How to carry a bike on a bike?

My new local bike shop is too far away to bother walking back from, and the route is a bit too main-roady to feel safe ghost riding.

How else can I take two bikes to the shop so I can ride one back?

(So far I have tried this, but the back bike keeps leaning too far over in the tighter corners.
Need to lock the steering somehow... )

2 Attachments

Just put it over your shoulder and counterbalance the weight with your hand on the bars.

^That looks way too complicated.

Wheels off and strap frame+wheels to a bag

+1. Done this for some really long rides even with quite heavy bikes

Nice Roberts! Could you put a toestrap round the fork crown and down tube to stop the steering flopping so much? I know someone who transports bikes by fixing the forks to one side of a rear rack and strapping the wheel to the other side so everything's lower down, but not sure exactly how they do it.

@Thrustvector bit of a dredge but your suggestion worked perfectly so thank you very much!
I ended up just putting the forks into the pannier bag (instead of onto the spare hub), then cable-tying the bars and frame to the rear rack... when the forks are lower down the leaning problem disappears completely and it feels much safer.

I had a quick go at the over-the-shoulder thing as well but I have a recently-healed broken collarbone atm and it didn't feel safe so I wussed out!

Thanks all