Roadside debris

[PAT303]

I've been doing abit of bike riding lately as I'm 38 in a week or two and 15 odd years of shift work has resulted in my cloths fitting alittle tighter than they once were and I'm amazed at the stuff I find on the road.I have as yet not been able to go without finding a good assortment of nuts and bolts,tec screws,nails,wheel weights,safety glasses,boots,thongs but as yet no money but I'm giving it time.The amount of wheel weights is strange as some are very heavy and you could not drive far without them being there,I don't mind as I put them to good use but the tecs screws are everywhere,I rode past a shining 4'' one this morning and a 3'' roofing screw was only a few peddles past it.Me thinks a conspiracy is at hand,and I'm looking at tyre shops. Pat

[Pedro_The_Swift]

hmm,

conspiracy 1
maybe the hardware shops own the tyre dealers

conspiracy2
the rise in runflat technology exactly parallels the rise in usage of tek screws.

[BMKal]

I've been doing abit of bike riding lately as I'm 38 in a week or two and 15 odd years of shift work has resulted in my cloths fitting alittle tighter than they once were and I'm amazed at the stuff I find on the road.I have as yet not been able to go without finding a good assortment of nuts and bolts,tec screws,nails,wheel weights,safety glasses,boots,thongs but as yet no money but I'm giving it time.The amount of wheel weights is strange as some are very heavy and you could not drive far without them being there,I don't mind as I put them to good use but the tecs screws are everywhere,I rode past a shining 4'' one this morning and a 3'' roofing screw was only a few peddles past it.Me thinks a conspiracy is at hand,and I'm looking at tyre shops. Pat

It's the bloody water up here Pat. I've been noticing the same thing ever since I moved to Kal. :o

I figured out some time ago why sales of bottled water did so well in this town - it's because so many of the locals use it to wash their clothes to stop the shrinkage. ;)

Me - I'm putting in a rainwater tank. All we need is some rain. :cool:

[Landy Smurf]

i think you are on to something there

[Bearman]

Some time ago I picked up a 6 inch long by 5/8th drill bit in a brand new tyre. By the time I stopped it had done enough damage to ruin the tyre. I cant believe the amount of rubbish that some people allow(accidently or deliberately) to fall onto the road. Seems like securing your load is a thing of the past.

[George130]

Got a monster screw in one of my tyres a couple of weeks ago. Took 2 of us over an hour to unscrew it out of the tyre and get a plug in it so I could get the rig home. Pain in the but on a steep slope with a fully loaded trailer attached.

[groucho]

Gee wiz, I have 22 tyres on the road i am getting stuff all the time.
A nice stanley blade last week, and the week before the U shaped bit from a padlock. Took us 20 minutes and a set of bolt cutters to cut it into 3 pieces to get it out. You are right about the tech screws lots of those.......

[Landy Smurf]

wow a padlock

[LandyAndy]

Welcome to my world Pat
Steering a grader you get to find all sorts.
Some of my resent Discoverys.
A complete good quality socket set.
A mostly complete Stanley screwdriver set.
Neumorous spare wheels,some still have the trailer hub bolted to them.
A couple of trailer jockey wheels
A brand new car trailer ramp.Would have been nice if they dropped both.
Several "load binders" and chains.
Lots of spanners screwdrivers hammers etc.
I find the stuff so I consider it mine till an owner pops up????
Andrew

[justinc]

Years and years ago I had a 10/11mm double ended open end spanner in one of my tyres, front tyre flicked it up just at the right angle to go straight into the rear tyre on my Holden ute at highway speed:o

I still have that spanner and use it at work:D


JC

[bee utey]

Riding by myself I stop and pick up loads of stuff. I am happy when I find both the shackle AND the shackle pin, sometimes 2 days apart on different bits of the same road. My best score was a 6 foot spirit level. That took some strapping on...
Today I was out on the treadly on a back road way north of Adelaide and picked up this thingy, anyone care to hazard a guess as to what it's off? It has a bronze bush in the cap and obviously comes out easily with one screw. Chinese made quad bike perhaps?

[rick130]

[snip]
as I'm 38 in a week or two
[snip] Pat

you poor old fart, wait another two years sonny and we might start to take you seriously :p













and happy b/day for in a couple of weeks, have a couple for me :twobeers:

[digger]

Riding by myself I stop and pick up loads of stuff. I am happy when I find both the shackle AND the shackle pin, sometimes 2 days apart on different bits of the same road. My best score was a 6 foot spirit level. That took some strapping on...
Today I was out on the treadly on a back road way north of Adelaide and picked up this thingy, anyone care to hazard a guess as to what it's off? It has a bronze bush in the cap and obviously comes out easily with one screw. Chinese made quad bike perhaps?

ypvs?

yamaha power valve system?


"YPVS" stood for, Yamaha Power Valve System, and is now used in nearly all 2-stroke engine design. The system was designed to vary the exhaust port aperture, depending upon the revs of the engine. This meant that at low revs, the aperture would be reduced to increase the pressure through the exhaust port, and hence boost power, and when the engine was working at it's hardest, i.e. when the revs were high, the aperture would increase allowing the exhaust gas to flow more smoothly when expelled from the engine.

The exhaust port aperture was varied by using a cylindrical, servo operated valve, sitting just above the exhaust port. This would rotate depending upon engine revs, and give the desired aperture. "

Yamaha RD 350 YPVS (http://www.d-murray.co.uk/rd350.htm)

[rick130]

BTW, you get good at bunny hopping when riding the treadly along major roads/highways, you almost have to do it as much as when riding the MTB off road.

[Landy Smurf]

i think probably the best find i got was a scissor jack

[PAT303]

you poor old fart, wait another two years sonny and we might start to take you seriously :p













and happy b/day for in a couple of weeks, have a couple for me :twobeers:





Dunno were it's gone Rick,one minute I was footloose and fancy free and going shooting and fishing in my 2a and the next minute a morgage,misses and kids and bloody 12hr shifts!!. Pat

[p38arover]

I blame tradies with their aluminium trayback utes.

I had some do some work at home a while back. I was amazed at the number of tek screws that fell out onto my driveway. I think they slide out through the gaps in the sides.

[Bigbjorn]

My late mother picked up a carpenters chisel right through the sidewall of an almost new Michelin ZX one night in Grey St. South Brisbane. Great gaping slash in the side wall and the chisel fully inside the tyre. The woden handle was pretty chewed up so the chisel must have been getting banged about on the road for some time. I still have the chisel.

[jx2mad]

Years ago when I drove a mini850 I picked up a 6" screwdriver straight through the tread ( handle and all ) of a brand new michelin tyre. I went back to the tyre shop and they glued a sleeve inside and stuck the flap down. I never had a problem with it after and the tyre wore out normally. I still use the screwdriver. Jim

[richard4u2]

on a motorcycle forum i am on there was a post about some council workers that came across a motorcycle in the bush with the rider, he was dead and had been there for 3 months and when his wife was told she thought he had left her for someone else :(

[Cap]

on a motorcycle forum i am on there was a post about some council workers that came across a motorcycle in the bush with the rider, he was dead and had been there for 3 months and when his wife was told she thought he had left her for someone else :(

Damn, thats rough! 3 months and no one suspected him missing apart from a "maybe he left me" thought??? :eek:

[Bigbjorn]

About 1980, a friend from our teenage and young man days didn't arrive home from work and was reported missing. Totally out of character, a normal 40 year old family man in stable employment.

About two weeks later trail bike riders found him dead in his car in scrub behind Inala. Apparently he had a heart attack and the car skewed off the secondary road he used on his journeys to and from work and rolled to a stop in scrub out of sight of the road.