Weird things you have carried by motorcycle

[Huzo]

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..
How’d the “date” go...?

[Tom H]

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

[wirespokes]

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.

[Knuckle Dragger]

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!

[wyno]

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.

[Beowulf]

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.
 

[malik]

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.

[Rough Edge racing]

 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...

[blackcat]

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.

[davedel44]

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.




what is the formula for aluminum
 

Want a good banana bread recipe?

Dave
Galveston

[Beowulf]

Want a good banana bread recipe?

Dave
Galveston

I would love a good recipe.

[Beowulf]

Not weird but got the most comments. Tires for the kids car.

Man. I wasnt expecting that.

[Cam3512]

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[Sasquatch Jim]

 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.

[n3303j]

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).

[Darren Williams]

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.

[John A]

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.

[normzone]

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.

[guzzi4me]

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

[guzzi4me]

Me .

 Dusty

If you know Dusty you know this is true!!!!

Jeff

[Dave Swanson]

When I was tuning the carbs on the V7 Sport post restoration I rode it with fuel bottle hung from my neck. 

[blackcat]

When I was tuning the carbs on the V7 Sport post restoration I rode it with fuel bottle hung from my neck.

Funny. 

[wolfeguitars]

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.

[Testarossa]

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.

[bross]

I've carried a few things...





From the Oregon coast back to Canada




Technically not on the bike but jammed down my jacket, a barrel stave for friends








After we got the 2nd dog they both saved their allowances and bought this so I could drive them around


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." 

[TodkaVonic]

The question on everyone’s lips..
How’d the “date” go...?

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

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

A flea market purchased bench grinder.

[wymple]

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.

[Cam3512]

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!

[John Croucher]

My Friend, Gypsy.  She is tolerable, but weird.