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Given this thread is something of a prepper question and if we we're facing an EMP event, how many have thought about stocking up on bicycles and a variety of spare parts, tubes, tires, chain lube etc.

You can go for a looooooong way on a bicycle. Sure the roads would be clogged with conked out vehicles, but with a bike you can go around them, even if you have to get off and push your way to a clear right of way.

Many of us though are getting long in the tooth (me, for one) but if one regularly exercises and I'm not talking about playing golf using a golf cart, but actual exercise, you can still do hard labor even into very old age. Being able to perform hard labor will be required if survival is a priority...

Along with years and years of weight training, distance running, kayaking, cycling, long distance in-line skating, long distance swimming, I've managed to stay in condition. To keep busy and do something I need to do, but don't want to have a contractor take care of, I'm felling monstrously large cottonwood trees that have become a giant nuisance with massive roots showing above ground that're like rolling over logs when I mow. Doing such activities is grueling, but help keep me in shape, well, I do eat like Paul Bunyan, so in the last few years, I've finally developed more and more of a round shape...

I've dropped two Cottonwoods so far. The first one, roughly 16"/18" in diameter and 45'/55' tall and the latest one, roughly 30"/35" in diameter, very tall and really massive. Along with the effort of using a come-a-long winch, chains, screw in bolts to make certain I drop them where I want it, plus a chain saw, the sheer effort of cutting them up and hauling their parts to the burn pile keeps me huffing and puffing and in sound physical condition. Ah, as long as I don't kill myself with a tree falling on me or the chain saw killing me, I'm way ahead of the game.

Why am I bragging? (it aint bragging if you can do it or so I read somewhere) Well, by some standards I'm quite old, (septuagenarian old) but since I never sat in a rocking chair since I retired 20+ years ago, I've avoided getting lazy and out of shape, if something like an EMP hits, I can cope better.

So preppers, buy cycling stuff and stay in shape if the big one hits...and you care to survive.

Seagulls: "they are meat eaters, and may have trichinella, a parasitic roundworm, as well of other poisons accumulating in the bird." (I saw this info tidbit doing a little internet looking.)

Plus, can you be certain they aren't garbage eating seagulls? They are to be avoided.

Too, they are a Federally protected species. Right, in a life of death situation whose going to care? Well, if the world righted itself relatively soon, lawbreakers just might be in trouble, ...or not, but I'd avoid eating seagulls anyway. They are beautiful creatures, but then to me, so are vultures and Id rather starve than eat one...

I get a kick out people imagining they can live off the land because they see rabbits and squirrels in their yard.

Even if you live waaaaaaaaay out in the country, with a wood full of game, everyone will be hunting and game will quickly play out.

To play the game: I'd want a suppressed .22 LR rifle.