Me riding my old Australia Post postie bike:



I picked it up at a local rubbish dump. It is in storage at present, and will be a project restoration. I'd love to get hold of an old leather mail bag that fitted into the basket, which, incidentally, is attached to the headtube and not the fork... which makes riding it initially a little off-putting because the front wheel moves to turn but not the basket. It's also a singlespeed, and that means great respect for the old posties who used to climb Hobart's quite steep hills with it.

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Does a trailer like a basket count? On tour in South Australia...



The trailer doing duty moving garden stuff at the place that was lost in the 2009 bushfire disaster:



It's a TW Bents trailer which has proved quite useful over the time I have had it.

But then, it arrived in a box like this on the back of my touring bike:



Some years ago, I built a large trailer from aluminium security mesh and it did a lot of work, moving bikes, as well as equipment including computers for running bike training courses. Here, it was used to put my possessions into storage before a six month soujourn to Canada (just after this photo, it was dismantled and put into a dumpster, except for the wheels):



There is another two-wheel trailer I have in storage now that was also reclaimed from the dump as a kid trailer with a bent wheel axle. I stripped it down, fixed the axle, and painted it up.

When I was car-free and living in a rural region, I opted to use panniers to do shopping.