Road Cash
 

Who here keeps track of how much money they find on the road?

I found a $20 bill and a $5 at different times. I only stop for quarters. I do not keep track otherwise.

No money yet, but I have found some great tools - including a set of Craftsman SAE wrenches,,, 4 of them, one after the other along my route. Also a hammer, and some allen keys.

I've lost track of the stuff I've found, it's LOTS of it. Cash wise, only a $20 one one occasion. I've found stuff worth a lot more though. Last item was actually a brand new condition portable jump starter for a car. That thing was a mofo to shlep home, I'll tell ya.

I keep track, but I have never found a cent.

I've never found any money. I did find a wallet with what looked like a fair amount of cash in it, but as it had ID in there too, I just looked at the address to see if I could just drop it by, but it was a hundred miles away so I dropped it at the police station.

I have found a number of tools on the road.

I lost more on the road than I found. I have a nasty habit of putting loose bill change in my jacket pocket after a mini stop at Starbuck ffor coffee. Those bills flies out of my pocket during my downhill run on freeway overpass. Who knows if I ever caused any car accident behind me when those bills start floating out my pocket, but that's one way of getting those cars off my Arse.

I'm up to about $70.00, made up of three twenty's, and smaller bills/change. That doesn't include the $50.00 I scored when I recovered and returned a guys cell phone, or the other rewards from similar actions (cellphones/licenses/credit cards/or the Deputy's ID). I've lost count of the number of tools I've found. I've also found and rescued many towels.... Yes, I know where my towel is.

Rubberside Down!
K'Tesh

$5 Canadian. You'd think with all the colour they'd be easy to see. Maybe that's why there's no money to be found?

Don't stop for change unless it is a LOT of change. Best thing in recent memory I stopped for was an open Kershaw vapor II that damn near flatted me.

I tend to leave things where they are (basically ignoring them) since the owner may try to backtrack to find what they dropped once they realize that they've lost something. I found a wallet once but I returned it to its owner using the ID in the wallet.

Loose money-wise I haven't come across anything in years. When I was a kid I remember finding a $10 bill on the ground and feeling like I won the lottery.

That will come in handy when your bike won't start some morning.

That Jumper will help assist in cranking the bike over. ;)
Just a funny thought, imagine if E-bike battery are 12v and some car needed a jumper and a cyclist offer them a jump start from their E-bike. How embarrassing :o

That'd be funny, but unlikely. I don't know of many 12v ebikes. Most are 36 or 48 volts.

I found a $20 once, but I put it on the doorstep of the house it was in front of, because I was sure there was a hidden camera somewhere :)

I found a quarter stopped at a light. Found a cell phone once, too, also at a light — returned that to the owner (actually, the owner's sister, whose number was in the redial).

Other than that ... bungee cords! They seem to be flying off of everything, everywhere ... especially in the summer.

I find change occasionally but haven't found folding money...yet. I just read an article in Runners World about a guy that runs every day and averages $250 a year. That's like getting your shoes for free, I guess. :) He is around $8500 lifetime total, so far. I gotta start paying attention, but it's tough when the sweat is burning my eyes.....
Roy Curry

VeloNews had a back page commentary about it once... called it "road schwag".

Yeah, tools I find a lot of. Cash, sometimes. Lots of underwear ... you have to wonder ... best thing is the papaya and mangoes. In season there is one stretch of my commute where the bike lane is next to the sidewalk and I can count on one or two nice ones every day until the season ends. I carry a padded bag then to get them home unbruised. The coconut tree in my yard comes from a coconut I found sprouting in the gutter at the side of the road. Turns out it was one of those short Samoan type trees which makes it easy to harvest. On my last cross-country trip we had a running contest to see who could find the most interesting stuff ...

Like many others who have posted here, I have never found a cent. There oughtta to be a government program that will compel those who have apparently found hundreds, to share it wiff us less fortunate folks. It could be called "bucks for bikes".

A month and a half ago I found a ladies purse on the road side with 30 bucks in it. There was no ID in it, but via some business cards and receipts, I managed to find her and contacted her.

But to this day, she hasn't come by and picked it up. :rolleyes:

Until they start rotting in the road and you have to ride through them. I hate riding through the mess under guava and citrus trees. And rotting breadfruit....eeeeewwww!

Wish I had a good mango source, though.

5 bucks last week.

Combined with the change in my desk, enough for lunch.

i found a tennis ball about 3 feet up in a snow bank yesterday. that was...interesting.

and maybe missing Fido is 3 feet below the snow :)