A HIGH Roller, huh?

Someone lost an LCD TV, probably due to the condition of the road, which is sadly typical in my city:

More likely the TV ended up there because whoever had it deliberately discarded it there, only other possibility is it was sitting unsecured on a pile of trash in the back of a pickup/dump truck or perhaps precariously loose on the tailgate. The pictured road doesn't look like it would cause anyone to spill even a drop from a drink cup while driving or riding.

Pretty beat up but works.

Makita! Good stuff, and should be easy to get replacement batteries/chargers

A girl on a cargo bike lost her keys just in front of me at the light, one year later at the same crossing, another girl also on a cargo had a computer case fell on the road, less than 50 meters afar from the 1st time!

It felt like a synchronicity or something, with all these similarities.

Trader Joe's collapsible tote. This thing rocks, it folds nicely flat, but when you open it up and fold the base down inside, it locks the whole thing into a rigid basket. I imagine it would be pretty nifty to engineer this into a collapsible pannier basket like I've seen around the BFs other kinds of folding baskets but made of grids of metal/wire

A head or neck pad from a stroller, car seat, helmet, who knows? I circled back because I thought it might be a big horseshoe, the lawn game kind and not the actual horse kind, and I couldn’t think why it would be there.

I saw the pic and thought maybe it was just your 'lucky' day

An entertaining assortment lately:

One unopened can of soda - grabbed it and drank it later
One pair Snap-On slip joint pliers!
One Yeti water bottle - like new
Black walnuts (took home about 500)
Large duffel bag for carrying cricket supplies. Somebody was actually throwing that one out.
The usual sockets and dimes and such

For what it's worth, I've been buying groceries by bike lately - I have a "milk crate" attached to the back of my bike. I've found it convenient to ride around to my back yard, carry the entire bike up my deck stairs, and wheel the whole bike into the kitchen so I can back it up to the refrigerator. If I had a bag or pair of bags that fit perfectly in my crate, that would be better!

Looks like the bottom piece from a full face motorcycle helmet. Note the ventilation exhaust on the back, to match the front intake vents. (bottom, in the pic)

It probably fell off the helmet of one of those chuckleheads who carry the helmet on the motorcycle for possible rain or passenger, but with no intention to wear it themselves.

I found a brand-new pair of black Adidas tennis shoes with one of the laces having the tag still on it, they looked unworn, no scuffs on the outside, wear on the tread, no wear on the inside, strange. They couldn't have been laying on the side of the road for more than an hour or two, they were size 11 my size, took them home turned out they were women's shoes, they fit my wife! We tossed them in the laundry just to be safe.

Don't normally stop to look at shoes or clothing, but I saw the tag on the lace and thought, what the hell? Went back to look closer at them. Fortunately, I was on my touring bike, so I just strapped them to the rear rack.

I have one or maybe two road-find tech tees that are in my rotation for bike riding. I think probably some jogger decided to go shirtless, tucked the shirt in the back of their shorts, and it fell out.

Also so many gloves. Mostly work gloves. I always skip the rubberized knit gloves, but sometimes there's work gloves in good shape that are perfect for my area this time of year (some of Jan/Feb I actually switch to ski gloves). And my current padded cycling gloves are road-found (they say Pearl Izumi, but I have my doubts, they seem likely to be knockoffs)

Ohhh-ohh-ohhhh-oh-ohhh-oh
Stop!




cheap and bent, no brand seen

Ohhh-ohh-ohhhh-oh-ohhh-oh
Stop!




cheap and bent, no brand seen

Don't hurt 'em!

If i brought home another hammer I found on the road, I wouldn't show it to my wife.
She would shame me about the number of hammers we have already.

Yesterday I found in the gutter a 6-inch yellow/green toy plastic grasshopper.

Today I found a new Ass Savers mini rear fender. It's flat and made out of a piece of sheet plastic. I would never buy one. Anyway I stowed it away and when I got to the top of the climb up Montebellow Rd I followed the instructions printed on it, and installed it. The weather was drizzly and so it was a good thing to have. It worked great! I would've had a dirt stripe on my ass from the mountain bike trail descent. Weighs hardly anything and better than nothing if there is rain. This sounds like an advertisement. No. I think you could make one out of big a plastic bottle or something. Now I'll need to dig up one ofthose matching zip tie on front fenders.

My 'rear fender' is a rectangle of coroplast cut from an election sign. It's maybe 3-4in wide, and double the length of my rear rack, and it lives folded in half on top of the rack, with the front two corners ziptied on. When it rains, I fold it out. Works pretty good, good enough for SoCal where it 'never' rains (right now is the first rainy week since, I dunno, May?). But if I ever move somewhere with real weather, I aspire to get some cool wooden fenders

I used to have a similar attitude. My gravel bike doesn't have fender mounting eyelets, so I bought a nice set of full SKS strap-on fenders. Eventually, they always migrate down until they rub the tire, and they're always draggy, so they lasted about two weeks.

Now, I have those clip-on fenders. They do nothing to keep the bike clean, but they keep ME reasonably clean. (feet & lower legs still get sprayed) My rear has a quick-release clamp, to which the fender mounts with four snaps. The front mount goes on the downtube with two beefy rubber straps, and the fender attaches again with four snaps. The pair of them come on or off in seconds, leaving just the lightweight, non-draggy mounts. When I need them, it takes only seconds to put them on. I can take them off mid-ride and store them in my jersey pocket.

They look cheap, but are just REALLY functional. Kind of like galoshes.


Easy-on, easy-off. Functional, light, not too draggy. They never clog, never rattle, and never rub.

Once you use full length fenders, you never go back. Big difference. I have a flap for my front I've been meaning to install. Once I do, I'll wonder why I waited so long.

I take mine off in the spring and then wonder when I get caught in the rain why I was being so vain because I know the only reason I remove them is because of looks.
Maybe next year they stay on...

A little vanity is OK. You can get handsome fenders if that helps.

When I was young, I wanted only the best I could afford in bikes. Then when my bike -- my pride and joy -- got stolen, I learned to enjoy having a beater bike. After a while, I built one that worked great and rode great and looked pretty bad. It had straight bars which were slightly swept back, a rear rack with a milk crate on back, and fenders. I remember going through a scary neighborhood and some teenagers (about my age) were on a corner, and one of them yelled out to me, "Cheap bike!" Haha, you can always find someone in NYC who cares about bike style. But I felt like I had a secret they didn't know. They didn't know how nice my bike really was, and it had been inexpensive to build.

One of my bikes is a fixed gear, and I like how light it is. It was also pretty inexpensive to build, so I take it when I have a short ride. Now I'm thinking of putting fenders on it. If I put too many accessories on it, it won't be light anymore. It's pretty handy to have something I can carry up stairs easily. Today I thought about a dynamo hub, but oops, that's going too far. I have a dynamo hub on my main commuter bike, and I love it. Maybe I will do the fenders, though.

I still have a couple of racy bikes without fenders. I try to avoid rain when I ride them. I am a little vain. I hope I never have to ride a women's style bike. It just feels wrong to me.