What have you found on the ground while riding?
08-07-17, 11:07 AM
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I found a small nutdriver one day and the next day I found two selfstarter screws I believe to be responsible for slicing my tubeless rear tire.
08-10-17, 02:48 PM
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On todays ride i found a nice neoprene zippered kindle case.
08-10-17, 03:52 PM
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Yesterday I found a dead cow in the pasture next to the highway. She was surrounded by a dozen or so distressed cattle. Very sad.
Then I found a dirty towel on the shoulder, stopped and kicked it onto the grass. A mile later I was passed by a large group of vehicles, and a towel flew out of a pickup. I took the hint and left it.
Then I found a dirty towel on the shoulder, stopped and kicked it onto the grass. A mile later I was passed by a large group of vehicles, and a towel flew out of a pickup. I took the hint and left it.
Sad.
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08-10-17, 04:38 PM
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Lying on someone's lawn on the way to work this morning. Tempting, but I resisted.
08-10-17, 05:43 PM
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Samsung Galaxy 6+
after charging it back up, called a number the phone had called, it was the guys mother. got the phone back to him, he owned a restaurant in near by town, and he treated my wife and I to a really nice meal.
after charging it back up, called a number the phone had called, it was the guys mother. got the phone back to him, he owned a restaurant in near by town, and he treated my wife and I to a really nice meal.
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08-10-17, 06:55 PM
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Today I saw a used condom. I did not pick it up.
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08-10-17, 07:32 PM
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I interpret what I "found" on the ground while riding to be something I could choose to pick up and take with me. Otherwise it is just something that I saw on the ground. So some things I have found and other things I have only seen.
08-10-17, 11:37 PM
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Snakes
Live Garter Snake (Black Butte Ranch, OR, USA)
Live Pacific Gopher Snake (Stanford University, CA, USA)
Live Pacific Gopher Snake (Canada Rd, San Carlos, CA, USA)
Dead Rattlesnake (Canada Road, San Carlos, CA, USA)
A dead turtle (Grant Road, Los Altos, CA, USA)
And a live Monarch Butterfly (Canada Road, San Carlos, CA, USA)
Live Pacific Gopher Snake (Stanford University, CA, USA)
Live Pacific Gopher Snake (Canada Rd, San Carlos, CA, USA)
Dead Rattlesnake (Canada Road, San Carlos, CA, USA)
A dead turtle (Grant Road, Los Altos, CA, USA)
And a live Monarch Butterfly (Canada Road, San Carlos, CA, USA)
08-11-17, 12:50 PM
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08-11-17, 12:52 PM
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Live Garter Snake (Black Butte Ranch, OR, USA)
Live Pacific Gopher Snake (Stanford University, CA, USA)
Live Pacific Gopher Snake (Canada Rd, San Carlos, CA, USA)
Dead Rattlesnake (Canada Road, San Carlos, CA, USA)
A dead turtle (Grant Road, Los Altos, CA, USA)
And a live Monarch Butterfly (Canada Road, San Carlos, CA, USA)
Live Pacific Gopher Snake (Stanford University, CA, USA)
Live Pacific Gopher Snake (Canada Rd, San Carlos, CA, USA)
Dead Rattlesnake (Canada Road, San Carlos, CA, USA)
A dead turtle (Grant Road, Los Altos, CA, USA)
And a live Monarch Butterfly (Canada Road, San Carlos, CA, USA)
Cool!
Cool!
Eww!
Eww!!
Preeetty.
08-11-17, 01:10 PM
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Cool shot of the butterfly
08-11-17, 01:38 PM
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Sunglasses, screwdrivers, many drill bits, a box cutter two different times, work gloves
I had one corner I marked off in my mind to look for good things on the ground. It was looking like a hotspot. Most finds are at corners.
I had one corner I marked off in my mind to look for good things on the ground. It was looking like a hotspot. Most finds are at corners.
08-14-17, 09:05 AM
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That's where things fly off when people leave them on the roof of their car and drive off
08-14-17, 02:12 PM
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Stuff I've found over the years:
The list is big and keeps getting bigger. but this is over years - us Brits keep our roads oddly clean.
- Towels
- Socks
- Shoes
- Gloves (almost always single)
- an old Snap-on ratchet driver - once I rebuilt it, it was a fantastic tool for my toolkit
- Mini pocket knives (legal in the UK ones)
- Multitools (about 7-8, nice ones I kept, the rest went to friends)
- frame pump - would have gone on my bike if I could be bothered to get mounts for it
- Chains (cambridge is known for worn out bikes, would not be surprised if the chains snapped from age)
- numerous lighters - I take 'em all
- a stapler
- sunglass attachments - the kind that clip onto reading glasses, new and in original box. I kept them, despite them looking alarmingly 'American Tourist'
The list is big and keeps getting bigger. but this is over years - us Brits keep our roads oddly clean.
08-14-17, 07:23 PM
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I passed by a really nice stainless steel pet bowl today. On a highway - not a residential area - so it was definitely up for grabs. Had I not been on a group ride and had limited space in my jersey pockets, I would have snagged it.
Missed opportunities.
Missed opportunities.
08-21-17, 10:37 AM
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This really belongs in the thread about unusual things you saw on your ride. Last night I was riding home around 9:30 when I saw a fawn off to the side of the bike path. The path is under high voltage power lines on one side, and single family suburban homes on the other and I've never seen an animal that big in that area before. I'm not sure where mom was, but Bambi was freaked out by me and my lights.
08-21-17, 10:49 AM
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This really belongs in the thread about unusual things you saw on your ride. Last night I was riding home around 9:30 when I saw a fawn off to the side of the bike path. The path is under high voltage power lines on one side, and single family suburban homes on the other and I've never seen an animal that big in that area before. I'm not sure where mom was, but Bambi was freaked out by me and my lights.
Once early in the evening when I was riding on the same stretch of trail I could see in the distance an animal on the road that was yellow and I remember saying to myself, "please don't let it be a dog" and it also was a deer that ran into the marsh.
08-21-17, 01:03 PM
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We've got plenty of deer in the forest preserves around here, but this was miles away from any of them. I could see the glare of the predator eyes reflecting back from my lights and wondered what it was, being pretty relieved when I saw it was a fawn. And more scared of me than I was of it.
08-21-17, 02:37 PM
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At the side of the road (Highway 1 south of Big Sur, which is closed to all but local traffic at the moment):
08-21-17, 05:30 PM
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I had to dodge a large pile of vomit this morning....twice. One with my bike tires and a second time for the kids trailer tires.
Disgusting.
Disgusting.
08-22-17, 08:49 AM
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Ah, one of those rare racing buzzards.
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