Shite you see on the central reservation

[bunglebus]

It all started as a bit of a game, on a longer motorway journey we always see a hi-vis vest and a single shoe on the verge or central reservation. 

Today though, I saw a motorbike fuel tank, looking completely undamaged sitting on the edge of the outside lane. How on earth that got there I don't know but it made me wonder what else you've spotted 

[groovylee]

i once spotted a perfect looking carbon (from what i could see) road bike wheel.  if we'd have been travelling slower id have been tempted to jump out and grab it!

[grogee]

2 minutes ago, groovylee said:

i once spotted a perfect looking carbon (from what i could see) road bike wheel.  if we'd have been travelling slower id have been tempted to jump out and grab it!

Yep I would have come off at the next junction for that. 

Have we had tyre remould strips that have un-moulded yet?

[Wack]

Crawling in the outside lane on the M6 at birmingham for about 3 miles I did notice that every single one of the drain gulleys was completely blocked by debris , and they wonder why there's standing water on the motorway

 

 

[grogee]

Also: lots of exhaust back boxes.

Once I hit a breeze block on the motorway, it scared the bejesus out of me. Dented the rim and destroyed the tyre but I'm here to tell the tale. 

[Wack]

 On The M6 about 10 years agoI  saw what looked like a leather suitcase in the outside lane near wigan , about 300m up there was a motorbike leaning against the central barrier just like someone had got off and balanced it there, That's when I realised it wasn't a suitcase😕

[grogee]

Also, these. On the M5, July and August, mainly on the hard shoulder. Absolutely detest all of them except the square 80s one for some reason

[bunglebus]

14 minutes ago, Wack said:

That's when I realised it wasn't a suitcase😕

Funny enough on the same stretch of road where I saw the fuel tank sitting, I found a motorcyclist lying in the road on an exit slip, several people had stopped and were calling 999 but no one was attending to the biker. I checked she was conscious (just) then positioned my car down the sliproad to stop her getting run over.

Turns out someone had knocked her off and not stopped, leaving her unconscious lying on an unlit sliproad. A couple of other people had run her bike over and had to stop.

I kept her lying down until the ambulance arrived and called her partner to let him know what had happened. He was more concerned about whether the bike was OK, the knob.

[big_al_granvia]

Ratchet straps by the ton, there must be a market for used webbing

[MorrisItalSLX]

Plastic garden chairs and wheelie bins are very popular around my way, they must get caught in the shrubbery.

Strangest thing? A cast iron bathtub, duck egg blue if I recall correctly.

[Soundwave]

Tyre treads from lorries. No sidewalls, just the tread, peeled off in a perfect strip. 

Also, dead badgers. I've literally never seen a live badger, I've only ever seen them in the central reservation in an advanced state of dead.

[Wack]

54 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Funny enough on the same stretch of road where I saw the fuel tank sitting, I found a motorcyclist lying in the road on an exit slip, several people had stopped and were calling 999 but no one was attending to the biker. I checked she was conscious (just) then positioned my car down the sliproad to stop her getting run over.

Turns out someone had knocked her off and not stopped, leaving her unconscious lying on an unlit sliproad. A couple of other people had run her bike over and had to stop.

I kept her lying down until the ambulance arrived and called her partner to let him know what had happened. He was more concerned about whether the bike was OK, the knob.

This guy was obviously dead , I only caught a glance as I want past in lane 1 but it didn't trigger it was a man until I saw the bike , let's just say he wasn't man shaped 

Didn't look like anyone had hit him and the bike was undamaged so I assumed he'd had a heart attack and just rolled off it 

[bunglebus]

52 minutes ago, Soundwave said:

dead badgers. I've literally never seen a live badger

Same. Just the poor things dead at the side of the road

[New POD]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

Funny enough.....

I kept her lying down until the ambulance arrived and called her partner to let him know what had happened. He was more concerned about whether the bike was OK, the knob.

That's probably shock. Not understanding the implications of what's being said. 

[bunglebus]

Eh, maybe. He just didn't seem too bothered 

[TheXUDfiles]

Don't look too closely.  Dead bodies are known to sometimes be dragged out of them.

[sierraman]

Those bottles of Irn Bru seem quite prevalent. 

[sierraman]

4 hours ago, grogee said:

Also, these. On the M5, July and August, mainly on the hard shoulder. Absolutely detest all of them except the square 80s one for some reason

I can’t stand those bastard things. You always see them bollock flat out on the M5 doing 45mph, the driver deafened by the engine hunched over the wheel. 

[grogee]

4 minutes ago, sierraman said:

I can’t stand those bastard things. You always see them bollock flat out on the M5 doing 45mph, the driver deafened by the engine hunched over the wheel. 

It's hilarious watching them try to go uphill, unless you're stuck behind it. I really can't see the appeal, I would sooner have a mouldy van-based camper than one of those pre-war biscuit tins. No power, no space, no safety, no comfort. Motoring equivalent of flagellants.

[sierraman]

Just now, grogee said:

It's hilarious watching them try to go uphill, unless you're stuck behind it. I really can't see the appeal, I would sooner have a mouldy van-based camper than one of those pre-war biscuit tins. No power, no space, no safety, no comfort. Motoring equivalent of flagellants.

Yeah your legs and pelvis are the crumple zone. When will people realise  they could go abroad or on proper holidays without resorting to spaffing 20 large on a bloody VW camper. 

They can’t be all that thrifty these holidays neither with the fossilised old VW air cooled lump working it’s bollocks off against a headwind. 

[bezzabsa]

empty fuel cans........complete spoiler off the roof of a Volvo artic...

weirdest has to be an inflatable marital aid!!!!

was on the M25 tho!!

[neil1971]

Crows, maybe more on the hard shoulder than central reservation but always loads of them on a motorway, guess there's plenty of food chucked out of cars as well as roadkill

[PrinceRupert]

27 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Yeah your legs and pelvis are the crumple zone. When will people realise  they could go abroad or on proper holidays without resorting to spaffing 20 large on a bloody VW camper. 

They can’t be all that thrifty these holidays neither with the fossilised old VW air cooled lump working it’s bollocks off against a headwind. 

As per a previous thread, we hired this for a weekend away: 

Wasn't cheap, wasn't quick, wasn't safe, was quite painful to drive on the motorway (sloppy gear change, poor handbrake, queuing hill starts were a nightmare), wasn't particularly comfortable to sleep in. 

We had great fun and seriously thinking about buying a classic camper van at some point. 

[timolloyd]

I once found an entire farm in the central reservation

 

[Asimo]

Hundreds of those wee Nitrous Oxide bottles that are sold for making squirty cream. (And definitely not sold for getting off your face with the giggles for a minute or two.)

[Saabnut]

Many years ago on the M1 by Loughborough, I saw a Mk2 Escort on its roof aagainst the central reservation.

Sadly the view I had was upside down as I was hanging from the seatbelt!  

[New POD]

1 hour ago, timolloyd said:

I once found an entire farm in the central reservation

 

M62 ? 

[New POD]

1 hour ago, PrinceRupert said:

As per a previous thread, we hired this for a weekend away: 

Wasn't cheap, wasn't quick, wasn't safe, was quite painful to drive on the motorway (sloppy gear change, poor handbrake, queuing hill starts were a nightmare), wasn't particularly comfortable to sleep in. 

We had great fun and seriously thinking about buying a classic camper van at some point. 

My cousin visited me in an old camper van.  She and her ex partner were moving from.the South Coast to the Highlands of Scotland, where they lived in a Yurt for 3 years.  We gave them some pots with English Strawberry plants to take with them. 

They had a 1960s map book and were only using roads built before 1965. They reckoned it had taken 4 days to arrive in Merseyside, and that it would take another 6 days to Reach Inverness. 

Which was bizarre as the camper had Isuzu badges.  Her partner was a proper nut job / alternative life style hippy type. 

His email address was something like tentmansam@domain.org. 

[Eyersey1234]

35 minutes ago, New POD said:

M62 ? 

Yeah it's the stretch near Saddleworth Moor. Apparently there is a geological fault line there which meant the motorway had to skirt round the farmhouse instead of getting demolished. 

[camryv6]

Caravan towing mirror and a pair of knickers ( not at the same time ).