Strangest cargo you've ever had?

MrJoeSoap

Doubt many will compete with this guy! What a great video!

http://www.independent.ie/video/video-have-you-seen/rally-biker-stops-to-save-drowning-calf-2917996.html

So what's the strangest cargo you've ever brought on your bike?

seanybiker

Had 5 of us on the bandit about 5 years ago coming through the green on way home from bud. Was doing surprisingly well until chap on bars asked for a wheelie. Meself and chap on tank was only ones left on bike. Good fun until that

Idleater

I strapped a couple of golf clubs for pitch n putt sideways across the seat. After filtering to the top of a queue I suddenly remembered them. Luckily I didn't touch anything - but for the rest of the journey it was *like a car* *like a car* *like a car*

I also managed to strap a case of beer (bottles) onto the bike. I don't know why I got the strange looks, surely if I had chucked them into a car it'd just be less noticeable but are bikes not allowed to visibly display their cargo?

KamiKazi

Few crates of beer, bungee straps everywhere!

No1J

50 kg bag of cement on the tank, 2 cavity blocks in the back box on the CB.
Keg of Guinness on a Vespa PE.

KingIsabella

In dominican republic i've seen a family of 5-6, children up to grandmother with all the shopping.

Two lads driving down beside each other with a big ladder beween them.

And a pig.

CrazyRabbit

Well I drove around in full military garb, a tactical vest with 2 handguns in holsters and a G3-SG1 rifle on my back. Does that count as 'strange'?

bladespin

A Microwave

MrJoeSoap

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Well I drove around in full military garb, a tactical vest with 2 handguns in holsters and a G3-SG1 rifle on my back. Does that count as 'strange'?

If it was commuting through traffic, yes. If not, probably not that strange.

No1J

A TV.
2X 14 FT decking planks (in the wee hours).
Cheque's in excess of 15M.
12kg bar of Gold.
4 foot elf sitting as a pillion.

CJhaughey

No1J wrote: »

4 foot elf sitting as a pillion.

Michael D?

seanybiker

No1J wrote: »

4 foot elf sitting as a pillion.

Andy Quinn. Haha

Hotblack Desiato

Not all at once:

Two dozen bottles of champagne cider.

Two tyres for a CBR600 around my waist

A folding clothes dryer along with a full week's food shopping

Notch000

Not my thread but ive seen similar stuff on the streets of vietnam

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=335816

No1J

CJhaughey wrote: »

Michael D?

Oh won it in a Christmas draw so on the way home picked him up, stuck his arms under mine and drove home as if all was grand, Me with Santa hat stuck to my lid and your man on the back, some funny looks as I flew up the middle in traffic.

Tigger

a cash register

wellboytoo

2 sacks of homegrown, never even felt the journey, long time ago your honour,

Paparazzo

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

Doubt many will compete with this guy! What a great video!

http://www.independent.ie/video/video-have-you-seen/rally-biker-stops-to-save-drowning-calf-2917996.html

So what's the strangest cargo you've ever brought on your bike?

Great video. Here's the youtube video with no ads:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyPLeII7YKE

galwaytt

. . . I'm tempted to say Mrs Galwaytt. . .but I won't. . .:-P

thecivvie

Had a sky dish on the back of mine recently, got a few comments about reception problems lol

Miscreant

Carried a PC home from a friend's house one time, rode a scooter at the time and the CPU was under the seat in the storage compartment (along with keyboard and mouse) and the screen strapped to the pillion seat. Journey was about 10 miles with that stuff and I worried about it every foot of the way!

seanybiker

Picked up one of the lads from a session one night and we seen a wheelchair on the road. I know yeah!! Where the hell was the person who used it. Anyways it turns out wheelchairs can't be dragged that fast behind a bike with someone sitting in it. Was some laugh though.

arybvtcw0eolkf

seanybiker wrote: »

Picked up one of the lads from a session one night and we seen a wheelchair on the road. I know yeah!! Where the hell was the person who used it. Anyways it turns out wheelchairs can't be dragged that fast behind a bike with someone sitting in it. Was some laugh though.

Reminds me of the time I towed my brother's little 50cc Suzuki moped to the garage behind my RD350YPVS with a bungee cord!..

Accelerating was fun

Run_to_da_hills

My compromised BSA M20 outfit back in the early 90's before I discovered JAP and Cages. Carried anything from a dog on the tank, building materials, rubble and a crated one ton capacity Sealey Engine crane from Newry to Dublin. :eek:

I would probably get arrested for attempting any of this now.

positron

LPG cylinder that holds 14kgs of gas + the weight of the cylinder, 25-30 kgs perhaps.
Large jute sacks full of farm produce like coconuts, mangoes, banana, pineapples, snake beans, black pepper, rubber sheets, elephant yams, tapioca, ginger, turmeric etc, and some times 20 ltr jerrycan of coconut oil, kerosene etc too.

positron

No1J wrote: »

Cheque's in excess of 15M.
12kg bar of Gold.

Wow!

Interceptor

I carried six chickens and three ducks in cardboard boxes taped to the back of a CBR1000. What do I win?

'cptr

Pataman

My young lad and his school bag every day. Can I still be in your club?

Pataman

Actually just remembered, when I started out I was on a moped( suzuki Carna), carried 8 pairs of shoes between my feet from my dads shop to another.

sf80

some flat pack furniture from ikea

Kev.OC

positron wrote: »

LPG cylinder that holds 14kgs of gas + the weight of the cylinder, 25-30 kgs perhaps.
Large jute sacks full of farm produce like coconuts, mangoes, banana, pineapples, snake beans, black pepper, rubber sheets, elephant yams, tapioca, ginger, turmeric etc, and some times 20 ltr jerrycan of coconut oil, kerosene etc too.

This confuses me...

positron

Kev.OC wrote: »

This confuses me...

Yep, rubber grows on trees.

You tap Rubber trees by cutting into their bark and installing a little cup to collect the sap (latex) that will drain out of the scar. Collect it after 24 hours, add some acid (can't remember exactly what), let it set and then thru rollers to get rid of the water component. Resulting sheets will be dried for 4-10 days, and then you can sell it to whoever buys rubber sheets in the market (they would be buying to sell to manufacturing industry).

arybvtcw0eolkf

KamiKazi wrote: »

Few crates of beer, bungee straps everywhere!

That reminds me.

In the days when we'd to smuggle gargle over the border I used to ride an old Yamaha DT175 (then later an RD125) from Dublin City centre to Newry, strap a few slabs on the tank and saddle behind me then come back that evening with the lights off over Forkhill

I'm probably lucky the Brit's never shot me :eek:

MrPudding

A couple of pints of blood, some spinal fluid, a DVD of CAT scans and, wait for it, frozen breast milk. Not all at the same time I might add...

MrP