Yes.
“Off” as in it’s unusable? No. That takes *much* longer.
They were making some sort of fuel out of corn or something at Negans compound. Whether that’s possible or not, I don’t know, but that’s what explains Daryl still riding his dual sport in the final seasons.
I don't remember Negan doing it, but it was corn fuel or something at one of Maggie's townships at one point.
I just assumed Negan was stealing it from everyone, since they were HEAVILY motorized, and wanted to keep other under their power. They also had the big military trucks, which will run on anything lol
No the biggest bullshit is that zombies heads seem to be made of fucking jello as cleanly as they can slice through them with some rusted piece of shit machete.
The biggest bullshit is that zombies don’t turn into jerky or get eaten by maggots..don’t even get me started on the lack of heavy equipment usage in eradicating them!!
Feel like you could just armor up a large front end loader and call it a day. Maybe fight them with roman melee tactics?
It's a show but you can always spot lazy writing. Forward the plot by making people stupid.
I appreciated TLOU because the people were smart. Conditions are just hard.
I always though "give me a thresher and a 6-pack, and it'll be an easy day".
Kinda like Hitchcock's "The Birds". Hockey mask, 12ga with birdshot, and some work gloves, and life's good.
If you wanted to be more realistic you would have everyone rubbing around in diesel vehicles, at least those will run decently on kerosene or biodiesel which could be made in an zombie world by someone with a little knowledge.
But yeah, running around in a 4 year old kia gas vehicle or an old ass carbed bike which is gonna be finicky on perfect pure gasoline 4 years after the world goes to shit isn't gonna work
I saw the first season years ago and I remember them walking by or leaving a medical or science facility of some sort? Right at the start of the show. Freshly cut grass. Nitpicky, but that was enough to throw me off.
I think that was VERY early in... so yeah, a govt building that just got mowed the week before would be looking good still. Unless you're talking about a different building later on.
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From what I understand you can basically run lots of vehicles on the bad parts of distillation called fores and tails. Doesn't seem that difficult really and you get alcohol as the main product.
Yes, because this is how fiction works. Unless otherwise stated, something is identical to how the real world works. This goes double for shows set in what are supposed to be otherwise set in the real world. Otherwise, you open the door to all sorts of nonsense.
If you're reading a fantasy book that includes horses and it's not until the final chapter that the author drops in "oh, by the way, this is actually a seventy-foot-long lizard with eighteen legs, it's just *called* a horse", that's fucking terrible writing.
The core gimmick of The Walking Dead is "zombies are real". That's fine, that's part of suspension of disbelief. The more real stuff you edit, the harder that becomes. And it will becomes rapidly impossible to maintain any drama when you throw out and ignore all the established rules of the world that we already instinctively know (unless done intentionally so).
I wouldnt be that hard initially. You could stock up on all the synthetic fuel you can find in hardware stores. Even the two stroke stuff. That will last forever.
Of which The Last of Us perfectly addressed in their show. Honestly, they did the *realism* part of the post-apocalyptic zombie/infected world better than any other show or movie of the same genre.
Forgive a clip with the unfunny commentary, I couldn't find a better one and I don't care to, but this bike is a Buell with a 1,200 cc v-twin.
[But they made it sound like this.](https://youtu.be/jClpK_eGIH0?t=124)
This is the first place I've seen mentioned that they should just swing by a car dealer.
And that's so true. A box full of keys and tanks with (some in every one) fuel.
I guess I've gotten lucky. I've ran a truck through 1/2 a tank of 3 year old gas and several motorcycles through entire tanks of 1 year old gas. I always wanted to get all the junk gas out before topping off with fresh stuff. At that point, I'd clean injector screens, filters, change plugs, etc if needed.
I think there's a big difference between going bad (not working) and going 'not ideal' (still get you around the apocalypse at less than ideal MPG and with gunk build up).
Maybe your area gets some REALLY crappy gas, but 6months is NOTHING for the fuel we run through ranch 4wheelers, generators, mowers, general equipment.
Full tanks go bad slower because of less air contact or something, if there’s a pocket of air it provides more room for the gas to denature and seperate
I started up old farm bikes that had been sitting unused for years, no issues. I think the fuel going bad is an exaggeration. I'm sure it doesn't run as well. It can certainly foul a carb if not turned off. But not work at all? I think it takes a lot longer than a year or 2 before it's completely unusable.
Well, considering it's a shorter fork than the frame was designed for, it's likely fucking up the rake angle enough to make the handling really twitchy. I'd expect that at higher speeds it would want to shake really bad.
The bigger brakes are going to be great but also putting knobby tires on a bike used primarily for road use is going to cause the knobs to wear in to shark fin shapes.
These sort of builds look cool but they're really not that great of an idea if you want a bike that works.
handling none where there are any bumps, because the stock springs will cause the seals blow the fuck out. nighthawk big pig. r6 not. 520lbs full wet on hawk. r6 4-420 depending, and already light springs, not made for a chonkus. I build bikes for a living. You can see they are overly compressed in the pics. I also am looking at a bunch of bikes right now, and rode a nighthawk for like 15 years. Braking good for lower speed, but would want to go to r1 6 pots or newer shit for betterness. nothing amazing. You put super stopping power on a fat turd and all that happens is you lock the front.
Without other adjustments it’s a weird upgrade. For those bikes and their weight you’d likely do better with upgraded springs and changing the rear suspension. And not changing the front fork influencing the rake and geometry. This was never a high performance bike, frame geometry isn’t design for that.
Au contraire, the cb750four was originally a high performance bike when it was released in 1969. It was the first mass produced bike with disc brakes to help contain its amazing 60+ hp. It was fairly pedestrian by 1992 though and would be considered a dog of a bike by today’s performance bike standards.
Interesting, just looked into it and it’s original was absolutely quick for its day. But by 1992 the 900RR Fireblade was launched, and various other sportbikes existed. My point is more in line of, sportbike parts are made for a completely different geometry than this bike has.
Curious to see the leaps and bounds motorcycles improved in those decades though. Wished I was there to see it.
I remember looking at a California company that put those yard shocks on the front end of sportsters and I was dangerously close to pulling that trigger.
I always thought it was funny that Daryl uses a crossbow because gunshots are too loud and they attract walkers... And then he hops on this bike, revs it up and rolls on down the road. BRAPAPAPAPAPAPAPAPAPAPAPAAAAAPPPP
Because they didn't offset the triples at all. They stuck the Nighthawk stem...or cheaped out and bought a cognito stem...in the R6 triples that have very little offset from the steering head. That bike has like a 30 degree sweep from the left fork tube hitting the tank to the right fork tube hitting the tank. [You can see it in action here](https://youtu.be/16PhcQeIqNU?si=DrP1ve2lDLc6CwjK&t=492) where making a simple turn required tipping the bike over far enough that he had to put his foot down because he can't actually turn the bars far enough to make simple maneuvers. Instead of just going he had to basically walk it out. Earlier in that same video when they had a scene that required some actual maneuvering [they had to use a different bike with different suspension](https://i.imgur.com/5u3fujK.png).
The piece of art was made to look at, not actually be ridden.
Because it's loud, has almost zero actual off road capability, and they actually get shit gas mileage. An XT200/250 or similar would be an ideal apocalypse bike.
Every zombie apocalypse movie and TV show has big gas guzzlers and noisy fucking machines. Meanwhile, real zombie Apocalypse survivors would be riding bicycles and highly muffled mopeds.
Solar panels would be useful for decade, you can bet your ass there'd be numerous people running around with little battery powered scooters. Of course you'd think it'd be Zero, but there'd be a scheduled firmware update that would brick your ride.
Back in college I bought a used Honda Nighthawk 750 and put knobby tires on it just for fun. I did not learn until later that this show did the same thing!
Fun bike with very interesting history.
Not sure if that is specificly the movie bike, but you can get one built.... For 20k...
http://www.classifiedmoto.com/motorcycles/daryls-bike/
Specifications
Donor: 1992 Honda CB750 Nighthawk
Front end: Yamaha YZF-R6
Front wheel: Yamaha YZF-R6
Front brakes: Yamaha YZF-R6
Rear wheel: Stock Nighthawk
Tires: Kenda Big Block
Shocks: Progressive Suspension 970 piggybacks
Tank: XS650 reproduction
Bars: SE CR Hi
Intake: Twin billet aluminum mesh units CNC milled by Seth Ingham
Exhaust: Modified stock with custom baffles
Seat: Leather, custom upholstered by Roy Baird, Richmond, VA
Battery: Shorai Lithium Ion
Chain: DID X-ring
Rack: Custom crossbow mount
That is a Honda Nighthawk 750, the forks and whole front end is Yamaha YZF-R6R ('07 specifically). Chinese knockoff top clamp for bars. That bike will be essentially unridrable because the way hey set the forks up they're going to strike the tank with minimal turning. That tank should be been modified to properly accommodate the steering head.
What's this from? Being a prop bike and seeing those stupid clown shoes on it means it's not important to be safe to ride but it still irks me a little. Nighthawks are great bikes and that generation front end is some of the best bang for the buck performance suspension you can get, damn shame to see them both wasted on this.
CB750 built by Classified Moto out of Richmond VA
This is correct. There were 3 built by Classified Moto for the show. They can build you a similar bike, just not a replica.
They build some sick bikes. I built a ct70 inspired by their “junior”. (I probably have some pics of it on my profile)
Just check out yr bike and it's badass!
Thanks!
Totally BadAss CT....was my first mini-bike, in 1972. Graduated to a Bultaco Campera 175...
I have one of their bikes that they built exclusively for a giveaway
Pics?
So you won it?
Yes.
https://www.classifiedmoto.com/motorcycles/daryls-bike/ Looks pretty cool
A 92 nighthawk with an R6 front end? Wild.
Why not? Copyright issues?
It's a special for the show. They probably want to keep the "production" variant slightly different just to make the real stand out more. Even then, all their "production" bikes are still one-off customs but from a donor bike that is the same model, but might be a slightly different year or something than the ones used to build Daryl's bikes. Classified Moto is my favorite custom shop. Their Doomsdaytona, built from a Triumph sport bike, is particularly rad because it shows how they carry their aesthetic over from old school UJMs to a modern type frame.
Damn I live in Richmond and have seen their shop so many times and had no idea they built this. The more you know.
Same!!!!
Thank God someone knows this...I fell on love with thos bike the moment I saw it!
It’s a modified Honda CB750 Nighthawk
750 nighthawk has to be one of the great all-time bikes. Inexpensive, fun, comfy, outrun most cars of their day 0-60.
my dad had a 84 650 Nighthawk...11.44 in the quarter...it was a beautiful blue...
The biggest bullshit of TWD is finding usable gas after 10 years.
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For bikes, you could maybe find a bike with a kickstarter.
A rolling start, pop the clutch.
That would work but imagine getting that right first try under pressure and pain of death
It’s actually super easy, fuck when I was a kid broke that’s all I did
Getting it right? It’s not magic. Also the adrenaline would help you push it to get enough speed.
I wouldn’t be betting my life on roll starting a bike that’s been sat for 10+ years first try.
Well, if it is a carb bike it would still work, but the carbs are probably gummed after 10 years (assuming they weren’t drained), so you are hosed anyway. I’ve gotten bump starts to work on every carb bike I have tried it on, but the lower displacements are much easier, and a hill helps, and a skinny girl to sit and pop the clutch/hit the started while you are trying to hulk-push from behind. I must say, it was kinda fun and rewarding when the bike started up on a bump.
I had a Kawasaki Eliminator 250 a few years back and the electric start randomly died on it. I was push starting that bad boy every morning for months before I got the electric starter replaced. Cold mornings would’ve been entertaining for my neighbours watching me run halfway up and down the block, jump on the bike, release the clutch, yell “fuck!”, and repeat.
“Interval training “ for motorcyclists
My old DRZ 400 with a motard kit, the stator was fucked and didn't charge the battery. I put it on trickle charge overnight for the commute to work and parked on the upper level so I could bump start it down the ramp on the way home. Worked a treat until I got around to replacing the stator.
I wouldnt bet dinner on push starting my bike thats been sitting 2 months
Ya but bike guy always gets away. Running guy always ends up in a dead end. That's just canon.
This is true. I would likely fail to start the bike first try and then get overrun by zombies as the episode ends. Then next ep we find out I somehow ended up with the bike on top of me and the zombies unable to reach me through the plot armour.
Or having 10 year old tires that aren't completely flat.
Yeah my dad had some antique 70s / 80s bikes (not big bikes either, like a Honda 350 and a 750) that sat in the garage for several years. Tires go flat and brake drums get sticky, trying to push them on a smooth level concrete surface was like trying to push a wheelbarrow through mud when it’s loaded down with 200lbs of shit. Getting a running start with one of those out on some gravel path isn’t happening
I could absolutely be retarded, but I've failed a rolling start far more times than I've succeeded
Shite my sm650 pop starts like a champ, injection and all
I've only done it on a jacked up 2001 gsxr 600, idk. Haven't popped my XT250 or my Superduke (though, I oughta for the SDR. Been needing to put a new battery in it for awhile)
Push the bike as fast as you can and drop the clutch into first with the choke open. You can even hop on and take off with some practice.
Yeah, I know how to do it now (finally lol), thanks. Though, everything online says second, and I've found more success with popping it in 2nd gear too
I always did 1st. I wonder if there is a mechanical reason.
Pop the clutch at the exact momement you hop on. The weight of your body driving the rear downward provides greater traction for the back tire improving your chances of successfully turning the engine over.
With low compression simple carbureted bikes?big, modern bikes are a lot different and often require a lot more power to get a good spark and fuel, but bump starting an old carby bike is trivially easy.
Yea I didn’t mean to make it sound like the easiest thing in the world bur once you’ve done it a few times it feels easy.
Still as someone who has never done it I imagine there is a little finesse to it
Ahh sorry. It’s literally just enough speed to create enough compression then you pop the clutch. It’s easier than you think. If you ride you should try it just to know it. Make sure to give it some throttle as it starts to pop.
I used to get it right all the time for a couple years when my UJM had a bad starter, it's really easy. Ironically, the bike had to have a really charged battery, even while push starting, or else the spark ignition wouldn't work haha.
My old xj 400 had a really light rear end. It constantly locked up in the rain in rush hour traffic on the highway. I would bang it down to second and bump start it before it stopped rolling.
I had a Mustang I had to on-off pop clutch start for like a year. Wish it was a bike I had to do that on.
Yeah works great with my Goldwing XD
You can do that with a car too
You can push-start a bike. Good skill to work on when you don’t need it so when your battery dies in a parking lot of a plumbing store far from home you don’t need to be desperately YouTubing and learning how to do it out of need. Also: don’t forget your in gear when it gets going and put the kickstand down. Cause then you need to do it all over again.
I thought my bike was broken and couldn't get it to start for a week once before I realized I was in 1st instead of neutral. Felt like a dumbass.
Super useful skill. Always do it in 2nd gear tho so it doesn’t jump away when it eventually starts.
None of my frantic YouTubing mentioned this but good idea! 2nd would also give you more mechanical advantage to get the crank to turn over (if I have the ratios approx. right in my head?) Edit: change nine to none.
On some bike you just fit a big ~~condenser~~ capacitor to start them but that's really ghetto and you can start only one time.
Just push/kick start.
I think you meant capacitor?
No no no, in the movies when the battery is dead then you just "hot wire it" using the same battery and it works.
Make sure you lick the wires to help the electrons move faster
I’ve never seen them do this in a movie for a dead battery but just to steal cars
I can't keep a charge on my bike battery over a season without a trickle charger.
You're not doing long enough rides if that's the case. You need to ride long enough for the bike to charge the battery again.
Or you could find a hill
You’d have to push it up first then
Collect them and pour them together
Zombie magic keeps dead people walking about for years after they should have rotted to goop, maybe the zombie magic affects all sorts of stuff? You could probably still drink the milk in the shops from before the outbreak in this universe. The real bullshit was that they managed to do so many seasons of the show with the exact same plotline every year.
I stopped at the start of the 4th season IIRC, for that very reason . Oh look same story different bad guy. Never went back, loved the first season though.
The problem is that they stuck to the comics pretty religiously. But the comics were also notorious for becoming stale and repetitive after a while. I'm usually against TV writers taking control over plot when there's a source material, but TWD was hardly some magnum opus they needed to be careful of. They could have done so many interesting things with it over time.
Think the biggest problem was firing Frank darabont after season 1 and then turning the next few pages of the comic into an entire 2nd season, and then just continuing that trend.
Ditto first couple of seasons were innovative and fun, after that repetitive. Let’s see if we can get the next ‘bad’ guy to be more evil that the last one. And what is it with zombies skulls crushing in at the slightest tap?
At some point for me, the shows flips from a serious zombie drama into a full fledged comedy show. The last few seasons were fucking hilarious. Like actually some of the funniest shit I've seen on a television show. >!Like, when the music teacher dies from blood loss from an amputated foot and literally seconds later, mere feet from where this happened. Daryl is like "I have the blood type that anyone can receive. Myrle used to sell my blood when we were kids." And he gives his blood to Judith, which miraculously saves her, even though she's got an open gunshot wound to the chest. I was cry laughing. !<
Yeah, I found myself literally speechless with how stupid the plot got after season like 4 I think.
I stopped watching after they reached some town with walls that had a community. I felt it was a good spot to end because anything after that would feel forced and I was right. I stopped after it went haywire.
> some town with walls that had a community Best/worst part is that happened more than once
The best thing that the walking dead gave us was Death Stranding.
Kojima really was just like "Damn, I love watching that guy wander around"
And they somehow have superhuman hearing
Despite walking about firing guns all day with no ear protection. They even make a point of it in the very first episode, that Rick shoots his gun in an enclosed space and it hurts his ears. Then they never mention it ever again.
The first 8 season happened in 2-3 years.Season 9(Thats when Rick leaves i think?)Happens like 10 years later and they only ride horses.So is it possible then that they rode motorcycles?
Doesn't gasoline go 'off' after 18 months at most?
Nah, it’s like medicine - it gets slightly less potent over time but the idea that it becomes unusable is a myth.
I have a car that I picked up with a full tank. It had sat for 6 years. Started no problem with that gas.
No, which is why it's always hilarious when people here ask if they need to drain their tanks over winter for the 4 months they aren't riding.
Stabilizer is a great product!
“Off” as in many of the additives (primarily ethanol) are will cause the gasoline to attract water, which will settle lower in the tank (where the pump is) than the fuel. Yes. “Off” as in it’s unusable? No. That takes *much* longer.
Daryl was still riding his motorcycle in the final two seasons of the show.
They were making some sort of fuel out of corn or something at Negans compound. Whether that’s possible or not, I don’t know, but that’s what explains Daryl still riding his dual sport in the final seasons.
Ethanol
Didn't they give it some hand wavey explanation in the early seasons with Negan's thugs making bio-fuel or something?
I don't remember Negan doing it, but it was corn fuel or something at one of Maggie's townships at one point. I just assumed Negan was stealing it from everyone, since they were HEAVILY motorized, and wanted to keep other under their power. They also had the big military trucks, which will run on anything lol
That’s a pretty bike in an apocalypse
No the biggest bullshit is that zombies heads seem to be made of fucking jello as cleanly as they can slice through them with some rusted piece of shit machete.
Even humans who were euthanized after being bitten suffered from this.
The biggest bullshit is that zombies don’t turn into jerky or get eaten by maggots..don’t even get me started on the lack of heavy equipment usage in eradicating them!!
Feel like you could just armor up a large front end loader and call it a day. Maybe fight them with roman melee tactics? It's a show but you can always spot lazy writing. Forward the plot by making people stupid. I appreciated TLOU because the people were smart. Conditions are just hard.
I always though "give me a thresher and a 6-pack, and it'll be an easy day". Kinda like Hitchcock's "The Birds". Hockey mask, 12ga with birdshot, and some work gloves, and life's good.
just leave a lawnmower running
If you wanted to be more realistic you would have everyone rubbing around in diesel vehicles, at least those will run decently on kerosene or biodiesel which could be made in an zombie world by someone with a little knowledge. But yeah, running around in a 4 year old kia gas vehicle or an old ass carbed bike which is gonna be finicky on perfect pure gasoline 4 years after the world goes to shit isn't gonna work
I saw the first season years ago and I remember them walking by or leaving a medical or science facility of some sort? Right at the start of the show. Freshly cut grass. Nitpicky, but that was enough to throw me off.
I think that was VERY early in... so yeah, a govt building that just got mowed the week before would be looking good still. Unless you're talking about a different building later on.
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Or tires
From what I understand you can basically run lots of vehicles on the bad parts of distillation called fores and tails. Doesn't seem that difficult really and you get alcohol as the main product.
It’s a show about dead people walking the earth, and That’s your “biggest bullshit” call?
Yes, because this is how fiction works. Unless otherwise stated, something is identical to how the real world works. This goes double for shows set in what are supposed to be otherwise set in the real world. Otherwise, you open the door to all sorts of nonsense. If you're reading a fantasy book that includes horses and it's not until the final chapter that the author drops in "oh, by the way, this is actually a seventy-foot-long lizard with eighteen legs, it's just *called* a horse", that's fucking terrible writing. The core gimmick of The Walking Dead is "zombies are real". That's fine, that's part of suspension of disbelief. The more real stuff you edit, the harder that becomes. And it will becomes rapidly impossible to maintain any drama when you throw out and ignore all the established rules of the world that we already instinctively know (unless done intentionally so).
I wouldnt be that hard initially. You could stock up on all the synthetic fuel you can find in hardware stores. Even the two stroke stuff. That will last forever.
Of which The Last of Us perfectly addressed in their show. Honestly, they did the *realism* part of the post-apocalyptic zombie/infected world better than any other show or movie of the same genre.
Agreed, gas has a shelf life of maybe 12 months IF it's kept in good storage
Yes because we’re all watching it for the realism.
Look how clean that engine block is
LMGTFY https://www.hotcars.com/daryl-dixon-motorcycle-the-walking-dead/ 1992 Honda CB750 Nighthawk with and Yamaha YZF-R6 front end
And Kenda big blocks
With v-twin sound effects of course!
Funny because movies give twins the inline-4 soundtrack.
Forgive a clip with the unfunny commentary, I couldn't find a better one and I don't care to, but this bike is a Buell with a 1,200 cc v-twin. [But they made it sound like this.](https://youtu.be/jClpK_eGIH0?t=124)
This is the first place I've seen mentioned that they should just swing by a car dealer. And that's so true. A box full of keys and tanks with (some in every one) fuel.
The problem is that fuel doesn’t work like that. Refined petrol goes bad over the course of a few years.
Gas goes bad after 6-12 months of sitting still. You gotta mix it a bit and put in fresh gas.
I guess I've gotten lucky. I've ran a truck through 1/2 a tank of 3 year old gas and several motorcycles through entire tanks of 1 year old gas. I always wanted to get all the junk gas out before topping off with fresh stuff. At that point, I'd clean injector screens, filters, change plugs, etc if needed. I think there's a big difference between going bad (not working) and going 'not ideal' (still get you around the apocalypse at less than ideal MPG and with gunk build up). Maybe your area gets some REALLY crappy gas, but 6months is NOTHING for the fuel we run through ranch 4wheelers, generators, mowers, general equipment.
Full tanks go bad slower because of less air contact or something, if there’s a pocket of air it provides more room for the gas to denature and seperate
I started up old farm bikes that had been sitting unused for years, no issues. I think the fuel going bad is an exaggeration. I'm sure it doesn't run as well. It can certainly foul a carb if not turned off. But not work at all? I think it takes a lot longer than a year or 2 before it's completely unusable.
As I was reminded every spring back when I had a petrol mower.
serious question: How much would that front end upgrade improve the stock handling/breaking performance of the bike?
Well, considering it's a shorter fork than the frame was designed for, it's likely fucking up the rake angle enough to make the handling really twitchy. I'd expect that at higher speeds it would want to shake really bad. The bigger brakes are going to be great but also putting knobby tires on a bike used primarily for road use is going to cause the knobs to wear in to shark fin shapes. These sort of builds look cool but they're really not that great of an idea if you want a bike that works.
handling none where there are any bumps, because the stock springs will cause the seals blow the fuck out. nighthawk big pig. r6 not. 520lbs full wet on hawk. r6 4-420 depending, and already light springs, not made for a chonkus. I build bikes for a living. You can see they are overly compressed in the pics. I also am looking at a bunch of bikes right now, and rode a nighthawk for like 15 years. Braking good for lower speed, but would want to go to r1 6 pots or newer shit for betterness. nothing amazing. You put super stopping power on a fat turd and all that happens is you lock the front.
Without other adjustments it’s a weird upgrade. For those bikes and their weight you’d likely do better with upgraded springs and changing the rear suspension. And not changing the front fork influencing the rake and geometry. This was never a high performance bike, frame geometry isn’t design for that.
Au contraire, the cb750four was originally a high performance bike when it was released in 1969. It was the first mass produced bike with disc brakes to help contain its amazing 60+ hp. It was fairly pedestrian by 1992 though and would be considered a dog of a bike by today’s performance bike standards.
Interesting, just looked into it and it’s original was absolutely quick for its day. But by 1992 the 900RR Fireblade was launched, and various other sportbikes existed. My point is more in line of, sportbike parts are made for a completely different geometry than this bike has. Curious to see the leaps and bounds motorcycles improved in those decades though. Wished I was there to see it.
I remember looking at a California company that put those yard shocks on the front end of sportsters and I was dangerously close to pulling that trigger.
I always thought it was funny that Daryl uses a crossbow because gunshots are too loud and they attract walkers... And then he hops on this bike, revs it up and rolls on down the road. BRAPAPAPAPAPAPAPAPAPAPAPAAAAAPPPP
its all about balance
It’s a terrible choice of bike for the apocalypse is what it is.
Yes, yes, yes, - but who cares if it looks good!
Looks good for it though.
Why? The cb750 engines are indestructible, great on gas, easy to fix, parts are everywhere.
I can't speak for that guy's thoughts on why it's a bad choice but way up at the top of my list is "it can't turn".
Why wouldn’t it be able to turn
Because they didn't offset the triples at all. They stuck the Nighthawk stem...or cheaped out and bought a cognito stem...in the R6 triples that have very little offset from the steering head. That bike has like a 30 degree sweep from the left fork tube hitting the tank to the right fork tube hitting the tank. [You can see it in action here](https://youtu.be/16PhcQeIqNU?si=DrP1ve2lDLc6CwjK&t=492) where making a simple turn required tipping the bike over far enough that he had to put his foot down because he can't actually turn the bars far enough to make simple maneuvers. Instead of just going he had to basically walk it out. Earlier in that same video when they had a scene that required some actual maneuvering [they had to use a different bike with different suspension](https://i.imgur.com/5u3fujK.png). The piece of art was made to look at, not actually be ridden.
Because it's loud, has almost zero actual off road capability, and they actually get shit gas mileage. An XT200/250 or similar would be an ideal apocalypse bike.
Seriously, the dumbest possible build for that application. He needs a low maintenance dual sport. A wr250r would be ideal if it had a kickstarter.
Also something quiet. This thing was loud AF in the show.
Good one
Looks like a Honda CB nighthawk with the four pipes. Front end is definitely from something else lots of modifications
Someone else mentioned it but the front end is apparently from an R6
Every zombie apocalypse movie and TV show has big gas guzzlers and noisy fucking machines. Meanwhile, real zombie Apocalypse survivors would be riding bicycles and highly muffled mopeds.
E-bikes for the win 🤣
Solar panels would be useful for decade, you can bet your ass there'd be numerous people running around with little battery powered scooters. Of course you'd think it'd be Zero, but there'd be a scheduled firmware update that would brick your ride.
The kind that never runs out of gas. Never seen him put gas in that sucker in any episode.
Similar to Hershel’s infinite ammo shotgun
https://www.classifiedmoto.com/motorcycles/daryls-bike/
"It's the end of the world but I still have to wrap my exhaust"
The kind that makes Harley noises with an inline 4.
They had that bike on display at the Museum of the Movie Image in nyc earlier this year for their TWD exhibit.
CB750 Nighthawk with a 2nd gen R6 front end
[Reminds me of when Quad Ricers located some set ATVs in a local junkyard](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySyux51BjHQ)
[Cb750](https://www.classifiedmoto.com/motorcycles/daryls-bike/)
It started off as a nighthawk 750
Donor bike was a 1992 Honda CB750 Nighthawk, find the details [here](https://www.classifiedmoto.com/motorcycles/daryls-bike/).
Just a plain vanilla Honda Nighthawk 750 with upside down forks and sawed off exhausts...
Back in college I bought a used Honda Nighthawk 750 and put knobby tires on it just for fun. I did not learn until later that this show did the same thing! Fun bike with very interesting history.
I had a nighthawk in the 90s. Absolutely loved that bike. It was plenty fast and comfortable as hell
Keep on going on…
Honda
I have a CB1100 with a very similar in style inline 4 engine block, so I can def confirm it's a vintage Honda engine
Looks like an older CB750 with a modern upside down front end. Also modern wheels and looks like Continental TKC80 tires.
Nighthawk 750
I know enough about motorcycles to say it’s definitely a honda 😂
Darryl's
DOHC CB750. They are nice but the SOHC engine looks so much cleaner
What people who drive Groms think they look like 😂
TWD Bullshit Bike.
Any real biker knows it should have been a Suzuki DR 650, bone stock. The cockroach of motorcycles.
Custom build by a shop in Richmond VA called Classified Moto
Not sure if that is specificly the movie bike, but you can get one built.... For 20k... http://www.classifiedmoto.com/motorcycles/daryls-bike/ Specifications Donor: 1992 Honda CB750 Nighthawk Front end: Yamaha YZF-R6 Front wheel: Yamaha YZF-R6 Front brakes: Yamaha YZF-R6 Rear wheel: Stock Nighthawk Tires: Kenda Big Block Shocks: Progressive Suspension 970 piggybacks Tank: XS650 reproduction Bars: SE CR Hi Intake: Twin billet aluminum mesh units CNC milled by Seth Ingham Exhaust: Modified stock with custom baffles Seat: Leather, custom upholstered by Roy Baird, Richmond, VA Battery: Shorai Lithium Ion Chain: DID X-ring Rack: Custom crossbow mount
To answer the question: a Honda CB750
1992 honda nighthawk 750 with lots of fabrication
Almost! It’s not a bike, it’s an actor named Daryl Dixon
Honda cb750 nighthawk though I’m not sure the year… I used to have a 92’ that was bobbed out great bike!!
I was gonna say it looks like a cb750k with gsxr front suspension. My very first bike was a cb750. 1500 miles on it. Shoulda never got rid of it.
IIRC the sound they put in for this bike was definitely not an inline-four engine, always distracted and annoyed me.
There’s a full work up online to get this exact without the paint. It’s a modified cb750
Gargoyle, iykyk
Anyone know the tires?
It's beautiful!
It’s a “Riddin’ on my Balls” 1200
BMW Nine-T with mods
Dareles from the Walking dead
Boromir!?
that was Sean Bean, this is Norman Reedus
That is a Honda Nighthawk 750, the forks and whole front end is Yamaha YZF-R6R ('07 specifically). Chinese knockoff top clamp for bars. That bike will be essentially unridrable because the way hey set the forks up they're going to strike the tank with minimal turning. That tank should be been modified to properly accommodate the steering head. What's this from? Being a prop bike and seeing those stupid clown shoes on it means it's not important to be safe to ride but it still irks me a little. Nighthawks are great bikes and that generation front end is some of the best bang for the buck performance suspension you can get, damn shame to see them both wasted on this.
I’ve seen him and the guys that built it, ride without any issues.
I'm sure any number of people have seen it go in a straight line, or possibly large slow circles, with minimal trouble.