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I rode from the carpark to the hotel today towing my wheelie luggage. Fun, I don't think those little wheels were meant to go that fast 🙂
A mate rode to the bike shop then rode home with his new bike...over his shoulder.
Me 😀
A 5ft Christmas Tree, Mop, Brush and Vacuum Cleaner. I did have a trailer though
A large roll of curtain fabric + liner balanced on the handlebars and under the arm
A ****-off massive casserole pot, whilst riding a BMX cruiser up Park Street, Bristol.
Good training, but stupid looking.
a giant cardboard box for posting a bike ...
a large box containing a toaster
a car wheel on the handlebars
27 m of copper pipe - 9 x 3m lengths tied to the crossbar
On another occasion 5 (IIRC) rolls of loft insulation
12 m of 3x2 - again in 3 m lengths ties to the crossbar
a large gold coloured swiss ball...made many people smile
i bought a broom on the commute home one day
stashed it in the bottom of my rucksack so i had teh handle poking out like a big antenna
was very careful at first by teh time i was nearly home totally forgot it was there and rode under a bus shelter at a fair clip - the noise it made scared the crap out of me and snapped the handle 😳
A dead deer.
was it on here that someone posted a video of themselves last winter of them going up a hill on their bike with a snowboard strapped to their back, then they went down the hill on their snowboard with their bike strapped to their back. i was well impressed with that!
Seen lot's of this style thing in Uganda
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I have quite a list (not at the same time)!
1) a 25kg sack of tile adhesive on a rear rack.
2) a 15 litre tub of pre mixed tile adhesive on the crossbar.
3) 3 lengths of boiler flue pipe under the arm.
4) large quantity of fishing kit, rods on crossbar, everything else trailing behind.
Kbrembo, is that a coffin?
I once carried a large suitcase sideways across the top tube with my arms (just) reaching over it. I had to ride about 5 miles like that too, was distinctly uncomfortable.
I'm sure I've also told you about the time many years ago when we were doing a Polaris. My mate had a puncture and we were desperately sprinting for the line, so I gave him a backie with his bike across his back for the last half mile or so.
A kayak paddle - was a regular trip for a while.
"Kbrembo, is that a coffin?"
Yes
Unfortunately Uganda/Kampala has a roaring trade in Coffins and there are litreally 'coffin shops/shacks" all over the place....
Full matchfishing kit. Rod holdall, seatbox, nets and all the other nonsense that went with it. Was a regular trip along the A75.
An air rifle ,used to take it farm with me to shot vermin ,was glad when I passed my test ,also ride back once with 55lb bag of spuds
The missus on a tandem as she did sod all work!!
I also bought two sets of pads for a car and two discs, and carried them home in my courier bag. F*** me that was hard work!
A kayak paddle - was a regular trip for a while
Same. Strapped it to the top tube with about a foot sticking out above the front wheel. Occasionally got it caught with the wheel/cabling for comedy effect.
And speaking of Uganda, I've been the awkward thing carried on the back of a bike (ok, a scooter). Definitely the scariest thing about the kayaking the Nile:
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Several boxed bike frames (before Parcelforce did collections 🙄 ), a garden fork, and probably the heaviest . . . 3 rather large bike locks when returning to work after the summer holiday - one of a group of school kids at the bus stop shouted 'you're holding up the traffic love' . . . I was soo tempted to stop and drop my rucksack on her feet 👿
I worked on the white Nile years ago before it came real popular.
What an awsome River.. loved it!
Done that trip from Jinja a few times on the back of the scooter!
Pedalling in snowboard boots, wearing full snowboarding kit, whilst carrying snowboard on back isn't easy...
A shotgun, half a dozen rabbits and two rooks.
4 sheep skulls and a badger skull and spine.
In my wayward teens I remember pootling along the A30 at 3am with a couple of mates.. each of our bikes laden with enough carp fishing gear for a weekends fishing.. plus food and beer..
(if you know anything about carp anglers you will know that this is a LOT of kit..)
Oh yeah, I forgot one:
Aged about 15 me and three mates had to bring a moped back from his Gran's house about 5 miles away. Fine, except it wasn't going. So we tied ropes on the front and towed it behind our bikes. Of course someone had to steer it, so it was like some kind of perverse chariot thing. Bloody funny, but extremely hard work!
A Wii balance board.
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This may be cheating. 🙂
A bass guitar.
Big Dummy only wins if he can find a picture of someone sitting in the chair whilst he's riding along.
As a courier, Jeff Brazier's audition reels. Weighed a ton for something so devoid of content.
A mini cyclinder head on the back rack and the valves swinging in a carrier bag on the handlebars...... it was a bit wobbly!
Two unicycles.
That Big Dummy/chair combo is nothing less than a chariot for a returning hero, upon whom the Freedom of the City will be bestowed by grateful citizenry.
In other words, welcome back BD! 😀
An 8' shelf sounds a bit rubbish now. It was a little bit windy.
A full can of petrol back from the filling station to my car which had run out on the A56, 5 litres is bloody heavy in one hand for about 6 miles.
Saw a guy riding through Northwich yesterday carrying a Dyson up a hill on his road bike.
On seperate occasions, A campervan battery, a set of stepladders, and a cat, in travelbox tied to my back like a rucksack.
A car engine's cylinder head.
It was a nasty, if mercifully short journey.
A Ford Fiesta drivers seat when i was about 14
Unicycle strapped to my back. 13 miles of commuting pain.
A disposable BBQ, not quite extinguished...
(not me, was a mate but the memory is still vividly in my mind following him down the track - we thought it was properly out but the airflow reignited it)
Top cycling lunacy on this thread! Love it. My contribution.
A freshly bead blasted steel bike frame over my shoulder on my commute back from college. Pissed it down with rain. 🙄
Food for a 6 person weekend camping trip on a post office bike, front carrier, rear panniers and large rucksack. Probably about 250lbs of me, bike and food at 27mph downhill, (yes, my postie bike had a computer) with shoddy rod brakes.
Many moons ago a pal carried a ten foot length of mahogany bar top home under his arm after it was found dumped outside the pub.
I wish I had been there to see him turn right at the tightish roundabout at the foot of Leith Street.
A metal christmas tree base
A drunk friend and 12 bottles of wine. We got a smile from a policeman.
A water bottle and a pump...
Actually no 2 water bottles and a pump. I kid thou not...
A set of dumbells in their case from Argos on the rack, and then stopping at the sorting office on the way back to pick up what I thought might a jiffy bag from CRC or similar, what turned out to be a massive postal box of flowers that the postman had stupidly not left with a neighbour. I was, to say the least, a little more unbalanced than normal - though not a patch on some of the above. It was hard work up the long hill home.
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A dead deer.
I am so happy this lovely lady has agreed to become my wife. 😀
A water bottle and a pump...
Actually no 2 water bottles and a pump. I kid thou not...
Juan; living life on the edge, as always! 😉
found this pic... 😮
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A lacrosse stick. I do believe the conversation went something like this.
(We were riding along carrying out lacrosse sticks)
My mate: "Watch out, your stick could get caught in the spokes if you carry it like that"
Me: "Don't be stupid, the head is far too wide to fit between the spokes, watch"
/jams lacrosse stick head into the spokes.
/goes flying over the bars.
Turned down from a lock in we got 24 bottle of beer in a plastic pub crate which I balanced on the handlebars and held down with one hand in which I held a torch. Clipped the verge and crashed breaking all but 7 bottles. I was not popular when the guy behind crashed into my bike and fell into all the broken glass. In the morning I also discovered I had snapped both brake levers off too and buckled his wheel. very expensive mistake!
Flol at samuri 🙂
I once cycled through Bedford with one of these tied on the rear rack of a bike
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Needless to say the traffic gave me a very wide berth
Myself!