Interesting things...

[Kittyhawk]

What's the most interesting thing you have carried on your bike? Weather it be pillion, pets, or objects lol...

Today I did something random. I bought two baby turtles as pets.

Havent worked out their names yet as they are still settling into their new home. The petshop gave them to me in a little box, and I put it straight down into the front of my jacket.

I got weird looks and my reply was....Im keeping them warm for the ride home followed by lots of laughs at me!

The turtles didnt seem worried.

Hmm.....can you train a turtle to be a pillion? *the mind does wonder lol!*

So thats the most interesting thing I've carried on my bike.

[MyGSXF]

I carried a whole hind leg & rump of a wild boar.. bungied to my packrack!! :Punk: Was frozen when I left home, & by the time I got to The Staging Post (approx 300ks) was thawing out nicely :yes: ready to be put on the open spit & roasted!!! :shutup:

Jen :rockon:

[Kendog]

A lady dog.

[Steam]

Five crates of longneck beer bottles (empty). Light but blaaady noisy!

Two armchairs made of cane, so they were pretty light, but heavy enough to pull the front wheel off the ground. I sat on one chair and tied the other to the back of that one, so it hung waaaay over the back wheel, maybe more than a meter?
It was a scooter, and I rode it only 2km to get home with them. Totally illegal and hazardous. This was in Taiwan, where people do strange things like that.

[Swoop]

Hmm.....can you train a turtle to be a pillion?
Yes.
They take bloody AGES to get from one side of the seat to the other. Not good when in twisties...:rofl:

I remember a similar thread and Beemer had a dehumidifyer on board! Respec!

[Ocean1]

Me. :cool:





:whistle:

[sunhuntin]

6 empty cardboard boxes! 3 concertina'd together. first 3 on the pillion seat with a bungy cord, the other 3 on top of the top box with a cargo net! and no, they were not folded down! sure kept the tail gaters at bay, thats for sure, as the load appeared insecure from the back. [but, the cords were so tight, theres no way they would have moved.]

my next goal is a full 9kg gas bottle... just cos mum reckons i cant!

another would have been either that talking tj bearytales toy, who had a warehouse bag tied to the handle on top of the box, which was then tied to my belt loop and carried home on the tank [no bungy cord] or a cabbage patch kid, who had the bag tied to the top box frame [again, no bungy cord!]

[Waylander]

An aluminum non-folding bike ramp. Borrowed one from a bike shop to get my Vmax on and off a trailer to take it home from the shop, but ran out of time with the car before I could get the ramp back to the hop.
So I just slipped it between me and my backpack through the shoulder straps on an angle downward from right to left and rode my other bike back to the shop.
Got some interesting looks especially when I started filtering.

[gijoe1313]

I've had a folding table, tent, Pikachu, bedroll and all the other bits of camping stuff on the back of mine! The most interesting was Pikachu - never fails to bring up a discombobulated look from the general motor vehicle populace when he whizzes by on the back ... kids go ballistic, drivers do double-takes, pedestrians stare and point and I just chortle merrily!

[canarlee]

the daftest and probably the stupidest at the time was a pair of crutches!

i had got out of hospital that day after breaking my leg two weeks before!:gob: it wasnt in plaster (pins, plates, etc) so i could bend it, but i wasnt allowed to put any weight on it for 6 months!



and yes i know DMNTD can beat that

[Panther]

Who hasn't done a box of beer on the tank?

But um someone i know did a runner with a chainsaw under the left arm.

[Waylander]

and yes i know DMNTD can beat that
And Hedgier1 can match. lol

[Hitcher]

Mrs H is by far and away the most interesting thing I have ever carried on a motorcycle. No contest.

[crashe]

A dehumidifier
A old fashioned wooden highchair
A baby car seat
A child booster seat
A weedeater
A grass blower/vac
A carpentary toolbox
Mechanic toolbox
A front tyre
A long roll of curtain material
A huge box of magazines
A Video
A DVD player
Camping gear
A 6x4 flag off the back of the bike waving in the wind up and down the motorway
Boxes of booze
Set of crutches
10 litre bucket of paint
Painting sheets/blankets and paint tray, brushes etc etc etc
Weedkiller sprayer container
Food shopping

But not all at once thou

[Kittyhawk]

2 weeks shopping is a challenge! Plastic bags only last for a 10 min ride before things start wanting to fall out on to the road!

Plastic bags were loaded up on the mirrors, and rear helmet hooks 2 bags per hook at the front and 3 per rear lol.

[Biff]

A BMW 318. Well, it was tied to the back of my KMX 125. A couple of mates giving the car a wee push to get it moving, then off we went, with my mates now sat in the car. We got it up to a reasonable speed.

Although I hadn't thought things out properly, so I didn't envisage what would happen when my mate attempted to bump start almost a ton of Germany's finest machinery, by dumping the clutch in 1st gear, with me tied to front of his car.

I flew.
It hurt.

[crashe]

2 weeks shopping is a challenge! Plastic bags only last for a 10 min ride before things start wanting to fall out on to the road!

Plastic bags were loaded up on the mirrors, and rear helmet hooks 2 bags per hook at the front and 3 per rear lol.

Use a backpack..... pack it in the trolley as thou it is going into the backpack... then once bought repack it into the backpack.

Strap the 12 packet of lou paper onto the back of the bike.

Thats how I do it....

[Kittyhawk]

Haha the thought of a bogroll turning into streamers is somewhat amusing....

It works..and people look....next time I'll take a pic and post it up haha!
Cant wear a backpack at the mo....stuffed shoulder.

[crashe]

Haha the thought of a bogroll turning into streamers is somewhat amusing....

It works..and people look....next time I'll take a pic and post it up haha!
Cant wear a backpack at the mo....stuffed shoulder.

What about trying those new green eco bags then.....?
They are supposed to be stronger than the foodtown plastic bags.

Or put a few plastic bags inside each other to make them stronger.

[Kittyhawk]

I'll get round to it...on Kittyhawk time lol! Yes I know Im a slacker

[oldrider]

I carried a gallon (4litre) tin of bright red roof paint on my tank, had a serious off and ended up laying in it, bleeding like a stuck pig!

Caused some anxieties for the arrivals upon the scene, it was dark, they had torches! :shit: John.

[rwh]

I have to confess it's not me ... but I saw a scooter with a bicycle across the seat. I think the rider was sitting on the crossbar. I thought I was going to have to give way to him (was turning right), so I was watching - took a while to figure out what I was seeing. Eventually I saw his indicator for his left turn.

Rather wider than the 1m max width, I think.

Richard

[FROSTY]

The dumbest thing I ever carried was a birthday present for my then girlfreind.One of those paintings on MDF -900x1.2m--
Young and stupid I thought no worries strapped to my back right--WRONG
so very very wrong

[Disco Dan]

I bought two baby turtles as pets.
The petshop gave them to me in a little box, and I put it straight down into the front of my jacket.

Did they wriggle and giggle and crawl inside you? :gob:



I carried a whole hind leg & rump of a wild boar.. bungied to my packrack!! :Punk: Was frozen when I left home, & by the time I got to The Staging Post (approx 300ks) was thawing out nicely :yes: ready to be put on the open spit & roasted!!! :shutup:

Jen :rockon:

Ahhhh... the spit roast.




Carried some long shelving on 'ol suzi plus all the brackets and stuff.

Oh and last week I filled my tank bag full of bags of tropical fish! The woman in the pet shop did not click until I plonked the bag on the counter and started packing these bags of fish inside!! :shit::Punk: ...the fish were fine by the way... they are happily swimming around in their new home.

[Karma]

Use a backpack..... pack it in the trolley as thou it is going into the backpack... then once bought repack it into the backpack.

Strap the 12 packet of lou paper onto the back of the bike.

Thats how I do it....

You know how I do it?




I take the car.

[Kickaha]

4 People (including rider) + a bicycle, but it was only for a couple of Km

[Delphinus]

Best here is loading up my scooter over in rarotonga with my luggage as I went off to the airport. But thats almost normal there.

[Morcs]

Ixion carries most things on his beemer...

full garage worth of tools, an umbrella, probably a picnic hamper, time space contimuom transporting device...

[Animal]

Hmm.....can you train a turtle to be a pillion?

Hell yes, and they already come equipped with helmets so you only have to shell out for boots, gloves and leathers.

[ManDownUnder]

A bloody door sized shelf!. My pillion was holding it on... and I rode slowly enough so that any gust of wind (sidewind, or anything the door caught as soon as it got slightly off "perfectly straight") could be hauled back in and dealt with.

NEVER AGAIN!

[Animal]

A human skeleton which I had stolen from the biology class at a nearby high school. (I was only fifteen. How sane were you at that age?) I dressed it in a pair of sneakers, an old jacket and a shitty old open-face helmet, secured it to the back of my bike with tie-wraps and duct tape, then went out to gauge the reaction of people. Farkin' hilarious, to say the least!

[vifferman]

After crashe's post, it's kind of a waste of time anyone else posting. :mellow:

I've had three small children on my bike (XBR500RS), but not on the road - just around the section.

The worst cargo I've had was two fire extinguishers - one a reasonable size and empty, and the other large, full, and a bloody nuisance when it started to move around in the backpack.

I worked on a hill country sheep station for a few years, and had a few strange passengers, especially when towing a trailer on the bike. Hay bales were OK, but sheep were a nuisance, except when dead. The easiest way to transport a sheep was to loop baling twine around a back leg, and tie that to the towbar of the (not so) mighty XL125S, and go for it. Not so good when it had been dead a bit long, and started to disassemble itself...

[sunhuntin]

A human skeleton which I had stolen from the biology class at a nearby high school. (I was only fifteen. How sane were you at that age?) I dressed it in a pair of sneakers, an old jacket and a shitty old open-face helmet, secured it to the back of my bike with tie-wraps and duct tape, then went out to gauge the reaction of people. Farkin' hilarious, to say the least!

LMFAO!!

vifferman.... ewwww! lmfao

[The Lone Rider]

I seem to be traveling rather lightly.. most I've carried is groceries one day that was so cramed into my backpack that the seams started spliting. Other then that I've had a cardboard box strapped to my back and sometimes a spare helmet on the back or the helmet + woman.

[idb]

What's the most interesting thing you have carried on your bike? Weather it be pillion, pets, or objects lol...

Today I did something random. I bought two baby turtles as pets.

Havent worked out their names yet as they are still settling into their new home. The petshop gave them to me in a little box, and I put it straight down into the front of my jacket.

I got weird looks and my reply was....Im keeping them warm for the ride home followed by lots of laughs at me!

The turtles didnt seem worried.

Hmm.....can you train a turtle to be a pillion? *the mind does wonder lol!*

So thats the most interesting thing I've carried on my bike.


My hopes and dreams.
They fell off somewhere and have now gone forever....**sigh**.......

[PuppetMaster]

The thread title is very misleading.....

[deanohit]

Remember a friend telling me how he used to work as a courier in the Uk. One job he had was delivering hardcore porn videos. Came off his bike one day, top box burst open and theres mongolian dwarf porn all over the road. He reckind he was too embarressed to notice if he hurt himself or the bike.

Me, I've carried nothing half as interesting as some of you guys have done. Theres some bloody classics out there.=)

[Kittyhawk]

You know how I do it?
I take the car.
Hmmm...


Hell yes, and they already come equipped with helmets so you only have to shell out for boots, gloves and leathers.
Yup they are cuties! I had a freak thought if I binned it on the way home, they'd fly out my jacket and onto someones windscreen...So I really nana the ride home hahaha.




I worked on a hill country sheep station for a few years, and had a few strange passengers, especially when towing a trailer on the bike. Hay bales were OK, but sheep were a nuisance, except when dead. The easiest way to transport a sheep was to loop baling twine around a back leg, and tie that to the towbar of the (not so) mighty XL125S, and go for it. Not so good when it had been dead a bit long, and started to disassemble itself...

HEHEHE I carried a live goat in front of me on my old xr250 on the farm once.


My hopes and dreams.
They fell off somewhere and have now gone forever....**sigh**.......
Blah, you'll find them again hun.


Remember a friend telling me how he used to work as a courier in the Uk. One job he had was delivering hardcore porn videos. Came off his bike one day, top box burst open and theres mongolian dwarf porn all over the road. He reckind he was too
embarressed to notice if he hurt himself or the bike.

Lol! what caused the crash hmm?

[Macktheknife]

Once had 8 people on the bike, that was exciting, all downhill and on grass. We got second place, the winning group had 12 on a suzuki 125.

[Ocean1]

Wasn't really interesting as such as cargo, but I did once have a wee episode with a tent suddenly escaping from a pack. Almost all of it in fact, except for one corner of said tent and a few of the guy ropes, which remained firmly secured by the pack flap. Unfortunately the pack was attached to me, not the bike, I didn't even have time for a quick lunge at the brakes, I was off the bike and on my arse before I could blink. Luckily it was on a moderately well gravelled road so apart from slightly shredded jeans and minor gravel rash I was fine. The bike survived it's wee unsupervised jaunt quite well too, parking itself in a handy swamp. Bizarrely the only damage was the plug snapped clean off by a well placed fence strainer post and the side cover neatly removed. The worst bit was having to get my brother to bring me a new plug, and having to explain why. Bastard still laughs about it. :o

[peasea]

Wasn't really interesting as such as cargo, but I did once have a wee episode with a tent suddenly escaping from a pack. Almost all of it in fact, except for one corner of said tent and a few of the guy ropes, which remained firmly secured by the pack flap. Unfortunately the pack was attached to me, not the bike, I didn't even have time for a quick lunge at the brakes, I was off the bike and on my arse before I could blink. Luckily it was on a moderately well gravelled road so apart from slightly shredded jeans and minor gravel rash I was fine. The bike survived it's wee unsupervised jaunt quite well too, parking itself in a handy swamp. Bizarrely the only damage was the plug snapped clean off by a well placed fence strainer post and the side cover neatly removed. The worst bit was having to get my brother to bring me a new plug, and having to explain why. Bastard still laughs about it. :o


What's family for?

[peasea]

Interesting cargo?

A mate and I were at a 'P' Party back in the 80's. Not P the drug, you had to come dressed as something beginning with the letter 'P'. So, up we rock on his Bonnie, two up, nothing flash to wear, just jeans and leather jackets. "What did you come as?" was the question at the door. My mate said "Peter Fonda" and I said "His pillion", with that we were allowed in.

Damn good crew and the evening got rather messy, fun messy, that is.

Then I got lucky and had this half-pissed, half stoned bimbo on my arm. (We were on the same wavelength, ok?) I talked my mate into giving us a ride home, three up on a 750 Bonnie on a winter's night in Wellington. Great. (How cool was I? No wheels at all that weekend; dunno what she saw in me actually....ahh, drugs and alcohol, helping broken-arsed bikers have sex since ages ago.)

As it happens, she turned out to be VERY interesting cargo and we still trade emails and texts.

Keeryst! That was twenty three years ago!
Arrrggghhh!!!!

[Ocean1]

Keeryst! That was twenty three years ago!
Arrrggghhh!!!!

:jerry: ...

Wait... :confused: think I'm guna lose that one :shutup:... As you were.

[Bass]

Used to fly model aircraft - fast ones - well over 300kph.
Had a flying field on a local farm. The farmer used to get around on a scooter. Can't remember the breed for sure but it may have been a Zundapp.

The key thing is that he usually had 5 sheepdogs on the machine with him. There were three lying stacked one on top of the next, across the foot plate in front of him and 2 sitting on the seat behind. It looked hilarious and the dogs loved it.

Better yet, the rear of the motor casing under the seat had been modified to incorporate a pair of centrifugal spray nozzles and beautifully done it was too. The casing had been lovingly faired around them so that they looked like a couple of mechanised dildos stickin out the back.

This was all augmented with a half gallon tank mounted on the rear mudguard full of weedkiller and a push button with an electronic timing circuit on the handle bars.

The net result was that all his paddocks were dotted with strips of dead grass about 100mm wide and half a meter long with a dead thistle in the middle of each one.

Very cunning I thought.