Do YOU clean up your commute bike path and WHy?
05-11-09, 10:16 AM
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I don't ride the MUP much, but I do ride some nice, quiet roads. Unfortunately, these quiet roads are also the same roads the drunks drive down at night, tossing their bottles/cans/McD bags as they go. People also like to throw entire trashbags along this road, which I really don't understand. I once brought a trash bag to clean some of it up, but my bag was full after only 40 feet of road. I plan on making a trailer this year that I can fill. Might need to use the trailer behind my Jeep, as it might be too much for my bike to pull. I hate seeing so much trash.
05-12-09, 05:51 AM
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Some idiot spilled a box of small nails across the street last fall. Every morning I'd ride through and think, I should come out here and sweep it this weekend. Traffic was heavy when I'd ride thru each day. Of course I would promptly forget about it as soon as I passed it. Eventually the nails dispersed.
However, I have an idea...you know that you can get magnets bars of such a length...so I was thinking of taking a couple of those - rig up somehow to be behind the bike and go riding along the road to see just how many nails really do exist out there on the road. I think I might be a bit surprised...
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05-12-09, 05:15 PM
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I push a couple of shopping carts off the MUP I ride on each month, and called the Park District about trimming a bush that was growing over the path on a corner. It prevent you from seeing around the corner, and they had it trimmed the next morning. 
