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I'm not convinced. Horses, maybe, but horses are a lot of work, a lot more than bikes.

I agree, cars and horses fail in many similar ways to bikes. Feet can handle a lot.

Horses and dogs take a lot of maintenance (more for horses obviously), but unlike a bike, car, or gun, anyone who owns one and thinks of taking it on a long trip is more likely to know how to keep it alive.

More importantly, horses and dogs require minimal industrial infrastructure to maintain, which isn't true of bikes and cars. As long as you can feed the horse really, and all you need is some land with grass. Minimal tech is required to shoe the horse, etc....

Horse have some advantages over bikes.

They make more of themselves.

And a horse is, last resort, dinner.

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