Finding things on your commute

mudcow007
mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
edited May 2011 in Commuting chat
i found a Kyrptonite new york d-lock this morning, no it wasn't attached to a bike in a shed before anyone says it

it was in the middle of the bike track i commute on, guessing it had just slipped out of someones bag.

i didn't know what to do with it so i just left it at the side of the track?

anyone else found anything?

an what do you do with it if you do?
Keeping it classy since '83

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  • ChrisLS
    ChrisLS Posts: 2,749
    ...found a really nice adjustable spanner once...
    ...all the way...'til the wheels fall off and burn...
  • Gussio
    Gussio Posts: 2,452
    Battered, but functioning mini pump
  • Subaqua
    Subaqua Posts: 73
    I found an iphone on the Bayswater Road a few months back.....



    However, it had jumped out of the clamp which had previously held it to my stem when I hit a big pothole quite hard. Phone still works, but was a bit beaten up
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  • Flyingbogey
    Flyingbogey Posts: 352
    Within days of my new year resolution to stop RLJ'ing i found a pair of glasses and a Hump bag cover. Both while waiting at the lights. Glasses in Morden and Hump in Tooting if anyone wants to make a claim.
    Bianchi Nirone C2C FCN4
  • Gussio
    Gussio Posts: 2,452
    Flyingbogey wrote:
    Within days of my new year resolution to stop RLJ'ing i found a pair of glasses and a Hump bag cover. Both while waiting at the lights. Glasses in Morden and Hump in Tooting if anyone wants to make a claim.

    That is karma, dude, karma.
  • SickAsAParrot
    SickAsAParrot Posts: 212
    A butt plug

    no I didn't keep it.
  • dav1
    dav1 Posts: 1,298
    Found a set of allen keys once, not great but as I could not identify an owner they now stay with me at work for any pre/post commute repairs.
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    Merlin single malt fixie (Commuter/winter/training)
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  • The Rookie
    The Rookie Posts: 27,812
    Cycling I've found a very large adjustable (14") and a 10mm spanner (decent quality), at home the council workmen who mistakenly dug up my drive by mistake left behind a good hammer and chisel, I kept them as compensation.

    Found 2 mobiles, returned to owners via the simple expediant of looking for a 'Mum' in the contacts and calling them!

    Simon
    Currently riding a Whyte T130C, X0 drivetrain, Magura Trail brakes converted to mixed wheel size (homebuilt wheels) with 140mm Fox 34 Rhythm and RP23 suspension. 12.2Kg.
  • iPete
    iPete Posts: 6,076
    2 rear lights, the Knog lives on my helmet and the other my Brompton.
  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    iPete wrote:
    2 rear lights, the Knog lives on my helmet and the other my Brompton.

    Was the other one a cat eye like this one as I lost one a while back.


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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Sketchley wrote:
    iPete wrote:
    2 rear lights, the Knog lives on my helmet and the other my Brompton.

    Was the other one a cat eye like this one as I lost one a while back.


    http://www.wiggle.co.uk/cateye-tl-ld110 ... ear-light/

    I lose those like you lose your scalp :lol:
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  • iPete
    iPete Posts: 6,076
    Sketchley wrote:
    iPete wrote:
    2 rear lights, the Knog lives on my helmet and the other my Brompton.

    Was the other one a cat eye like this one as I lost one a while back.


    http://www.wiggle.co.uk/cateye-tl-ld110 ... ear-light/

    Ha no, its some unbranded rubbish. I do have one of those though, a zip tie is a must have but you can't take the fecker off.
  • wgwarburton
    wgwarburton Posts: 1,863
    Hi,
    I found an ear tag applicator the other day.

    Cheers,
    W.
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    I found a walking stick. still got it. who would not miss a walking stick?.....well maybe an octopus
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    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • oscar-j
    oscar-j Posts: 269
    working nightshift on the trains,i once found an artificial leg!

    you'd have thought it would be a giveaway when he/she got up to leave and fell over,but hey ho! :lol:
  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    oscar-j wrote:
    working nightshift on the trains,i once found an artificial leg!

    you'd have thought it would be a giveaway when he/she got up to leave and fell over,but hey ho! :lol:

    must've been drunk.
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  • shouldbeinbed
    shouldbeinbed Posts: 2,660
    I'm commuting quite a distance by car this week, I've found motorways chock full of arseholes. Hateful experience.
  • Wheelspinner
    Wheelspinner Posts: 6,680
    SickAsAParrot wrote:
    A butt plug

    no I didn't keep it.

    Fizik, or Selle Italia?
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  • cyberknight
    cyberknight Posts: 1,238
    Plenty of dead rabbits on the road on my commute atm , they are worse than sheep/cows for stupidity and do the dance of death right into your wheels.
    manys a time i have had to do an emergency stop to avoid getting rabbit dents on the rims .
    FCN 3/5/9
  • gbsahne001
    gbsahne001 Posts: 1,973
    dead pheasant yesterday; currently hung at work, waiting to be plucked
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  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    gbsahne wrote:
    dead pheasant yesterday; currently hung at work, waiting to be plucked

    true story, girlfriends dad run over a pheasant on a road in wales, he stops the van, chucks it in the back about 20mins later the thing "wakes up" an claws him to bits as it starts to freak out in the back of the van

    how do you know the one you found is fresh??
    Keeping it classy since '83
  • The Rookie
    The Rookie Posts: 27,812
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    oscar-j wrote:
    working nightshift on the trains,i once found an artificial leg!

    you'd have thought it would be a giveaway when he/she got up to leave and fell over,but hey ho! :lol:

    must've been drunk.
    Drunk? He was legless......

    Simon
    Currently riding a Whyte T130C, X0 drivetrain, Magura Trail brakes converted to mixed wheel size (homebuilt wheels) with 140mm Fox 34 Rhythm and RP23 suspension. 12.2Kg.
  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    The Beginner wrote:
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    oscar-j wrote:
    working nightshift on the trains,i once found an artificial leg!

    you'd have thought it would be a giveaway when he/she got up to leave and fell over,but hey ho! :lol:

    must've been drunk.
    Drunk? He was legless......

    Simon

    That was in fact the bad joke I was trying not to spoon feed people :wink:
    Chunky Cyclists need your love too! :-)
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    2011 Trek Madone 4.5
    2012 Felt F65X
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  • weedy1
    weedy1 Posts: 143
    Wallet with £120 quid in it.
    Phoned the bank off of the credit cards and gave them my number and their clients name so he could phone me to collect it which he did.
    It was just before Xmas.

    Still waiting for Kharma payoff
  • gbsahne001
    gbsahne001 Posts: 1,973
    mudcow007 wrote:
    gbsahne wrote:
    dead pheasant yesterday; currently hung at work, waiting to be plucked

    true story, girlfriends dad run over a pheasant on a road in wales, he stops the van, chucks it in the back about 20mins later the thing "wakes up" an claws him to bits as it starts to freak out in the back of the van

    how do you know the one you found is fresh??

    it was still warm when I strapped it to my saddlebag and it clearly had a broken neck
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