Unusual things seen on your commute

[Molecule Man]

I know a guy who runs a small fleet (i'd say 7 or 8) of these in the Lewisham area.

Apparently there are at least 13 of these red ones, sneakily parked in various locations as a form of free advertising. I started trying to collect sightings of them a couple of years ago, but didn't get very far before getting bored of it.

 

[Christopher]

Yesterday morining, three separate little piles of feathers on the cyclepath. All looked like from pigeons and were both down and flight feathers but nothing else. Perhaps a raptor has moved into the neighbourhood...

 

[SquareDaff]

Not all that unusual, but noticable by their reoccurrance over the last week or so, there has been a massive increase in the number of fit girlies (both cycling and jogging/walking) I pass in my commute each day.

I'm all in favour of global warming if this is the effect of a bit of warmer weather.

I'd suspect it's the "last minte training for Race for Life" effect - altho the warm weather probably helped too!

 

[Molecule Man]

Nice to see this old thread back.

A couple of things I've seen along Southwark Street recently:

First, a woman cycling along with a life-size plaster head-and-torso strapped to her back.

Second, a couple of times now, what looks like a mobile bar powered by the drinkers pedalling along together.

 

[biggs682]

i watched a lady walk off into the bushes last night with 2 blokes whilst a third bloke was shouting very rude lady of the night kind of comments at her , i just kept on riding

 

[akb]

My commute takes me through a set of wooded hills.
Very surprise at seeing this at 5.30 in the afternoon!
Parked at the side of the tow path, halfway on my descent was a blue fiesta, steamed up windows with a lot of nakedness, commotion and noise coming from the inside. I had a chuckle, gave them a ring of my bell and continued my descent!

 

[abo]

My commute takes me through a set of wooded hills.
Very surprise at seeing this at 5.30 in the afternoon!
Parked at the side of the tow path, halfway on my descent was a blue fiesta, steamed up windows with a lot of nakedness, commotion and noise coming from the inside. I had a chuckle, gave them a ring of my bell and continued my descent!

Not bike related, and about 20 years ago... Me and a couple of my mates would head down to the dinosaur park in Middlesbrough in my Escort, at night, lights off. There'd usually be a couple of parked cars near the bottom so we'd creep up, then switch the lights on: quad Cibie super oscars, triple airhorns blaring, side exhaust blarting.

Dickheads we were still, beats getting so pissed you get carted to hospital as seems to be the sport these days

 

[ACS]

My commute takes me through a set of wooded hills.
Very surprise at seeing this at 5.30 in the afternoon!
Parked at the side of the tow path, halfway on my descent was a blue fiesta, steamed up windows with a lot of nakedness, commotion and noise coming from the inside. I had a chuckle, gave them a ring of my bell and continued my descent!

Similar to the above except the person in the passengers seat appeared to be bobbing for apples

 

[Brains]

Not bike related, and about 20 years ago... Me and a couple of my mates would head down to the dinosaur park in Middlesbrough in my Escort, at night, lights off. There'd usually be a couple of parked cars near the bottom so we'd creep up, then switch the lights on: quad Cibie super oscars, triple airhorns blaring, side exhaust blarting.

Dickheads we were still, beats getting so pissed you get carted to hospital as seems to be the sport these days

As Venture Scouts we used to do the same in the public car park behind the Scout Hut, it was apparently a well known 'dogging' place (years before we had ever heard of dogging)
It was always hilarious until the night a vast man leapt out of the back of a van an lamped the first Scout he could see who happened to be a 6'3" 20 year old prop forward. He went down like a tree.
We didn't do it after that, but a while later one of the red tops then ran a large article about dogging where most of the story had come from that car park

 

[abo]

As Venture Scouts we used to do the same in the public car park behind the Scout Hut, it was apparently a well known 'dogging' place (years before we had ever heard of dogging)
It was always hilarious until the night a vast man leapt out of the back of a van an lamped the first Scout he could see who happened to be a 6'3" 20 year old prop forward. He went down like a tree.
We didn't do it after that, but a while later one of the red tops then ran a large article about dogging where most of the story had come from that car park

Lol yeah it's always fun till someone gets hurt we did it one time and got chased, properly chased by some guy in an Escort Mexico, he was going through red lights after us so we knew he was pretty serious. Luckily I managed to get onto the A66 and started to pull away from him, I had nearly a full tank and remember thinking 'I'm going to the fkin Lake District to get away' but he gave up when he realised my car was a bit faster and the dual carriageway was nearly empty.

Like you, we calmed it down after that one...

 

[Molecule Man]

This evening, on the way home, a narrow cul-de-sac with several houses at the end was almost completely blocked by a large (~1 metre high, ~5 metre across) pile of earth.

 

[Twizit]

The guy on the full downhill spec mountain bike I've seen the last two days near Oxford Street.

I know the potholes around London are bad, but I did think this was taking things a little far

 

[2Loose]

Two women swimming down the River Trent at 7.15am. Certainly not a usual sight, but apprently they are training for a cross channel swim.

 

[headcoat]

A dinosaur on the back of a flat bed truck, suffice to say it wasn't real, but was life size

 

[Molecule Man]

A dinosaur on the back of a flat bed truck, suffice to say it wasn't real, but was life size

Like this one?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075016/