best thing you ever found on the road

[39cross]

What the best/weirdest/most interesting thing you've ever found in the road - or alongside it when riding?

Thought of that the other day when I found a 10/11cm wrench and a screwdriver. It's not like finding a $100 bill, but you wonder how people drop these things. On big group rides people are always dropping water bottles, power bars, etc.

And of course there are always dead animals, up here I've come across chipmunks, turtles, snakes, birds.

I'm sure you can come up with something better.

[rounder]

I found a Banesto team cap one year when the Tour du Pont came through here...right after the peleton came through. It was during the years when Miguel was dominating. He wasn't here but his team was.

[eddief]

...intact turquoise Makita battery battery powered drill with case. Think it must have fallen off a contractors truck.

[girlie]

I never seem to find anything good....my friend Phil would always show-up at the bike shop we worked at with something new he'd found on his ride in.....a gold necklaces charm which he gave to me, a stuffed big tweety bird which he gave to a kid, money which he kept, tools donated to the shop.........ok now I'm thinking he stole that stuff.

[maunahaole]

Bag of pot.

[itspeedmoore]

Porn

[L84dinr]

milwaukee sawzall in the steel case. Was actually on my K 75 BMW (two wheels, had too ride back to the ponderosa with the thing across my knees, about lost it once on the highway) Was thinking about carrying it up to the Jack in the box, which was close to the area where i found it; but figured the mgr would just stuff it in his car so Finders keepers... never really felt good about keeping it, but didnt really try to find the owner. i figure karma has settled with me somehow over the years.

[Michael Maddox]

A couple weeks ago, all in one day, I found:

1. a copy of a plumper porn magazine (new)
2. a Mag Lite
3. a fresh bag of onions
4. 2 hip-hop CDs
5. a freshly-caught bream

I find porn all the time. Also find LOTS of tie downs and bungie cords, including the nice come-along type. Makes you wonder if they go together in some manner other than simply, "truckers buy porn."

I have a large number of box wrenches wrested from the roadside, too.

[konstantkarma]

Last year I found 3 box wrenches and a crescent wrench all on different rides. They went into my son's tool set. So far this year I found a really cool and really sharp double-bladed, spring-loaded pocket knife, and an Epinephrine pen thingy for people who are really allergic to bee stings.

[H1449-6]

Found a nice Craftsman hammer once. Also a little carabiner (not for climbing use, I'm sure).

[M.Sommers]

Health, fitness and focus.

:beer:

[93legendti]

Nothing, but in '98 on the 1rst day of an French Alps cycling trip, a rider got a flat above a beach outside of Aix-les-Bains. All the women were topless and he took FOREVER to change the flat.

My apologies to the women on the forum...:)

[BumbleBeeDave]

. . . running over a big dead snapper turtle by the road tonight. Does that count if I decided I didn't really want to take it home with me?

BBD

[avalonracing]

Lots and lots of porn. From a DVD (when DVDs first came out) to a sex toy package to, most recently (last week) a book named 269 Sex Tips for Men.

I don't know if it is the area or if I just have an eagle eye for the stuff.

[rustychisel]

nearly all of my Allen keys come from the road, that's why I have about seven 5mm and 6mm keys. Once found 3 chips from the casino, when redeemed = $155.00. Neat.

Most common find: gardening gloves. Millions of 'em. Gardeners are thick. Or rich. Or both.

[Ginger]

The best thing I've found on the road? Friends.





The porn/movie DVD thing is standard our theory is: people buy that stuff but they don't want to take it home to their families. So they toss it out the window.

On one tour one of the guys was keeping track of the articles of women's underwear that he spotted in the ditch. he wasn't picking them up though...ew.

[Louis]

1) A cute little green stuffed frog, which is now sitting on my computer at work.

2) On a road next to the main St Louis airport fence: a large "Restricted Area, Keep Out" followed by some threatening language about what will happen to you if you cross the line. Drove by in my car after the ride to pick it up. Still haven't figured out what to do with it.

I'm happy to say that I have never found any "road porn." Clearly everyone in St Louis either values their porn too much to toss it, or nobody needs any because their sex lives are perfect and they don't need that particular flavor of artificial stimulation. ;)

Louis

[SoCalSteve]

What the best/weirdest/most interesting thing you've ever found in the road - or alongside it when riding?

Thought of that the other day when I found a 10/11cm wrench and a screwdriver. It's not like finding a $100 bill, but you wonder how people drop these things. On big group rides people are always dropping water bottles, power bars, etc.

And of course there are always dead animals, up here I've come across chipmunks, turtles, snakes, birds.

I'm sure you can come up with something better.

Actually, one day, while climbing a small hill close to my house....I just happened to look down and there was a $100.00 bill lying in the middle of the road.

I took my wife out for a very nice meal that evening.

Just sayin'

Steve

[RIHans]

The roadside tie-down and bungie cord crap is hardly worth picking up, unless you are a hardcore, roadside junk-picker.

Last week I, however, picked up a not-too-rusty 6mm allen wench...Should have been a cellphone....Habla englaise? Si.

[cadence90]

An abandoned dog. Nobody ever claimed him so I kept him.

One of my best dogs ever. I named him "Turner" (not after the painter, but because he loved running/turning around any ball).

Italy won in Euro 2008 today :) , against pretty deep odds. He probably helped them out from up there....

He lived 13 years, and died in 2000, His passing broke my heart. He was a dear friend. He was beautiful, loyal, and had a deep and intelligent soul, and a huge heart. :)

Nothing else I ever found mattered....



http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/2074/turner011998ud0.jpg
The golden hound on the left, with my parents in 1998.


http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/7756/turner02zn5.jpg
As painted by my father, Turner chasing a tennis ball to Heaven. 2001.

Based on a detail of an "Ascension" by Simone Martini (attributed), Sienese, circa 1330.

[A.L.Breguet]

manet

[thinpin]

Apart from 10,000 Pounds sterling (Cash)........
peace and quiet...harder to come by these days just like 10,000 pounds!

[whitecda]

. . . running over a big dead snapper turtle by the road tonight. Does that count if I decided I didn't really want to take it home with me?

BBD
I have moved along more turtles this year than ever before. I move them in the direction they are headed. I hope that's where they WANT to go! Snappers are on their own...no pickin' up those gents!

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I have found money, tools and a little green turtle ..bungy cords , stuffed animals .. I even found a bag of pot one time
cheers :beer:

[keno]

Last Thursday setting out from the TTown parking lot for road training I saw a fat wallet on the shoulder. I stopped our group and we found several hundred bucks scattered around along with a wallet that had more credit cards in it than I knew existed. Turned out to belong to a racer obviously out on the road. Returned 100% of it to a trustworthy TTown administrator for ultimate return to its owner, and have not heard since. It should happen to all of us, except I think that the number of credit cards isn't good financial management. Dollars to doughnuts he can beat me on the bike, though.

keno

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An abandoned dog. Nobody ever claimed him so I kept him.

One of my best dogs ever. I named him "Turner" (not after the painter, but because he loved running/turning around any ball).

Italy won in Euro 2008 today :) , against pretty deep odds. He probably helped them out from up there....

He lived 13 years, and died in 2000, His passing broke my heart. He was a dear friend. He was beautiful, loyal, and had a deep and intelligent soul, and a huge heart. :)

Nothing else I ever found mattered....



http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/2074/turner011998ud0.jpg
The golden hound on the left, with my parents in 1998.


http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/7756/turner02zn5.jpg
As painted by my father, Turner chasing a tennis ball to Heaven. 2001.

Based on a detail of an "Ascension" by Simone Martini (attributed), Sienese, circa 1330.
nice story
cheers thanks

[TimD]

Coffee money :)

[Kevan]

there on the side of the road, nice as you please. It was missing its front wheel but otherwise was in perfect order. Kind of hard to carry home and there was this guy chasing me for a while with dirty hands and yelling expletives. Weirdo...good thing he couldn't run fast in those silly shoes of his.

[ejh]

$120.00 cash

[Jeff N.]

A nice pair of Oakley's. Also, I find small change all the time. Jeff N.

[flickwet]

my sanity

[Birddog]

I can play this game.
2' digital level. 50' heavy duty extension cord. Cell phone (owner called right after I got home), wallet w/$20 (owner said it was missing for 2 days,I found it 50' from his driveway), several wrenches of various types/sizes, 24" Turquoise and silver necklace, soft porn in an envelop marked "Technical Drawings",and about a thousand empty GU packets. Those people ought to be ashamed. I use the digital level, extension cord, and soft porn on a regular basis.
Just kidding about one of those items.

Birddog

[Jeff N.]

I can play this game.
2' digital level. 50' heavy duty extension cord. Cell phone (owner called right after I got home), wallet w/$20 (owner said it was missing for 2 days,I found it 50' from his driveway), several wrenches of various types/sizes, 24" Turquoise and silver necklace, soft porn in an envelop marked "Technical Drawings",and about a thousand empty GU packets. Those people ought to be ashamed. I use the digital level, extension cord, and soft porn on a regular basis.
Just kidding about one of those items.

BirddogSoft Core is boring. Gimme Heather Harmon! Jeff N.

[TimB]

1. a nice leatherman multi-tool
2. a standard size vise-grip (Original brand!) pliers
3. $10 cash money

i see lots of busted-up cell phones it seems - folks must put them on the roof of their cars and drive off

and padlocks...but never with the key in them...

also lots of cds, i never bother to stop for them as I figure they're probably too trashed to be played.

I once stopped and picked up an old-style Sony Walkman - the kind with the cassette player and radio from the 1980s. It wasn't functional as far as I could tell, but I gave it to a co-worked so his 8-year old son could disassemble it.

[3chordwonder]

Found my dog by the roadside while out riding too. Clearly abandoned and at the end of her tether, looked a wreck. I wouldn't have chosen to buy a dog, less even an old toy dog of dubiously genetic background with a heart condition and ulcerated eyes, but only now do I realize how lucky I got. She's a heartbreakingly sweet and easily pleased little thing. We're out to make the remaining years of her life the best ones she can imagine.

I could have built a big extension to my house from other things found on my rides if discarded alcohol bottles and cans count as building materials.

[whitecda]

there on the side of the road, nice as you please. It was missing its front wheel but otherwise was in perfect order. Kind of hard to carry home and there was this guy chasing me for a while with dirty hands and yelling expletives. Weirdo...good thing he couldn't run fast in those silly shoes of his.

My morning chuckle! Thanks.

[Kervin]

I found a big claw hammer. I was about 20 miles out and it made my jersey really droopy by the time I got home.

I also found a McDonalds sausage McMuffin with egg. It was just what I needed that day. I didn't eat it until after the ride, because I needed to redeem the game piece to get it.

[jimcav]

skill hole saw set in its case
iPod, in a puddle but i dried it out and it works
cell phone (found on a trip for a triathlon--wasted most of my day before the race to track down the guy, his lack of gratitude was remarkable)
Colt drop point tactical knife, anodized blue handle, blade was open
crescent wrench
new goo-gone spray bottle
a few allen wrenches

passed a bike wheel once, but did not want to carry it 11 miles
ditto a geologist's pick/hammer thing
10 ft step ladder, perfect condition, gone when i went back

mosty, what i see tells me we are still a super size fast food nation--ummm, can't wait for lunch 4 arbys roast beeef for $5--me and 3 friends?, naw just me

jim

[johnnymossville]

I've found a few things over the years, but the best one has be the $20 I found along the road when my dad, two brothers and I were 500+ miles from home along the coast of Maine with a long way to go to get back home to Penna. We ate good that night for the first time in a week!

We were scraping by on a shoestring budget to say the least. It was THE BEST!

[1happygirl]

Found my dog by the roadside while out riding too. Clearly abandoned and at the end of her tether, looked a wreck. I wouldn't have chosen to buy a dog, less even an old toy dog of dubiously genetic background with a heart condition and ulcerated eyes, but only now do I realize how lucky I got. She's a heartbreakingly sweet and easily pleased little thing. We're out to make the remaining years of her life the best ones she can imagine.

I could have built a big extension to my house from other things found on my rides if discarded alcohol bottles and cans count as building materials.

AWWWWWWW. You're a great person! :D

[Seramount]

$26 cash, a new bottle of Turtle Wax (still using it), ratchet extension, sockets, screwdrivers, a few thousand aluminum cans that I compusively have to recycle (but my rule is I can only pick them up on the last 2 miles of a ride).

best find was a large, strawberry Fig Newton (still in the wrapper) on a blisteringly hot ride when I was bonking hard...gave me just enough fuel to get home. It was warm, sweet gooey wonderfulness...

[Ti Designs]

By far the best thing I found out on a ride was my girlfriend, but I didn't know it at the time.

John Allis and I have been keeping a running total on the tools we find on the road for the last 20 years. I think I took over the lead when I came upon the trail of some truck that was spewing the contents of it's toolbox. At first it was impact sockets, then wrenches and extensions. At the end of the trail was a Snap-On 1/2" drive torque wrench. I wound up stashing the tools behind some bushes and coming back with my car.

The most unusual road find I've seen happened while I was working at the shop. A long time customer of ours asked if we could hold onto something he found on the road. I said "sure, we can do that", and he pulled three tiny kittens from his back pocket.

[WadePatton]

SCAVENGERS!

us all.

it really does bite when you take your vehicle back for a large item and it's no longer there.

Last thing I brought home was a partially eaten slim jim. The dogs loved it. :D

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By far the best thing I found out on a ride was my girlfriend, but I didn't know it at the time.

John Allis and I have been keeping a running total on the tools we find on the road for the last 20 years. I think I took over the lead when I came upon the trail of some truck that was spewing the contents of it's toolbox. At first it was impact sockets, then wrenches and extensions. At the end of the trail was a Snap-On 1/2" drive torque wrench. I wound up stashing the tools behind some bushes and coming back with my car.

The most unusual road find I've seen happened while I was working at the shop. A long time customer of ours asked if we could hold onto something he found on the road. I said "sure, we can do that", and he pulled three tiny kittens from his back pocket.
bro that cat's life may have been fallin out of that truck he may have gone back looking for his life .. maybe I would done the same thing though I don't blame you but it may have not been right imho
cheers

[Onno]

What's with all the tools on the road? :rolleyes:

I also found a Leatherman multi-tool a few years ago. I'm guessing too many dudes in pickups leave tools scattered in the back...

[WadePatton]

I left my tailgate down the other morning--well it was down from the previous evening when I was refilling the weedbuster.

So when I got to work and saw it down I immediately knew I'd likely lost somethings. Turns out my old favorite 2-stroke mixing fuel can is all that I've missed so far.

Those of us with tools and pickups lose stuff off the tailgate, bumper, toolbox, cab, trailer, things left on things on the trailer or the trailer itself. After a few years of that we get better at surveying the load before hitting the roadway.

I've found lots of tools left under the hood by professionals and amateurs. I knew the pros and return their stuff--not my truck, I lose and recover all my own stuff under those hoods. But I'm sure some of the tools are falling out of engine compartments too.

I dropped a small assorted fastener box off the boat trailer fender once. I had been repairing the lights. That stuff went everywhere.

Dude might still be making payments on that torque wrench...and harsh, but it was his duty to not drop it on the road.

[benb]

Never pick any of it up but I've seen plenty.. guess I'm always in a hurry.

I can't say I've ever seen anything worth a lot of money.. usually I fly by whatever is sitting on the road before I think I want it.. then I realize I will have to turn around.. and I get lazy and don't pick it up.

Last night I saw a brand new craftsman screwdrive.. probably could have used it as some of mine have wandered off by themselves.. but I didn't.

I've never seen "road porn". I frequently see large stashes of empty alcohol bottles likely thrown out the window for the same reason as road porn..

Bungie cords every day.

[davidlee]

In the last six months- TWO fifty dollar bills( at one time).
And a few days later a BIG BAG o CRACK.
Threw it right in the garbage can that it was next to at the local gas station.
I had actually never seen crack in person but once I opened the bag and looked in , I was assured , Crack rock.
I wondered if it was some sort of set up and how funny it would be to see me on the front page of the paper in my kit , holding it. Well, actually , mabey not so funny.
I'm always looking for goodies though.
d

[legacysti888]

while in Singapore. Had to pee during a ride, literally jumped off bike, ran to a nearby bush and spotted a half opened, crumpled white envelope with pen scribblings next to it. Picked it up after my trickle and found the moola. The stack amounted to SGD $5000.00. Err... had a great time that night. ;)

[Dino]

Maybe this does not qualify the same, but it was the result of the ride....
On the way home, within a few blocks of the house and saw a lady hauling a really nice out-door table to the curb. I stopped and asked what she was doing with it, and she said it was for trash pick up! !!! I sprinted home, got the car and went back to pick it up. Makes for great outdoor evening dinners now!

[Dekonick]

Lots and lots of porn. From a DVD (when DVDs first came out) to a sex toy package to, most recently (last week) a book named 269 Sex Tips for Men.

I don't know if it is the area or if I just have an eagle eye for the stuff.


Avalonracing right? Avalon? Route 1, Elkridge?

Ummm - cheap sleezy motels, truck stop, low cost trailer parks, prostitution, drugs - of course you find that crap around there! The route 1 stretch from Fla to NY is just NASTY - but Avalon has a nice park so its ok.

[rbtmcardle]

My Sanity - every time out

[H1449-6]

while in Singapore. Had to pee during a ride, literally jumped off bike, ran to a nearby bush and spotted a half opened, crumpled white envelope with pen scribblings next to it. Picked it up after my trickle and found the moola. The stack amounted to SGD $5000.00. Err... had a great time that night. ;)

That's about $3500 or so? Nice haul. I think you win the thread.

[Ti Designs]

bro that cat's life may have been fallin out of that truck he may have gone back looking for his life .. maybe I would done the same thing though I don't blame you but it may have not been right imho
cheers


You talking about the tools or my girlfriend - I'm sure she didn't fall out of the back of a truck... As for losing tools on the road, I see it like leaving the bike on the roof of the car and driving into a parking garage - just admit you're an idiot and start cashing your pay checks at the Snap-On truck.

[DarkStar]

$50 in crisp new bills! Bought a nice bottle of wine that evening. :banana:

[shinomaster]

Once when I was bonking really badly in Concord I pick up an apple off the side of the road and ate it! I had no money on me that day..

[BURCH]

I found a little plastic green lizard. I taped him to my stem and called him found. He went with me for about 3,400 more miles and then I just cut him off and placed him on the road again to be found once more.

[BURCH]

I have moved along more turtles this year than ever before. I move them in the direction they are headed. I hope that's where they WANT to go! Snappers are on their own...no pickin' up those gents!

I was just in the Smoky Mtns this past weekend and we moved along a box turtle. On the way back in the same spot, there he was right back in the middle of the road. Oh well. Had to move him along again.

[Sasha18]

-Two pairs of sunglasses, one of which I still wear

-Porn of the professional and homemade variety

-A whole box of non-porn polaroids of a family vacation

-And the BEST, all manner of road kill. Now, I know, you all see road kill regularly. But my riding partner used to bag it, take it home, freeze it, then pass it on to his dad who worked in a natural history museum. If the bird was fresh, and not a starling, it went in the seatbag. One time, we happened upon a full size turkey vulture. It obviously wouldn't fit in the bag. We had to cover it with branches so the other birds wouldn't pick at it before he could return with the car. His freezer was a real sight. Ice, coffee, ice cream, grey squirrel.

[mflaherty37]

Playboy and a jar of Assos.

[FATBOY]

24" crescent wrench which was heavy as hell in the backpack but looks awesome on the shop wall, it is our go to tool when folks ask if "you gotta wrench I can borrow to adjust my seat.

Digital satellite receiver. Stayed on my rack for 15 miles with 1 bungee.

One of those HULK boxing gloves that make sounds when you hit with them. It ended up taped to the drops of a friends bars at a century ride our shop supported. We bopped it everytime someone road by without a wave or hello and it would roar it's disapproval much to our delight. What is it with people that think they are "racing" supported rides?? Dude, you had a full meal waiting every 15 miles and me there to fix your flats, smile fergawdsakes!

Other than that I gues 20 years of fun and friends, if you find that cool.

Good thread by the way, I am notoriously spontaneous on rides and will go well out of my way to check out oddball stuff.

[rustychisel]

I guess I was taking this to literally, but the following is an absolutely true story.

My stepdaughter now lives in London, but came home to Aus last year to be married and have an extended honeymoon/holiday, and got back into some cycling.
One summer's morning we went out about 7am to climb Norton Summit and as we approached first switchback on the climb she said "I'd really like to see a koala. Do you think they'll still be around?"
"The sun's pretty bright, I dunno…" [you can guess this bit]
150 metres up the road I look up into a gum tree overhanging the road, and 30 feet up, yup, there's a koala having a quick nap before moving into shade for the hottest part of the day.
We finished our ascent - about 30 minutes ride time - turned around and came down the same road and half way down were flagged down by a woman on the side of the road waving a stick... she was out walking and 100 metres or so further down the road had come across a koala sitting in the middle of the road. This old buck was in a slow and grumpy frame of mind, we parked the bikes and moved closer to shoo the koala off the road, getting within 5 or 6 feet, but he wasn't budging. We - in our cycling shoes - skated around him, trying to herd him to the side of the road.
You don't herd koala. You don't touch koala unless you know how, and you especially don't touch grumpy male koala, who have a fairly dangerous hooking spur on the rear legs. They can carve you up pretty well.
Thus, a standoff, for 10 minutes or so. An electrical utilities truck came down the road behind us, the driver revved the engine to try and scare the koala into moving... nothing doing. He pulled wide and drove off. The woman tried guiding (poking it) with her stick... nothing doing. We 'shooed'... nothing doing.
We decided we had no idea what to do next when (of course) the old gramps unfolded his legs and stumped slowly off the road into a patch of pine trees. When they're stumping along of an early morning they look a lot like a dirty old drunk man stumbling home after a night on the turps.

[Chad Engle]

Playboy and a jar of Assos.

Doesn't that burn?

Mainly road kill deer around here, but one day we saw 2 road kill beavers. One on the east bound shoulder other on the west. They had to be a long way from home.

Do beavers migrate?

[93legendti]

I rode for over 2 hours yesterday (froze my a** off!) and saw ZIP on the ground...what an I doing wrong? :)

[Vancouverdave]

Lots of tools--couple of screwdrivers, 13mm Snapon combination wrench, 3 or 4 adjustable wrenches. Over 35+ years of cycling, maybe $200 cash. Biggest score was when my commute included two blocks of sidewalk in front of Portland Civic Stadium right past the ticket booths; two twenties on the sidewalk right in front of me. Most recent--Beanie Baby tortoise, Vancouver WA, 2005.

[Tom]

I found a rock.

[CNY rider]

Doesn't that burn?

Mainly road kill deer around here, but one day we saw 2 road kill beavers. One on the east bound shoulder other on the west. They had to be a long way from home.

Do beavers migrate?

Yes.

If you are a young beaver, particularly of the male variety then mom and dad ultimately send you packing.
You get to seek fame and fortune on your own and (insert totally inappropriate beaver joke here).

[CNY rider]

I found a rock.


Pix?

[GONE4ARIDE]

...a bag full of hard core porn magazines when I was in the third grade. Brilliantly, I proceeded to take them to school the next day and pass them out to the class which bought me my first (and last) ticket to the school principals office. Needless to say, mom and dad were not happy having to bail their 8 year old son out for a porn infraction.

[MarleyMon]

Today riding to the bike shop, towing my BOB trailer, I saw a Diamondback bike in the right lane of NY St. (3 lanes 1-way). I stopped to check it out and get it out of the street - it was a real mess, broken der. & hanger. A guy across the street said the guy had bashed it 3 times into the pavement screaming bloody murder. The neighbor then looks up and says - "Here he comes back." so I just left it (on the sidewalk now) and continued on my way.

in the past - cell phones, including a Virgin Mobile that that had not been used for 6 months still worked so I activated it (VM said they had no record of the owner) and still have it, a Tiffany & Co. Portfolio watch, keys w/ a grocery store shopping discount tag (returned to store to track down the owner)

[konstantkarma]

I found a rock.

Charlie Brown?

[itsflantastic]

a new friend!

my first in maine. I was riding in my rutgers team kit. He was in his Leigh team kit. Turns out, 2 years ago, we raced against one another.

[Kines]

I guess I'm either not paying attention, or just don't have a strong "collector" trait. In fact, I struggle in life trying to get RID of stuff I have laying around the house. Drives my wife and kids nuts. When they get new toys, I say that means some old toys of equal "volume" have to go.

But on a related note, one of the guys on our team is a chronic shwag whore. The few occasions I see podium, I pre-promise him my winnings, which at my level (age group 40-45, ccx B, MTB expert) is usually water bottles, sunglasses, tools, or other donated stuff that's been on a bike shop shelf for too long. I have everything I want and need, and anything more is clutter. And besides, seeing him get such a thrill from junk is much more valuable than any small materialistic gain.

I would, however, pick up a stack of 50 dollar bills, as unlikely as I am to ever see that!

BTW, saw a pair of foxes a few weeks ago, while riding near Germanton, NC. Most beautiful and graceful animal I've ever seen.

KN

[haimtoeg]

I found a few friends and time to think. No material goods.

[Avispa]

It's not like finding a $100 bill, but you wonder how people drop these things. On big group rides people are always dropping water bottles, power bars, etc.

I'm sure you can come up with something better.

Well, not $100, but surely $40!!!!

Once I rode past a country club near my house.... See these things rolling on the road. I first think they are leaves, well there were leaves there too.

But I slowed down and found two curled up Jacksons! That was some nice day...

..A..

[39cross]

Lots of good stories, there is something heartwarming about finding something nice for free.

Looks like the finds mostly break down into these categories:

tools
money
porn (complete surprise to me)
food
companionship
intangibles
and some off-beat one-of a kinds (satellite dish receivers, rocks)

Speaking of finding food, I was reminded of finding a fresh ear of corn in the middle of a country road, I took it home and had it for dinner. Yum.

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bro i found some keys on the road one time stopped to pick them up and they were mine ..i didn't know i had lost them ..
cheers :beer:

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50l keg of heineken. for real! one of my urban routes takes me very near a large beverage distributor. you bet i got on the cell to my buddy...