Stuff we find on rides thread

[ivorygorgon]

On a hike up to a cinder cone, DH and I found the inner shell of a pond. We figure it must have just blown up there. I can't imagine anyone hiking that around!

[Melalvai]

After I told a friend how I'd gotten into the habit of using the roadside on this Omaha trip, he sent the following to me:

The unexpected benefits . . . when are YOU going to find something this neat? Should be soon, at the rate you're using the bushes . . .

For an elderly Australian tourist on a trip to the northwest of Queensland, nipping into the bushes to relive himself, a sort of unscheduled toilet stop has surprising consequences as he stumbled over the exposed remains of a 100 million year old marine reptile.

[nic840]

On todays ride our club was crossing through an intersection. I was rolling through and spotted at least 20 pennies on the road. I made it through the intersection and had to turn back. Lucky pennies in the road...can't leave them behind. So I went back and gathered them up and made it back to the pack.
I handed out one to each of the women on the ride to put in their seat bag...have to share the luck. I still had about 5 when I got home for my girls piggybank!

[laura*]

On nearly every ride in the urban/tourist part of town: Coins. Sometimes just a penny. Once about 40 pennies. Nickles, dimes, quarters - at least once for each.

A few years ago in suburbia: A nearly full box of unopened packages of contractor type orange foam ear plugs. I spent about 10 minutes picking them all up. I wasn't sure how I'd get them home - until I found the box they came from.

A few years ago in a rural area: A lovely bright red wide brimmed woman's hat - in middle of the road, not yet run over. I stopped and wondered what to do with the hat for a while. In the end, I tied it to a nearby fence post. When I rode by a day or two later, the hat was gone.

A week ago in the tourist zone: A Leatherman multi-tool. The saw and knife blades showed heavy use. Because I had no cargo capacity at all, I'd have had to a) leave it, but I figured I deserved this prize as much as any other passerby; b) hold it in my hand for the rest of my ride, which wasn't practical; or c) put it in the coin pocket of my biking skort, which may have resulted in a torn skort. In the end I decided to d) anonymously gift it to a friend who lived nearby.

[Jones]

I don't know if this is really a find but I recently saw "Elvis" driving a red convertible Cadillac.

[Biciclista]

On a hike up to a cinder cone, DH and I found the inner shell of a pond. We figure it must have just blown up there. I can't imagine anyone hiking that around!

what is a pond? A body of water? an inner shell? can you explain?

[Tuckervill]

I think she means one of those small ready-made ponds that people put in the back of their suburban landscapes.

Karen

[Aggie_Ama]

Last night I found a perfectly fine ponytail holder while mountain biking. So I took it home and washed it with dish soap. I am always losing mine, so why pass up a good one?

I also pick up bike tubes on trail. Someone else was too lazy to carry it after a flat but I can patch it.

[denda]

We found a digital camera one time.

[sarahspins]

Along one of the routes I ride regularly, there is an abandoned vacuum cleaner about 6 feet off the road in a ditch.. it's been there forever - I can only think it must have fallen off someone's truck or something.

[shootingstar]

a child's rear bike seat carrier..by a construction site. Given the context, it truly looked strange today.