What do cyclists pick up?

[Carry Pine]

No I'm not talking about girls or rashes from the saddle....

If you see something on the road or beside the road, do you stop and pick it up? You won't stop for 20c but if it was a note? $2?
Look what I found today. Carried it in my hand for the last 15ks of the ride.

30cm long, no real brand and it is a 15/16th. Now what will that fit? Bugger all I guess but I couldn't just leave it there!

What do you/ have you picked up?

Carry Pine

[Buzza]

I was thinking of making a bike trailer, cos' I ride so slow, I see all sorts of stuff worth taking home. I must get back into the saddle again soon, so I can find something.

[ss_11000]

kangaroo bone

i'm serious, i was out at my mates place at congewai and we went for a ride, on the side of the road was a kanga skeleton. so i picked up a bone, we went back to his place, i got a handsaw and sawed it open to see if it was thick enough to make a pen out of...as it turned out, it wasnt ...but i had fun cuttting it up lol

[Carry Pine]

Peter Cundall at the recent Garden Show at Homebush referred to 2 ladies who supply fertilizer which is made out of road kill.
Maybe there's a spotter's market there for cyclists.

Graham

[Ron Dunn]

Gravel rash.

[Gra]

Gravel rash.

My front guard...

[corbs]

Unless I can get it without stopping it stays where it is. If I saw some antler or good bit of bone I might think about it but a two hour MTB ride hurts enough without adding to the load.

[Carry Pine]

Unless I can get it without stopping it stays where it is. If I saw some antler or good bit of bone I might think about it but a two hour MTB ride hurts enough without adding to the load.

But what would you stop for? What's your price? We can all be 'bought'.

Graham

[corbs]

Ok then... would stop for a nice bit of antler (there is deer in some of the areas I ride) but as I don't road ride anymore there isn't a heap to see on the side of a trail. Will admit you can see some wierd things on the side of the road though.

[ficfac]

scored a pair of sunnies not long back

[Mulgabill]

Hand Saw, various spanners and screwdrivers, cash and even a wallet complete with credit cards & license that turned out to be from a stolen vehicle.

[Timber stacker]

in the past two years I've rode nealy 9000km and in this time I've found:
two mobile phones (one had been wet by the rain the night before)
$50 note
$20 note
2 $10 notes
12" blue neon (still worked on a 9v battery)
rear bike light

[glenn k]

I found a 1/2 " drive with one off those star shape ~8mm thingies on the end. Kept for years then ground as a nail punch. Then I had to buy another one as I needed it

[cadeuceus]

In terms of bike transport - i find all sorts of wooden furniture that has been thrown out and take it back to work on the bike. I make small things and recycled timber suits perfectly. Things like slat based beds often give lots of 70 x 19 or 90 x 19 slats that can be used for all sorts of things.

not on a bike but....I was once the only passenger in a bus. After going around a corner, the driver suddenly stopped the bus and got out. After a few minutes (of me wondering if i should get out and walk...) he returned triumphantly holding a $2 coin that he had spotted in the gutter before the corner.

[ficfac]

ha ha every cent counts eh!