Odd Bike Cargo

[liberty]

Just curious: what is the oddest/largest thing you've ever carried on your bike and why?

[Dianyla]

My own rear end. To hopefully make it less odd and less large.

[HillSlugger]

A tenor saxophone, strapped across a front basket, back when I was in high school. Why? In theory so that I could practice...but I rarely did.

[7rider]

Just curious: what is the oddest/largest thing you've ever carried on your bike and why?

Most odd/large things I attempted to carry usually ended up in a crash.

Once, when a kid, I tried carrying home a 10 lb. sack of potatoes from the grocery store in my left arm. Had no rear (right) brakes on the p.o.s. bike, so I crossed over with my right hand to use the left brake. Lost my balance and went down in the road with a bang! This was the days before helmets were commonplace. Smacked my head good, sent potatoes flying everywhere, and heard the squeal of tires behind me and got up to see a little red Chevy Chevette stopped almost sideways with a woman getting out and yelling at me in Portugese! What a scene!

This past May, on Bike-to-Work Day, I tried to carry my bag o' goodies from the organized rest stop to my office. But I didn't have room for the bag in my backpack and didn't have straps for my rear rack, so I held it in my hand, dangling off the flat handlebars of my commuter. Of course, the bag got tangled in the wheel, jammed into the fork, and I went sailing over the handlebars flat on my back!!!

You'd think I'd learn! No more carrying odd stuff for me unless I am VERY well prepared for it!

[Aint Doody]

Just a pizza. Sounds pretty dull after Regina.

[KnottedYet]

Bag of dog food. Also dull after Regina.

But I waaaaaant one of these: www.xtracycle.com

[7rider]

Mine are hardly exciting.
Just stupid!

[mimitabby]

after the wind storm, I rode out on the road on Eden's Fuji. We had lost our garbage can lid again, it blew away, so when I saw one (which was unfortunately the wrong size) I brought it home, holding it sort of over the handlebars..
It was a scary ride because I wasn't used to the bike. But i made it home
and now we have a garbage can and a garbage can lid that don't fit.

[bmccasland]

On a regular bicycle - some poster board that tried to become a sail. As I recall, I somehow had it balanced across my handle bars and I discovered that I couldn't go very fast. But did not crash.

On a funky delivery bicycle (looked sort of like this: http://www.industrialbicycles.com/platform%20trike.htm)
- instead of a front fork and wheel, there's a large platform on two wheels, a reverse tricycle, and you TRIED to steer the whole platform.
So on this thing, I carried 5 gallon buckets of water with larval salmon. I was working at a large fish hatchery at the time, and we had an odd assortments of bicycles to get around.
I discovered that 1) the bike is hard to steer, 2) even harder on curves, 3) worse yet going up or down hills while making a turn. Some baby fish died as a result....