Just for a bit of fun, useless additions to a bike

[WRT]

Maybe... but we just use kids for drivethru's. No kids? Thats what the wife or girlfriend is for? (and before I get flamed for not mentioning boyfriends, how many of you have ever gone into a drive thru with your missus on the front and you on the back eh???)

So you get your kid to hop on the back of your bike and instead of holding on, they have to carry your soft drink instead? This isn't your family portrait, is it?

[Blossom]

So you get your kid to hop on the back of your bike and instead of holding on, they have to carry your soft drink instead? This isn't your family portrait, is it?

no.. we have more than 1 kid.
None of the little angels hold on anyway....little showoffs. Thank osh for pack racks.

[Mr Merde]

So many laughs from this thread, so whats's the funniest most pointless one you've actually seen on a bike??

Auntie Helen !!

[MarkH]

Just got me thinking this morning, what would be the most useless / funny thing you could put on a bike that originally comes from cages. My two are

Cup holders
Seat belts

Entire thread on cup holders:
http://burgmanusa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=33663

"Good idea" or "fat Americans can't go without their regular calorie intake" - you decide! Personally I think I am just very special in that I have the ability to ride for a couple of hours without drinking anything, I can even exercise for an hour without having to constantly sip on a water bottle. I see so many people walking down the street clutching a water bottle - obviously they would die if they didn't drink at least once per minute.

[gijoe1313]

Dont the big Hondas have these already?

Yeah, but they don't count since everything that will be mentioned and unmentioned in this thread they already have ... I was having my hair cut at the Barbers one day and found a magazine devoted just to these estoric pieces of preambulation ...

Things you could get off the top of my head I saw in it ...

Automated Flag riser (either pops up or it actually raises a flag to the top of the pole)

Automatic landing wheels to assist with balance when stopped or low speed manuevering

Pneumatic side lifters to lift bike back up if it gets dropped

Portable garage for it to be stored in as part of the trailer

Microwave/Toaster/Gas fired stove

Helmet stowage rack (more than 2 helmets!?)

Extendable laundry pole ... it folds up and actually has 4 arms with wire like your own washing line!

Deployable "hardtop" surface so you can have a nice surface to park on

Fold out eating tray ... like those ones in airlines ...

Honestly, you couldn't make this shizzle up!

Reverse gears on a sprotsbike would be interesting

[barty5]

addjustable head rests or you could also fit arm rests

[vifferman]

I see so many people walking down the street clutching a water bottle - obviously they would die if they didn't drink at least once per minute.

Yeah, they're all drones who believe that crap about having to drink at least 8 glasses / 2 litres of water a day for health. If they don't, they implode.
(I wonder who promulgated that myth? What's the bet it's one of the bottled water companies?)
It's different if it's REALLY hot, or they're exercising frantically. Race drivers and MotoGPers have to drink while they're racing or they DO dehydrate and their performance suffers.

Makes me laugh seeing adults clutching their baby bottles...
I *did* have one in Yurp, but then only in places where the temperature was in the high 30s and carrying a beer around would've made me look like an Aussie...

[PirateJafa]

I see so many people walking down the street clutching a water bottle - obviously they would die if they didn't drink at least once per minute.

Probably because they forked out for a bottle of water earlier, and that shit is too farkin' expensive now to be throwing away.

[Flatcap]

spare wheel and jack.

Have a spare wheel on the LML.....no jack but

[martybabe]

Have a spare wheel on the LML.....no jack but

That's cheating, I was talking about ahem, bigger bikes with different wheels. A 20kg 190 section mofo screwed to the tank, carry that bugger around for a few thousand K on an R1, sure as eggs is eggs the skinny front b'stard would get the puncture. Mind you it might fit?

Hey I think I just invented the R1 fat boy.

[Swoop]

A roofrack is always handy... Gotta store your canoe somewhere!

See my profile piccie for evidence.

[MSTRS:Me]

Visual ridiculousness...
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-176199741.htm

[Tank]

Silly bike additions? - how about strobe lights.

[madbikeboy]

http://www.strangevehicles.com/images/content/2021.jpg

Bullshit. 10 char min.

[jamiey]

I pulled into my local service station a few weeks ago and a bloke had a sheepskin seat kinda addition to his petrol tank. This was for.............

HIS DOG

A little mongrel jack russel looking thing sat on the bike and obviously travels there all the time, tied by its lead to the tank. Only wish I'd had a camera. Anyone else seen this dude somewhere on the Shore. Legend!!