Have you lost things while riding?

[sugilite:Me]

New Years eve just gone, I jumped on the trustyish 750 to get supplies from the local town. Departing from New World Dannevirke with a payload consisting of 2 l's of milk, 3x 1.5 l's bottles of coke, 1x 4 pak of V's, 1 small box of coriander and ahhhh yes, the 1 doz eggs - size 7. With the bag fastened to the pillion seat with bungie cords, I slipped quietly out of Dvrke, looking forward to the blast home. As the conditions were so primo, I decided upon taking the long loop home - as one naturally does. About 15km's into this unadulterated state of motorcycling bliss, whilst exiting a right hand hander, I feel a lurch from the bike. I glance back in time to see, potentially the most perfect storm ever created in a cheap imported bag! It was tumbling and spinning along the ditch side at a rate that would see Fisher and Paykel engineers bristle with pride.

Parking the bike, I'm confronted by a fizzing angry bag with ominous undertones of bubbling to be heard. Theres no fucking way I'm opening that bag up with still another 15 km's to go, so I slung what was left over my shoulder, ignored even the thoughts of what was oozing down my leathers and onto the bike, and slipped back into my blissful motorcycling state for the remainder of the ride home

Imagine my astonishment upon opening bag and finding that I'd only lost 1 coke bottle and 4 eggs, sweeet! It turns out one of the bungies had snapped and then the loop through the bag had snapped as well. Lesson learned and I've now got a very nice expanding magnetic tank bag now

Yes, I'm afraid 4 eggs were killed and the remaining 8 were deeply traumatized in the making of this story.

[McJim]

I lost my Ducati cap on the way to the Vincent Rally yesterday. Bag wasn't fully shut.

Bugger

[madmal64]

Company Cheque book
Wallet with credit card, efpost cards, drivers license and cash
Leatherman Wave
Bolle Sunglasses
Spare pair of gloves
Brand new roads to ride book
Cell phone
Drink bottle

All the above inside a Oxford tail bag. Got returned to me after spending a whole winter in a tree! Even got the cash back.

Most other rides I loose a few hours, a heap of stress, a few dollars out of my wallet that is converted in fuel for the machine & body.
But its all worth it

[breakaway]

Nothing so far

[McJim]

Nothing so far

Wotchu talkin' 'bout? You lost the friggen road when you were at Port Waikato! Y'know - one minute you're on Tarmac the next you're on the beach

[breakaway]

Sigh

[Macktheknife]

I lost a pillion once, they got scared and jumped off, no shit.
I did notice pretty much straight away though.

[Bren]

I used to do a lot of fishing....to get away from the missus(she is now my ex missus)...anyways used to have the rod on the back of the bike attached via a pvc tube. I lost the handle on my reel a couple of times...seems it did not like the vibrations.

[YellowDog]

House keys came off separate attached keyring. Also had my Givi box keys on it, so no access to all important docs in back. It was autumn and there were leaves on the ground. Spent 3 hours retracing route at 10kph to see if I could spot distinctive 'RED' key in leaves. Needle in a haystack!

Amazingly, whilst the key ring had come off the main set, they were actually jammed in the bike frame, as I discovered at 2am in the morning.

As a direct result of losing my keys for a few hours I accidentally saved the life of a trapped cat, which would have otherwise died.

Perhaps everything does indeed happen for a reason!

[Chickadee]

House keys came off separate attached keyring. Also had my Givi box keys on it, so no access to all important docs in back. It was autumn and there were leaves on the ground. Spent 3 hours retracing route at 10kph to see if I could spot distinctive 'RED' key in leaves. Needle in a haystack!

Amazingly, whilst the key ring had come off the main set, they were actually jammed in the bike frame, as I discovered at 2am in the morning.

As a direct result of losing my keys for a few hours I accidentally saved the life of a trapped cat, which would have otherwise died.

Perhaps everything does indeed happen for a reason!

Do tell the cat story, where the heck was it?

[sweetp]

I have lost my headband (yes from under my helmet) not once but twice! Still struggling to understand how that could happen.....

[Usarka]

i lost my mind.....

[Ixion]

Just curious to see what people may have lost when out riding your two wheeled beauties?

I can see licenses will be a something people have lost, but I'm really asking about personal items or something on your bike that's fallen off.

.

You are asking that of people who rode Meridian Triumphs !

The definition of a trouble free ride was returning home with more than 80% of the bike that you set out with.

[crashe]

Just curious to see what people may have lost when out riding your two wheeled beauties?

I can see licenses will be a something people have lost, but I'm really asking about personal items or something on your bike that's fallen off.

I lost one of my glasses arms that was tucked away under my seat, must have waggled off, glasses went in the bin after that, too hard to replace the leg as I'd bought them from Britain.

Well, out on a wee pootle with yourself, GiJoe1313, Ixion and a few others on the loaner XV750, I, somehow managed to loose a number plate, a rego and WOF sticker...... and all the nuts and bolts that was supposed to hold it on....

The only person to notice it missing was Renegade Master when he made a strange comment about it at the fisn-n-chip shop out at Kaiuaua (sp).
Of course no one figured out what he was on about at the time.
It was when I went to re-fuel up and as I walked behind the bike, that I noticed it missing.

No one on that ride, who was following me even noticed it missing!

So it out there somewhere on some unknown road that GIjoe1313 took us all on that day is this number plate etc.

Talk about sneaking back to town not even knowing what its rego number is.

(but it now has a new rego number now)



I have lost off my XV250 the helmet lock thingee somewhere as well...

Oh and somewhere someone stole my original Rego plate off the XV250.

[Headbanger]

I was following behind a guy whose jacket came open, first I seen his tobacco fly out, then his wallet, and then a ounce of weed came out, was caught by the wind, and then was ripped open and scattered along the road.

I had a chuckle.