Hi, well I have carried some strange things in my time but this is a 1st! If anyone can guess what I am carrying there is a spot prize? Flo K
Commuter diaries – strange luggage
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Mr Blackbird 24 minutes ago
@jackcycles I would like to see more motor vehicles in blurred pastel shades, without well-defined outlines, like in a Monet painting. Perhaps driving through a water meadow or a blurred, misty river scene. I think it would reduce driver aggression.
chrisonabike 43 minutes ago
Well the one on the right is twice as biggerer, obviously has to be substantially more dangerous!
JMcL_Ireland 2 hours ago
So to illustrate the nonsense that this is, it's perfectly acceptable in their eyes to take the thing on the left onto the train, but you can't even bring the Giant on the right into the car park? But hey, what do I know. Maybe the Randride YX20M is the greatest bike ever to take to the road
mdavidford 2 hours ago
No - he was a son of God, dedicated to unmasking the alien conspiracy. Unless that was all a clever double-bluff.
jaymack 2 hours ago
Be careful what you wish for; all that "power and glory" fever makes for a sicker Union Jack
jaymack 2 hours ago
@perce - I thought David Icke was an alien rather than a nutter; perhaps I am mistaken.
mdavidford 3 hours ago
These organisations aren't interested in commuters and active travel, though. They're all about the sport side of cycling, so they're thinking in terms of places where people can go and do that, and they can identify and hothouse talent (while driving to get there).
Slartibartfast 3 hours ago
Bit of a non comparison. My carbon xc full suspension with mezcals is probably a tiny bit slower on tarmac or very smooth fire road than my carbon gravel bike but in every other scenario it's faster. 'Gravel' bikes only make sense to me if you're riding a long way on road to get to some rough stuff, but even then I pick up my xc bike 9 out of 10 times.
mdavidford 3 hours ago
Couldn't that just be because people are keeping them with them as 'regular luggage'?
chrisonabike 3 hours ago
Good review. I have had no problems with Scotrail and bikes. I suspect this is more to do with benign neglect of limits to the "first-come first served" unreserved numbers. Still I've only been told not to board once, and that was for a train that was rammed with people so fair enough. Haven't made much use of the reservation system - those tend to be clunky and chancy everywhere. Same in my (very limited) GWR experience. OTOH on some popular recreational routes (Highland line) could use more capacity.
13 thoughts on “Commuter diaries – strange luggage”
Once carried a chainsaw on
Once carried a chainsaw on the back of a bike… but, that looks more like a mop. :B
chainsaw, impressive. Mop,
chainsaw, impressive. Mop, alas not.
Flo
Sink plunger perhaps?
Sink plunger perhaps?
it’s good but it’s not right
it’s good but it’s not right – Roy Walker
It’s your new broomstick?
I
It’s your new broomstick?
I saw a woman carrying a swivel chair on her Cannondale MTB on the way home. She’d strapped the seat cushion onto the side of the carrier so that the rotating base was sticking out. It looked kind of odd and I did wonder if she’d bashed it off anything on the way.
When I lived in Nigeria I regularly saw people carrying strange things on bicycles. As I sat sinking a beer in a roadside bar, one guy pedalled slowly past with a tree on his head on one occasion. And no, I wasn’t drunk.
We also moved house by bicycle, balancing our kitchen table across my mate’s bike and having placed all our furniture (coffee table, beds and living room chairs, paraffin cooker and all the other smaller bits and pieces) on top of the table. There were four of us supporting the kitchen table and one steering the bicycle handlebars and we moved everything in just three loads.
Good work. Did you do that
Good work. Did you do that move over here or in Nigeria?
Dave Holladay, (one of the unsung heroes of cycling) once told me how he’d moved a wardrobe on a Brompton.
is it a lampshade stand?
is it a lampshade stand?
Is it one of those ‘invisible
Is it one of those ‘invisible dog’ leads?
or is it something long
or is it something long wrapped in a plastic bag?
Clue – I could have ridden it
Clue – I could have ridden it home in a pythonesque manner.
Flo
easy – Pogo Stick!
easy – Pogo Stick!
a 3-speed Holy Grail?
a 3-speed Holy Grail?
close. A Hobby Horse!
Flo K
close. A Hobby Horse!
Flo K