I bought a bike in a garage sale this weekend and today I took it apart. When I was inspecting it I found something im sure nobody has ever seen before. I guess some wasps decided to make the inside of the bikes tank its home it was pretty cool to see.
Thankfully there wasn't any wasps left in there when I put my hand in there. Heres a picture of the bike and the wasp nest.


Anybody else had anything weird like this happen to them?

Pretty bike.

Mouse house that didn't work out all that well for the mouse...

I discovered an ant nest inside of a cheap padded saddle. Of course I found it after a test ride....

I found a nice stash of acorns in the seat tube once.

WTF?! Did the mouse just happen to die there on an unused frame, or did you find it trapped inside a bottom bracket?

Half a dozen dead bees in an old neglected frame's BB once, no hive though. Anytime you leave a bike parked outside or in a shed with with no seatpost in place, you're just begging for critters to move in.

A friend of mine found a mouse in the frame of a Peugeot when he pulled out the BB. I wonder if it came over from France.

Strangest thing on my bike is the rider...

I bought a schwinn that had a bag of coke in the handlebars, and I'm not talking cola.

Sooooo, what'd ya do with it?

I did what anyone in their right mind would do. I disposed of the evidence!

That looks a lot like the bike I had when I was in grade school. Mine was a 24", loved the headlights.

Let's see..

dead mouse

bag of coke

I'll take door number 2, Bob

Yup! My guess is that was the wee mouse's decision also. I should add that the mouse was in the bottom bracket when I opened it up. I have also found money, plastic bags, builder's card, and, of course, the ever common powdered grease...

Found a dead wasp in the BB on one bike. A bunch of un-eaten sunflower seeds fell out of the frame of a bike that was closed up.