Copper On Bike. Bloody idiot!!!

NWLondoner

NO not a rozzer on a bike but an old man on a bike carrying 2mtr lengths of copper tube on his shoulders :shock:

I couldn't believe my eyes. He was swerving all over the place on the busy section of the Edgware Road.

Idiots ike him that give us all a bad name.

DaveyL

There's a guy I see quite often in Queen's Square in Bristol, cycling on a beat up old mountain bike and carrying a can of Special Brew. He seems pretty steady though and never spills a drop.

STEFANOS4784

DaveyL wrote:

There's a guy I see quite often in Queen's Square in Bristol, cycling on a beat up old mountain bike and carrying a can of Special Brew. He seems pretty steady though and never spills a drop.

Living the dream!
I often see people cycling with what looks like quite heavy bags of shopping on the handlebars :roll:

Mithras

Oi, I nearly broke my clicking finger trying to get into this thread!!!!

oldwelshman

I can beat that. I cycled on my MTB with a 16 foot scaffolding pole which I wanted for a clothes line post
But I did cycle through some corn fields and not on the road.
It felt ok at first but after about helf a mile I thought my shoulder was going to collapse. Took some skill pedalling and balancing the 16 foot pole

Sirius631

oldwelshman wrote:

Took some skill pedalling and balancing the 16 foot pole

Most people who balance with a 16 foot pole do so by holding it perpendicular to the direction of travel of the bike. Then again, they also have no tyres and are balanced on a rope some way up in the air.

OffTheBackAdam

Tie it to your top tube!
Mate of mine got stopped by the police and was told to remove the love-doll he had tied to his back.
Ah, the delights of the "Christmas 10"

iainment

NWLondoner wrote:

NO not a rozzer on a bike but an old man on a bike carrying 2mtr lengths of copper tube on his shoulders :shock:

I couldn't believe my eyes. He was swerving all over the place on the busy section of the Edgware Road.

Idiots ike him that give us all a bad name.

No they don't. They just show themselves up, get a grip man and let go of your paranoia.

term1te

In some parts of the world this would be normal behaviour. In Vietnam I saw many people cycling with unbelievable loads. One guy had three or four small children plus two large cages of chickens suspended from either end of a 6 foot pole held across his shoulders. Another was carrying so many large plastic containers that you could hardly see the cyclist or the bike.

Sirius631

Term1te wrote:

In some parts of the world this would be normal behaviour. In Vietnam I saw many people cycling with unbelievable loads. One guy had three or four small children plus two large cages of chickens suspended from either end of a 6 foot pole held across his shoulders. Another was carrying so many large plastic containers that you could hardly see the cyclist or the bike.

In Vietnam, that is what they call a highly skilled workforce. We'd have to change the Bikeability curriculum somewhat before we could use bikes to their full capability.

turnerc99

So how did he attach the children to the pole?

chuckcork

Sirius631 wrote:

Term1te wrote:

In some parts of the world this would be normal behaviour. In Vietnam I saw many people cycling with unbelievable loads. One guy had three or four small children plus two large cages of chickens suspended from either end of a 6 foot pole held across his shoulders. Another was carrying so many large plastic containers that you could hardly see the cyclist or the bike.

In Vietnam, that is what they call a highly skilled workforce. We'd have to change the Bikeability curriculum somewhat before we could use bikes to their full capability.

Read up on what the Vietnamese were carrying on bikes during the war (from the north to the south), I read that 4 fully laden bikes would carry the equivalent of a uh-1 (Huey) helicopter, which I imagine would be a pretty decent load in itself!

oldwelshman

Term1te wrote:

In some parts of the world this would be normal behaviour. In Vietnam I saw many people cycling with unbelievable loads. One guy had three or four small children plus two large cages of chickens suspended from either end of a 6 foot pole held across his shoulders. Another was carrying so many large plastic containers that you could hardly see the cyclist or the bike.

You sure you was not in central Luton?

term1te

turnerc99 wrote:

So how did he attach the children to the pole?

The curse of the missing comma.

One child on handlebars, one sitting sideways on the top tube and one or two behind the guy pedalling.

LittleB0b

STEFANOS4784 wrote:

I often see people cycling with what looks like quite heavy bags of shopping on the handlebars :roll:

I do that sometimes :oops:

the trick is to get equal weight on each side...