Post a photo of your bike and a ferry.

[Jaded]

Good to see spoke reflectors on that - the ferry looks a bit too stealth for my liking.

[Canardly]

Some people will go to any lengths to wash their bikes.

[Joe.B]

I need to briefly pop into work having just returned from a Saturday morning ride and couldn't resist getting a photo my audax bike on the Boat

[billplumtree]

On the Oban - Barra ferry a couple of weeks ago.  New Walter's the fully-loaded orange one on the left.  The ferry had been cancelled for two days running, so was a tad busy...

[billplumtree]

Barra - Eriskay, by which time we'd all thinned out a bit

[billplumtree]

Berneray - Leverburgh

[billplumtree]

On the tiny ("Max capacity: 12") Kerrera ferry near Oban

[gerwinium]

I decided to brave the weather yesterday and cycle out to Tilbury and take the ferry to Gravesend. It was a bit moist on the way back with some of the roads under quite a bit of water, but the ferry was good:

The ferry:


And the bike thereon:

[Vince]

Oude Wetering

[Krad]

[Vince]

More Dutch Ferries.

Maassluis to Rozenberg Ferry



Fast Foot Ferry from Landtog to The Hook of Holland (only runs during the summer months)

[bobb]

In a little room at the front of a Portsmouth - St Malo ferry:



On the Royan - Le Verdon ferry:



No particular place to store bikes on the Evian - Lausanne ferry:



Rozenberg - Maassluis ferry:



Annoying rack things on the Hoek van Holland - Harwich ferry:

[Oscar's dad]

OK bobb - you win!!!

[Oaky]

Annoying rack things on the Hoek van Holland - Harwich ferry:

I assumed it was meant to be used  as a handlebar support this way when I travelled on it:-



with bikes on alternating sides

[bobb]

I assumed it was meant to be used  as a handlebar support this way when I travelled on it:-

.....

with bikes on alternating sides

  I never realised that!

To be fair - there were two guys who rolled on in front of me and they hung their bikes up, so I just copied them without thinking about it 

[Oaky]

I assumed it was meant to be used  as a handlebar support this way when I travelled on it:-

.....

with bikes on alternating sides

  I never realised that!

To be fair - there were two guys who rolled on in front of me and they hung their bikes up, so I just copied them without thinking about it 

I was the only bike on, and it actually took me a while to spot that the strange rack area was a bike rack at all (nobody told me what to do other than "go to the far end"   Once I'd realised what it was and puzzled out how to use it, I was quite impressed with the rack concept. (Not sure how well it would cope with less standard handlebars though...)

[Vince]

That's me forwarned for Friday

[Polar Bear]

We were unable to use it with our loaded flat bar tourers.   It was a bit of a nightmare but we managed in the end to get a separate spot at one end to the side next to a shabby desk and a rolling office chair!     

[Dave_C]

Me (in red n White at the back) on a ferry with my bike (surrounded by loads of others).

[Kim]

I assumed it was meant to be used  as a handlebar support this way when I travelled on it:-



with bikes on alternating sides

Ah, Decathlon (the Wednesbury store, at least) have something similar.  With seriously heavy duty steel cable loops hanging down for you to lock to your back wheel.  It works pretty well, if you've got the right kind of handlebars (though I'm struggling to think of a DF bike that wouldn't fit - some folders might be problematic I suppose) and they aren't cluttered with brackets or have the brake levers in the wrong place.

Clever, but not as clever as the good old Sheffield stand.

[bobb]

I guess taking bikes on ferries has become more popular in recent years. Up until a few years ago, you just leant your bike up against the side next to all the cars....

[cpcnw]

My only pic of bikes on [in] ferry - me old china James and my two folders on the Liverpool to Isle of Man ferry. A few years previous the 23c front wheel of my roadie slipped into a drainage slot on the exit ramp of said ferry, and catapulted me full somersault. Apparently the small print says that you are responsible for safety when disembarking. So I got to buy a new front wheel and nurse a head / leg wound for a few weeks.

[Oaky]

Clever, but not as clever as the good old Sheffield stand.

The one on the ferry felt like the bike would be more stable against pitching and rolling than if it had just been leant up against a Sheffield stand.  I guess you could lash the bike to a Sheffield stand, but unless the bike was tight against it there would still be the possibility of it knocking against the stand in high seas.

[Kim]

Depends on the shape of the bike, innit.

I'd rather lash a loaded tourer or 'bent (or loaded 'bent tourer) to a Sheffield stand than fail to attach it securely to one of those.  It's the most universal bike-securing solution.

It wouldn't be unreasonable for a bike stand on a ferry to have a bit of pipe lagging on it, anyway.

[Vince]

Spare Parts bike abroad.


Then making like a pedestrian on the way to Shotley