mustridebikes

I will go first: today my company did their traditional holiday ham distribution and I hauled home 11lbs of quality pork product by pedal power. In my years of bike commuting I have also hauled home a lamp (too bright for the office), a cooler (won it in some employee contest), and another bike (that was a long ride!). Any other random acquisitions that joined you on a bike?

Lex Fati

It was years ago, but I was out riding a unicycle one day and ended up carrying back an office chair.

Darth Lefty 

Myself

Malemute_Kid

Two large three ring binders i got at a training session for work.

Lex Fati

Nice answer.

mcours2006

I've hauled home a ton of groceries, well, not a ton like 1000kg, but maybe 20kg of stuff distributed between my panniers and backpack--apples, oranges, pork, chicken, fish. You name it. I don't know if that's weird.

canklecat

A nurse. Not weird by itself. I've given rides to people before. But she seemed to regard this as a marriage proposal. Must have been from some odd Nederlander bicycle marriage cult. The Death and the Maiden on a Bicycle tattoo should have been a clue.

Eric S.

Big package of TP is too big for the rack, so...

hueyhoolihan

Bob, my next door neighbor, is the weirdest thing i've ever transported by bicycle. he's one weird dude.

79pmooney

Many years ago: a roughly 4' x 1 1.2' x 1'4" aluminum plate. About 20 pounds. Tied it to the frame and steered carefully. my ability to turn to one side was severely restricted.

Ben

joeyduck

I'm with @darthy lefty I am about the weirdest thing I have ever transported. I have brought home the occasional random thing but nothing to crazy, mostly things that fit in my panniers or I can tie or bungee to the rack. Nothing outlandishly shaped or sized or an object with an over high mass.

There was a guy a while back, this spring I think, who was looking for a way to transport fencing foils. I wonder how that turned out.

12strings

I once transported an alternator from auto zone back home to my car...alternators are heavy!

catgita

When I was a kid, I transported a 4'x8'x3/4" sheet of plywood home on a windy day, balanced on the pedal of my BMX bike. It and I were pretty beat up after 5 miles. What the hell was I thinking!?

randomgear

A large potted parlor palm on a winter's evening. I even got a shout out as I neared my neighborhood from a guy who had obviously seen me downtown with the plant.

No surprise really, biking and driving the 6 miles or so take the same amount of time. I just get to ride though a park on the way home while the car drivers wait for lights and other traffic. I frequently saw distinctive cars downtown only to see them again as I neared my apartment.

hooCycles

Parts of a model airplane.

alan s 

A cat in a carrier on the rack. The cat didn't seem to mind.

kuroba

The weirdest thing I carried by bike was a school project. It was a large plywood base with wires all over (it was a conceptual design thing), I wrapped it with a large garbage bag, put it on the rack of my dutch bike and secured with bungee cords (and rode sloooowly to school). And the other day my SO carried the new tires I bought for my bike around his chest (they have iron or something so we couldn't fold them), he's also carried a large potted plant

Daniel4

The most recent thing I can remember are flowers for my wife.

There are other occasions when I carried stuff I bought at Home Depot but they were all small enough to put into my duffel bag.

Tundra_Man 

Lots of odd things over the years.

Every Thanksgiving my company gives us a turkey. On the day we get them I pull my son's old child trailer he's long since outgrown, and strap the turkey in place for the ride home. Sometimes it's pretty cold out and I get a lot of ugly looks from people thinking I'm pulling a child through heavy traffic in freezing temps. This reminds me, we get our turkeys this coming Monday.

Brought a 40" metal detector to work last week for a co-worker to borrow. Tied the handle end to my rear rack and ran the rest across my top tube, with the "detecting" portion sticking out in front of the bike. Looked pretty space-age.

Years ago I bought a 100' rubber garden hose. It was too big to fit in my panniers and I didn't have any way to strap it to the bike, so I just looped the plastic bag over my wrist and carried it that way. Severely underestimated how much a 100' rubber garden hose weighs, especially after it's been hanging on the wrist for a while. Made steering pretty tricky and my knees hitting the bag made it sway back and forth which just exacerbated the steering issue. Kept switching wrists because it would cut off the blood flow. I was definitely ready for that ride to be done once I completed the 7 miles home.

CrankyOne

I have a bakfiets so I've carried a wide assortment of stuff. The most amusing is when I go to the gas station to get boat gas. I can carry three 5-gallon cans though I prefer to do it one or two at a time.



Three or four kids fit in it nicely. It's hauled a lot of wine, beer, and groceries. A christmas tree, pumpkins and other assorted stuff. I've hauled a fair bit of stuff home from the nursery and have found out that loading evenly is critical, especially with several bags of potting soil.

rhm

A few years ago I carried a lot of rocks... nice, smooth round pebbles, mostly about the size of a cantaloupe, that I found in a field. I was building a wall, and went back for more several times. The next time I rode that bike, I realized I had broken so many spokes that I had to rebuild the wheel.

But something tells me that's not the strangest thing I've ever carried on a bike.

corrado33

The HARDEST thing I've ever had to transport was a bike box on a windy day. I folded it flat then cut a handle on the one side of it. I rode one handed the rest of the way home. Turns out large boxes act as great sails. I was blown all over the place. The worse was when the wind was directly perpendicular to my direction of travel. It blew hard enough to bend the box around my hand. (Impressive considering it was a very thick cardboard box.) I had absolutely nothing to attach it to my bike, so I had no choice but to hold it.

noglider 

A few months ago, I hauled a big office chair five miles in Manhattan, using my trailer.

I've hauled two or three bikes at a time.

I once hauled about 120 lbs of belgian blocks. I wouldn't want to haul much more than that, though I think the max I have put in the trailer is about 180 lbs.

I've gone to Costco and hauled a suburban Costco-sized load. You know how that is.

phughes

I use the bike to take my propane tank to be filled or exchanged. This is an old picture taken shortly after I got the LHT and before I got it set up. It looks weird to me now.

curbtender

Not me, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG0Lxjldlas