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Toss up between a big suitcase under my arms that only just went over the top to the bars; or my mate and his bike for the last few miles of a Polaris Challenge.
A guitarist complete with guitar in flight case. Fat bugger bent the rack
We are in a prime position for this with our Tern GSD cargo bike, but haven’t taken any photos of it with some of the loads. It would have been a Christmas tree, but we didn’t bother this year. But we do pick each other up from the train now and then. Pic is from when we demo’d it. It’s bloody brilliant!
We found a golf trolley on one of our pub rides which was towed home. Made a bit of a noise given it was about midnight when we got back to our village.
This is not ridiculous by any stretch but it turns out that the integrated aero cockpit thing of a Canyon road bike is perfect for balancing pizza while you ride back from the takeaway.
One of my better ones was 100L bag of garden bark, plus potatoes, plant plot and some plants in the pannier bags. Box was empty but putting the bark into it made the weight too high, so just strapped in on top.
35kg of titanium 3D printing powder in a Bob Yak trailer. Junctions on hills were hard going. Only the thought of a £7k bill for ****ing it up kept me going for the 30k ride home.
Track pump that I put through the front wheel and destroyed a carbon rim last week!
Once I took out a spare inner tube and pump. That was ridiculous not something I would normally do
I have 3 I can recall.
One of those floor to ceiling aco prop style bike racks strapped along the top tube. A snowboard bag, Wheely multi board one, strapped to my courier bag. Was folded on half first, thought it would be easy, but it resulted in zero ability to look over my shoulders, was a scary commute home from central London. And also strapped to the courier bag, a bin, one of the standard black plastic outdoor sized one before Wheely bins made them extinct. That was home along the canal so no scaryness there, but a few comments.
All on either a hybridised stump jumper or on one inbred fixie. Fun times. I have a car now.
Back in the day when I didn't have much, I had to rely on my Yuba Mundo cargo bike for a lot of things, it was mostly for collecting wood for my open fire...
and 25kg gas bottles...
Taking fridge/freezer to recycling...
transporting bikes...
and in training mode, it was 100kgs...
Sorry, it wont let me upload images or I don't know how to do it!
^ It's worth clicking those images. 😂 Superb stuff.
I've long been a fan of bike cargo jenga. It tends not to be the well thought through objects that cause the trouble. It's the must have items you spot on the way back from the pub, particularly those that catch the wind.
Chief amongst these was a large erotic framed embroidery I saw abandoned outside a shop. The fierce coastal gusts made the enterprise both terrifying and occasionally thrilling.
Lightmans pictures are great 😂
Reminds me of a story my parents tell. For about 3 years they only have 2 touring bikes, no car, and were refurbing their house (my Dad is also a keen woodworker) and semi regularly carried lengths of timber back from the DIY shop between them across their two bikes in the early 80s!! Apparently roundabouts were interesting 😅😅
I think Lightman wins, those photos are great, and the perfect answer to people who bang on about how we can't have LTNs because sometimes people need to move a fridge 😂
A BMX back when I had to ride a good distance to the trails I would strap the BMX to my backpack and pedal either my MYB or road bike to the trails.