oddjob2

Well I'll start this thread. Okay, here is where we have it on cat lovers! I have often found some pretty good stuff while out walking the dog, like Igloo Coolers, Kennedy toolbox, shelving, S&W tactical knife, etc., but never a bike.

I was out walking Happy this morning and the local metal scrapper nearly runs us down coming out of the ally behind our house. I have been meaning to give him a call to inquire about bikes. Low and behold, I see a Raleigh Technium sticking out of the top of his pickup bed. He had a bunch of Huffys and wheels too.

So I ended up slipping him a Jackson for the Technium and Super Le Tour.

flash2070

Thats a lovely dog! Very nice scores on those bikes! No scores on my end! I have a tiny Chihuahua and I usually just take him to the park!

Flash

k_randomfactor

Usually find poison ivy and ticks, but I've seen, fairly close, two red foxes, a bunch of wild turkeys, woodchucks aplenty, a black bear, and once found a painted box turtle that had a shell marking that looked suspiciously like the orange "T" of the Univ. of Tennessee (it was natural, I checked).

Of course, I live in the country, so bike scores are slim to say the least.

Good lookin' dog ya got there!

Rabid Koala

Great looking pup! I have a yellow lab, she is 13 and can't take long walks anymore.

kenji666

Happy looks like a happy dog!

oddjob2

Thanks for the dog compliments, I will share them with Happy. This is the third home for that sweet faced dog. A friend had some problems with him (tearing up carpet when his Nyla bone was "velcroed" to the rug), so I've had him since he was 14 months old. He's my second golden retriever orphan.

His original name is Casey, but he is smiling 24 X 7, hence the nickname is what I call him now. Happy's photo is from a year ago. Happy is 11.5 years old. He lost his left front leg in 2007, when he got hit by a bread truck. He LOVES bread! Happy is arthritic in the hips so I just started him on glucosomin and it seems to help. He is a chick magnet and never gives up a chance to make a new human friend!

ftwelder

We always find the same thing when he is making the decisions.

Water.


bud39 by barnstormerbikes, on Flickr

Zoku620

I found a Gary Fisher Wahoo in a neighbor's trash about a year ago, needed cleaning and a new chain. I always walk the dog early on trash day! In college, my roommate found a McIntosh MC275 tube amp!

Poguemahone

Best find ever while walking the dog... was another dog.



This is her the day we found her, after a bath. She weighed 3 1/2 pounds, and was seriously dehydrated. She's much more filled out now.



Bikewise: Bianchi Brava with full 105, two vintage track hubs, on modern track hub, several wheels, a set of shimano 8 speed rapid fire shifters, tektro v-brakes, probably a bunch of other stuff I forgot. I find stuff all the time; we have a network of alleys in my neighbourhood...

ftwelder

I would look in a lot more alleys to find a sweet pup like yours.

Aemmer

Last time it was this:



Not sure if those are her guilty eyes or her proud eyes.

k_randomfactor

Looks like "I know I shouldn'ta done it, but ain't it cooool!"

oddjob2

Cool alley dog and a terrific labrador! I had a yellow lab as my first dog.

I'm amazed how many bikers I see riding while the dog is on a leash, seems stupidly dangerous for both pet and human!

Velognome 

"The squeakers broken"

rhm

Mmm, smoked duck! That's some tasty meat right there, and you can give the dog the icky bits.

The stuff I found while walking the dog, back when I lived in West Philadelphia, would be a list too long for anyone to read. But not much of it was bike related. Once I came home with a 1930-ish Singer sewing machine, the electric model complete in its wood veneer case (shaped like a mailbox), and a pair of tubular wheels with Normandy Luxe hubs, probably off a PX10 or the like. I carried the sewing machine in one hand, and the pair of rims and the leash in the other hand. Even so, the dog got pretty annoyed at me. Scotties have a short fuse.

Another time I found a whole Zeus-equipped bike. It wasn't especially high end; but very cool. One of the wheels was slightly taco'd so I couldn't push it and I already had an arm full of other stuff I'd collected, and the dog of course; so I left the bike, ran home with the dog and ran back to get the bike. It was only a block away. But my timing was bad; the trash truck had just taken it when I got back for the bike.

noglider 

Raleigh Super Course, missing rear wheel.

fender1

Fuji Touring Series IV, which was too small for me, so I sold it on ebay for $250-ish. I also found a lot of Schwinn's/old mtn. bikes, which I grab and give to the Neighborhood Bikes Works in Philly.

I was walking this guy at the time.
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He is a rescue and was just recently diagnosed with an inoperable and very aggressive form of bone cancer. Not too much time left.

Italuminium

after a few close encounters with loose jack russels chasing rabbits on the bike trails, I firmly believe owners should leash the F up. Makes the situation much more predictable.