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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Rendel Harris 2 hours ago
I wasn't saying that nor talking about people who say that. I said it was silly to claim that wearing a helmet indicates acceptance of dangerous driving and poor infrastructure. I choose to wear a helmet; I also regularly report dangerous driving to the police and correspond with councils and road authorities about ways infrastructure could be improved for cyclists. I rather doubt I'm the only helmet wearer who does so.
Steve K 2 hours ago
@JamieT (a pedant writes) she's a London Assembly member, not an MP.
eburtthebike 5 hours ago
@Rendel Harris ".....but the claim that wearing one is somehow to be accepting dangerous driving and poor infrastructure is silly." Not that silly. Demanding that cyclists wear a helmet is seen by many people as 'the answer' to cycling safety, so there's no need to put in infrastructure. The difference between infrastructure and helmets is that infrastructure works. Helmets are a distraction from what really works, and the more time we spend talking about them, the less time we spend on things that do work. Helmets should be consigned to the dustbin of history as a failed experiment, and we should cease even mentioning them.
wtjs 5 hours ago
@Mr Blackbird Hats off to George Hall My hat's not coming off- despite this touch of cycleway-washing, Hall still bears the Mark of Cain, until he repudiates his party altogether
JamieT 5 hours ago
Perhaps an article showing a) what is available in the uk as cargo bikes and) comments from real life scenarios from those already using bikes or cargo bikes as one gentleman has done in the comments. Perhaps road.cc could follow up with this. Even the MP said not every business should use cargo bikes but suggested a more nuanced approach suitable for certain trades or companies....
Rendel Harris 6 hours ago
@mdavidford Clearly the end of the sentence got deleted by mistake and it's meant to finish "...devices in their pockets."
Rendel Harris 6 hours ago
@Terry Hutt I don't support mandatory helmets either, but I always think that's a daft analogy (I realise you're not quoting it approvingly): if people shooting in the streets was a regular problem, I'd campaign against it vociferously and expect the authorities to do something about it, but I'd still wear body armour unless and until the problem was sorted out. It's perfectly reasonable for people to question the efficacy of cycle helmets, but the claim that wearing one is somehow to be accepting dangerous driving and poor infrastructure is silly.
Terry Hutt 9 hours ago
“People who are wearing body armour get used to being shot at, when it’s the getting shot at that’s the problem.” People who are wearing body armour get used to being shot at because they survive. People not wearing it die the first time they are shot. So they don't really have much chance to get used to being shot at, do they? But seriously if you don't want to wear a helmet and you're an adult, no-one should have the right to make you wear one.
ktache 16 hours ago
@lawrence18uk Occasionally I see tradies travelling with some tools on the train, compact tool bags, rucksacks and wheelie luggage, often carrying long spirit levels separately, but on a couple of occasions collapsible ladders.
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