Turns out riding a heavy bike, with another bike strapped to the back
plus a load of kit rather slows you down. When it look me 50 minutes
to ride the 9 miles from Neasham to Appleton Wiske, I realised that I
wasn't going to make it to Dalby before midnight so turned around and
headed back home, after 15 miles (map:
http://tinyurl.com/darlotossukfail).

 Probably a good decision, as my waterproofs gave up before I got home,
and I was soaked to the skin when I got in. If that had happened on
the moors at 9pm it could have been a fun night.

 If I get everything dried out overnight, I'll pack a lot lighter* so I
can get everything strapped to the Inbred and then either ride over
tomorrow morning or grab a lift off my wife and then ride home Sunday.

Tomorrow afternoon, I'll be strapping my singlespeed mountain bike and
a bunch of camping stuff, food, beer and whisky to the back of the
Yuba Mundo and riding 110km to Dalby forest (map:
http://tinyurl.com/darlotossuk) to take part in this year's national
singlespeed mountain bike championships (http://www.ssuk09.com/)
where, like in 2006 and 2007, I will come joint 4th. On Sunday I'll
be riding 110km home again.

 I may be rather tired on Monday.

I borrowed a bike to get home on Friday night, which needed returning
today.  I also needed to do the Big Shop.
 
So, I popped the bike's front wheel into the Go Getter bag and
tightened the straps up to hold it steady, bungeed a recycling box on
the other side and set off.  It's about 3 miles to my friend's house
and I barely noticed that the extra bike was there, though I stopped
part way to use a bungee to tighten up the connection to the bike part
way there.
 
The shopping was four big carrier bags worth, which I was sad enough
to weigh when I got home - about 25kg (4 stone) in all.  I put two in
the Go Getter bag and two in the recycling box. It's about 5 miles
home from the supermarket I went to (others are much nearer), but the
ride back was fine - I was probably one gear lower than with the bike
unloaded, but otherwise the extra weight was barely noticeable.

Is this how baby bikes are made?

 I've been considering all sorts of clever ways to attach my MTB to the
Mundo. In the end I went for the "chuck it on and bungee it in place
method". Putting the frame on the rack first would have led to the
pedal fouling the rear wheel, so I used the front wheel as a spacer.
One bungee holds the frame and front wheel, while a second bungee
holds the rear wheel in place and fastens the frame lower down.

 The Go getter bag on the other side held an electric drill and case of
drill bits to balance the bike, otherwise it fell over on the stand.

 Once loaded up and riding, you can barely tell that the second bike is
there. Riding no-handee was possible, and one-handed easy. I made it
up my local short, sharp, bumpy test hill with no problems too.

 While out for a test ride, I met my wife and kids who were walking the
dog. My youngest got tired of riding her bike, so that went
front-wheel-first into the Go getter bag, with her helmet securing it
to the top of the rack and one of the bag's straps looped over the top
to cinch it tight.

 Video of it in action at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike_mc/3572597413/

Here are a few photos of the Go Getter bag mounting points on my
Mundo, plus a shot of my light mounted to the rack.

The Go Getter bag mounts using two pairs of buckles, one pair at each
end of the bag.  These clip round the top tub of the rack.  In the
photos with the tape measure, the zero end of the measure is roughly
level with the left hand side of the bag and wasn't moved between
photos - thought the measurements might be useful for anyone
considering one of the bags for a non-Mundo long bike.  The bags also
sits on the wide loader bars, and the straps for the flap wrap around
the bar, to stop the bag bouncing about.

The bag is huge (see previous post) and great for bulky but light
things.  Too much stuff makes the bike fall over though, unless you
balance it out on the other side.

The light is a Cateye LD1100 which I've had for a while now.  Instead
of the normal mounting clip, I'm using a smaller one designed for
fastening to the seat stay of a bike, which fits onto the rack once a
bit of innertube is used to pad it out a bit.

I tried using a bolt on mount, which is designed to bolt onto the back
of a rack, in place of the big red reflector, but the way this is
inset on the Mundo made fitting it with such a large light impossible.
 I might try getting a smaller light to fit here, and leave it
permanently attached, as it wouldn't be at all removable.

How big is a Yuba Mundo Go getter bag? Well, in the first photo
below, my three-year-old daughter is inside the bag, and the
five-year-old is in there in the third photo. In the final photo,
they're both sat in the bag watching Charlie and Lola. So, I'd say
it's pretty big.

 Riding back from work today, I only had a courier bag inside it, with
just a few light things in, but it felt really secure on the bike. It
connects to the frame with a couple of straps that are closed with
plastic clippy buckles (is there a technical name for those?). The
closure buckles wrap around the wide loader part of the Yuba rack, so
the whole thing feels really secure.

 The strap was fine for carrying it lightly loaded, and felt like it
would be ok fully loaded over a short distance.

 The bag seems perfect for sitting in a shopping trolley to do your
shopping, so you know that everything you buy will fit in.

 I'll aim to get some photos of it attached to the bike later on.

Can you take stuff to the council tip by bike? Yes, you can.

 Our pushchair was busted (if you actually walk places with them rather
than just putting them in the back of a car, they wear out) and we'd
just got a replacement (second hand with very little wear - see
above), so we needed to get rid of the old one.

 A Yuba Mundo and an old pushchair seemed like a good way to find out
whether you were allowed to take stuff to the tip, sorry - recycling
centre, by bike. You can, provided you don't mind spending ten
minutes talking to the guys who work there about your weird bike,
which I don't.

 The bike looked ace with the pushchair bungeed to the back. From the
tip of the front wheel to the end of the pushchair must have been just
over eight feet - how long does it need to be before I have to hand a
long vehicle sign on the back? Apart from a bit of rattling from the
pushchair's wheels, I could barely tell it was there.

I removed the front mudguard from my Mundo, because it was rubbing on
the tyre a little and I've not had time to fix it yet. Then it poured
down.

 Turns out, fat downtubes work like Crud Catchers.

Thanks to Ed (http://twitter.com/GreatRock) for this link to a Kona
Ute converted into a beer scooter:
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/beer-ute

 I did my first Mundo beer run on Saturday evening. I needed to nip to
Morrisons to get some chicken, crisps and chocolate, so picked up the
other major food group while there. It was just a ten pack of cans,
so could easily have gone on a normal rack, but the thought was there.
 Though, beer gets a bit lively when opened, after being bounced about
on the back of a bike for a bit.

Tighten the bolts on the stem face-plate, or the bars will swivel
round when you pull up on them to lift the front wheel over a speed
bump.

 I really don't know why I pulled up on the bars, it's not like I have
a hope in hell of lifting the front wheel off the ground anyway!