John F Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 4-up on a Suzuki GS650 Katana cafe racer at the Bulldog Bash... me sat on the top of the fuel tank driving, my 5'0' girlfriend sat on the seat, a one-legged bloke on the pillion and some other random bloke sat on the plastic rear light surround. The fella on the back jumped off after a while but the rest of us couldn't stop, my lass couldn't reach the floor to hold us up and the one-legged bloke only had one leg. After a while we found people we knew to help us dismount. Or another kind of overloading story: I once transported an entire 650 Katana engine a couple of miles across Canterbury on the luggage rack on the back of a Honda 250 Superdream. Unstable isn't the word for it... anything above 10 mph would see the front end weaving like crazy. I'm amazed I didn't attract the attention of plod. PS We once got 14 people into a Twingo on Mallorca and drove it a couple of feet, just to say we'd done it. And when I was a kid I distinctly remember the family being picked up from the railway station by relatives and driven to their house with me in the boot (front) of a VW Beetle, together with at least one cousin.
dollywobbler Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 I seem to recall once getting 11 of us in my mate's Metro. That wasn't very comfortable. But then we were only driving around Birmingham City Centre, so it wasn't very dangerous really... Hmmm. I should have thought harder about this first time around, then I wouldn't have had to write so many different posts.
504GL Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 I seem to recall once getting 11 of us in my mate's Metro. That wasn't very comfortable. But then we were only driving around Birmingham City Centre, so it wasn't very dangerous really... Hmmm. I should have thought harder about this first time around, then I wouldn't have had to write so many different posts. Think about if there had been an accident though. 2 car accident, 15 deaths!
jonny69 Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 I used to way overload my mopeds. Record was 5 people on board going round a camp-site but when the guy hanging on the front jumped off, the bike flipped over the back wheel and landed on all of us. This would normally have resulted in me getting hurt but because we were all drinking we just cracked up laughing. I used to load it up with gear held on with luggage straps, normally a computer case in the step-through and boxes of other stuff including a CRT monitor on the back pannier. When it rained it would all come loose where the boxes went soggy and started to collapse. One time I didn't have the straps so I bound it on with gaffer and brown parcel tape. HOW I never got stopped like that I don't know. I also managed to balance a 1600 Ford Crossflow on the step-through and strap it down. That was fun riding with all that weight so low down and up front Oh and I carried a folded shopper bike on the back across London. You'd think that wasn't a problem, but folding bikes aren't as small as they look, especially when it's got to hang off the back of a moped. Wasn't a comfortable ride back, I remember that
dollywobbler Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 I seem to recall once getting 11 of us in my mate's Metro. That wasn't very comfortable. But then we were only driving around Birmingham City Centre, so it wasn't very dangerous really... Hmmm. I should have thought harder about this first time around, then I wouldn't have had to write so many different posts. Think about if there had been an accident though. 2 car accident, 15 deaths! Indeed. I didn't say it was sensible or recommended!
504GL Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 I seem to recall once getting 11 of us in my mate's Metro. That wasn't very comfortable. But then we were only driving around Birmingham City Centre, so it wasn't very dangerous really... Hmmm. I should have thought harder about this first time around, then I wouldn't have had to write so many different posts. Think about if there had been an accident though. 2 car accident, 15 deaths! Indeed. I didn't say it was sensible or recommended! I know. It was just the idea of a 2 car pileup with so many fatalities that made me chuckle.
jonny69 Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 When I was a cub scout we used to go off to camp in the back of a removals truck. Patrol, canteen and latrine tents, water containers, trestle tables, cooking pots and a load of kids all rattling around in the back of a truck. The top halves of the back doors were latched open so we could lean out the back and wave at the cars behind as we bowled along. It's only recently that I've realised how mental this would seem now.Same when I was in cadets. There would be 15-20 of us sat on the bench seats in the back of an ancient 4-tonner, camping gear, 25 rifles, a LOT of live ammo, a LOT of blanks and a LOT of explosives. We'd be hanging out back the waving at drivers then someone would pop up from out of view with a rifle. I just can't see that happening any more
John F Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 When I was a cub scout we used to go off to camp in the back of a removals truck. Patrol, canteen and latrine tents, water containers, trestle tables, cooking pots and a load of kids all rattling around in the back of a truck. The top halves of the back doors were latched open so we could lean out the back and wave at the cars behind as we bowled along. It's only recently that I've realised how mental this would seem now.Same when I was in cadets. There would be 15-20 of us sat on the bench seats in the back of an ancient 4-tonner, camping gear, 25 rifles, a LOT of live ammo, a LOT of blanks and a LOT of explosives. We'd be hanging out back the waving at drivers then someone would pop up from out of view with a rifle. I just can't see that happening any more Bloody hell... our rifles and ammo always travelled separately. They must have really trusted you lot.
Cavcraft Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 Seven kids, football equipment, general tat and alloy wheels in the back of a Maestro van.
maxpower Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 me the ex-missus a cooker and 5 cushions from a 3pc suite.. in the back of a maxi with the rear seats down
ashmicro Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 4 of us in the bucket of a thus-equipped JCB Loadall, being driven by a bloke who hadn't done the CITB course to drive that type of vehicle. Wasn't pre-83, just about pre-2011!
AnthonyG Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 I think about eight or nine in a Peugeot 504 saloon. Three in the front (not a bench seat, just two in the front passenger seat), and the rest across the back seat. Even though 504's are tough, it was very low to the ground - I was gingerly driving it to school at 8.15am though Hereford town centre - thankfully it was only about a mile.
Lord Sterling Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 My ex-girlfriends Tomos moped from Belfast to Carrickfergus hanging out the back of my Samba Ah yes, that remind me when years ago ago, a mate of mine needed to shift his moped from the back garden of a place he'd recently moved out of. I only had the Micra and I quickly realised just how big this moped actually was as we tried to load into the back of Micra. We had nothing to tie it down with so we set off with my mate holding onto its handle bars from the passenger seat and half of it hanging out the back of the Micra and the boot wide open. Just as luck would have it as we set off down the Stratford road there had recently been a smash so the road was blocked off with cops crawling all over the place. As we passed a cop who directed us to a diversion I remember him looking at my car as I drove away and heard him commenting something along the lines 'that doesnt look safe, ' I wasnt stopped though. I also remember the same mate pursuading me to transport 7 lads to football training as they had no way of getting there in time so I managed to squeeze about 6 lads in the back with one squeezed in the rear footwell, 1 lad in the boot with a some football bags and me and said mate in the front as he had to navigate the way from Balsall Heath to Aston. I must admit I was rather fearful of getting a tug by the 5-0, I'd only had my licence for less than a year Thankfully we managed to make it there without drama.
AnthonyG Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 'Balsall Heath to Aston' . I must admit I was rather fearful of getting a tug by the 5-0, I think they have other priorities in those areas - like getting out of Nechells alive!
Cavcraft Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 BMW 735 chock full of metal on the back of a Transit recovery truck, especially as I'd filled the bloody thing with water to help it weigh more. The rear of the truck was perilously close to the deck and the fuel tank of the BMW leaked, thank God it was only a 12 mile round trip to the weight in yard, VOSA would have torn me a new arsehole if they'd pulled me. A 'slight' overhang problem dragging an LDV Convoy LWB van on another truck was also fun.
CIH Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 I have no idea how many were crammed-in but when my parents fored me to go to boys brigade there were so many of us crammed into a Volvo 240 I had to "sit" in the passenger footwell...
bigstraight6 Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 I can still remember as if it was yesterday being a middle back seat passenger in a 'five up' Marina on a Plymouth to London journey in early 1986, very cramped and the constant steering correction by our driver to keep the heap in a straight line and drone of the 'B' series engine, the horror......
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