What's the oddest thing you've carried on your bike?
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Not me obviously but I always got a kick out of this photo.
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Bale of hay. It was a cuboid one, not one of the the huge rolled up things. But one day....
Plastic medical skeleton on a tandem, as part of a parade. He was the captain and I was the stoker.
Plastic medical skeleton on a tandem, as part of a parade. He was the captain and I was the stoker.
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Normal bikes are not particularly good at carrying larger loads. When I was in my early 20's I slid off the road in my car and hit a guardrail that was emerging out of the ground. It was a Mazda RX-2 if you wanted to get an idea of the scale. About the same size as a Toyota Corolla. No damage to the body, however, I needed a new McPherson Strut. I rode 10 miles to get to a junkyard that had the strut assembly. I brought rope with me in hopes that I could somehow tie the strut with the spring, spring perch, spindle and all to the rear rack of the bike. After trying all sorts of different ways. I finally settled on tying one end of the rope to top of the spring, by the perch, and the other end to the bottom of the strut where the spindle is located. I then slung the rope over my head with the strut assembly on my back like a big spring loaded messenger bag.
10 mile back home required stops to make adjustments and move the strut to move the sore spot around. I got grease stains on my cycling jacket and jeans. The jeans could become "work on the car" jeans. I washed the cycling jacket by hand to try to remove the grease. As a 20 year old, buying a cycling jacket was a reach in the first place. I didn't want to repeat the purchase. It cleaned up good enough, but still had a dark stain on the back where the pockets are located.
Sorry no pictures. Selfies with Instamatics were not a thing back then. It wasn't a proud moment and 126 film plus developing wasn't free.
10 mile back home required stops to make adjustments and move the strut to move the sore spot around. I got grease stains on my cycling jacket and jeans. The jeans could become "work on the car" jeans. I washed the cycling jacket by hand to try to remove the grease. As a 20 year old, buying a cycling jacket was a reach in the first place. I didn't want to repeat the purchase. It cleaned up good enough, but still had a dark stain on the back where the pockets are located.
Sorry no pictures. Selfies with Instamatics were not a thing back then. It wasn't a proud moment and 126 film plus developing wasn't free.
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I used to be a pedi-cab driver, so entire bachelorette party, drunk dudes, homeless guy, state senator, strippers, etc.
As a kid, I'd ride, clubs and all to golf course. I did that kinda a lot. Never played golf after age 15.
I filled my pockets with wild gourd/melon things I found once.
As a kid, I'd ride, clubs and all to golf course. I did that kinda a lot. Never played golf after age 15.
I filled my pockets with wild gourd/melon things I found once.
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A live opossum. Walking home from the farmers' market one day, we spotted him in the window well of a "garden" (basement) apartment. He couldn't have scaled the sheer vertical concrete sides. Went home and got a live trap and set it in there. Later that day, we stopped by there on the way home on a bike ride. He still hadn't stepped into the trap. I'd lost my patience, so I used my frame pump to nudge him into the trap. I could've gone home and got the truck, it was only a mile away. But I really was impatient, so I strapped the trap to the rear rack for the ride home.
With or without the partridge?
With or without the partridge?
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Mmmm, bacon.
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A sculpture project in college (1970 or so). I made a toothbrush out of an 8 foot piece of pine with broom straw brushes. It was painted red and white like many real toothbrushes back then. I carried it from the art department to the dorm on my Sears Austrian 3-speed. I gave it to my room mates little sister. It was strapped to a roof rack headed to New Windsor, MD last I saw. Sorry no pix.
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Wait, does the box-'o-crap qualify?
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A huge top of the line Marantz Stereo receiver, from Murfreesboro to Smyrna, Tennessee strapped to a Blackburn rack on an old Schwinn LeTour. Did I also mention there were 100 LP discs in the panniers. Killer Yard Sale, got the above booty for $20 in 1987.
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- A tank of gasoline
- A desk chair
- A dead cat
- Probably others I've forgotten
- A desk chair
- A dead cat
- Probably others I've forgotten
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On a bike tour in France once I found a kitten. I put it in my saddlebags which it thought was a great playroom. Fortunately it didn't use it as a restroom as well. When I got into the next town, a young girl fell in love with the kitten and her mother was kind enough to let her take the kitten from me and she named it after me,
One of my favorite memories was I was out riding with my girlfriend on the back of my bicycle and I accidently ran into my brother who was riding his bike with his girlfriend on the back of his bike. The four of us ended up on the ground we were all laughing so hard.
One of my favorite memories was I was out riding with my girlfriend on the back of my bicycle and I accidently ran into my brother who was riding his bike with his girlfriend on the back of his bike. The four of us ended up on the ground we were all laughing so hard.
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I prefer something I can eat when I get it home:
But I will admit that my friend Marty the Mudskipper put me to shame when he brought the ingredients for these on our group ride to watch the Tour of California go by:
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But I will admit that my friend Marty the Mudskipper put me to shame when he brought the ingredients for these on our group ride to watch the Tour of California go by:
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Probably a bag of cat litter or a bucket of horse manure.
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A giant pair of scissors....like 4 foot long. They were a cardboard prop, however!
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I've brought home a lot of different odd items on my bicycle.
I guess a large rock was one of the odder things. I also brought home a recliner/rocker a few years ago.
Recently I brought home a 50 pints dehumidifier.
More recently I brought home a bunch of large clear totes.
Sometimes I bring home lumber.
I guess one of the oddest things I brought home on a bicycle was a 4' x 8' sheet of white Melamine. I don't have an image of that and I wasn't able to ride the bike with the melamine on it. I had bought 2 'L' brackets and bent them into hooks that I attached to the eyelet on the front fork and rear dropout. The melamine sat in those and was held to the bike with other hooks and Coghlan's Arno straps.
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I guess a large rock was one of the odder things. I also brought home a recliner/rocker a few years ago.
Recently I brought home a 50 pints dehumidifier.
More recently I brought home a bunch of large clear totes.
Sometimes I bring home lumber.
I guess one of the oddest things I brought home on a bicycle was a 4' x 8' sheet of white Melamine. I don't have an image of that and I wasn't able to ride the bike with the melamine on it. I had bought 2 'L' brackets and bent them into hooks that I attached to the eyelet on the front fork and rear dropout. The melamine sat in those and was held to the bike with other hooks and Coghlan's Arno straps.
Cheers
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Honestly i cannot remember. Whatever the answer is, it is probably also the answer to the question, "what's the strangest thing you've found while riding a bike?"
Giant puffball mushrooms? roadkill? scrap metal? musical instruments? Whole bicycles? unidentified doodahs that might be useful? I've found a lot of stuff.
i regularly tow a canoe behind my bike, but that's on a trailer, so... different thread.
Giant puffball mushrooms? roadkill? scrap metal? musical instruments? Whole bicycles? unidentified doodahs that might be useful? I've found a lot of stuff.
i regularly tow a canoe behind my bike, but that's on a trailer, so... different thread.
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As a kid our bikes were our trucks and we hauled everything from lawn mowers to lumber for forts on them. The only thing I've carried as a adult is fishing gear and RC Boats to a few local ponds.
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