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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: bad Chad on January 13, 2017, 05:00:19 PM
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Okay, this it only for riding a motorcycle, if it was in your truck, car, I don't want it here.
What is the coolest thing you found on the road while out roustabouting? I have found several rather pedestrian tools, but who hasn't; last year I ran across an almost brand new pair of good quality armored leather riding gloves! The way they were laying, in the middle of a section of road marked by yellow lines, not to ride on, it was clear a bike with gloves loosely bunged on road through the turn lane and lost the gloves. I then on a leisurely ride came upon first one, then another, some 20 feet apart. I thought, "Hey, those are gloves, maybe there worth checking out, no traffic, think I'll double back."
Surly some of you can beat my find. So lets hear it, what have you found. It's January for God sakes, we have to get through this somehow!
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I found a REALLY big salamander. I put it in the grass as it would be a shame to see it splatter.
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Surly
C'mon, Chad.. it's Shirley.
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On that note [Aaron D.], I did the same with a huge tarantula.
Once while taking a roadside bio break I walked about fifty feet out into the brush, and there at my destination was an old pair of aviator goggles. The fabric and straps were rotted away but the frame was brass and the lenses were intact. I cut sheepskin for the fabric and found rubber straps to swap.
Vaguely related thread for reference:
http://wildguzzi.com/forum/index.php?topic=69446.30
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Swim fins
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I forgot I did that with a big Snaper at the IL rally! It was on the road, and I thought sure enough some azzwhip is going to run it over. I turned back, when I got their a Game and Fish warden was already on the seen, trying to lure the big guy off the road, I felt good about how my Tax money was being used!
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Full-grown black timber wolf, in Jasper National Park on the Yellowhead Highway. Crossed in front of me, stopped to watch me go by then melted into the trees.
A pair of yearling grizzlies that ran straight across my path - I ended up catching the second one on the butt with my right foot as I avoided them. (Same trip as the wolf, 2003 heading from Edmonton to Hyder AK.) All I could think of was what it would be like, trying to pick up the bike with a mad mama bear heading for me; good thing i just twisted my ankle a bit. This was on the road in to Hyder, from Meziadin Junction on the 'alternate Al-Can' (BC 37).
A road gator. No, not a thrown tire casing, an actual alligator - and it wasn't Florida or Louisiana. I was riding southeast of San Antonio and came upon this 8-10 foot example of left-over pre-history just lying in the middle of the road catching some rays. It wasn't that close to the coast, but these beasts sometimes spend the winter near the cooling outlets for power plants.
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As I was riding west out of Cody WT into Yellowstone in 2009, I was riding toward the western gate. Heading uphill on the venerable R100GS, coming down the oncoming lane was a buffalo. I decided 'I'm not stopping.' I just hope he/she knows the rules of the road. Amazingly, the buffalo stayed in his 'lane' and I stayed in mine.
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Emu in the middle of the road in North Georgia.
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Chad , does it need to be something that can be taken home ? I mean like , Emus and Wolves might be kinda tough to stuff in a saddlebag :shocked:
Dusty
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Maybe not the coolest but it was wonderful at the time. In my early days of riding wearing a 3/4 helmet on a windy day I looked back over my shoulder at highway speeds and my near new prescription sunglasses left me. By the time I got stopped and returned to the spot a number of cars had passed and their were my glasses in the middle of the lane in perfect shape untouched.
GliderJohn
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Okay, this it only for riding a motorcycle, if it was in your truck, car, I don't want it here.
How about on my bicycle? I found a nice smallish pair of Channellock style Craftsman pliers. They have nicely designed jaws for gripping, and for holding a hex nut without gouging it. Also the joint is locked in position with a spring loaded button so they can't slip to a different setting. Oh, and the handles have a firm foam rubber coating on them. And they have an attractive red band on each handle. And they're made in Germany.
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many turtles and a 5' Carpenters level..
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A moose!
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Back in the seventies I had a 350cc Montgomery Wards Riverside (yeah, really). The throttle cable broke while riding on the interstate near Hartford one day. I had a pair of pliers in the tool kit but 2 pairs of pliers would have made it possible to jury rig the throttle cable and get going again. There, to my amazement, in the gravel on the shoulder was a pair of slip-joint pliers (must've fallen from Heaven). I got the bike going and made it to work on time. I still have those pliers to this day.
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A nice series of curves. Yes, I live in the flat part of the country, so easily amused.
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As I was riding west out of Cody WT into Yellowstone in 2009, I was riding toward the western gate. Heading uphill on the venerable R100GS, coming down the oncoming lane was a buffalo. I decided 'I'm not stopping.' I just hope he/she knows the rules of the road. Amazingly, the buffalo stayed in his 'lane' and I stayed in mine.
Apparently Yellowstone Buffalo know the rules of the road. Seen in 2015.
(http://thumb.ibb.co/bGqNrF/bison.jpg) (http://ibb.co/bGqNrF)
I have had numerous animal encounters including black bears in Yellowstone and northern Pennsylvania but the oddest was seeing an Ostrich or Emu running through a cornfield in western New York. I suspect it escaped from one of the local farms that raise these birds.
Pete
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Apparently there is no restriction on the size or ability to haul it home . In light of that , there was a llama in Arkansas , a herd of pet goats in Oklahoma , and a brunette au naturale near Lake Travis in Texas :shocked: No interest in taking the first two home , but the third find , well , I did try . I mean , she seemed lost and in need of rescuing , having wandered at least 100 FT from the rest of her herd frolicking in the water at Hippie Hollow . Poor thing , she just looked so hungry :laugh:
Dusty
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Couple of months ago I found a wallet in the road. Looked up the address and returned it.
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Apparently Yellowstone Buffalo know the rules of the road. Seen in 2015.
(http://thumb.ibb.co/bGqNrF/bison.jpg) (http://ibb.co/bGqNrF)
I saw a lot jackasses in the road in Custer Park, South Dakota. But those are actually pretty common, even around Atlanta Georgia, if you know what I mean.
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Found at sun breakfast, Marcus dairy, one large cast aluminum fire hydrant wrench
A cork that fit my missing r60 carb bottom
Wolf loping along, casually crosses, all at walking pace, Adirondacks
Black bear, hi noon, vt rt 100
A Loon convention in Rangely Maine
The road goes on forever..
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Three bull elk one kept snorting at me as I went by in Rocky Mountain National Park
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Ice?
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Both in the Chiricahua Mts. of SE AZ many years ago: 4 foot long Mojave rattlesnake sunning in the middle of the road; I got off the bike and cautiously moved it off of the road. Road-killed javelina; thought about cutting off the head to have skull as a specimen (I'm a retired biology professor), but my girlfriend convinced me to just move the carcass off the road.
Jon
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Had a Jaguar run in front of wife and I last year in San Blas Nayarit Mexico last year. Violated my one rule in mexico, DON'T RIDE AFTER DARK.
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I found this old Ford on a dirt road. I took a souvenir - the hood badge.
(http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m492/timscudder/Mammoth%20July%202015/Mammoth%20May%202016/IMG_4941.jpg) (http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/timscudder/media/Mammoth%20July%202015/Mammoth%20May%202016/IMG_4941.jpg.html)
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Saw a little white dog standing on the back of a donkey which was in some ones front yard. The house actually had 3 donkeys in the yard. Only one canine rider though.
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Going home from an Oklahoma rally in early 80's found a couple puppies some lower life form abandoned in a wayside rest. I was trying to stuff them in my 'stitch coat when a family pulled up in a motor home . Problem solved, happy kids!
The creepiest I've ever witnessed was two pairs of shoes on the side of the highway. It was a busy north- south along the Texas& Loisiana border. At home in Shreveport that evening on the news they said there had been a hit and run where someone had hit an elderly couple who walked there. Knocked them right out of their shoes into the ditch where they died. Showed the shoes, two pair, the ones I saw. I feel sad when I think of the old couple in the ditch as I rode by. When I see shoes on road I remember.
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A duck lay dying on a busy intersection. Gathered around it, several ducks refused to yield to human traffic. They quacked loudly, flapping wings and acting agitated. The driver ahead of me plowed across the intersection, narrowly missing the small flock, scattering them initially but they quickly returned to their wounded partner. Parking my bike on the road with hazards flashing, forcing those behind me to stop, I dismounted and approached to ducks. The wounded duck was clearly dying, but still conscious. I lifted up the duck and carried it to a grassy embankment on the side of the road. The duck assembly followed in my footsteps. He died as I laid him on the soft grass. As I walked back onto the road and mounted my bike, the small duck family surrounded their dearly departed, touched him with beaks, rubbing feathers, certainly grieving. And after a minute or two, they flew off into the sky.
That was the coolest thing I ever saw while riding.
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A duck lay dying on a busy intersection. Gathered around it, several ducks refused to yield to human traffic. They quacked loudly, flapping wings and acting agitated. The driver ahead of me plowed across the intersection, narrowly missing the small flock, scattering them initially but they quickly returned to their wounded partner. Parking my bike on the road with hazards flashing, forcing those behind me to stop, I dismounted and approached to ducks. The wounded duck was clearly dying, but still conscious. I lifted up the duck and carried it to a grassy embankment on the side of the road. The duck assembly followed in my footsteps. He died as I laid him on the soft grass. As I walked back onto the road and mounted my bike, the small duck family surrounded their dearly departed, touched him with beaks, rubbing feathers, certainly grieving. And after a minute or two, they flew off into the sky.
Thanks, touching story.
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John and Vince. , thanks , just thanks :bow:
Dusty
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1/4 Ct. diamond earring .
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Wow, that dying duck story is powerful.
But back to the purpose of the thread. Big animals on the road are cool, as long as you don't come in contact, but lets stick with things found and taken home.
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Sorry Chad , too late :laugh:
Dusty
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I found a nice flashlight at an intersection while on my motorcycle once. Too bad that things found while driving a cage don't count, because my truck broke down hours from the nearest town in Texas and I found an old revolver that just had the tip of the barrel sticking out of the dried mud. It had obviously been there for a long time.
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Back when I was a sophomore in high school, I lost my billfold while racing motocross. It was found 21 years later by my brother-in-law's father, working with a surveying crew. What are the chances?
Randy
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A potato.
I found it in the chute of a potato truck, in front of me at a light, when I was 16. I picked it out of the chute, put it in my pocket and rode to the place I worked. Then I wrapped it in foil, and cooked it in the trash barrel out back. One of the best potatoes I've ever eaten.
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Not really the "coolest" thing to come across, but I was traveling south into Mexico, Juarez to Chihuahua.
Long lonely road where you can see for miles, and a black dot in the distance got bigger and bigger.
Figured it for a broke down vehicle on the side of the road.
It turns out to be an extremely bloated DEAD HORSE! Ay,caramba!!
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This was kinda 😎 cool
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Back when I was a sophomore in high school, I lost my billfold while racing motocross. It was found 21 years later by my brother-in-law's father, working with a surveying crew. What are the chances?
Randy
"Sophomore" a term I hear all the time on TV shows but it is not one that is used in NZ. What the hell is a sophomore ?
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"Sophomore" a term I hear all the time on TV shows but it is not one that is used in NZ. What the hell is a sophomore ?
A second year student , in high school or college .
Dusty
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A second year student , in high school or college .
Dusty
Thanks Dusty. Why does anyone bother having a special name for them rather than just "2nd year"
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Found a Moa!
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Nah. Just kidding. The Maori ate the last of them years ago. (though it's not beyond the bounds of possibility that some still exist somewhere)
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200 km South of Nordkapp 500 or so North of the Arctic Circle, an old German guy "trekker Willis" on a restored tractor towing a caravan, driving at 40 kph 4,000 km from Spain to Nordkapp. I posted a video of that trip on a BMW on you tube titled "Pete Hughes Europe trip 2015" he's on that about 30% through part two.
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Thanks Dusty. Why does anyone bother having a special name for them rather than just "2nd year"
John , explaining why the English language varies so much from country to country and even county to county would take a tome equivalent to War and Peace . In the states we use the terms freshman, sophomore , junior , and senior to designate 1st thru 4th year students . No idea why . Reading Bill Bryson's book on the English language did not reveal anything on the subject .
Dusty
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A potato.
I found it in the chute of a potato truck, in front of me at a light, when I was 16. I picked it out of the chute, put it in my pocket and rode to the place I worked. Then I wrapped it in foil, and cooked it in the trash barrel out back. One of the best potatoes I've ever eaten.
Why is that, I wonder? A couple times over the years when I've ridden my bicycle past a field of ripe corn, I've stopped and eaten an ear. Again, extra tasty.
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I found a girl wandering down the road. She could not speak. She pointed down the road where she wanted to go which was opposite the Vasa Children's home. I tried to get her to ride on the bike but she wouldn't so I walked with her back to the home, I didn't want her to get hit by a truck or abducted. She was about 12 and appeared developmentally disabled. When we got to the compound we were mobbed by about thirty kids of all ages as I searched for someone with keys, which is the best way to tell the difference between clients and staff. After the kids got used to me being there I was struck by the impression of them being isolated and lonely. Finally a woman with keys appeared and I explained I was bringing this girl back to where I assumed she came from. The woman said yes she was a new one and she was desperate to go back to someplace. It took awhile to say goodbye to all my new friends as I left and thought I should go back and visit those kids. They seemed so lonely, living in a place that could only feed and house them but I never have gone back. I'm grateful for the family I had growing up, dis functional as it was.
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I found a fanny pack en route to work one day. Inside were a cell phone, and some meds and a reciept for a tribal doctor's office visit. Between the phone and the tribal papers, I located the owner. I agreed to meet him at a parking lot close to home to return his stuff. I was looking for the stereotypical Native American. Turned out to be a ginger Irishman, lol. Ya never know....... :wink:
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A humongous snapping turtle in the middle of the road. I picked up a large stick to move it and it went after that sick with a vengeance. It was almost to big to move with a stick. I need a freaking shovel.
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Riding through Mancos Colorado, there is an old boy who has a dog that rides a cow.(http://willowtail.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/crash.jpg)
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John , explaining why the English language varies so much from country to country and even county to county would take a tome equivalent to War and Peace . In the states we use the terms freshman, sophomore , junior , and senior to designate 1st thru 4th year students . No idea why . Reading Bill Bryson's book on the English language did not reveal anything on the subject .
Dusty
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/09/sobriquets-for-scholars/
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John A
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Cell phones, several. Tools, gloves, slick spots, dead animal, live animal, money and pallet that was airborne after the truck in front of me hit it.
The strangest was the mom deer ran in front of me and I stopped to see what was following. A 2 foot tall baby walked out and started sniffing the front tire. Mom was standing in the field stomping and snorting. I had to get off the bike and push the baby across the road.
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I stop for bungee cords when it's safe to do so. I have quite a fine collection
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I found this old Ford on a dirt road. I took a souvenir - the hood badge.
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Forget the hood badge. I need the whole body for my '62. Where was that truck!!
Tom
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http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/09/sobriquets-for-scholars/
That certainly answered the question. Thanks Shorty.
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Headed for work and about 1.5 miles from the house next to the hwy. I spotted a brand new pair of 4-wheeler ramps, turned around and got the truck so I could pick them up. Must have fallen out of a oil johnny's truck.
The worst thing that found me was a ninja rabbit jumping out of a ditch, cleanly broke the rear crash bar bolt then destroyed my Calvin's saddlebag.
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Does a lunar eclipse count?
Chased one across the Texas panhandle one morning in 1999.
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Forget the hood badge. I need the whole body for my '62. Where was that truck!!
Tom
PM sent. That truck is almost certainly under snow right now.
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At the Raccoon Valley a few years back (Bridgeton, Indiana) on a back road between Bridgeton and Rosedale? there was a tree growing in the middle of the road. I had to stop I was amazed. Pavement curved around both sides but they never pulled up the tree!
I wonder if that tree is still there.
Wil B.
Broadview, IL
'91 Nighthawk
'71 Guzzi Ambassador
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The worst thing that found me was a ninja rabbit jumping out of a ditch, cleanly broke the rear crash bar bolt then destroyed my Calvin's saddlebag.
Here, let me fix that for you - " The worst thing that found me was a kamakazi rabbit " ... Ninja rabbits are all around us, but we never see them.
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During college I worked at a farm store in Oklahoma. There was a cowboy came in ever few days for stuff. He drove a flatbed truck piled with all sorts of tools, oil cans, ag stuff, and anything you could think of,owned by the farmer he worked for. He was a real Dukes of Hazard type of guy, drove up like a maniac, dust flying, talked loud, joking and stuff. Ye Haw....We said you could about make a living driving behind him picking up stuff that fell off of that truck.
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My wallet.
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My Wife! Pulled into an Oregon State Park beach access lot while riding down 101 to California. Our eyes met from a few parking spots away. After a few minutes, she came up and introduced herself. We talked for awhile and I asked her if she new of any camp sites heading south. She said, "no, but I've got 40 acres and a guest cabin your welcome to stay in." The next thing she said that blew me away was, "I'd really like a ride on your motorcycle".
She is definitely the coolest thing!
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Mr. Breeze, if that's a true story, you *totally* win the prize. And congrats to you and your wife. That's
terrific.
The best things I ever found on the road were various turtles.
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Mr. Breeze, if that's a true story, you *totally* win the prize. And congrats to you and your wife. That's
terrific.
The best things I ever found on the road were various turtles.
:1: :1: :1: if it's true!
Tom
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Ice.
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Mr. Breeze, if that's a true story, you *totally* win the prize. And congrats to you and your wife. That's
terrific.
The best things I ever found on the road were various turtles.
True story indeed, guys! I've somehow been blessed beyond my wildest dreams!