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

[thom]

I think that is a Wagner tuba. It isn't a French Horn, anyway (my sister used to play one, so I am reasonably familar with what they look like).

Yes, or Wagner horn. A bit like a Euphonium. Neither is much use outside brass bands or Romantic Wagnerian operas. I wish I'd learnt to play the trombone instead...

 

[thom]

I have to say I'm disappointed that people aren't more impressed by my herring gull. They are more than a little aggressive and I did rather well to make it home without losing an eye. It's not quite as good a canister of radioactive xenon or a cello, admittedly, but it's got to be worth a "like" or two...

TC I'm disillusioned with life now - I really thought you had principles above such social trivialities.
What can I believe in any more ?

 

[BigonaBianchi]

does a woman count?

 

[thom]

I am so tempted to like this.

Go on, it would be my 200'th like !
You know it makes sense...

Edit : Bingo

 

[Jefferson Meriwether]

Is it wrong of me that, having read this thread, I now want to go out on a bike ride carrying something strange?

 

[Arch]

Is it wrong of me that, having read this thread, I now want to go out on a bike ride carrying something strange?

Not at all. Just make sure you get a picture.

 

[Jefferson Meriwether]

Not at all. Just make sure you get a picture.

I'll do my best; any pics aquired will be dutifully posted here.

 

[Arch]

Maybe we should dare you...

I'll kick off with a bentwood hatstand...

 

[Jefferson Meriwether]

Maybe we should dare you...

I'll kick off with a bentwood hatstand...

Dare accepted Now all I've got to do is get my hands on a bentwood hatstand & find someone willing to take a photo of me cycling along with it

 

[TheDoctor]

Plax's coalscuttle.
Not quite as outlandish as it sounds.
I was visiting my Granny, who lives in the village where Plax grew up. We duly arranged a ride on Anglesey. Anglesey is flat - well, flattish - and having been beaten to a pulp with assorted bits of Snowdonia in the past I was uneager to repeat the experience.
So, there we are, doing a ride from Llanfairpwllwhateverthehellitisgogogoch to Llangefni and back via a garden centre cafe, and Plax spots a place selling coal scuttles. Her one had recently dismantled itself. We stopped, she made the purchase, and then realised that her bike didn't have a rack.
So that's how I rode 5 miles with a coal scuttle hanging off the back of my Brompton.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

A tesco basket. I brought it, i did not steal it.

How much was it? did you get clubcard points? Did it go through the self scan? Did you bring your own bag?

 

[summerdays]

but the chap I saw riding a bso whilst carrying a crt monitor

I've seen one of them before .... and various oddities - and always when my camera isn't to hand.

For me - off the top of my head it could be the time I carried 3 sledges home - it was snowy, and the two long ones fitted in the pannier. However the large round disk one wouldn't so it was strapped to my back. I did look tortoise like!!! and got lots of comments and also lots of people being nice to me and letting me out at junctions - presumably so they could laugh a bit more!!!

 

[theclaud]

TC I'm disillusioned with life now - I really thought you had principles above such social trivialities.
What can I believe in any more ?

I try to rise above it all, like DZ, but I'm only human.

 

[Black Sheep]

a cycle chat "bring a thing" ride where we ride with odd objects on our bikes?

 

[Christopher]

I try to rise above it all, like DZ, but I'm only human.

What do you expect, tc? Posting on here is generally putting pearls before swine.

Anyhoo, I have carried a PC base unit on a tourer. Took off the case and draped over the rear rack and used a big rucksack to carry the unit proper - threaded the straps through the frame of the unit and backed it up with some climbing slings. Worked fine, well it was going to the dump anyway
And last night I carried a 'Cycle Event' sign i found in a local park to a clubmate's house. That was really awkward as the plastic poles were still zip-tied to the thing and I could not fold the sign which was about A1 size. Managed it by threading about 5m of thin bungee cord around the sign and wearing it like a rucksack. Got few comments but lots of room from cars. Annoyingly, after I had dropped the dign off it was back to the usual close passes and craazy driving.