Interesting things...

[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.

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.

[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.

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!!!!

...

Wait... think I'm guna lose that one ... 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.