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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Beowulf on September 06, 2019, 04:48:17 PM
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So i live on Galveston and sometimes you never know what your gonna get. Today it was locally grown bananas on the side of the road.
I looked like a less attractive version of the chiquita girl with my bike.
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what is the formula for aluminum (https://aluminumsulfate.net/aluminum-chloride)
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back in about 65 or 66 twice I strapped a rifle across the H bars and drove it from Downers Grove Ill. to So. Wisconsin. nobody gave me a second look running up the interstate.
hate to imagine what would happen today.
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I gave my buddy Cocoa a ride yesterday.
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My ex wife..
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A toilet plunger..... DONT ASK! :laugh:
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FUBAR managed to strap down my portable backyard fireplace (Those round ones like you can get at Ace Hardware and such) to his bike to take it home and repair a broken leg on it, then he returned it on the bike. Thanks, FUBAR! :boozing:
GliderJohn
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Carried on the Eldo:
(https://i.ibb.co/2hdqf08/eldo1.jpg) (https://ibb.co/2hdqf08)
Pictures from Google for illustration only:
One mid-century aluminum chair:
(https://i.ibb.co/n64LjTc/chair.jpg) (https://ibb.co/n64LjTc)
One loopframe for a project bike:
(https://i.ibb.co/12FHJB3/frame-2.jpg) (https://ibb.co/12FHJB3)
Not on the same trip, obviously.
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A toilet plunger..... DONT ASK! :laugh:
Ummm.
Why ? :popcorn: (I love pedalling toilet humour..)
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My, that's a good question. Girly magazines, tables, charcoal with webber style kettle grill, firearms, all manner of alcohol, 280lb Jewish politically ultra conservative nut job, absolutely beautiful in every way college co-ed, banned substances, and the list goes on, but I don't!
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I don’t usually take notice, but that is a very pretty Eldorado.
Is it representative of how they usually look ?
Why does that one look particularly attractive (IMO) ?
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Heads for my 350 cu in chevy. Put 3/4 plywood underneath and it was only 5 miles to the machine shop. No choice was all the wheels I had at the time. Made it ok , but not a good Idea as they are pretty heavy.
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:evil: On my BMW I carried a bag of cement---one time with a camping trailer in Denver no less I carried 200 feet of siding,all in a box however the box was 12feet 6inches long what the heck I had a red flag on it :boozing: one time I carried a broken leg around the hills of Oklahoma,next day the boys had to carry me around---thanks guys
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One of these 'little' Hallicrafters S-38 vacuum tube shortwave receivers facing backwards & tied with parachute cord on the flat rack of a Honda 700 after an impulse buy at the HAMFEST.
(https://i.ibb.co/LNgJT7T/halli081.jpg) (https://ibb.co/LNgJT7T)
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A garage door opener from Home Depot. About 5 feet long in a box. Bungeed it across the seat and got a few strange looks on the way home.
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10 full english breakfasts all at once is my personal record for weirdness
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Not me but my dog Angus rode on the back of a '98 Hotdog/Mustard EV from south Georgia to the Virginia rally.
Dean
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I took the intake manifold from my 6 cyl. Nova to work in order to weld it. Clumsy as hell!!
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I dug up my beet crop, washed them off and put them in a seabag. I was in between wives so I was going to my moms 100 miles away. I stopped half way for a cup of coffee and this red juice is running out of the sea bag.
sho nuff looked like blood. Surprised I didn't get stopped.
Loads of stuff since 1971 but that was the weirdest.
Tex
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Me .
Dusty
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I used to strap my compound bow to my GSX1100, lengthways from the pillion peg to my rear rack, with my quiver across my back.
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I had 200cm skis strapped on my 1985 Honda interceptor, drove from Norton AFB in San Bernardino up to Big Bear to go skiing. I got pulled over for speeding on the way back home, the officer never even mentioned the skis, told me to slow down, and sent me on my way.
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Beer keg (full) on an 850 T3. Where there's a will, there's a way.
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"I don’t usually take notice, but that is a very pretty Eldorado.
Is it representative of how they usually look ?"
You are a man of discerning taste! What caught your eye?
Was it the rock-hard repro dual seat, the J.C. Whitney tape stripes, the rattle-can touch-ups, the mismatched hardware store fasteners?
Perhaps it was the now discontinued made-in-Korea whitewalls or the road rashed V11 mirrors.
Truly a great restoration is the sum of it's parts!
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This pales to what some of you guys have carried but I carried an AR turntable from Connecticut to Colorado when I was in the Army. This was on an R75/5. It's a wonder it still functioned correctly.
kk
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When I lived on Smithville, Mo. I would carry a baitcaster rig on the V50 and fish all the boat ramps on Smithville lake at night on what I called "The Bass Bike" Caught a bunch of nice fish. About all a V50 is good for :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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Stuffed a birthday cake, ice cream, and some beer into a back pack (cake on top) and drove back from town on the T. It all made it just fine and the wife got a good laugh at her party.
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My first date with mrs. blade was planned as a picnic but I didn't have a picnic basket. Wanting to rectify this I rode my 98' Harley sportster down to Marshall fields in Madison and bought one (one of those wicker situations with plates and silverware) without thinking about how I was going to get a picnic basket home. I buy the basket and then ask one salesman to hold it against my back while another walks circles around me and my bike with this enormous Saran Wrap roll and with my arms aimed upwards all the while. He goes around several times so the basket is firmly affixed to my torso, I thank them both and then off I go! Probably looked ridiculous for the ride home but the picnic basket was a hit.
Nate
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"I don’t usually take notice, but that is a very pretty Eldorado.
Is it representative of how they usually look ?"
You are a man of discerning taste! What caught your eye?
Was it the rock-hard repro dual seat, the J.C. Whitney tape stripes, the rattle-can touch-ups, the mismatched hardware store fasteners?
Perhaps it was the now discontinued made-in-Korea whitewalls or the road rashed V11 mirrors.
Truly a great restoration is the sum of it's parts!
I don’t know what got my attention, but maybe the dual tones took away some of the lumpy look that I usually perceive.
Anyway..
Just interested.
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My first date with mrs. blade was planned as a picnic but I didn't have a picnic basket. Wanting to rectify this I rode my 98' Harley sportster down to Marshall fields in Madison and bought one (one of those wicker situations with plates and silverware) without thinking about how I was going to get a picnic basket home. I buy the basket and then ask one salesman to hold it against my back while another walks circles around me and my bike with this enormous Saran Wrap roll and with my arms aimed upwards all the while. He goes around several times so the basket is firmly affixed to my torso, I thank them both and then off I go! Probably looked ridiculous for the ride home but the picnic basket was a hit.
Nate
Love it! Had me laughing.
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$10,000 cash (on a 79 year old mc).
And several half-racks of beer. (not at the same time) :afro:
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My first date with mrs. blade was planned as a picnic but I didn't have a picnic basket. Wanting to rectify this I rode my 98' Harley sportster down to Marshall fields in Madison and bought one (one of those wicker situations with plates and silverware) without thinking about how I was going to get a picnic basket home. I buy the basket and then ask one salesman to hold it against my back while another walks circles around me and my bike with this enormous Saran Wrap roll and with my arms aimed upwards all the while. He goes around several times so the basket is firmly affixed to my torso, I thank them both and then off I go! Probably looked ridiculous for the ride home but the picnic basket was a hit.
Nate
The question on everyone’s lips.. :wink:
How’d the “date” go...? :wink: :kiss:
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The list can go on, but.. for now.
3 8' fishing rods tied together, zip tied to the foot peg and bungied to hold them against the seat, 30 miles of freeway. Weed whacker, 30 pack of beer, 5 speed Guzzi trans (100 miles of freeway), step ladder, office chair. Again the list could go on.
Wish I had pics of some!
Tom
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I'm often told at yard sales I'll probably need to come back with the car. Never have yet.
Carried a weed eater from Missoula to Portland one time. Looked like an outboard motor hanging out the back off the luggage. Got funny looks on that one.
Brought home a MicroFiche reader one time.
A good sized hand truck.
One time I rode from Portland down to Crescent City - probably 3-400 miles to pick up an R100GS engine. Twenty miles before getting to Crescent City the transmission gave out. Luckily I knew what to do - go slow and don't use 3rd or 5th gears. Got the engine loaded up, but with 100 lbs plus loaded on the bike I couldn't get it off the center stand. With a shove from the rear, off I went, headed for friends in Southern Or who lived near the end of a gravel road half way up a mountain.
Stopped at a gas station and couldn't get off the bike. I knew the side stand wouldn't keep the bike up, and you remember the difficulty with the center stand. Had to stay on the bike while gassing up. A guy came walking across the pumps, gave me a funny look and told me he'd seen spare tires and other stuff, but never a spare engine.
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Obviously at different times & with different bikes: my mutt "Harris", an Oz wild-dog X (Dingo/Blue-Dog for those who care), Winchester pump-gun, surfboard (6' 10"), stack of firewood for camping, bales of hay, ME!! Occy straps & duct tape allows a multitude of bizarre temporary paraphernalian accoutrements.
As nothing whatsoever in comparison to the two-wheeled cargo transports of Eastern, Southern and SE Asia. Whole families of six or more, whole grain harvests, multiple cases of bottles etc. etc.
I can still recall how the Viet Minh, NVA & VC managed to thrash the pants off the French, USA, ANZAC other assorted allied militaries in Vietnam by transporting much of their arms, artillery, munitions, mess provisions & other ordnance on mere bicycles!
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My 27 inch IMAC computer when it spat the dummy and wouldn't go. Took it to the repair shop and back in Canberra on the back of the Griso.
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Been really enjoying this. I have carried my firefighter gear in a duffel bag with a one tier cake at the same time and icecream without damage to the cake. But i think the bananas takes the cake for me.
But the spare engine, fireplace, saran wrapped picnic basket, beets bleeding from a bag and the many other posts have been greatly entertaining.
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A live chook - from Seldom Seen to Launching Place, some 400km over 2 days - in a bag tied on top of the luggage, with a hole for its head.
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A rear leaf spring assembly from a 72 Plymouth strapped cross way on the seat of my 67 Triumph 650...A pizza on my lap...A drunk woman passenger..Not all at once...
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A tank of argon gas for the mig welder on the Norge. Little tank and I wasn’t really going that far or fast, but did get some looks and avoided NY’s Finest.
(https://i.ibb.co/tMw7Zrt/315-AFDCF-7-C73-43-A8-8759-315-CD1559157.gif)
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So i live on Galveston and sometimes you never know what your gonna get. Today it was locally grown bananas on the side of the road.
I looked like a less attractive version of the chiquita girl with my bike.
(https://i.ibb.co/tpp82jX/IMG-20190906-161459-851.jpg) (https://ibb.co/tpp82jX)
what is the formula for aluminum (https://aluminumsulfate.net/aluminum-chloride)
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Want a good banana bread recipe?
Dave
Galveston
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Want a good banana bread recipe?
Dave
Galveston
I would love a good recipe.
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Not weird but got the most comments. Tires for the kids car.
(https://i.ibb.co/S3MVTC7/DL650.jpg) (https://ibb.co/S3MVTC7)
Man. I wasnt expecting that. :popcorn:
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https://www.instagram.com/p/B14V6wiBRDO/?igshid=15yf43cj828p5
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I once bought an upright full-size refrigerator and carried it home on my sidecar. I no longer have the ability to post pictures but Iposted it here about 12
years ago. I tied it down in the upright position. People stared as if they had never seen a refrigerator before.
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Sidecars open up a whole world of cargo possiblities. Once loaded up 170 board feet of Azek in 8 and 10 foot lengths into the sidecar for a window casement project. It was snowing that particular trip.
The whole crew at the lumber yard came out to watch my departure.
Funny; they came out again the next week when I scheduled a repeat performance (wasn't snowing for that one).
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This thread just shows motorcyclist will do what they have to do, with much ingenuity.
Last odd thing I carried was a large converted spotlight we now have hung in the entry of our house. My wife saw it in a shop in Fredericksburg, Texas a year before and really liked it but since we were on bikes, she thought she could source one later. Although she tried, nothing met her desires like that light. After the MotoGP this Spring, I spent a couple days riding the Hill Country and staying in Fredericksburg, went to the shop and they still had it. It had no box and the store just bubble wrapped it. Ended up buying a large trash bag and roll of packing tape and completely mummified the light. Tied on with my Roc straps, it proudly rode the pillion seat back to Oklahoma. Wife was very happy.
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Not really weird but yesterday I took Ma’s cat to the vet for shots on the bike. It was a first for me but have taken many dogs.
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Beer keg (full) on an 850 T3. Where there's a will, there's a way.
You got me beat - Beer keg (empty) on an Eldo. On another occasion a passenger and seven bags of groceries.
A bicycle on my CL 350 Honda.
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Carried 3 10 foot PVC pipes on Giada. Strapped one end to the luggage rack mount and the other end lying on top of the rightside handlebar.
A cop pulled up beside me at a stoplight and just laughed and gave me a thumbs up!!
Where there is a will there's a way.
Yes I could have taken the pickup but where's the fun in that????
Jeff
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Dusty
If you know Dusty you know this is true!!!!
Jeff
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When I was tuning the carbs on the V7 Sport post restoration I rode it with fuel bottle hung from my neck.
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When I was tuning the carbs on the V7 Sport post restoration I rode it with fuel bottle hung from my neck.
Funny.
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Not all that strange but in the 60's I went to gigs on my Triumph(s) with my Guitar in a Fender bass gig bag over my shoulder. Gig bags were not yet available for geetars. I did this routine all over New Orleans for a few years. Got caught in the rain a few times. It does rain in NOLA sometimes! Fast forward to the 90's & really well made gig bags were aplenty for Guitars. I went to many rehearsals & gigs on my Ducati ST2. This required, as in the 60's, leaving a practice amp at the rehearsal location and/or a Pal carry it to gigs for me, as I couldn't fit that on my back. Could now cuz I have a sidecar rig, but don't gig anymore.
Also I needed to watch my speed on I-95 on the Duc as anything over 80 & the top of the gig bag stuck up about a foot aver my skid lid & wanted to drag me backwards off the bike. I often checked the attaching points on the shoulder straps for rips & tears!
I actually had t-shirts made for my Guitar Shop with a Wolf character on a '38 Franklin MC with a gig bag on his back. I just last week sent a photo of a well worn example of that shirt to my artist guy, with a request for him to refresh the art so I could do a final printing of that way cool shirt. I really want to print that shirt 1 more time.
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In 1975 I was living in Manhattan and a Honda 500/4 was my only transportation. I worked for SKI Magazine and had to transport skis out to our testing lab in northern Jersey. A typical load was a dozen 205cm slalom skis, half pairs without bindings. I probably made ten round trips with skis lashed in creative ways to the engine guards at the front and a ski pole fastened crosswise on the back of the saddle to support the tails.
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I've carried a few things...
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From the Oregon coast back to Canada
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Technically not on the bike but jammed down my jacket, a barrel stave for friends
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(https://photos.smugmug.com/Animals/Ruby/i-Rzj87bZ/0/dc9fde6f/L/IMG_3882-L.jpg)
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After we got the 2nd dog they both saved their allowances and bought this so I could drive them around
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I didn't get a picture but I delivered a dresser with the Ural one day, but as we all know "Pics or it didn't happen." :wink:
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The question on everyone’s lips.. :wink:
How’d the “date” go...? :wink: :kiss:
It was so uncomfortably hot and humid that at one point we returned to her car to sit in the air conditioning. But fast-forward 20 years and she's sitting across the living room from me now eating popcorn and reading her kindle. So I'd say the date went pretty dang well.
Nate
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A flea market purchased bench grinder.
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If I hadn't seen it......A few decades ago my nephew Rick strapped a full size recliner onto the back of his 650 Triumph. In the 70's there was a Kawasaki dealer in Bettendorf ,Iowa who rigged a large bucket seat on his KZ900 for a trip to Mexico.
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If I hadn't seen it......A few decades ago my nephew Rick strapped a full size recliner onto the back of his 650 Triumph. In the 70's there was a Kawasaki dealer in Bettendorf ,Iowa who rigged a large bucket seat on his KZ900 for a trip to Mexico.
Then Harley started building them with a Lazy Boy on back!
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My Friend, Gypsy. She is tolerable, but weird.
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Craziest thing I've personally strapped to a MC... how about a dozen 6 foot pool noodles? Not near as hazardous as what some of you have done, but it made for one very happy bunch of kids when I rode the bike to the back yard, stopped, and started chucking pool noodles to them.
For reference, it was my daughters' birthday, and we were having a pool party, but someone (might have been me) forgot to pick up pool noodles beforehand. Just because we had moved into the house two weeks before that and I was busting my backside to get the pool to be "not green" before the party... yeah, I might have forgotten something. But I did redeem myself, and the look on their faces when I rolled out back with all the pool toys... priceless!
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My college roommate carrying two cases of Old Milwaukee Beer in returnable bottles; one on each leg. Only a couple of miles but i had to be reeeally smooth on the controls. Honda CX500 with no backrest. Made lots of trips and no beer or blood was spilled since I wouldn't (and still don't) ride once I start on the alcohol :boozing:
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I used to live at the top of a hill. There was a stop sign at the top. I was working in my garden one day and I saw a guy on a Gold Wing with a woman on the back. He had a gallon of wine between his legs and she had a large paper bag she was holding. he did OK till he got to the stop sign and then had a moment of indecision, couldn't figure out how to put the feet down and save the wine. Big crash, wine, glass, blood and crying GF. I helped them get back together but I bet the BBQ was a sober affair...
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About 15 years ago we bought a rhododendron for mom for Mother's day. It was about 4 feet tall and in a 3 gallon pot. We sat it on the right saddlebag and Maggie steadied it for the 4 mile ride across town. The looks we got were priceless.
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It was the Summer of 1977.
As newly weds, and no car driver's license, our only transportation was a Honda CB360J. Once, we loaded both of us, a puppy, and a 25 lb. bag of puppy chow.
And weekly, we used to carry both of us, 3 large paper sacks of groceries, and, a few times a week, both of us, an a laundry hamper to the laundromat.
That bike was a veritable mule, and never missed a beat!
Fun times.....