I'd rather race against another cyclist who's smart enough to look before s/he crosses at a red light than a dumb dog. Furthermore, another cyclist would be less likely to bite me in the leg if they caught up to me.

Today: A Jackson Fish Skinner, a turtle (live) and a raccoon (dead).

That's pretty common down here, especially during Dove season.

This was at a busy intersection in the suburbs. It probably just fell out of somebody's truck or something.

A tent set up and occupied on the MUP, under a bridge at 5am, I suppose due to heavy rains during the night. Fortunately I saw that there was something big and dark in the way in time to slow down and go around it.

Found these in the bike lane on the way into work a few weeks ago:

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Found these items on a joyride this morning:

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In addition to change, I pick up any lead wheel weights I see. Lead is getting hard to come by.

Not strange, but I realize some of the post of things people have found are not strange, so I guess it's safe to post my find without disappointing readers. I think it was this Halloween on my way home from work. I found a Sony camera pouch for a Cybershot. No camera inside but I had been thinking about buying such a camera pouch for my Sony digi cam. Fortunately it had not been run over when I found it. Pouch was in good shape and a perfect fit for my camera!

Recently have found a 24oz Polar Bottle, use it every day now. Then yesterday found a not so cool Performance waterbottle. Nothing else recently I can recall. I too am a changer picker upper. Over the years have picked up much change.

I've been finding quite a few radiator caps on the road... and oddly no cars stopped to the side down the road! Also because of frequent fender benders, the sides of the roads are full of car debris, mostly front plastic bumpers, parts of headlights and turn signals and the occasional hood emblem stuck to a smashed grill.

Another odd thing, especially for Athens at this time is that a few road-width carved out sections have begun to be patched. I say this because these sections where cut out of the pavement to place cables or plumbing and are filled afterwards with dirt and are usually left since they don't cause any concern with cars or motorcycles, only to bicycles rims. A section of my commutes has three of these and suddenly they where patched up one morning!

Write Polar and tell them you'd like a new cap, stating that even though they state their caps are standard, they are not. They'll send you a couple free ones.

I did pretty much that. I got 3 new ones sent out to my surprise. If I did not know better, I would think Polar set this up as a trap. Won a customer with that ground score.

What do you use the lead for?

Totally nude woman....dont ask.
A dead person
A dead horse
A water logged E-Bike
Cut-off end of a sex toy (I hope it was)
A girl smoking a cigar (a guys cigar)

:lol:

Found a lovely roofing nail the other day. Didn't even have to stop to pick it up; just pulled it out of my tire after all the air came out.

About a month ago, I found a nice flashlight. I left it there in the hopes that the rightful owner would have come back to claim it.

Then this weekend found a nice bottle opener next to my bike when I came out of the liquor store. Good timing as I had just picked up a 6-pack of bottled beer!

A front deer leg on the MUP along the Mississippi/Minnesota rivers confluence yesterday. I suspect a scavenging bald eagle dropped it. It was gone this morning.

Strangest thing so far, a scale model black casket about 10 cm long. I think it belonged to some cult.

Found a couple 9mm shells at an overpass once. Car-to-car shootout maybe?

-- a 45 caliber bullet I turned into the military guard when entering the base where I work
-- an Iphone with a broken screen that still worked and was able to return
-- A new phone case that fit my wife's new phone perfectly
-- VHS cassettes of porn (guy must have ditched when he saw his wife coming)
-- A dead beaver the size of a large German Shepherd
-- used prophylactics (ugh, good thing I use fenders)
-- A garage door opener that I may be able to program to replace the one that blew off my bike when on my car rack
-- A UNM student ID that I was able to return
-- a porcupine, coyotes, raccoon ( carrying a Surefire flashlight is useful for such early morning sightings),

Not sure what the cult is, but I was driving in my car on rainy night and I saw a person covered in a black rain poncho? or something, and he or she was putting a small box (casket?) on the guard rail post on the 76 in Ohio near Wadsworth. They must have walked there because I didn't notice any cars on side of the highway before or after where they were at. Then on another dark rainy night I saw a person with a long black poncho on a very busy highway 31 near Peru Indiana standing right on the white line, which was really weird because I had swerve around the idiot suddenly because of what they were wearing you couldn't see them till you almost hit them! I first I thought I was seeing things, which I never do, until the car behind me swerved also. Almost like the person was either daring us to hit them, or hoping to cause an accident, or trying to make people think they saw a ghost. Again no cars parked in the area. If I get a chance and ever see this again I'm going to stop the car quickly if I can do so safely, And run like crazy toward them to see who these people are.

I always end up finding bags with pornographic DVD's with only the cases left. There were also a few rusty wheelchairs in this lake, which kind of creeped me out.

This mornings update: A Costco/Kirkland brand 16 oz bottle filled with a yellow liquid with a foamy head. If its still there on my commute home its probably not beer.

Sounds like it was fresh enough to keep you warm if you were to slip it into your jersey pocket.

[QUOTE=rekmeyata;13554081]Not sure what the cult is, but I was driving in my car on rainy night and I saw a person covered in a black rain poncho? or something, and he or she was putting a small box (casket?) on the guard rail post on the 76 in Ohio near Wadsworth. They must have walked there because I didn't notice any cars on side of the highway before or after where they were at. Then on another dark rainy night I saw a person with a long black poncho on a very busy highway 31 near Peru Indiana standing right on the white line, which was really weird because I had swerve around the idiot suddenly because of what they were wearing you couldn't see them till you almost hit them! I first I thought I was seeing things, which I never do, until the car behind me swerved also. Almost like the person was either daring us to hit them, or hoping to cause an accident, or trying to make people think they saw a ghost. Again no cars parked in the area. If I pget a chance and ever see this again I'm going i


Hey I live in kokomo Indiana. its pretty cool to hear about someone talking about here even if that person is an idiot. Whatever its not my home town. I don't see very many on bike around here and the one person I did see told me he had got to to many duis and that's the only reason he rides. Not me tho I ride cuz I like it. If you ever ride in kokomo be careful lots of people will be ********. As far as the highway thing I'm surprised you didn't see me I cross that highway at least 10.times a week.

Just some of the basics so far:

Smooshed cat
Condoms
Homeless person area burrowed out in the woods just off the bike trail
A sign for people to hold to protest "Planned Parenthood"

And some better ones I'll post when I think of them.

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=229647Found the Easter Bunny last year. :)

Gone.....I hope it was beer.

I found a bunch of dental picks, the good ones like dentist actually use, on the road. I ran over a few and was worried about getting a flat.