O.K., so how many .....

[Bill Owens]

Here have NEVER used a milk crate on there bike. Just wonderin.

[Daleroso]

65 bikes 0 crates

[Guzzistajohn]

I have some for shop stools, makes a nice pattern on the arse 

[oldbike54]

 No milk crates , I prefer old wooden vegetable crates 

 Dusty

[twowheeladdict]

Milk Crate or Playmate Cooler?  I decided to go with the cooler.  Figured it would keep the beer cooler.   

[Huzo]

I was a postie in Australia for 35 years..
That's 5 days a week x 48 weeks a year x 35 years x 45 km per day on CT 110 Hondas.
Now where's my abacus..
Ummm..
378,000 km with a "crate" on the back. Plus overtime.
Does that count..?

[Bill Owens]

I was a postie in Australia for 35 years..
That's 5 days a week x 48 weeks a year x 35 years x 45 km per day on CT 110 Hondas.
Now where's my abacus..
Ummm..
378,000 km with a "crate" on the back. Plus overtime.
Does that count..?

Oh, oh....why not?

[slowmover]

I haven’t but had a friend who used one regularly and you couldn’t win an argument against it with him.He was all practical,no ego.”I don’t care what it looks like“he said “I can’t see me” Good ol Steve.

[Turin]

nope. I have been known to hang plastic grocery bags off of the handlebars.

[pehayes]

I keep a scooter for local town trips.  I use a 'folding' crate.  Great cargo capacity but folds flat to greatly improve the aerodynamics  when it is empty.

Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA

[guzzisteve]

Only once, on the Craven rack on my 71 Bonnie, and yes, I got sh*t for it. Use metal for sitting on, plastic don't hold up but you still get 'Waffle Butt'. I was out at Dale's in Rock Island years ago and one of the kids had one on a Convert w/his fishing gear in it. It's classic. It's common practice on a moped. Thanks for the chuckle.

[Tom H]

Are we talking permanently attached or just strapped on to carry something that day?

I have never permanently attached one, but I have used one to carry parts that my trunk wouldn't hold due to weight. Rather carry the weight on the back seat rather than a luggage rack.

A topic for another thread. What are the odd things that have been carried on your bike?

Tom

[Huzo]

A topic for another thread. What are the odd things that have been carried on your bike?

Tom

My first wife..?

[Tom H]

My first wife..?

Oouch!

Tom

[twowheeladdict]

I keep a scooter for local town trips.  I use a 'folding' crate.  Great cargo capacity but folds flat to greatly improve the aerodynamics  when it is empty.

Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA

Now, that is cool!   

[twowheeladdict]

I think milk crate was required kit on the 1st gen KLR650s. 

[Toecutter]

I have not.

I have used t-shirt bags tied together as makeshift "throwover saddlebags". I have used $8 army surplus "bread bags"  for years on my CB750 as sidebags. I've used surplus haversacks, duffles and stuffed everything possible under a cargo net around my gas tank.

But I have yet to use a milk crate.

[Don G]

Only underneath to hold it up. DonG

[yogidozer]

Milkcrate? Nope, but that old backpack you updated several times, yup.

[travelingbyguzzi]

Many moons ago, when Honda first brought out it's Valkyrie (a move I applauded), I saw a brand new one in downtown Seattle with a milk crate strapped on the back. I laughed.

[larrys]

Nope, not ever. Did once buy an Ambassador that had 20MM ammo cans for saddlebags. Still have the cans. Then there was a guy in a motorcycle safety class I took that had a ratty Virago with a '60's Evinrude 40hp outboard motor cover on the back, upside down with a hinged piece of plywood for a cover.
Larry

[Joe A.]

When I moved to AZ, I needed to find a bike. Bought a really nice CX650 from a nice elderly gentleman.

He included the milk crate on it.

Very practical.

I couldn't do it.

Took it off after a day and my life improved dramatically.

[Two Checks]

No milk crate but have used a pistol case as a top case.

[Dharma Bum]

+1 on the pistol case, room for tools, air compressor, etc, and still low enough that you can strap a tail bag on top of it.

[Shorty]

I have a wire basket from a bicycle clamped onto the rear of my commuter. It was first on my Honda Helix, now on my Yamaha XT250. So I guess no worries about looking cool.  Very functional. Just throw in my thermos, my overstuffed bag, and any needed extra clothes for the evening, bungee it into place, and rock on. Would not be without it.

[Two Checks]

Quote from: Dharma Bum on Today at 10:44:17 AM

+1 on the pistol case, room for tools, air compressor, etc, and still low enough that you can strap a tail bag on top of it.

Cooler....beer is a building block of life.

[inditx]

Nope, none, ever

[yogidozer]

Pee Wee had a better idea 

[Sheepdog]

I used milk crates to hold up dirt bikes, but never as luggage (not even on the KLR). I do have a black bicycle basket on my 4-wheeler...right behind the rifle rack. I keep my possibles bag with my phone, binoculars, and such in the basket. A carabiner holds it from falling out...

[malik]

I have. Comes in handy sometimes. A gearbox fits in nicely. Useful for carbon coated camping gear & other dirty stuff.

Odd things? - picked up a long range tank for the Enfield once on my travels - one tank at the front & another on top of the luggage at the back.

- was given a live rooster once at Seldom Seen to take to Launching Place, a 2 day ride the way I went. In a gunny sack with a hole for its head. Caused a mild sensation when stopped at a pub for a beer in the evening - emptied the bar for a bit. It was supposed to have been eaten, but was adopted instead, even tho' it would start crowing at 2am - lasted a year before the foxes took it.