Oh yeah. I’m sure folks have lots of good stories. I have brought home 1x2 lumber before, no special trailer or anything, just roped them to the crossbar. Recently I did yard work for a friend across town, took a 5-gal bucket and broom on my bike (as well as plenty of gardening hand-tools in the panniers). So there’s lots you can do.
One of my favorite memories is of helping a friend move a full-sized dresser (chest of drawers) on the back rack of his bike. Some one had put the dresser out on their curb to be taken for free. We were about a mile and a half from my friend’s house. We had no ropes or anything—I just held his bike while he lifted the dresser on to the rack. Neither of us actually rode the bike the rest of the way to his house, mind you—I walked along pushing the bike by the handlebars, while he walked behind steadying the dresser. We got lots of honks, cheers, and thumbs-ups from people driving by. It was great teamwork, and I really got a kick out of doing it under our own steam, especially since it was something that almost no one around here would expect you to do without a car.
