What Have You Lost & found 🤔

[Monkey Dog]

I was thinking about what I may have lost while riding
What have you lost whilst out n about.
On the same token, what have you found?
I found a wallet just the other week on a trail with £85.00, bank card & two driving licences, which I returned to the address on one of the licences & received a case of beer for my trouble

 

[Zimmerframe]

Lost:

My sanity. Skin. Blood. Air from the toroidal mobile storage devices.

Several thousand litres of water.

A light.

Found :

Freedom, joy, adrenalin.

The same light a year later- no longer worked though.

 

[Stu]

Lost - my mates I ride with as they are much faster, better, and experienced than me.

Found - new mates while my old mates wait for me at the bottom of the trail.

 

[RustyIron]

I lost 30 pounds.

Last month I found an almost new Garmin. Street price is $500. It took a little sleuthing, but I found the owner. He was a nice sort of bloke with an extensive collection of motorcycles. We hung out in the garage for nearly two hours bullshitting.

 

[MOTO13]

If anyone has been riding in SE Wisconsin over the past 10 years and lost an air pump, I have like 18 of them.

 

[RustyIron]

Sometimes I find rocks.
Sometimes I take the rocks.
Sometimes I let the rocks be.
The rocks are found in the Santa Ana Mountains.

I don't really know the full story behind the rocks. I suspect they're created by rider(s), because their locations are really far from where a hiker would have to park their car. I suspect they're done by a lady rider, or maybe several lady riders, because generally the artwork has a feminine flair. It also seems like chick thing to do. Or maybe I'm just a sexist pig. That's probably more like it.

If I take a rock, it will come home with me. Eventually I'll place the rock along another trail. Sometimes I'll leave the rock hundreds of miles from where I found it.

The rock in this picture is a little different. The artwork is cruder and the theme is not really consistent with the other rocks I've run across. In my mind, a chick was painting up some rocks one evening, and told her man that he needed to help her. And this is what he did. Or maybe the rock was just made by a chick who likes to smoke and drink--my kind of girl. Anyhow, this rock has been deposited elsewhere.

 

[Slymobi]

Great thread idea

 

[dthree]

Found a nice pair carbon fiber Oakleys, tried to find the owner via Craigslist with no luck. Wore them for a few years until I stepped on them.

 

[steve_sordy]

I rode over what turned out to be an Apple phone in a leather wallet. I rang "wife" and got a right bollocking on the lines of "what time do you call this, I suppose you're with her......." Which was a bit of a surprise. When I managed to get a word in, I told her that her man had lost his phone and had probably spent time looking for it and couldn't call her to tell her he'd be late etc. I told her that I would leave the phone at the trail centre bike shop. I never heard back.

I used to use a Cateye bike computer. The display unit fell off, no idea where and no point looking as it was black and quite small. The next time at that trail, I stopped in one of my usual places and there it was laid on the floor right under my bike. What it is to be a creature of habit!

I have found some good friends on the trail, some I no longer ride with, but they are not "lost".

 

[JWD]

Lost - my wedding ring! It came off with my gloves when I stopped for a break...

Found - my wedding ring! I knew where it was likely to be so a few days later I contacted some friends who I knew were on a night-ride which I couldn't go along to, "it'll probably be under the tree, you, the tree we always stop at?". The wedding ring was posted through the letterbox the next day...
I never told my wife until it was returned!

 

[Monkey Dog]

Lost - my wedding ring! It came off with my gloves when I stopped for a break...

Found - my wedding ring! I knew where it was likely to be so a few days later I contacted some friends who I knew were on a night-ride which I couldn't go along to, "it'll probably be under the tree, you, the tree we always stop at?". The wedding ring was posted through the letterbox the next day...
I never told my wife until it was returned!

I think I'd be more devastated than my Fiancée if I lost my engagement ring

 

[Monkey Dog]

Sometimes I find rocks.
Sometimes I take the rocks.
Sometimes I let the rocks be.
The rocks are found in the Santa Ana Mountains.

I don't really know the full story behind the rocks. I suspect they're created by rider(s), because their locations are really far from where a hiker would have to park their car. I suspect they're done by a lady rider, or maybe several lady riders, because generally the artwork has a feminine flair. It also seems like chick thing to do. Or maybe I'm just a sexist pig. That's probably more like it.

If I take a rock, it will come home with me. Eventually I'll place the rock along another trail. Sometimes I'll leave the rock hundreds of miles from where I found it.

The rock in this picture is a little different. The artwork is cruder and the theme is not really consistent with the other rocks I've run across. In my mind, a chick was painting up some rocks one evening, and told her man that he needed to help her. And this is what he did. Or maybe the rock was just made by a chick who likes to smoke and drink--my kind of girl. Anyhow, this rock has been deposited elsewhere.

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Must be quite cool to find those rocks

 

[ilostmypassword]

A pair or two of Okleys.

 

[Gilbo]

Found usual stuff
Mobile
Bike light
Bash guard
McDonald’s wrappers
Once found a frt wheel in a trail car park (Facebook returned that to its owner)
But the best thing I’ve found was a whole emtb,owner had snapped there chain and decided to just walk out of there. Met her about 1 mile up the trail.

 

[Mitchb]

Found a Garmin Edge 830, retail $400. It was sitting on a post at a lightly used trail entrance and I left it there. Two days later it was still there so I took it and made attempts to find the owner. There was no info in the unit, which could have been entered, I called Garmin, they couldnt help, and contacted the Park Ranger to see if anyone had reported a missing unit.

I tried, I dont feel guilty anymore.

 

[Monkey Dog]

Found a Garmin Edge 830, retail $400. It was sitting on a post at a lightly used trail entrance and I left it there. Two days later it was still there so I took it and made attempts to find the owner. There was no info in the unit, which could have been entered, I called Garmin, they couldnt help, and contacted the Park Ranger to see if anyone had reported a missing unit.

I tried, I dont feel guilty anymore.

You did all you could. People shouldn't be so careless with their possessions

 

[Giff]

I lost an Endura jacket in June at Cannock Chase....,..it was strapped onto my back pack but obviously not very well.

Great jacket, should be at that price....it was a forest green colour and I am currently without a jacket!

I went back to look for it but got lost and missed the same trail...

Reward available!

 

[SwampNut]

Lost a water bottle, haven't found anything of note outside of interesting natural items. Our trails have low traffic, and I do a lot of cross country off-trail riding.

 

[steve_sordy]

I loaded my bike into the car and set off home. On arrival I realised that I had left my front wheel behind (top of the range Mavic). I shot back to the trail centre a damn sight faster than I drove home. No wheel where I had left it. I called in at the centre bike shop and asked if anyone had handed a wheel in. "Might have done" was the reply. I knew instantly that the answer was yes and almost did cartwheels in the shop. It took another couple of minutes to convince the guy that the wheel was mine. (I'm sure he was just messing with me, err, I think). About 11 years ago.

 

[KnollyBro]

I lost my g/f's bike off the bike rack. The rack was similar to this one. The working theory is that the bike had a slot leak and the tire went flat and when I went over a bump, the bike popped out of the wheel holder . We drove back to look for it but not only was it over 20 plus 2kms, it was getting dark. I never heard it fall off the back of the rack but I never heard the end of of it from my g/f. I replace her bike and shortly after, her. I now have a MUCH better rack and am happily married to a lovely woman (who just came in the room and made sure I wrote the last part)!
I have also found countless gloves, glasses, jackets and goggles on the trail.

 

[steve_sordy]

In 2011 still very much a beginner at mtb, I accompanied a mate of mine on a route in the Peak District. The objective was to descend Cavedale. It was named that because the trail used to be (I assume) into a cave, but the cave roof had collapsed leaving a rough and steep descent. We stopped at the top and looked over the wall at the walkers scrambling up on all fours and also avoiding the stream running towards them. We removed our backpacks and had some lunch and went back to looking over the wall. At this point people with cameras and video cameras started forming a crowd. One guy said "You're not going down there? You'll kill yourself!" My mate promptly said "It's why we are here!"

Anyway, we both survived without killing ourselves. But I realised that I had left my backpack at the top of the decent! As well as the usual stuff, it had my phone, wallet and car keys in there. As I wearily started to remove surplus gear for the hike back up, my mate who was more than 20 years younger than me said "Don't bother Steve, I'll go!" I nearly kissed him!

He set off and ran up the hill until he was out of sight round the bend in the trail (he later told me that he immediately walked from that point.) He was gone ages while I had nothing to do except to wonder how on Earth I was going to resolve the situation if the backpack had gone missing. Eventually he hove into view; but he wasn't carrying my backpack!!!! He got closer and closer but I still couldn't see my backpack. Oh noooooo, it's gone!

The bastard was wearing it.

Despite the nail-biting suspense, I was very grateful to him and treated him to a cream tea in the nearest Cafe in Castleton.

 

[Giff]

I lost my g/f's bike off the bike rack. The rack was similar to this one. The working theory is that the bike had a slot leak and the tire went flat and when I went over a bump, the bike popped out of the wheel holder . We drove back to look for it but not only was it over 20 plus 2kms, it was getting dark. I never heard it fall off the back of the rack but I never heard the end of of it from my g/f. I replace her bike and shortly after, her. I now have a MUCH better rack and am happily married to a lovely woman (who just came in the room and made sure I wrote the last part)!
I have also found countless gloves, glasses, jackets and goggles on the trail.


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Did you find my jacket at Cannock Chase?? )

 

[RustyMTB]

This whistle on the south downs way. I emailed the rangers office but they didn't reply so it's sat in a drawer for a couple of years. Shame really, it looks hand made, I expect someone misses it. Maybe I should use it to scatter the clockwork riders as I blast by.

 

[Ou812]

I lost a pair of 5-10 free rider pros. Sat them on my rear bumper and forgot to put them in the truck, they were gone by the time I got home.

I found a brand new Yeti SB150 frame that I had bought and forgot about. I was living overseas and bought the frame/fork back in 2019, it was sent to my dad in the US and he put it in my storage unit. I was back in the US for the first time since 2015 last summer, was going through the storage unit and found it.

 

[Jugglematt]

on a Sunday morning ride i was really enjoying the early start, in my happy place , heading into town via our coastal cycle path .
and i found a crisp new $100 bill , that just makes a good morning excellent

 

[Geedog]

Hello, I've lost a pair of Oakleys in t,peak district, but during lockdown whilst walking my dog at chicksands, I found a set of panniers sitting in the middle of a trail, so I put them over my shoulder and thought I'd take them to the entrance of the bikepark, then i saw a chap on a bike with a rack and no panniers, I shouted "over here mate", he came I gave him them, he then opened them to make sure it was all there, on the top was his wallet, and it was rammed, absolutely rammed with red and purple notes. He said thanks and off he went. Then found a very nice horse riding crop, and then a bag of white powder! Horsey neighbour got the crop, toilet got the gear. I found a gold wedding ring at chicksands 3 weeks ago, posted on a local sight, and it was returned to the rightful owner a few days later. Which was nice.

 

[steve_sordy]

I was driving through the town centre, came to a set of traffic lights and waited. The lights went green and the car in front drove off. I saw what looked like a £10 note on the road, so I got out of the car and went to pick it up. A few car horns sounded, but as I was walking back to the car, I held the note up in both hands and gave a big grin. The car horns stopped and I got a big laugh from the car behind me.

 

[Monkey Dog]

I was driving through the town centre, came to a set of traffic lights and waited. The lights went green and the car in front drove off. I saw what looked like a £10 note on the road, so I got out of the car and went to pick it up. A few car horns sounded, but as I was walking back to the car, I held the note up in both hands and gave a big grin. The car horns stopped and I got a big laugh from the car behind me.

Steamin

 

[RustyMTB]

Hello, I've lost a pair of Oakleys in t,peak district, but during lockdown whilst walking my dog at chicksands, I found a set of panniers sitting in the middle of a trail, so I put them over my shoulder and thought I'd take them to the entrance of the bikepark, then i saw a chap on a bike with a rack and no panniers, I shouted "over here mate", he came I gave him them, he then opened them to make sure it was all there, on the top was his wallet, and it was rammed, absolutely rammed with red and purple notes. He said thanks and off he went. Then found a very nice horse riding crop, and then a bag of white powder! Horsey neighbour got the crop, toilet got the gear. I found a gold wedding ring at chicksands 3 weeks ago, posted on a local sight, and it was returned to the rightful owner a few days later. Which was nice.

This is the plot of No country for old men!