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Motor cycle carrying capacity

andyBeaker

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whats the biggest/daftest load you have carried on a motorbike?

I have two contenders;

- on the way to a residential course in The Cotswolds on a BMW f650....- fairly large hard suitcase, two suits in a suit carrier and a large rucksack containing a bike cover. Going wasn't too bad, in fact it was great as I was able to filter through a monster jam on the M25. Coming back wasn't so good....it was snowing when I left......and all without a satnav
- can't remember exactly how many, around 10 bottles of champagne in bin liners strapped on the back of a Bird with bungees. Well, it had been paid for.....
 

Malone

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Was a passenger on a T100 (mid sixties, a proper one) and I’d managed to blag a 5 gallon fibreglass tank and a seat unit to suit my TriBSA I was building. I was given a lift home about 15 miles of sheer terror as I couldn't brace myself, or hold on and the footrests would try to swivel under me.
 

Me!

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A scaffolding plank to the tip on a Cub 90
 

Centaur

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A girl who screamed every time I leant the bike over and tried to get the bike upright again by leaning the wrong way. :eek:
 

Squag1

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Not so much capacity.....
I made a panier for a Triumph 3TA - bathtub - with plywood in 1968. I can't imagine what it looked like.

May have told already.
I took it off for a while.
After putting it back on, going in the gate I forgot it was back on - firewood!

Friend told me he forgot he had taken off sidecar. In the middle of the job he needed a quick trip to the shop. When he stopped at the traffic lights........very embarrassed.
 

Cougar377

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A bergen full of Chinese takeaway orders.
God knows what plod/ambulance crew would've made of it if I'd crashed.....
 

johnboy

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Honda CG125, Hampshire to London and back, the return journey two Dunlop slicks for the race bike.
 

Minkey

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I remember Malc telling me he transported 2 crates on Newcastle Brown on the back of his bike
 

Cougar377

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Honda CG125, Hampshire to London and back, the return journey two Dunlop slicks for the race bike.

Back in the early 80's an oppo of mine used to ride a Yamaha 100 from Aldershot to Newcastle most weekends to visit his girlfriend. He always took a full bergen of clothes,etc. and I doubt it ever got above 45 mph.

Mad as the proverbial box of amphibians.
 

derek kelly

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On a Garelli step through moped, went from Wakefield to Leeds with my fishing box over one shoulder & rod bag over the other.
 

slim63

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Two spring to mind. not so long ago a pair of bandit wheels complete with discs & tyres + a GS850 bottom end about 115 miles from Liverpool to the midlands on my old rat RF900............. no bother :D

Many years ago a large hard suitcase from the train station in town on a single seat chop, balanced on the tank/my knees & as slippery as an eel, I must have picked that bugger up out of the road 5 times in the 2 miles home :oops:
 

Jaws

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At Rovereto motorad in Italy there used to arrive a Simpson 50 ... from Poland.. with all the camping gear etc to last a week
 

derek kelly

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Whatever we have carried on our bikes we cannot match the taxi riders in the Dom Rep, on one Honda 90 cub there was the rider & four passengers, on another the passenger was a nursing mother sitting side saddle whilst feeding her baby.
 

Vinterceptor

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whats the biggest/daftest load you have carried on a motorbike?

Looks like we've been watching old episodes of Top Gear:D

For me it was on a 250 Super Dream a big shop at Asda loaded into panniers top box and tank bag also had the missus on the back carrying an ironing board
 

slim63

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Whatever we have carried on our bikes we cannot match the taxi riders in the Dom Rep, on one Honda 90 cub there was the rider & four passengers.

Does 6 on an xs250 from one village to the next because we knew we could get a lock in at the boot inn come close?
 

ianrobbo1

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A dining room chair, when I was a courier in the smoke, the company I was riding for should have sent a van, well it was a fair old price and I'm a tight git, so on the back, it went, :rolleyes: AND I got a tip for not damaging it as well as being on time. I've had a few other weird and wonderful things on board whilst doing that job.:D
 

Quiney

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We once organised a teddy bears picnic for BIRD. Limited it to 20 people.
In a 52l top box and two 42l side boxes we carried a full picnic for everyone. (I was riding 2 up as well)
On arrival at the picnic site the ride leader offered to help carry the panniers, he could hardly lift the top box! It had the drinks in it.
 

ianrobbo1

good looking AND modest
We once organised a teddy bears picnic for BIRD. Limited it to 20 people.
In a 52l top box and two 42l side boxes we carried a full picnic for everyone. (I was riding 2 up as well)
On arrival at the picnic site the ride leader offered to help carry the panniers, he could hardly lift the top box! It had the drinks in it.
PHAH!! I never got invited!!:confused::(



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