Hawk 250 doomsday prepper question

[bmw111]

Seeing as how the news is so cheerful everyday, I have a technical question for the preppers on here.

If an EMP event happened and your Hawk 25O was sitting outside, what spare parts would you need to have in your Faraday cage in order to get the bike running post haste?

[Red Hawk]

A Digital dash, voltage regulator, LED bulbs, CDI, turn signal box would all be shot. Getting it running would be the very least of your concerns. Yes it’s possible but the coming year has larger unfavorable questions.

Ho well have a good night all

[franque]

You could convert it over to points with CG125 parts!

[bmw111]

Yeah old bikes with points would be kings of the road if the SHTF. Thanks for the replies, seems like “what if” scenarios are becoming reality, doesn’t hurt to be prepared.

[kingofqueenz]

You have a Faraday Cage ... but no garage or shed to keep your Hawk in ?

[OneLeggedRider]

An EMP event huh? I knew there was something I forgot to prep for.. It's that darn Tako, he said he was gonna throw in something free with every cluster, and now he's doomed the entire Hawk Nation.

Oh damn, I just stepped in some corona, now I gotta go soak my foot in parts cleaner for a couple hours. Hope it doesn't affect my looting ability.. Well I'll let y'all get back to your speculating.

[kingofqueenz]

1Leg's post makes me think about the simplicity of things.

There are 2 types of people when SHTF

Preppers and Looters.

[OneLeggedRider]

Originally Posted by kingofqueenz

1Leg's post makes me think about the simplicity of things.

There are 2 types of people when SHTF

Preppers and Looters.

Haha! I think people are seriously over reacting and the average American IQ is about 70. But I live on a small farm and even with our limited resources we could get by without water, electricity and toilet paper for atleast a year, maybe indefinitely if we did some swapping of goods and fuel with the locals. Even if it meant living primarily off of chicken and eggs and some beef. And I'm within walking distance of a major river and handy with a fishing pole. And we got a big creek running through the property and are well equipped for any stupidity that may arise.

[China Rider 27]

Originally Posted by OneLeggedRider

Haha! I think people are seriously over reacting and the average American IQ is about 70. But I live on a small farm and even with our limited resources we could get by without water, electricity and toilet paper for atleast a year, maybe indefinitely if we did some swapping of goods and fuel with the locals. Even if it meant living primarily off of chicken and eggs and some beef. And I'm within walking distance of a major river and handy with a fishing pole. And we got a big creek running through the property and are well equipped for any stupidity that may arise.

LOL! Easy for you to say! Us in the city are going to have to bug out on our HAWKS etc. with all the weapons and ammo we can carry amidst the hordes! Hope you all got your performance mods right!

[bmw111]

It was a theoretical question. Faraday cages, at least small ones, are quite easy to make. You can turn a metal safe into one.

[krat]

My last trip to town there was nothing left to loot!

According to all the legitimate testing I have read EMP will only affect components that are in operation at the time of the impulse.

I once asked a top NASA engineer what they did about CME, which is the natural pure form of EMP. He told me there was no real problem with the stuff out in space directly exposed constantly. If they got an overload surge they turned it off, then back on.

A simple computer reset. Disconnect the battery for one minute, connect it back up.

[kingofqueenz]

Now that consumer goods are becoming more and more sparse, current data is showing a significant rise in the sale of ammunition and withdrawal of cash.

People going old school, not trusting banks and "the system" and want to have liquid cash, and of course weaponry to protect their goods and families

https://time.com/5804562/coronavirus-fears-gun-sales/

[kingofqueenz]

TOILET PAPER HOARDING

The toilet paper hoarding is a social "copy cat" purchase by Americans and truth be told "we" are buying it just because.

Its origins specific to COVID-19 come from Hong Kong, when supplies of medical masks evaporated, they began making their own masks from cloth and inserting toilet paper, or paper towels sandwiched in-between 2 layers of cloth as a "filter" of sorts.

When I was online at Costco the other day, 2 people in front of me had 2 bulk packages of Bounty paper towels ( toilet paper was sold out ).

Out of curiosity (and knowing the origins of 'why' from Asia), I asked both people why they were buying up so much paper towels and both essentially replied with some rendition of " because everyone else is"

Not everyone needs to be a "prepper" or a doomsday fear monger taking things over the top so soon, however EVERYONE should have a little common sense and maybe even a generic plan of sorts on how to hunker down for at least a week.

Just my views.....

[bmw111]

Originally Posted by kingofqueenz

Not everyone needs to be a "prepper" or a doomsday fear monger taking things over the top so soon, however EVERYONE should have a little common sense and maybe even a generic plan of sorts on how to hunker down for at least a week.

Just my views.....

This should be common sense. But it's not. Nobody should run their household on a "if we don't go to buy supplies every week we'll starve" model. No matter if there's a current crisis or not.

[2LZ]

I bet the same group who's hoarding all the TP is the same group who tells me how much ammo I don't need.