Strangest item/items carried on your motorcycle.

[Bill_Rockoff]

When my only vehicles were the FJ1200 and the Miata, I carried a variety of Miata parts on the back.  I busted the original diff and couldn't get the power plant frame ("PPF") separated from it, so I had to go buy a used one to install on the new/used diff.  The PPF is an aluminium girder about 6" tall and maybe 5' long, so it stuck way off the back of the bike with a red flag tied on the back.  

I have carried a pair of car wheels, with the tires on top, to get the tires mounted and balanced.

Before Andrew was born, I took the FJ to go baby-car-seat shopping.  Child seats come in a big square box that is too cumbersome to be easily bungeed onto the back of a motorcycle, so I tossed the box away at the store and fastened the seat by itself onto the motorcycle.  I got a lot of looks in traffic.  The guy in the lane next to me figured out I was kidding when I said "OHMYGOD, MY BABY!!!  WHERE'S MY BABY??" but for a couple of seconds he wasn't quite sure.

Andrew rode on the back of the FJ pretty frequently when he was toddler-aged.  This occasionally made for some good conversation in the parking lot at his daycare.

[Dads_FJ]

"Andrew rode on the back of the FJ pretty frequently when he was toddler-aged.  This occasionally made for some good conversation in the parking lot at his daycare."

I used to ride around the yard with my three boys on at the same time.

About 13 years ago:

[rktmanfj]

Bill, I love the new sig line...   

[mz_rider]

This guy in has us all beat....

[mz_rider]

Not on a bike but behind it. From the Japanese Vintage Club



"Back in 2010 my friend Greg Davis towed this 1966 Yamaha YM1 across Canada from Vancouver to Mid Ohio for another Canadian Friend so he could restore it."

[fintip]

Ok, those are both pretty epic. Love the trailer idea! Brilliant! Inspired! Legality?

[yosemite]

bought a Bonneville rolling chassis about 30 miles from home, stripped the forks , wheels mudguards and swinging arm off strapped them on the back of an xs850, slung the frame over one shoulder and rode along a motorway to the powder coaters where I dropped of the bits that needed painting and took the rest home, a week later I picked the painted parts up strapped them on the bike using my mums cushions to stop them rubbing against each other and again carried the frame over my shoulder  At the time it seemed sensible.......
also carried a dustbin fairing on the back of the fj was ok apart from problems with the crosswind

[CanDman]

I'm not sure this constitutes an item.....