Cargo Hauler

[gambrinus]

I was just looking at that photo that I'm sure everyone has seen of the guy riding with the sheep on his bike. I'm still not sure if it's his dinner or his dinner date??... Anyway the reason that I bring it up is to ask.."What is the oddest thing that you've strapped, balanced, bungied, stuffed or otherwise carried on your bike?" Mine would have to be random anitque auto parts. Besides the motorcycle, I'm also into old Land Rovers. I've just completed a restoration/resurection on a 1965 camper model. Some of the parts that I carried on the bike doing various errands:

driveshafts, fenders, bunk pieces, random brake parts..etc.

Curious to see what others have managed.

Cheers

[Cliffy777]

Last year I gave our 16 year old along with 2 electric guitars a ride over to her friends house. I had sworn off my car, so we used bungies to strap the gee-tars sideways onto the luggage rack. It made my bike as wide as it was long (no lane splitting with that rig....) Made it the 8-10 miles without incident, but kept the speed at 50 or below. Should have taken a pic as it looked pretty silly.
Once I transported one of the round trampolines fully assembled with my pick-up truck. We put it up over the cab so it looked like a giant solar collector on the old Dodge.

[BradfordBenn]

Did the guitars have the Screaming Eagle distortion/overdrive effects box included?:p

Of course being the smart butthead that I am, the oddest thing I have ever carried on my bike is ..... me. Any arguements?

[kbasa]

I strapped a big ol' Corbin seat box on the back of my CB750F one time. Another time, I had four tires lashed onto the back of my R100RS. Tunnel of tires or summat.

[manicmechanic]

Went bowhunting for deer. Strapped the bow, etc. in a case on the back of the bike, lengthwise. Now that bows are getting so short it's not so much of a problem, but at the time the case was almost 5 ft long. Another time I did transport a dead deer home.... not the one I hit with the bike, one I'd shot. I had a choice, bring the deer or the bow. If I'd taken the bow, the 'yotes and foxes would've gotten the deer. Whaddya mean I can't do that? At the time the state required the animal be visible, and it was properly tagged.

[gambrinus]

Originally posted by manic mechanic
Another time I did transport a dead deer home.... .
I don't know what else to say other than that I'm in total awe... That deserves a beer! Hope to see you at a rally so you can collect!

Cheers

RW

[username]

did you sit the deer up on the seat, and wrap its front legs around you and tie the hooves together? make it look like a passenger. :D

give it a helmet?

i guess bikes can already use the carpool lane, so it was no help for you there. ;)

[ScottM]

Originally posted by username
did you sit the deer up on the seat, and wrap its front legs around you and tie the hooves together? make it look like a passenger. :D

give it a helmet?

i guess bikes can already use the carpool lane, so it was no help for you there. ;)

LOL:clap :clap

[basketcase]

The oddest thing I ever hauled on a bike was a girl I dated in high school. She once refused to get off my (dirt) bike so we could cross a creek and me successfully climb the embankment on the other side. She was afraid she would get her feet wet.

So, across the creek we go. The bike flipped, we slid down the enbankment, the bike ended up on top of her in the creek, and her arm was broken. I then hauled her to the emergency room on the bike, broken arm and all, dripping mud and water.

She was a piece of work, for sure.

Wait a minute -- make that a nut case, you know?

Anyway, my ... uh, poor choice of words aside, you catch my drift.

:brow

i'm not sure i answered his question, but i know i answered the question, i think...

[R100RS]

I carried a hand truck once (okay, so it was a folding hand truck).

Other than that, just basic stuff, like 4' long pieces of dowel and pipe.

[jhelming]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by RickM

>She was a piece of work, for sure.

Just the opposite of my college roommate's date for the junior prom!

Being basically broke, he and I shared my 650 Triumph as our sole wheels. He didn't want to spring for cab fare to pick her up for the prom, so I brought her to the big affair on the back of the Triumph. She thought it was great -- we went through the city center and main campus in the middle of rush hour, her riding side-saddle, complete with prom dress and white shoes, laughing and waving to the assembled multitudes! Probably still telling her grandkids about it!

[gambrinus]

I think "Odd women that you've had on the back of your bike" would be a topic all on its own!!


Still shaking my head at the thought of the deer....



RW

[hetkind]

One day, when I was younger and had much poorer judgement, I had a HD XLCH, and took a young lady for a ride who was best described as a BBW...the next day discovered that 1) rear fender was cracked, 2) back tire was grooved from seat mounting bolt, 3) sissy bar on king/queen seat had failed...

[basketcase]

Big broad woman?

Brassy bovine woman?

Bovine bosomey woman?

Hmm. After four years in the Marines, I am surprised to have never seen that acronym.

:dunno

[Visian]

Originally posted by RickM
Big broad woman?

Brassy bovine woman?

Bovine bosomey woman?


Big Bountiful Woman.

Often comes standard with LLBs.

Ian

[JetDoc]

Originally posted by RickM
Big broad woman?

Brassy bovine woman?

Bovine bosomey woman?

Hmm. After four years in the Marines, I am surprised to have never seen that acronym.

:dunno


Rick,

BBWs: I believe the Marines, being the politically incorrect individuals we all know and love, just called them "Fat Chicks" :eek

JetDoc
(21 years Air Force!)

[BradfordBenn]

Originally posted by Visian
Big Bountiful Woman.

Often comes standard with LLBs.

Ian

LLB?

I always thought that was Left Lane Blocker or Little League Baseball. So which do you mean ;)

[DarkCloud]

This is easy

BIG BEAUTIFUL WOMEN

You can tell you have one when

She gets on the pillion and you can't knock the bike off the center stand because she is so heavy.

She gets on the pillion with the kick stand down, the bike leans to the right and you are afraid lean any further to get the kick stand up because the bike might fall over.

She wants to know why BMW's don't have cup holders and arm rests.

Asks if it is safe to lean back on the top case, because she is afraid it might break off.

The air temperature is 70 degrees and the RID indicates seven bars for the oil temperature.

Lose you front wheel feed back when you accelerate or shift gears.

[dzimbric]

Originally posted by BradfordBenn
Did the guitars have the Screaming Eagle distortion/overdrive effects box included?:p

Of course being the smart butthead that I am, the oddest thing I have ever carried on my bike is ..... me. Any arguements?

Nope, you won't get an argument out of me no sir

[basketcase]

dzimbric said:

"You won't get an argument out of me."

Neither me. Them ears on that helmet still have me wondering ... :brow

[dzimbric]

Originally posted by RickM
dzimbric said:



Neither me. Them ears on that helmet still have me wondering ... :brow

I am sorry to report to all that on our ride tonight Brad was earless and admitted that he probally will not wear them anymore, was whining about a sore neck or something.

[BradfordBenn]

Yup, it is true. The ears and tail will come out for special occassions. As I have been starting to prepare for a SS1K one of the things for the Archive of Wisdom is that if something bothers you a little, it will bother you a lot later.

Took the ears off and the buffeting went down as well as the amount of headaches I got.

[jgr451]

Went to Minneapolis from Winnipeg with my pal one year.I got to pack the tent.Well,sir,the poles were 6 feet long,I swear.
I felt like every slow corner,I was a B train,take em wide and careful or scratch someone's paint.
He rode fast in the rain and dark.I dragged myself along behind,with these giant poles , looking all around me!!

Now,strange women WOULD be another topic...

[Fritzc]

Not really odd I guess but my 16 year old son and I went to a weekend Muzzle Loading Shoot once and we took our rifles, shoot boxes and all camping gear with us on a R60/6. Wish I still had that bike. That was a going machine.

[GeoffMiller]

Wellllllll, get another one!!!!!!!!!!!!! geoff

[trmptrmrk]

Last week I brought my drum set into work for some end of the school year elementary school rockin'. I asked a few kids to help me carry it into the building and their first response was "how'd you bring your drumset on your motorcycle?" :eek

Of course, now they realize I have a car, too. But, that would have been pretty cool.

[karasek]

This is isn't my motorcycle , but a picture I had saved.

[kbasa]

Originally posted by djkarasek
This is isn't my motorcycle , but a picture I had saved.

I know that bike! That's Ricardo Kuhn's bike! He's just down the road in Berkley!

http://kbasa.smugmug.com/photos/4693195-M.jpg