Author Topic: 'found this on a ride today'!  (Read 180616 times)

andytheflyer

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Re: 'found this on a ride today'!
« Reply #700 on: 28 April, 2020, 06:31:03 pm »
I'll have to fess up.  My shaving brush was a bit threadbare.............

Blodwyn Pig

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Re: 'found this on a ride today'!
« Reply #701 on: 29 April, 2020, 03:46:27 pm »
I'll have to fess up.  My shaving brush was a bit threadbare.............


You Shave !!!! ? :o :o

andytheflyer

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Re: 'found this on a ride today'!
« Reply #702 on: 29 April, 2020, 06:39:43 pm »
I'll have to fess up.  My shaving brush was a bit threadbare.............


You Shave !!!! ? :o :o
Every day.  You've not met my wife..........

Davef

Re: 'found this on a ride today'!
« Reply #703 on: 30 April, 2020, 10:41:17 am »



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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: 'found this on a ride today'!
« Reply #704 on: 30 April, 2020, 11:52:26 am »
Yuri Geller was here.
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

Davef

Re: 'found this on a ride today'!
« Reply #705 on: 30 April, 2020, 12:48:27 pm »
It did seem an odd place to find salad tongs, but they were handy for clearing the small build up of mud taking the road bike off road.


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Re: 'found this on a ride today'!
« Reply #706 on: 01 May, 2020, 01:16:01 pm »


A three mile long diesel-based rainbow tribute to the NHS   >:(

Blodwyn Pig

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Re: 'found this on a ride today'!
« Reply #707 on: 03 May, 2020, 05:11:57 pm »
IMG_1256 by mark tilley, on Flickr

IMG_1257 by mark tilley, on Flickr


A sheepkins bomber jacket, had to stop. ::-) . Too small for me, so I left it for some one else. ;)

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: 'found this on a ride today'!
« Reply #708 on: 03 May, 2020, 05:29:02 pm »
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

Blodwyn Pig

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Re: 'found this on a ride today'!
« Reply #709 on: 04 May, 2020, 07:11:20 am »
https://youtu.be/Pgqa3cVOxUc?t=25

Quite funny really, in bed last night I watched this with the sound off, and thought wtf! Then sometime in my dream time I remembered the lyrics .

Blodwyn Pig

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Re: 'found this on a ride today'!
« Reply #710 on: 15 June, 2020, 06:01:51 pm »
IMG_1309 by mark tilley, on Flickr

IMG_1310 by mark tilley, on Flickr


''I spy, with my little.... 

Very useful for map reading when I'm rambling

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: 'found this on a ride today'!
« Reply #711 on: 15 June, 2020, 06:42:51 pm »
Or for scanning the roads and verges so that not even the tiniest object goes unfound!
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Re: 'found this on a ride today'!
« Reply #712 on: 25 June, 2020, 07:40:38 am »
In the outskirts of Tamworth.  Worth stopping for.


Blodwyn Pig

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Re: 'found this on a ride today'!
« Reply #713 on: 25 June, 2020, 01:41:02 pm »
IMG_1268 by mark tilley, on Flickr

very useful garden implement, but a tad awkward to carry, even on 'hilda.

IMG_1267 by mark tilley, on Flickr

No damage, so I considered it had been forgotten , p'raps whilst attending to a visit,  anyway 2 hours later it was gone.

IMG_1335 by mark tilley, on Flickr

Saw these, and thought that they were well worth vehicular retrieval , later that afternoon, was thinking ideal for NO.1 daughter's upcoming swanky retro pad in Leyton, but  after photos and messages, they were deemed not suitable as they didn't stack,  a must in a small pad, no matter how swanky and retro.

Kim

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Re: 'found this on a ride today'!
« Reply #714 on: 25 June, 2020, 01:43:27 pm »
I found one of those hard hats that falls off your head and knocks people unconscious when you peer over the edge of scaffolding.  But decided it was probably a coronavirus risk, as it had clearly been recently dropped (you could tell, on account of it lying in the road without having been run over).

Re: 'found this on a ride today'!
« Reply #715 on: 25 June, 2020, 02:11:12 pm »
IMG_1335 by mark tilley, on Flickr

Saw these, and thought that they were well worth vehicular retrieval , later that afternoon, was thinking ideal for NO.1 daughter's upcoming swanky retro pad in Leyton, but  after photos and messages, they were deemed not suitable as they didn't stack,  a must in a small pad, no matter how swanky and retro.


They would have been handy, at least the legs.

Re: 'found this on a ride today'!
« Reply #716 on: 29 June, 2020, 11:33:21 am »
I found a dead badger early this morning which set me wondering if the folk here know of the Mammal Society app for reporting mammals seen dead or alive.
It takes a gps fix, you can add a photo and it helps the society as data for finding what lives where and in what quantity.

It is much better than the old system. I once found some 'otter' scat by a stream. I phoned and reported it to the area society rep. "Have you smelt it?", he asked.
"No", says I, "should I?"
"Please, it helps us to identify." I took a long, deep sniff and the smell nearly took the top of my head off.
I could hear him laughing down the phone, "I can tell from your reaction that it is mink not otter."
I won't fall for that one again!
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Re: 'found this on a ride today'!
« Reply #717 on: 02 August, 2020, 04:48:03 pm »
IMG_bidon by a oxon, on Flickr

On the way to Churchill in Cotswolds - left it.   ;)
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Blodwyn Pig

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Re: 'found this on a ride today'!
« Reply #718 on: 18 August, 2020, 07:57:46 pm »
IMG_1389 by mark tilley, on Flickr

IMG_1390 by mark tilley, on Flickr

already dibbed by a 9 yo. ::-)

Pingu

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Re: 'found this on a ride today'!
« Reply #719 on: 18 August, 2020, 11:27:59 pm »
You found the Brexit bonus  :thumbsup:

Mr Larrington

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Re: 'found this on a ride today'!
« Reply #720 on: 23 August, 2020, 11:20:49 am »
Disgraced former International Development minister Piggi Patel's Arrest-o-Bots will be round shortly to nick you for trading in an endangered species and Grand Theft Unicorn.
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Re: 'found this on a ride today'!
« Reply #721 on: 05 October, 2020, 03:59:55 pm »

Maybe not in the spirit of this thread.....

As a resident of Birmingham, my first thought was that you were showing us a patch of tarmac that nobody had parked a car on.  Then I spotted the filename and looked closer.
http://www.malin.me.uk/misc/n2o.JPG might be easier.

I've been asked for an explanation of what I found. It's a large quantity of empty nitrous oxide cartridges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreational_use_of_nitrous_oxide
Today:-

A couple of miles from the previous photo. Technically on a dog walk, and not such a good photo, and not photographed in situ, a few more abandoned canisters, and a dispenser, which contained an empty canister.

The dispenser is turned aluminium, with a brass spike to pierce the top of the canister when the two halves are fully screwed together. There's a ridge to hold the balloon in place, and vent holes to let the gas into the balloon. The sides are knurled for grip, and I think that the O-rings on the outside are just to stop the knurling scratch a flat surface that it is laid on, or to stop it rattling when in a glove box.

Yesterday, near where the dispenser was found, I found a broken and wet cardboard box and about a dozen full canisters. It looks like one of the local car drivers was abandoning his stash, within about 1/4 of a mile of two incidents where buildings (that didn't have hi-vis, road tax or car insurance) jumped out in front of cars in the last few years.
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Blodwyn Pig

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Re: 'found this on a ride today'!
« Reply #722 on: 10 October, 2020, 01:15:11 pm »
IMG_1459 by mark tilley, on Flickr

IMG_1460 by mark tilley, on Flickr

IMG_1461 by mark tilley, on Flickr

Most useful BUT missing the most useful 10mm/13mm.............bugga...................might go back and have a good look around sometime.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/bahco-s4rm-3t-ratchet-spanner-set-3-pieces/67645

^^^ here they are at screwfix... :)

ps, just realised they are double sided as well, each spanner has 4 sizes, have to check exactly what sizes they are next time I venture t'shed.
Soooo,  I'm missing the wee one, 8/9/10/11mm, about £17 to buy on its own.

Re: 'found this on a ride today'!
« Reply #723 on: 10 October, 2020, 02:14:37 pm »
Are you just lucky or do you run the divining rods over a map and go for a ride to where they twitched?

All I find is roadkill.
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Paul

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Re: 'found this on a ride today'!
« Reply #724 on: 10 October, 2020, 10:24:01 pm »
Roadkill?

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