Odd Bike Cargo

[Barb]

I used to carry my tenor sax all the time!!! Think of a suitcase only about 3.5 foot long!!! I just carried it by the handle and rode 1 handed. The rear brake hand of course!!!!

[MomOnBike]

DH and I have taken our instruments, viola (me) and French horn (him) to rehearsal. The viola is bungied onto the underseat rack on my recumbent and rides very nicely there, thank you. The horn rides in a Burley trailer.

Cars give us LOTS of room, especially on chilly nights - and we've laughed about having Child Protective Services called on us for taking our "baby" out in that trailer in the cold.

[CycleChic06]

A case of beer. Not me, but my co-worker who I often ride the T. He gets off the T with this case of beer and then has to ride his bike home from there. It was pretty funny seeing him ride down the bikepath balancing this huge box under his left arm. He said he made it, but almost dropped it a few times.

[lph]

Great stories!

Regina, I am never carrying plastic bags on my handlebars again... I have two root canaled front teeth from doing that when I was 14: turned a corner, stood up to pedal, got the bag stuck in the front wheel and did a faceplant in the asphalt. Major (psychological) trauma

If I have to carry plastic bags I thread them well up my wrist, where they can't interfere with the wheel.

[roguedog]

Hmmm..

I once rode home with my puppy under one arm from the Davis farmers market. Balanced her so her back legs were on my hip whilst I held her front.

hmm...

How bout riding to class with my parakeet on the handlebar. He loved it. he'd get all aerodynamic and hunch down )

hmm..

For those of you with grocery stories.. how bout a watermelon in a doublebagged plastic bag. think it was 7-10 lbs or so.


Hmm..

Anyone been to Asia???? OMG they carry whole families on bikes in crazy traffic.


Oooh i like the xtracycle. I've been wondering how I might combine golfing and biking!

[Aint Doody]

I wish you had a picture of the parakeet! I can just visualize that--how funny!

[SJCzar]

Many years ago a friend and I were very into playing the non-electronic hockey game that had the players which you moved by pulling and pushing in a series of levers on both ends. The game was about 4 feet long by two feet wide. We decided that we really needed to bring it over to her house since we were spending the night there. We each took an end and rode with it between us. It did take a bit of skill to keep the distance equal without knocking one or both of us off our bikes....and of course we didn't get the bright idea to try this until 10:00pm and without lights on our bikes.

[alpinerabbit]

A violin and a viola, each in their separate cases. With just a strap around my chest to hold both of them.

[uk elephant]

As seen in my avatar....taking the cat to the vet, in her cat carrier, strapped to a backpack, strapped to my back. As soon as we got off the road with the heavy traffic onto the bike path through the allotments, she calmed down and just watched the birdies. And it couldn't have been too traumatic because she still likes going in the box.

Oh, and doing fieldwork in Botswana I transported three big crates of mouse traps (live capture traps...about 200 of them) balanced on a very clunky old bike...

[Maureen Valley]

Oh...I just have to reply to this one. The looniest thing I ever hauled on my bike (old Schwinn mountain bike....early 90's) is a HUGE load of firewood for my campfire. I had parked my little class C motor home in a park....and the source for firewood was about a mile away.

By the time I got back to my campsite....my back tire was flat as a pancake.

Duh.

Best to all:
Maureen

[mimitabby]

As seen in my avatar....taking the cat to the vet, in her cat carrier, strapped to a backpack, strapped to my back. As soon as we got off the road with the heavy traffic onto the bike path through the allotments, she calmed down and just watched the birdies. And it couldn't have been too traumatic because she still likes going in the box.

Oh, and doing fieldwork in Botswana I transported three big crates of mouse traps (live capture traps...about 200 of them) balanced on a very clunky old bike...

I'd love to see a bigger version of this picture, UK!