Found yet another hammer the other day. A nice Stanley claw. I think this makes around #6 . Finding stuff on the side of the road makes up about 90% of the use I get out of my rack.

A pickup type work truck cut me off at the stop sign, as it screeched around the corner, a nice drill in a box flew out of a rear compartment and stopped next to my tire. A Dewalt cordless, 1/2 " with charger, extra batteries and bits too. Nice. Put it right in my rear bag. D-bag now out $ 125.00 or so.

Found a bag of weed on the sidewalk. Wiped off my fingerprints and dropped it back on the ground... :innocent:

A full set of clothes, and a gallon sized ziploc bag with a bunch of prescriptions in it. Probably belongs to a homeless person, but there wasn't a homeless person seen/around?!

Homeless people often stash their stuff and plan to come back to it later. There's a drainage ditch behind my house that often has a sleeping bag in it.

I do the same thing, except the place I stash my stuff is called 'home'.

There are now TWO of these things within a hundred feet of each other. Dirty pigs.

sounds like a spark plug socket.

Ride home yesterday: Rochester PD arresting an unruly citizen. 4 police officers on top of him. Going to listen to the scanner recordings later to see what exactly was going on. Sort of surprised I didn't hear a tazer deployment. The guy was was squirming all over while he was being cuffed.

Sweet! So far I've yet find anything of value, mostly just dead animals of all sorts.

I was grinding up the hill on the way home and spotted what looked like a messenger bag on the embankment below the road. Stopped and went down to get it. Surprise! It's a real nice bag of fishing gear, complete with two poles (one fly and one spinning) and reels. The bits and pieces in the bag were all very well organized in several plastic boxes. Lots of lures, flys, weights, leader line, and a couple of knives. No ID of any sort in the pockets. Only clue to who might have lost this stuff is a monogrammed buck knife.

I strapped it to my backpack and continued on my way.

Might have to take up fishing now that I am fully outfitted.

Hey, thats my stuff!! I sometimes carry that kind of stuff when riding, but I haven't lost mine...I checked.

LMAO!!

... but it could have been the start of your next N+1!!!

I found half of a desk lying halfway across the paved shoulder of a major road I sometimes take, had to look behind and shift into the lane to get around it.

I've ridden past a half-filled Nalgene bottle for the last couple of weeks. I think maybe it got dropped by a cyclist who was camping in the farm field next to the road there last month. Picking it up would mean losing all momentum going up the steepest part of my commute (3.5% grade over 3/4 mile).

Found a 15mm 3/8" drive socket. Which is great because that is literally THE ONLY SIZE SOCKET I CANT USE ON MY BIKE.

Found a tape measure the other day. In years passed, I've also found a large Crescent wrench that was painted orange (must have belonged to a road crew or something?) and what is called a drilling hammer (basically a small sledgehammer). The only useful stuff I seem to find are tools and money, can't complain I guess. Building up my toolbox...

Strangest thing I ever found was a piece of firefighting equipment. It was some kind of enormous valve I guess - very heavy and probalby quite expensive. Had to weigh 20 - 25 lbs or so. Must have fallen off a firetruck, as it was just sitting in the middle of the road. I carried it while riding with one hand to a firestation about 1/2 mile away and just left it by one of their doors (volunteer station, nobody was there).

I once had to stop traffic to remove a very large leaf spring leaf which some falling-apart beater truck had somehow dropped in the road.

A couch (or is it a love seat?) on today's commute home:

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2812/9...1339b50513.jpg

Dead racoon, dead posum (really dead), dead deer.

Your bicycle probably has syphilis now, good going.


:p

Found this ninja star while crossing through some grass....Unfortunately only after it found its way into my rear tire :notamused:

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=332621

Oh man! If you posted that anywhere else, people would probably be shouting you photoshopped that! Your emoticon really sells it though!

Made my day :D

A pair of military style rifle bipods on the side of the road in suburban California.

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=332626

Nice! Wish I had found those 15 years ago when I thought it was cool to have bipods on our SKS's!

Wait a second. How could you have it penetrate that way and keep rolling? And why is the tire still inflated? And there is no way that thing would be lying on the grass then tilt up as you roll over it an penetrated the tire. In addition to that it would have damaged the rim the way it's in there. Next photoshop please.

I'm OK with that if it means I can get another bike.

Leather work gloves. Lots of them. I guess they fall off of trucks. I have a drawer for the good condition ones that must have over a hundred.

A huge grasshopper. I stuck it in an empty water bottle and put it in my insect collection.

Like new pair of Oakleys in a hard case.

Various hand tools.

Harley Anniversary edition stuck down the ditch near the road. The owner came back with a farmer driving a tractor. They lifted the bike up in the air - about 6' - and as he started to swing back onto the road the strap broke. I didn't stick around for the wrecker to arrive.

I only wish I was clever at photoshop! However I assure you I'm not :( Tis Tis...
Believe me, I would rather have not the flat. What am I going to do with the Star?