Things you have found whilst cycling

[twobiker]

Whilst I am out I am always stopping to pick up stuff,I have found a screwdriver,a spanner, a mini-ratchet,and a car aerial for a Ford Fiesta to replace the one I left on in a car wash,has any one else found anything , or is it just my natural scavenging instincts ?.

 

[Globalti]

Back in the late 60s I used to cycle 7 miles each way to work as a gardener and one day I found a cow's head in the ditch with a neat hole in the forehead. I used to stop and have a look at it for a minute or two each day.

(One day for reasons known only to myself I decided to lay a water trail to work so I filled my Dad's garden spray, hung it over my shoulders and set it up to leave a trickle the whole 7 miles from home to work. Don't ask me why I did that.)

 

[Fnaar]

Years ago I was cycling to work with my then girlfriend along a country lane. There was a "do not cross" police tape, so of course we crossed it and cycled on, only to be told off by a female officer, who then proceeded to tell us that they'd found a leg in a ditch. There was a terrible smell too. As we were half way along the lane by this time, she let us carry on. We found out later it was decomposing bits of a pig that had been found.

 

[Twigman]

I have found that women look at me more and for longer when I'm cycling

 

[BikeLiker]

A fine cock pheasant whose demise, at the hand of a Lexus driver, I witnessed. I dossed it in a hedge and returned later. Made a fine casserole

 

[snorri]

I just can't cycle past these magnetic L plates which get blown off the car they have been stuck to when the wind speed exceeds about 50mph. I have seven on my freezer door at the moment.

 

[gbb]

Happiness

I like that

For me, on yesterdays ride a SKS minipump with guage in Whittlesey. I'd gladly return it to its owner, but whats the chance ? Its in good nick too.

 

[Pigo]

Still hoping to find something good...... Gregory Bauge perhaps? :-)

 

[jay clock]

Polaroid sunglasses. New, probably about £40, but the sort of style that is worn by late middle aged men who wear those multi pocketed waistcoats and look 15 years older than they really are. In a nice case.... I stuck them in the post anonymously to the local nick as I really couldnt be stuffed to have a conversation about them

 

[NotFabian]

Back in the late 60s I used to cycle 7 miles each way to work as a gardener and one day I found a cow's head in the ditch with a neat hole in the forehead. I used to stop and have a look at it for a minute or two each day.

(One day for reasons known only to myself I decided to lay a water trail to work so I filled my Dad's garden spray, hung it over my shoulders and set it up to leave a trickle
the whole 7 miles from home to work. Don't ask me why I
did that.)
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[apollo179]

Does skips count - if so ive found a couple of computers. One of the advantages of having a rack.

 

[twobiker]

Skips,tell all, location,location location,the unsung gold mine of the twentieth century.remember poverty was the true mother of invention.

 

[Friz]

Dang I feel cheated. I never find anything. On the other hand, I've lost 3 pair of sunglasses, a minipump, several tyre levers, skin, blood, and anal integrity. (I was interfered with by my saddle during a crash and feel dirty because of it)

 

[apollo179]

Skips,tell all, location,location location,the unsung gold mine of the twentieth century.remember poverty was the true mother of invention.

Yes and you only have to look at the stuff the charity shops throw out to appreciate the good stuff that is surplus.
I pulled a saracen bike out of a skip just this year - used it for a week aok - put it on ebay hoping for £20 , someone messaged me offering me £75 for it , i accepted, they came and rode it away.

 

[LosingFocus]

Yes and you only have to look at the stuff the charity shops throw out to appreciate the good stuff that is surplus.
I pulled a saracen bike out of a skip just this year - used it for a week aok - put it on ebay hoping for £20 , someone messaged me offering me £75 for it , i accepted, they came and rode it away.

Was the skip on private land?