What's the strangest thing you have carried on your bike?

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Me personally, nothing. A friend however rode about five miles from a scrap yard, carrying an alloy wheel complete with tyre that he had just bought under his arm. He had to keep stopping to swap arms and said it was the hardest thing he'd ever done.

When he reached home, and went to fit it this car to replace the bust wheel he had, he found it didn't fit :biggrin:
 

donnydave

Über Member
Location
Cambridge
A mile with a car radiator under one arm. It was off a Nissan 200sx (an s14 with the marvellous r20det engine) . I have never owned said vehicle but the radiator was a perfect fit and a quarter of the price of the actual radiator for my car.
 

donnydave

Über Member
Location
Cambridge
Also, to continue the theme of carrying car parts, I cycled 12.5 miles from work to home with 2 front brake discs for a jag xj6 in my rucksack, and not the standard 286mm discs, the infinitely more manly 320 "big brake" option larger discs. There was a logistical oversight when ordering and I had them delivered to the wrong place.
 

classic33

Leg End Member
just think what you could carry with this lot!
Triple Bike Trailers.jpg
 

Pat "5mph"

A kilogrammicaly challenged woman
Moderator
Location
Glasgow
I carried a hedge trimmer for 6 miles, top sticking out from my (deep) rucksack.
Reading this thread, I remembered that I picked up some car engine part for a friend from a welder, then delivered it to the mechanic as my friend was working. The face of both the welder and the mechanic on me showing up on a bike was like : :eek:
 

classic33

Leg End Member
How do you steer it? :huh:
Its not mine, its Bikes at Work. They do this for a living.

Whilst not strictly carrying, how does trying to make off with a 22 foot boat trailer go.
Security guard at an auction, having heard I'd arrived on my bike, pointed out the window & said I could take it, if I could pull it.
Rope out & tied the towing hitch to the rear of the Brox, unseen, and proceeded to cycle off passing the guards office on the way. Got stopped by the same security guard who'd said I could have it. Not fair!!
 

deanE

Senior Member
I think I posted this some months ago, but my father was once prosecuted by the police for carrying a door when riding his cyclemaster. He had stopped to safely cross a busy road at lunch time when the policeman pulled up in his noddy car and said he wasn’t in proper control of his “vehicle”. My father didn’t help much by pointing out that if he wasn’t in control then he couldn’t have stopped when he did, but what probably clinched it was when the policeman took out his notebook and said, “How big is that door? 7 foot?” at which my father replied that it wouldn’t fit his blo*dy doorway if it was. Fined £3. The fact that my father had had his kneecap removed in his left leg and so with a perfectly stiff left leg had to pedal his bike, and start off on his moped with just the right leg, was not mentioned.
 

MarkF

Guru
Location
Yorkshire
Recently I went to a festival, I rode there, I met a pal at the station and the idea was to ride for couple of hours and then return for 2 or 3 beers......maximum. In the event, we rode the half mile to the festival , it was heaving with people having a good time, so, we entered the first bar, and embarked on a bender. :smile:

I can remember giving a "lift" to some old bird between bars and falling into a parked car, the rest is pretty much a blur. I fell off on the way home, I was using the pavement and hit "something" white. Lost my sunglasses, which had been perched on my head, cut my hands and scraped my bonce. Woke up with terrible hangover and decided to retrace my ride to, hopefully, find my sunglasses, they were prescription ones, not cheap.

I didn't find them but I did find a big and dead white cat.........things started to come slowly back to me. I took it's collar off, it was nice, electric blue with faux diamonds, but it had neither a phone number nor address. I like cats and was pretty sad about it, I convinced myself that it must have been dead when I hit it, that, or it was a not very motivated moggie.

It'd gone hard, and I noted that it had already had a big post-death piss so I stuck it on my rack and rode home to bury it.........
 
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