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01-13-2015, 09:49 AM
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What is your best roadside find?
Hi Folks -
What is the best find while out on a ride? It can be handy, or just plain funny. I most recently found a 2 pound, short handled sledgehammer. This past year, I have also found a pair of pliers, a pair of snips, and a Phillips screwdriver. I am on a roll with the tools. Hoping my next find will be an impact wrench. Last year I found a nice Columbia jacket. I've also found my share of "ditch porn". Some pretty weird stuff. Why porn mags seem to wind up by the roadside is beyond me. 
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#2
01-13-2015, 10:00 AM
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My best roadside find was this:
 It did not look like that when found. I trash picked this curbside with my dad when I was 12...it's actually a longgggg story. As far as best find while riding, I picked up a good shape Schwinn Superior with the nervex crank and huret derailleurs that was being trash picked once.
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01-13-2015, 10:01 AM
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Contentedness and a quiet mind? Does that count?
dave
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01-13-2015, 10:11 AM
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years ago in central coast of cal: a vegetable truck that hit a nasty bump and dropped a ton of lettuce along the way out the back. i was sitting on side of road trying to rest, bonking hard (was hard 100+ mile day in bad heat, and out of water), so hard i could not see straight and could not turn pedals more than a few hundred feet at a clip. still had 4-5 miles to get home. it was like manna from heaven, and that was best salad i ever had in my life.
i ended up hitchhiking home, bike in back of pickup truck. yeah, the bonk was so bad i was kinda delirious. will never forget it. young and foolish, oh well. hindsight it could have actually been really bad situation. 
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#6
01-13-2015, 10:18 AM
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I think we can file this under ···!?!
On my early morning ride today I did a double take on something I spotted in the road. "No way!" I turn back around....yup. Let's just say on the rest of the way home motorists were giving me a very wide berth.     Heavy rattan/wax wood shaft and a solid metal head and tip. This does not feel like a Halloween prop. Probably a Chinese MA demo spear. What have you found on the road lately? William PS: Originally here... http://forums.thepaceline.net/showth...ighlight=spear
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#8
01-13-2015, 10:21 AM
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Quote:
 William
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01-13-2015, 10:29 AM
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Quote:
My buddy and I were dumbfounded until we got a bit up the road and saw the county jail sign pointing off the road.
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01-13-2015, 10:31 AM
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Locked iPhone...managed to track down the owner on Facebook as he had an unusual name.
Android phone dropped a few hours earlier, not locked so I called "Home". Contents of a wallet spread out a couple hundred feet down and across the road...multiple credit cards, etc. Kershaw Leek (pocket knife) was the most useful find. Fossil watch the most valuable?
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01-13-2015, 10:39 AM
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Oakly M-Frames though that was trail side. I did the right thing and asked around on the local list serves and bike shops and no one claimed them so... Score!
Funny thing is about a year later I lost them on the road some where. I posted here on the forum and a kind gentlemen said he had a set of M-Frames that he found on the road and sent them to me free 
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01-13-2015, 11:03 AM
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Shoes, followed by a liquor bottle and then some various undergarments and a condom wrapper.
I found an iPhone and eventually got it back to the owner, she gave me a 20, I tried to refuse but she insisted.
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01-13-2015, 11:04 AM
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A 24 inch Rigid aluminum pipe wrench. Thankfully, it was only about a mile from my house, but I did get some strange looks from people on the way home.
In second place I found my own drivers license, which I had dropped six or seven months before.
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