What have you found on the road side recently

[ColinJ]

Things I am NOT finding at the roadside, or at least finding in greatly reduced numbers, include plastic bottles and alu cans.
It's the Covid 19 bonus.

I rode up the 'Long Causeway' on the hills between Burnley and Hebden Bridge yesterday and was annoyed to see litter pretty much all the way! Mind you, it may have been there for some time - a lot of the cigarette packets did look pretty old.

 

[Hugh Jampton]

And things i am seeing but not going to pick up is latex gloves everywhere, not seen any masks but loads of discarded ppe gloves littering country lanes allover presumably thrown out of car's, do they think they are going to decompose, not in the next thousand years or so.

Seeing a lot of gloves and face masks.

Not sure because of the area (Epping Forest, popular dogging site), but lots of porn mags. Once the face off of a blow up doll. This was floating in a puddle and I had to go back and look, as not really sure what I had seen at first.

Otherwise, the odd bank note, a few bike lights and a saddle bag with a sandwich inside. Didn't check the filling, as i deposited both in a bin!

 

[sheddy]

Fly tipping

 

[lazybloke]

At the moment, the occasion gloves, mask and tissues

In the past,

• Tarmac (ouch)
• A deep ditch (upside-down ouch with bike on top of me)
• Thorns (closely followed by hissing)
• Dog eggs, both free and bagged
• Dead bambi
• A million maggots 🤢

 

[MichaelW2]

I will once found a baby mole trying to dig a hole.

 

[Banjo]

A Victorias Secret PINK series thong - didn't keep it

I dont think stuff hanging on washing lines count as roadside finds??

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

I dont think stuff hanging on washing lines count as roadside finds??

 

[Dogtrousers]

Walking alongside the South Circular Rd last night, saw a bloke on a bike approaching. As he came near there was a clunk and as he passed he slowed down. At first I wasn't sure what had happened, maybe his chain had come off or perhaps he had dropped something.

Then I saw the cause. His left crank, complete with pedal, had dropped off and was lying in the road. I picked it up and wandered over and handed it to him.

 

[PeteXXX]

Yesterday, on a ride with my granddaughter, we saw a dog ball that had 3 ropes through it. (a sort of pulling or throwing toy) on the road in my Close.

Just around the corner was a child's stuffed animal toy.
It was still there when we rode past it two hours later.

 

[tyred]

Quite recently I found a copy of Octopussy on VHS cassette.

Obviously someone has fallen out of love with Roger Moore.

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

Over the last few months, all North of the river :- A couple of new treated 4" square fence posts, one 7ft long, one slightly shorter. They were in with a load of old paving in a builders skip.
From a different skip, a couple of 6ft galvanised steel chains, the sort you would use with a padlock. Nice strong ones too.
I most recently acquired a Karcher pressure washer, spotted at a regular fly-tipping location. I don't know if it's any good or just scrap though as I haven't had a chance to try it out yet.
If it's good, I'll leave it at work because I've already got one at home. It wouldn't surprise me if it works, as I have found several quite expensive items over the years that were chucked out despite having nothing whatsoever wrong with them.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

A grass verge. Which I lay on for a bit looking up at the clouds

 

[KnittyNorah]

On my unexpectedly-lengthy towpath ride on Friday, I found a tyre lever under a bridge, a very sturdy dog harness near to another bridge - and lots and lots of ripening blackberries!
The first was pocketed, the second was hung on a nearby bit of fencing so it would stay dry and clean and be very obvious to dog walkers, and the locations of the last were noted for a visit later this week.

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

One of Halfords finest Indi branded 26" hardtails. Doesn't actually look that old. Tyres look virtually new, no mud or kerb scuffs on them and moulding marks clearly visible. Soon discovered the reason for the abandonment; the front mech was completely trashed and the BB spun like it had square ball bearings in it not round ones!
I don't do boingy frames and it was too small anyway but I had it stripped down in no time for spares.
Both wheels were OK and pretty true, freewheel looks unworn, low end Shimano rear mech OK, cheapo 24-34-42 triple crankset OK, pedals OK, BB was OK once dismantled, headset bearings reuseable, saddle, post, and bars and stem all useable, and I kept the brakes and shifters. Frame and forks went into the scrap metal skip at work.
Will keep my other 26" MTB's going at my kind of cost; i.e nothing!

 

[Drago]

Dead bodies, caches of drugs and weapons, criminals, guns, knives...found a few things at the roadside over the years.