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. . last two rides i've been carting around a Batman graphic novel in my Camelbak, that I forgot i'd put in there when I popped to my Brothers' a week Sunday gone. . .
Hora 😀
+1 Hora
swimming goggles.. I dont swim , they are not mine and I cannot explain it
TV remote control and a Rosie and Jim video
My youngest once packed them for me 🙂
At SITS this weekend - found my daughters dummy in my pocket when I was about 10 mins into a lap. Luckily she didn't notice it was gone.
Hands up everyone else who is carrying around a mech hanger for a bike they no longer own, but not for the bike they're riding.
I carried around an inner tube with a schraeder valve for a while, every single wheelset I own now is presta. OK, that doesn't sound too bad but you should see the size of this tube! It's a big Panaracer DH number, about 6 times the bulk of my normal tubes.
Not my mates wheels. We packed my bike, my wheels, his frame. Left his wheels at the bottom of the drive....
Not quite answering the thread.....
TV remote control
+1
Also a change of work clothes (shirt, trousers, pants and socks) That I had packed for commuting one day. Wasn't much used to me while I was riding round Glentress
The spare innertube.... for the babys pushchair. And yes i did puncture, 10 minutes into the ride. You can imagine the laughter when i pulled out my spare.
For about a year my mate carried this big, heavy rucksack on every Sunday spin out; winter through summer and into summer again. One day I asked him what was in it. He didn't know as he always used my kit, right down to my water or a drink at a cafe. He just brought the bag out of habit. So we emptied it out - two, twelve inch adjustable spanners at the bottom. And that was it.
And in the spirit of not answering the OP, once drove 5 hours to Wales to go camping. No tent poles in the bag, and £20 between us for the week.
Once took my SLR and remote flash setup for a nice ride, I'd taken the memory car out to download the previous pics onto the PC and forgotten to put it back in the camera.
A massive Nemo sticker (finding Nemo film) stuck to the front of my helmet, by my 2 year old daughter just before I went of long road ride in france, rushed out door chucking helmet on so didn't notice it till I got back.
Had been wondering why I was getting funny looks 😳
I have never been riding by mistake. It was always deliberate.
Last week, while doing a regular weekly ride, I helped a mate out, who was struggling, by carrying his huge rucksack that he had brought along.
No wonder he was struggling it weighed a ton!
When we got back to his car, he thanked me, then procceded to open his ruck sack and took out a complete change of cloths to change into, including shoes, fleece, shirt, towel, jacket, work paperwork, books, etc.
We all stood for a second stunned in sweaty silence.....then alltogether said 'why did you not leave that lot in the car'?
A very clever banker in the city, but admits himself, that he has no common sence.
[sorry Ric, if you are reading this, see you Wednesday ;-)]
Some cheese! It was in the same type of bag as my sandwiches and I picked it up by mistake! 🙂
Likewise with the cheese. I took a chunk out with me thinking it was some homemade choccy flapjack. I ate it anyway; not good after two hours in a hot pack...
went for a bivvy last summer whilst working at bikevillage. as i was cooking dinner, one of the guides (huw) packed some kit up for me, including a sleeping bag.
off i trot, got to the bivvy spot around 11pm, and pulled out sam's son's sleeping bag. he's 5. it came up to my waist.
for some reason, i didn't even think to make huw sleep in it!
Love the comedy first response!
A few of my mates are daft, does that count ?
Found a bottle of Avon aftershave in my panniers the other day. Don't know who it belongs to, how it got there or how long it's been there.
:/
not me but on a tour i did with a mate in NZ he had a 12 inch adjustable spanner and a chainwhip in case anything happened to his cassette/wheel. unfortunately as we found when we needed it he had no cassette tool...
Doing the south downs way in a day last year. One mate was complaining about the weight of his back pack. We stopped for a pincture and opened hi pack. He had a 12inch spanner cassette locking tool and a pair of chain whips when we aske him exactly what he was intending to repair with that lot, he didnt know.
Erstwhile Camelbak dweller, the shock pump. And 26" tubes.
Despite riding a 29er with rigid forks for the last four months.
1kg of rock that I'd found ontop of Hellvelyn.
Still got it.
Another bike frame. Went to the shop to pick it up after having the BB threads chased, then met a mate who was off for a pootle so I went along, carrying said frame on my shoulder.
Did 30 miles like that...
3 litres of Export.
I meant to take it, the mistake was the decision to take it.
The housephone, didn't work when I needed .Lots of nice messages on mopbile when I got home asking where the f..... I had got to when I lost track of buddies
I wrapped a small alien in a white blanket and put it in my front basket once. That was embarrasing...
My mate once took his wife by mistake!
She complained the whole time and needless to say he has never taken her riding again. Her brand new bike has sat in the garage for at least the last 2 years.
Wifes thong in the pocket of my shorts somehow, possibly from the tumble drier... 😳
Rohypnol, gaffer tape and a tin of goose fat.
It was an accident OKAY
wifes thong?
When I was younger I always took the knickers as momentos.
Embarrasing forgetting, rummage then whats this in my pocket on public transport
Dave the Builder. Every bloody Sunday...
A wardrobe. 😕
series 3 of star trek enterprise
I carried a large horseshoe with me for a few weeks last summer. I picked it up on the mountain and didn't feel like removing it for some time. Plenty of tubes for the wrong bike, 23C on MTB, 2"-2.5" on the road.
I once cycled 5 miles from the depot with a box containing a Park Tools workstand in.
It was a windy day.
Big mistake.
Similar story involves a 15 litre bucket of tile adhesive.
Went for a ride on Dartmoor & took an OS map of Bodmin Moor with me 😕
Went to show someone a route we had ridden & found it was the wrong one - Lol.
A packet of sanitary towels. They are of no use to me.
3 yr old block of Haloumi cheese (still in wrapper) that I bought for a BBQ, couldn't find it in my bag when I got home, so figured i'd left it at the check out. Fast forward 3 yrs and I found it!
Was it still edible?
A spare rear shock that my mates slipped in my bag as a joke, to see if I'd notice (it was my shock, a rather heavy 222mm long 5th Element with a steel spring on it). I did wonder why my bag felt quite heavy, but never opened it once inside of a weeks riding (in the Alps, I didn't puncture), only found the shock on the last evening there when I was packing everything up to go home!
Have many many times ended up with out of date food, left lingering in the bottom of my bag. Which if you knew me, you'd find very odd, as I eat food like the world's going to run out tomorrow!
It was Haloumi.......indestructable!
But I am not, so I was too afraid for my well being to try it!
Haloumi is indeed indestructible. a mate's girlfriend once threw a block of it as his head during a row. He suffered mild concussion but the cheese was fine.
i think it's actually made from rubber.
Me
Several years ago a mate wanted to join me on a ride. He turned up on a shonky BSO from god knows where, a real pretend-full-suss affair.
He got a puncture about 9 miles out on top of the moors. He had two different pumps (one for each wheel as each tube was a different type) but no puncture repair kit and no spare tubes.
Told him he could have one of mine if he could get the wheel off as it was a bolt-on design and i had no spanners on me (didn't need them for my bike).
Of course he had no spanner. I asked what he DID have in his capacious pack, whereupon he rooted in the bottom of the pack and came out with...
... a tin of sardines!
Girlfriend.
The wife ? enough said !
Opened up a friends saddle under pack to find a bright blue dusty sandwich she had forgotten about and could remember when she put it in there. Also a guy I used to ride with always came out with this massive rucksack. Was always reputed to have 'everything in it' He pulled out a first aid kit once and even had a tetanus injection kit in there..
Worst for me was finding 3 shock pumps in there, stuffed in the bottom.
Back in June up at the top of Minch moor we found a proper robbers ski mask in my mates camelbak.
We're still waiting for a satisfactory explanation.
Edit: if you're reading this. Well?
I worked in a school kitchen at a fancy public school. Used take left overs home to the digs often.
Best one was a large trifle that needed both hands to hold, on my old Dawes Diplomat with a fork rake so slack it could almost stand on its own, off road just a bridle way nothing too serious.
look ma no hands!
A cow bell. But there was a reason for it because I used it to heckle near the finish at the end of seeding at a race.
Misplaced confidence.
Re sandwich.
Once on a long ride I got lost and was starving. I went through my backpack and found some very old biscuits. Ate the lot. I swear the damp things were mouldy!
Went for a ride on Dartmoor & took an OS map of Bodmin Moor with meWent to show someone a route we had ridden & found it was the wrong one - Lol.
Hah! exactly the same...
I opened my bag at home the other evening to check on a planned route for the following morning, and found that the map that I keep in there for riding on Dartmoor was a map of Newton Abbot, Dawlish and Torquay.. DOH!
I picked up two boxes of eggs from a chap at work, then totally forgot about them when I decided later on that I would go the fun way back. After 15 miles across Cannock Chase they had survived surprisingly well; I think only three had fatally succumbed to all the bouncing around.
Artificial saliva and latex gloves.
Forgot to unpack after commuting, 😐
I found a discarded 29er tube on the trail last year and picked it up to toss in the trash on my way out. I forgot about it instead, must've been in my pack for months...
A banana.
It wasn't a mistake when I put it in the Camelbak, but it was a mistake to forget to eat it and then forget it was even in there for over a month. Yuk!
My mate brings a fully blinged up Santacruz Nomad to Glentress on a regular basis... Ha ha.. Now that is daft! ; )
We went away for 4 days a couple of weeks ago aswell and he turned up with 5 or 6 bags.. I had 2, 1 for play clothes and 1 for the biking gubbins. Travelling light is the answer Alan... (you know who you both are) ; )
I was halfway into a ride when I got a puncture and found a road inner tube, inside my 26" rear wheel. To this day I have no idea who did that.
Not by mistake, but it was a mistake, so it has to be Mrs Taxi.
+1 for spare tubes of the wrong dimensions. Quite a rocky CX ride that one too, riding very tentatively to really make sure I didn't pinch flat.
In the Peaks I once put a loads of bricks in the back of my fast mates pack. We got to the top of a really steap climb and he complained at the weight of his pack. Cue much hilarity when he found said bricks! Still beat us all to the top though!
A few years ago a newcomer appeared on a CTC run wearing brogues, jeans and a Barbour jacket - it wasn't a cold day. We all wondered what he had in the massive rucksack. The trackpump was revealed when he punctured and the hardshell briefcase containing his sandwiches when we reached the drum up.
a sewing kit !