Possibly the stupidest question ever seen on BB?

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>deep breath<

>massive sigh<

Ok, here goes.

I've just moved office to a swanky place in the City Centre. It's perfect but for one thing. I have a dog. She comes to the office with me, and that's fine. The landlord is happy with it and she sleeps under my desk most of the day. It was fine in the old place as there was loads of parking so we'd drive in each day. The new place, being city centre, is metered bays only and thus costs a fortune to park the car.

Tantalisingly, there is a perma-deserted 'Solo M/Cs Only' space literally, and I mean that in the literal sense of the word, outside the front door.

So, the question is simple:

Has anyone had experience of taking a dog on a motorcycle?

I appreciate how ridiculous this is and have been considering daft options like putting her in a rucksack on my front or whatever but I sense I am onto plums.

I don't want to go Wallace and Gromit with this (the Aprilia will look st with a sidecar) but if there is *something* out there that works, it would kill many birds with one stone. Free parking, more riding and dog looked after.

She's a whippet X lurcher so whippet sized btw.

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CAPP0 said:

I'm a biker and a dog owner (although I'm not sure I'd get 35kg of GSD onto my bike!) and I don't want to be negative, but it did occur to me reading that article, what would happen if you throw the bike up the road? You slide off to wherever, dog is attached/trapped/squashed etc?

A fair question and one I had given a bit of thought to as well.

In all honesty, I guess the answer is "she'd be killed" but I guess that's the same answer as what would happen if I crashed the car with her sitting in the footwell (though appreciate this is less likely).

That's why I was going down the route of rucksack attached to me rather than the bike though.

A bigger worry for me would be her freaking out, if I'm honest. I suspect she wouldn't like a box with a hole type idea but I'm just not sure.

She loves going out on the stand up paddle board or going sailing so she's not averse to a bit of action but a bike may be a bridge too far!

Thanks for the ideas - will look into the tank bag plan though at 10KG I suspect she may be too large.

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Rosscow said:

This sounds like an awful idea, OP.

I'd park the car as close as you can and take the dog on the tube!

I suspect you may be right. In fairness, we walked in this morning - 40 minutes door to door - and that took care of walking her as well so a good option for better days.

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SAS Tom said:

Bagster do a tank bag for dogs called the friendly. I've sold a few of them and the owners reckon they are great but I doubt you'll get a whippet in one.

Just had a look and she's outside the weight limit by 2Kgs, the massive fatty! Annoying as this wold have been absolutely perfect I reckon. The bonus of a front mounting being I can keep an eye on her and give her a pat from time to time.

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Prof Prolapse said:

It works with toy dogs because they have the brain the size of a brazil nut, but most dogs would get incredibly stressed by this.

I think this is a fair call, as mentioned above.

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gareth_r said:

Most would just enjoy being with the boss and sniffing all the wonderful new smells.

That's what I would be hoping for to be honest and obviously I would give up immediately if it was stressing her. But I think she's a bit big for this to be easy. I'm still undecided.