OK, list the strange things you've seen on a ride. I will start with a crescent wrench I picked up today, followed by a casket at a garage sale. Didn't buy it, even felt weird to take a picture of it. Last but not least, I saw a life sized horse made of barb-wire. Did take a picture of it. Impressive. Just an interesting ride today in Kansas!

I found a huge $100 Danforth Anchor. Put it aside, and came back and picked it up with the car, put it in the Found section of Craigslist, then the For Sale section, then gave it away.

On my Tour of the German Rhine , in 88 my path on the east shore levee was blocked by an M1 Abrams heavy Battle Tank ..

I've been seeing a deer for months that somehow got her neck stuck in the middle of what looked like a 30" square panel. It looked like a giant square collar, and didn't seem to be slowing her down much. Just running around like any other deer with a big square around her head!

About a month ago I stopped behind an isolated building-Sewer pumping station-to do something slightly related to that buildings function.

I came across a bunch of women's clothing strewn across the ground. This was "dress up sexy" kind of stuff, including a pair of size 12 high heel pumps. There were also empty packets of Smooth Skin-No Stubble hair remover.

Nothing weirder than the zombie farm:

No, I didn't make use of the toilet found near the side of the road on a ride in April:

Japan has some unusual sights. This village has more life size dolls than people. The only one not a doll is my son in the middle of the busstop.

Wish I had taken photos but on the same ride... I saw a coyote on the trail - what was unusual was the coyote's coloring - almost black... several miles later I saw a mallard duck on the trail laying on its side; that can't be right?!??

About 2 years ago when riding my mtb on singletrack through some woods I saw two men being a lot friendlier to each other than people ought to be in public.

I shouted at them that kids and families also used the woods so they should go elsewhere, but they just ignored me and carried on!

Last month I came upon a full sized John Deere tractor with a spray rig on the back in the bottom of one of those 6 ' deep farm drainage ditch's. One of the guys standing around said he thought the operator had been texting..I guess that is everywhere. There were getting ready to try and get it out, wish I could have stuck around for that.

A mailbox in rural Wisconsin with the name "Dick Putz" on it.

Last summer, on two separate occasions, a naked woman gardening right there up on the hillside on a mountain road, just about as full-body tanned as one could be, shovel in hand. Beautiful place to be out in one's birthday suit, but fairly well-traveled by cyclists.

Where exactly was that?

Brought back a Big fricking Pipe wrench with it's handle bent in the manufacturing to be a crank to screw in the pipe . to the fitting ..

with both hands .. from the bridge_causeway a few years ago..

I see a big rooster hanging out along the trail I ride to work every day. He's a big mutt, obviously was turned loose at some point and has managed to survive on his own. That's not very strange, I know. What is strange is some days I see that rooster hanging out with a duck. They'll be walking side-by-side on the trail when I ride by. Now I try to keep an open mind, but a rooster hanging with a duck?

This thread makes me hate myself now. My son and I were riding on the Silver Comet trail in Georgia when we saw this HUGE sow moseying down the side of the path and I didn't take a picture of it.

In forestry terms this is called a "one log load", somewhere near Port Angeles, WA


Cast iron skillet taped to the bike, San Juan Islands, WA


It must have been an extremely high tide. The ocean is in the distant background, Vancouver Island, BC.

The World's Largest Popcorn Ball not my wife. Well, come to think of it, she is a little strange; she married me Sac City, Iowa.


Residual from the Winter Olympics, near Vancouver, BC.

For me, the opposite may be true. I'm a 65 year old daily, all weather commuter living in an affluent suburb. On super hot days, or cold rainy ones, I suspect that I'm the odd sight that people see on their way home.

Wasn't odd but it was cool. I was biking early one morning south of San Jose, Ca. I was cruising along at maybe 20 mph and looked up/over my left shoulder. A hawk basically shadowed me for a good half mile and it couldn't have been more than 75' away. I assume that this exact match of speed was not coincidence, but who knows. It was a cool thing.

dave

"On your left, Satan!":



Saw this on my North GA ride. Church signs in these parts are not subtle!

I had one day, just riding along, saw something shiny, I like shiny, so I stopped, was a $2 coin, I really like that kinda shiny, what we here in Canada call a toonie.

A deer head, just the disembodied head, no ears, no neck, just the eyes looking up at me.

We're going to need to see photographic evidence of this.