Finders keepers...almost.

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Rick Onanian said:

What kind of stuff do you find when riding?

I found a Jimmy Buffet cd in good condition last year. I
found lots of other stuff too, but I don't remember what.

Today, I found specialized 700x23c folding tire (big cut
in it, didn't bother to take it), a screwdriver (was too
busy enjoying the ride to take it), and one of those silly
mini-motor-scooters abandoned in a drainage ditch. I went
back in the truck to get it, thinking maybe with my
girlfriend on that, I'd get to do some bicycling on
Sundays...but it was gone, and there was a cop there
investigating. Oh well.
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On my way to a garage-sale hunt with a friend (where I found
lots of stuff, but it doesn't count because I was looking
for it), I found a beautiful piece of rig hardware about a
foot long: two large hooks, each threaded into opposite ends
of a yoke that held them together. So you could turn the
yoke to adjust the tension in whatever you held together
with the hooks.

I'm sure there's a generic name for this thing, but it
escapes me.

On my last off-road ride I found a complete bicycle, which I
later dragged home with the car.

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Quoted message said:

What kind of stuff do you find when riding?

I never find anything but beer cans and discarded socks.
Lots of socks. Don't understand why....

Sat, 15 May 2004 16:10:51 -0700,
<[email hidden]>,

Ryan Cousineau said:

I'm sure there's a generic name for this thing, but it
escapes me.

Turnbuckle.

Quoted message said:

On my last off-road ride I found a complete bicycle, which
I later dragged home with the car.

If you'd taken off the front wheel it would've fit inside.
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Zoot Katz said:

Sat, 15 May 2004 16:10:51 -0700, <rcousine-
[email hidden]>, Ryan Cousineau

Quoted message said:

I'm sure there's a generic name for this thing, but it
escapes me.

Turnbuckle.

Likely part of a clothesline, which I guess are now becoming
historical artifacts.

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Gooserider said:

"Rick Onanian" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

What kind of stuff do you find when riding?

I never find anything but beer cans and discarded socks.
Lots of socks. Don't understand why....

Over the winter I was spotting lots of single gloves lying
on the streets. Didn't pick any up, though.

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In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

What kind of stuff do you find when riding?

I found a Jimmy Buffet cd in good condition last year. I
found lots of other stuff too, but I don't remember what.

Today, I found specialized 700x23c folding tire (big cut
in it, didn't bother to take it), a screwdriver (was too
busy enjoying the ride to take it), and one of those silly
mini-motor-scooters

I wonder if that was the same screwdriver I saw today. Don't
remember exactly where, but it somewhere on my loop of Rt 2
to Boston Neck Rd to home.

Quoted message said:

abandoned in a drainage ditch. I went back in the truck to
get it, thinking maybe with my girlfriend on that, I'd get
to do some bicycling on Sundays...but it was gone, and
there was a cop there investigating. Oh well.

Probably stolen.

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[email hidden] says...

...

Quoted message said:

On my way to a garage-sale hunt with a friend (where I
found lots of stuff, but it doesn't count because I was
looking for it), I found a beautiful piece of rig hardware
about a foot long: two large hooks, each threaded into
opposite ends of a yoke that held them together. So you
could turn the yoke to adjust the tension in whatever you
held together with the hooks.

I'm sure there's a generic name for this thing, but it
escapes me.

"Turnbuckle", if I'm reading your description correctly.

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Rick Onanian said:

What kind of stuff do you find when riding?

I find tools. Or rather, of the stuff I find, tools are what
I stop to pick up. Screwdrivers, vise grips, wrenches, a
hammer, etc etc.

My best find was a complete socket set. It was on a Bike to
Work Day, and a newspaper reporter was to photograph me on
the route, then interview me at work at 9 AM.

So I'm biking along a busy road and found a socket. Nearby
was another. And a third. Pretty soon, I'd scrambled around
and located the entire set, the ratchet handle, extension
bar and case. And I still made the interview right on time!

My worst near miss was on a short camping tour with a good
friend. Naturally, it started raining overnight, so in the
morning I was riding along into the rain with my friend
behind me. I missed it, but he stopped to pick up a
perfectly new Leatherman tool with it's belt sheath, worth
something like $75. <sigh>

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In article <[email hidden]>,

(Tom Keats) said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Zoot Katz said:

Sat, 15 May 2004 16:10:51 -0700, <rcousine-
[email hidden]>, Ryan Cousineau

Quoted message said:

I'm sure there's a generic name for this thing, but it
escapes me.

Turnbuckle.

Likely part of a clothesline, which I guess are now
becoming historical artifacts.

Okay, yes, that's the right thing:

techsavvy.com082rhOpen ↗
/chf07.gif

But the turnbuckle I'm talking about (I have some for my
clothesline, so I know the scale you're thinking of) is big.
The hooks are about 5 cm across, and the threaded shafts are
about 7 mm in diameter.

This thing is heavy-duty: think of holding The Friendly
Giant's clothesline, and you're in the right region.

-RjC.

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In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

(Tom Keats) said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Zoot Katz said:

Sat, 15 May 2004 16:10:51 -0700, <rcousine-
[email hidden]>, Ryan Cousineau
<[email hidden]> wrote:

>
>I'm sure there's a generic name for this thing, but it
>escapes me.

Turnbuckle.

Likely part of a clothesline, which I guess are now
becoming historical artifacts.

Okay, yes, that's the right thing:

techsavvy.comcOpen ↗
hf07.gif

But the turnbuckle I'm talking about (I have some for my
clothesline, so I know the scale you're thinking of) is
big. The hooks are about 5 cm across, and the threaded
shafts are about 7 mm in diameter.

This thing is heavy-duty: think of holding The Friendly
Giant's clothesline, and you're in the right region.

Might have dropped off a towtruck or semi-trailer truck;
they use big ones for securing their loads.

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<< I found a Jimmy Buffet cd in good condition last year. >>

You mean it was shattered in a zillion pieces?

Ryan Cousineau said:

This thing is heavy-duty: think of holding The Friendly
Giant's clothesline, and you're in the right region.

But what would Chalo's clothesline holder be doing in
Vancouver?

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Frank Krygowski said:

Rick Onanian said:

What kind of stuff do you find when riding?

I find tools. Or rather, of the stuff I find, tools are
what I stop to pick up. Screwdrivers, vise grips,
wrenches, a hammer, etc etc.

My best find was a complete socket set. It was on a Bike
to Work Day, and a newspaper reporter was to photograph me
on the route, then interview me at work at 9 AM.

So I'm biking along a busy road and found a socket. Nearby
was another. And a third. Pretty soon, I'd scrambled
around and located the entire set, the ratchet handle,
extension bar and case. And I still made the interview
right on time!

My worst near miss was on a short camping tour with a good
friend. Naturally, it started raining overnight, so in the
morning I was riding along into the rain with my friend
behind me. I missed it, but he stopped to pick up a
perfectly new Leatherman tool with it's belt sheath, worth
something like $75. <sigh>

I found a near-new Gerber tool. Lots of sockets. Money --
mostly change, but one $10 bill. A few tools, including a
small real Channellock plier. A wallet missing only the
money -- I tracked down the owner through his insurance
card. A purse that had been lying out in a rainstorm for a
while -- no money, just stuff. Found the owner of that one
too. A tiny living Christmas tree, which was a real [censored] to
get home -- I fastened it with a little bungee net between
my little trunk bag and my saddle. Yes, it's growing --
stupid previous owner apparently didn't know it was alive
and never watered it.

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David Kerber ns_dkerber@ns_ids.net said:

Quoted message said:

techsavvy.comcOpen ↗
hf07.gif

But the turnbuckle I'm talking about (I have some for my
clothesline, so I know the scale you're thinking of) is
big. The hooks are about 5 cm across, and the threaded
shafts are about 7 mm in diameter.

This thing is heavy-duty: think of holding The Friendly
Giant's clothesline, and you're in the right region.

Might have dropped off a towtruck or semi-trailer truck;
they use big ones for securing their loads.

It surely did. I found it on a busy road, and immediately
identified it as the misplaced property of a trucker.

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Mazzoleni Fan Club

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I found a Jimmy Buffet cd in good condition last
year. I found lots of other stuff too, but I don't
remember what.

I find too much stuff on my weekend rides.

Two weekends ago it was "junk day" in the 'hood. This is
where people are permitted to put out large volume junk that
the garbage men will not normally take. This includes
appliances, furniture, etc. and bicycles. I must have seen
100 discarded bikes in the course of a 3 hour ride without
even trying. The vast majority of these were Schwinns,
Huffys, Murrays, Infinitys, Dunlops, Mongooses etc. that saw
75 miles before they fell apart and then transformed into
rust, but there were a few worthwhile finds. Anyway, there
were so many bikes that my pal Rob and I had to split up to
divide and conquer.

I found and marked out 3 bikes for recovery. One was an
Apollo road bike frame that is surprisingly nice. I normally
pass by Nishiki's, Norco's, Apollo's etc. but it had Shimano
600 components and was made from Tange Champion tubing. So I
had to rescue it. Very light frame with nice cast dropouts.

2 of the bikes were older but decent quality mountain
bikes. One of them was almost complete, and in excellent
condition. I'll be giving this one away to someone needy at
work this week.

Rob did well: he found a complete late 80's Cramerotti road
bike in his size in the high-rent area. It was all Columbus
SLX tubing, with all Campagnolo components. Chorus crankset,
Record brakes, and nice wheels with Record hubs. The
homeowner had also conveniently left a spare pair of
Campagnolo wheels on the curb. The wheels had Conti Sprinter
tubulars is good shape.

BTW: Is a "Rene Herse" a good bike?

Unfortunately my garage has too many bikes again.

Rick Onanian asked:

Quoted message said:

What kind of stuff do you find when riding?

On my daily commute to work, I have found some pretty good
swag. Some of those that stand out in memory are: a 15mm
spanner, several quarter-inch drive sockets, a half-dozen
CDs in playable condition, a number of packaged food items,
and a live .45ACP round.

Tom Keats said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Zoot

Katz said:

Sat, 15 May 2004 16:10:51 -0700, <rcousine-
[email hidden]>, Ryan Cousineau

Quoted message said:

I'm sure there's a generic name for this thing, but it
escapes me.

Turnbuckle.

Likely part of a clothesline, which I guess are now
becoming historical artifacts.

Not in this household! I put up one of those folding square
clotheslines when the electric companies were jumping their
prices and gouging the public, and I was impressed with the
savings on the electic bill!

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Quoted message said:

Tom Keats said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Zoot

Katz said:

Sat, 15 May 2004 16:10:51 -0700, <rcousine-
[email hidden]>, Ryan Cousineau
<[email hidden]> wrote:

>
>I'm sure there's a generic name for this thing, but it
>escapes me.

Turnbuckle.

Likely part of a clothesline, which I guess are now
becoming historical artifacts.

Not in this household! I put up one of those folding
square clotheslines when the electric companies were
jumping their prices and gouging the public, and I was
impressed with the savings on the electic bill!

Yes, the solar powered clothes drier out there is free and
readily available. Well, when it isn't raining. Another way
to conserve.

I hear solar UV has an antibacterial effect.

I use a clothesline, too. Sometimes I worry about birds
pooping on my laundry, but it's never happened. I guess
they're respectful.

cheers, Tom

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Sun, 16 May 2004 05:34:45 GMT, <V3Dpc.468456$Pk3.283344@pd7tw1no>,

Dave Mayer said:

BTW: Is a "Rene Herse" a good bike?

Let's say it's a very desirable bicycle among collectors.

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