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The guy in india I think must win the award for most weighty load, almost a walls worth of bricks with just his arm through a gap in the bricks.
I remember giving a 'croggy' for my then gf every Sunday for her part-time job when we were at college, 3 miles each way on an old beat up racing bike with her perched on the saddle. Luckily our home city is one of the flattest in the country and she was wafer thin but it was bloody hard work.
I've often cycled back a full sized bike box from the back of halfords the 2 miles to home, the bulk is the hard bit and catching the wind makes it interesting. Lol
A tumbe dryer is mostly bulk with little weight to it for it's size, even a Road.cc journo could pick one up.
So what? Too many people are conditioned by society, just follow peer group pressure and are not inventive enough to do unusual but effective things.
Before I got my drivers licence I had a trailer to push my hang glider in front of my bike to ride about 1km up the local hill. I just held the end of the glider so I could steer it by hand and miss the potholes. I still use a surf board rack even for boards up to 9ft long. A dryer is relatively light and could be carried on a good quality pannier if its straped on properly. I bought and carried many awkward or heavy things including a vacuum cleaner, paint, timber, car disc brakes.
The fact that so many people think its newsworthy shows how subservient and boring most of our society has become.
I'll have to have a look through my photos. I have one taken when I lived in West Africa of a bloke cycling along while balancing a palm tree on his head. If i find it I'll scan it in and send it to this website.
Imagine if he takes a tumble taking that tumble.
Up The Tumble?