Have you lost things while riding?

[Chickadee]

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.

[Kiwifire72]

I keep loosing petrol out of tank every time I ride
I got no leaks and it doesn't loose it when parked in garage

[Kiwifire72]

other than that so far have not lost anything here's hoping I wont ( Touch Wood)

[TOTO]

Lost the back wheel last monday(long weekend)...:(

[rphenix]

I dropped my nokia 3410 cellphone twice in one week on the road amazingly very few scratches and the phone was 100% fine :) After that I made sure I got a jacket with a zipper :)

But they were made pretty tough back then wouldn't want to drop my current phone.

[mynameis]

Yeah cellfone forgot to zip the jacket pocket :mellow:

That was it now I check my zip a few times haha!

[skidMark]

My self control and my license.:crybaby:

[Big Dave]

My bad moods.

[zadok]

I lost my cap which wasn't secured properly. The annoying thing was, it had my badges on it that I had got from my trip to the IOM in '81.:doh:

[Cruisin' Craig]

I lost the whole right hand side of my fairing once.

Well alright, actually I've lost bits of my fairing a few times, but on this ride I lost my fairing without crashing.

There must have been some stress fractures there, and the whole thing just sheared off in the wind and I never even knew it was gone until I parked the bike.
Bummer of a way to lose your fairing. I never found it and those things are expensive!

[Cruisin' Craig]

Oh yes, and I had the bike key rattle out of the ignition and disappear once. That's a real bitch as well :-)

[zaq]

lost a pair of overpants that were strapped to the seat :(

[MotoGirl]

I lost a backpack when I first started riding (it wasn't secured down properly). That was an expensive mistake 'cause it had my phone, a sleeping bag, togs, and favourite shorts etc. I pulled over to look for it but never found it.

Cajun lost a pair of jeans and his scuffs out of his backpack once (on my bike, thank God it never scratched it :rofl:). We've since learnt to make sure the zipper is positioned at the side of the bag, not at the top.

[Chickadee]

I think the bad moods were the only thing worth losing there!

There have been some expensive loses in there. Hubby lost his favourite baseball cap and sleeping bag this weekend, doh, guess it pays to check things are very securely put on before setting off. Checking pockets is something I do pretty religiously.

A bike fairing would be a major loss, they're blooming expensive to replace.

On a ride in Aucks before we left a mates license and rego fell off during the ride, no idea where on the trip so that was a bummer.

[Headbanger]

I lost my company cellphone, while out riding my bike....when I was meant to be in my work wagon on a work related errand.

The person who found it (a fucking champion) went to a fair bit of trouble to return it to me, Pretty sweet as it was a $1000 phone. Pity word got back to the boss about how I managed to lose it.:jerry:

[sugilite]

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 :calm:

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:

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

[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 :D

[McJim]

Nothing so far :D

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 :rofl:

[breakaway]

Sigh :no:

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[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 ! :rofl:

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.

[spookytooth]

The wife.Used to do alot of trail riding"alot in every weekend" :) Came home after a Minganui and she had gone.Was a win really looking back:innocent:

[Fireyphil]

Friday night on way to Vincient County Rally I lost a chrome side cover with virago written on it, between Millers Flat and Galloway.
If anyone happened to pick it up, would love to get it back.
Also from rally site a blue cooler bag for keeping the cans cool, note my details are on inside top cover.
REWARD- You can keep the beer you took in the bag, just return the bag please.

[Mental Trousers]

A $650 pair of prescription glasses

[Nagash]

Lost my pack rack on the way through a village once (bolts must of rattled off) went back through later that day and I stopped at a light, some kid runs up to me holding it saying he picked it up when it came off.

Good on him :sweatdrop

[Subike]

Rode off to nelson , sunny day not a worry
topped up the tank at Blenhiem. Sweet run into Nelson.
Pull up and look down, no Keys!
Had to break the lock on the fuel cap to tank up and use the kill switch to start her, then pull out the main fuse when parked up.
After the weekend, when I got home, as we all do, I cleaned the bike.
the Keys had lodged themselves under the tank and sat there for nearly 1000k's
Sweet as , except where do you get a lock to fit an 30 year old bike!!! :doh:

[Beemer]

Not so much lost as reduced by a significant percentage ... I rode into town one day to buy some salt lick blocks for the sheep. I only wanted two, so they put them in a plastic bag and I put them in the top box of the Beemer. It was a lovely day so I decided to go for a wee ride ... and ended up in Palmerston North. I got home and opened the top box to find the constant sliding back and forth of the salt blocks had worn through the plastic bag and there was a pile of dust in the bottom of the top box and a pile of scratches on the plastic as well!

The moral of the story is (like the Harley rider in another post), drop off the groceries first BEFORE going for a ride!

[Ixion]

Rode off to nelson , sunny day not a worry
topped up the tank at Blenhiem. Sweet run into Nelson.
Pull up and look down, no Keys!
Had to break the lock on the fuel cap to tank up and use the kill switch to start her, then pull out the main fuse when parked up.
After the weekend, when I got home, as we all do, I cleaned the bike.
the Keys had lodged themselves under the tank and sat there for nearly 1000k's
Sweet as , except where do you get a lock to fit an 30 year old bike!!! :doh:

I have had keys disappear en route several times. So now I have a loosely looped cable tie round the handle bars (one on each bike) , and a carabiner clip on the key ring. Carabiner clips through the cable tie loop, can't go anywhere. It's caught a couple of sets now.

[crashe]

I have had keys disappear en route several times. So now I have a loosely looped cable tie round the handle bars (one on each bike) , and a carabiner clip on the key ring. Carabiner clips through the cable tie loop, can't go anywhere. It's caught a couple of sets now.

A very handy tip there........ unless of course your ignition is on the side of the engine... like the XV250 has.

[SpeedyGirl]

Well 2 weekends ago, i managed to lose my right rear indicator!!??? :pinch: Got to the racing in Timaru to find the entire indicator gone, including the mount and the wiring!!!?? WTF???

Off to the shop for a new one, decided to buy a pair instead.... and really must get that on the bike soon :devil2:

[lb99]

, no shit! that was fuckin freaky, it was a big old caravan one that I needed to heat the caravan I was living in at the time. It was hell cold, and I was miserable so I tried to fit the bottle to the back of the trusty xj750 but no way I could tie it on, so it made the trip into town on its side on my lap held by my elbows most of the way, and good luck for the rest.
of course when I got it filled it was fill with 9kg of liquid which made it a bit unwieldy. I got onto the highway alright, and then I was struggling to balance it and the bike, after a while it slipped just a bit far for me to catch, there were no cars coming so I let her go and gassed it.... the bottle went dongadong chongchong end over end into the hedge and I stopped about 500m away shitting myself, then approached very carefully, the bottle had some hell scars in it and the handle thing was bent badly, but it saved the valve and no leaks, so I took it home and used it, it never got filled again though.


oh, and a mate had the packrack, pack and subframe holding the numberplate, lights and stuff come off his gsxr1100, right into a $500+ radial tyre, while travelling at a high speed, lots of smoke and a long black line on the road....

[BIGBOSSMAN]

1) I lost my mind when riding the 10 for the first time, then....
2) Lost my wallet on a ride south. Got to the Autobahn, filled up, reached for my wallet which was in my strangely open backpack. Didn't do the ride, but after a thorough search of the motorway from Penrose - South, I found it with the contents scattered over a 50 metre area just past the Papatoetoe offramp. Nothing missing. Phew!
3) My seat cowling 'fell' off the bike on a recent ride to Waingaro. Didn't find it :(

[Ixion]

A very handy tip there........ unless of course your ignition is on the side of the engine... like the XV250 has.

Just put a loose loop of cable tie round the adjacent frame tube, instead of the handlebar.

You could use one of those plastic dog collar snaps instead of a carabiner. Come in all sorts of colours, plastic is soft won't scratch paint.

[Swoop]

Sweet as , except where do you get a lock to fit an 30 year old bike!!! :doh:
A locksmith?
Serious. Contact a locksmith that specialises in automotive stuff. It is quite surprising what those folks can do. Had an older bike,with a worn key, re-keyed from the tumbler pins in the filler cap. The locksmith "read" the pins... Don't ask how, since he did this in the back room to keep the process secret!

[Hitcher]

I lost my virginity, sense of reason, and inhibitions once. It's been a while since, and I can't quite remember the order in which I lost them.

[scumdog]

CB lost a muffler off'n the Sporty en route to Woodstock, - 1,600km of riding around the South Island annoying neighbourhoods and we got another one.

[McJim]

CB lost a muffler off'n the Sporty en route to Woodstock, - 1,600km of riding around the South Island annoying neighbourhoods and we got another one.
It's a Harley mate - Muffler makes no difference to the sound :rofl:

I'll be honest though I was surprised none of the race boys interjected and said "The Championship" or something like that.

[Okey Dokey]

I lost the caps off some bottles of black beer. I'd taken the beer out of its 6-pack carrier and packed the bottles into the little ventura sport pack. Kind of a tight fit with my cell phone and purse, but I thought it was sweet.

When I got home, ready for some refreshment, I detected a malty smell at the back of the bike. Unzipped the pack to find a swimming pool of beer! (aside: pack proven to be very water/beer tight) Three beers had unscrewed their tops on ride home.

Lesson learned? Buy bottles with crown caps from now on...

[_Gina_]

I was recently riding from Hastings, heading to Waipukurau at about 9.30pm, cruising along at a nice pace and my visor just flicked and flew off...

Needless to say 20 minutes of searching by highbeam light and I gave up and rode the next 45k's with no visor - wasn't much fun.

:eek5:

[sunhuntin]

my old ginny had a dicky ignition, and i ended up getting a cheap "chain" [like necklace size] and tying the keys to the handle bars... got a funny look at WOF time, but she passed.

my mate lost a side cover of his ginny... at 100k... with me behind him. managed to duck, then went back and rescused it.

and i lost the side cover off the 500. still havent found a replacement.

i have gone wanganui to taupo with the keys sitting in the lock of the top box... and they were still there!

[shafty]

* in extreme wind near Lake Ferry, my magnetic tank bag blew off (as opposed to farted) and landed in Cockies paddock, duly retrieved
* Heading to the Cold Duck, stopped in town, bought cask of wine, ditched the cardboard and bungee'ed the "bladder" to back seat of the FJ1200. Made it as far as the bridge near the rally entrance when it hit the road, burst and showered the Maori Fella behind me on a Harley, with white wine. He was quite happy, "that was choice Bro" I think he said

[YellowDog]

Do tell the cat story, where the heck was it?
For Chickadee: LOST KEYS - CAT STORY

After losing my keys and being stuffed without them, I couldn't get into my garage (lost with keys). I did however have the keys to a neighbour's house who had moved out and was waiting to sell the house. In order to get in the garage of my friend's house, I had to go through the house and via the kitchen to the gagage to open it from the inside. As I openend the kitchen door, there was a terrified cat on the counter top. It was skinny and terrified. It appears that in locking the cat flap, it had mistakenly been locked to allow in, but not allow out, so the cat had been trapped for a fair amount of time.

I closed the door I had come through and tried to open the cat flap to let it out. The cat was so scared that it jumped behind the cooker. After pulling this out, I saw that it had burried itself in a pile of plastic bags at a dead end in a 20cm gap behind the units. There was nothing I could do to try and let it out. I got a saucer of milk and left it at the open end of the passage. This was almost 2 hours later. I then opened the garage and sorted out the problem with the bike (and found my keys) hurray. The cat would still not move, so I lodged the cat flap open and locked the house up.

In the morning the cat was gone, so I locked the cat flap properly. I wasn't sure what the cat looked like however there was a cat whose eyes followed me for 2 days every time I left the house.

Lucky cat. Still has eight lives left!

[What?]

I lost my memory, but I can't remember if I was on a bike at the time.

[skidMark]

i had a decent brand of backpack (kappa) heading down the nor western on the zxr just coming up to lincoln road doing i think it was about 170-180.......zip decided not to be aerodynamic and flung open....needless to say i came to a very fast stop on the side of the motorway.

had lost a couple of bits of paper but nothing important...map book was almost gone alone with phone wallet etc...

that was lucky....

i don't use that bag anymore.:doh:

[skidMark]

It's a Harley mate - Muffler makes no difference to the sound :rofl:

I'll be honest though I was surprised none of the race boys interjected and said "The Championship" or something like that.


The race guys hardly ever post because they have lives apart from the shit on here us mere mortals read through.:rolleyes:

[UberRhys]

:Oops: 2 day old iPod @ 80km (was in a hard case and slid to the gutter so no one ran it over - still goes thank god!
:Oops: sunnies @ 110km (doing a head check with the visor open and they were whipped off)
:Oops: rego papers with a signed blank cheque (found by a good-type who returned it)
:Oops: keys that giggle from the ignition, house, work & car keys (now just the 1 key in the ignition...)
:rockon: my anger and evil thoughts... :yes:

[skidMark]

:Oops: 2 day old iPod @ 80km (was in a hard case and slid to the gutter so no one ran it over - still goes thank god!
:Oops: sunnies @ 110km (doing a head check with the visor open and they were whipped off in the breeze)
:Oops: rego papers with a signed blank cheque (found by a good-type who returned it)
:rockon: my anger and evil thoughts... :yes:

Stay at home, lock the door.

The world is not safe for you.

Here's some bubble wrap....

[UberRhys]

Stay at home, lock the door.

The world is not safe for you.

Here's some bubble wrap....

What? And stick to driving an automatic daihatsu applause? By the way how much bubble wrap can you squeeze in one of those things? Do you deliver? :laugh:

[Warr]

Err couple of years ago we lost a pack off the back of my XJ. The rack broke and .. er arr I was chasing some other dudes on bikes, thought wife was moving around a bit, but 40? 60 ? k's down the road she noticed that the pack had gone :(
Very depressing, ended up in Palmy with the clothes we were standing in for one of Frosty's track days!! Did the whole insurance thing as you do. Bummer would still like it back.
Yes we did go looking all the way back down the road 4 times over the next week. Nothing to be found

[Taz]

I lost my virginity...... Probably still have it if I hadn't got into bikes.:rolleyes:

[Goblin]

I lost my bike key out of the ignition somewhere on the Paraparas on Boxing day. Got Wanganui, went to turn bike off and hullo.:blink: Lucky I had a spare in my jacket.:calm:
Lost a bag containing my trench coat and a hotwater bottle on the way home from a cold kiwi one year.
Oh and lost my lower fairings on the way to Paeroa once too. They decided they to fly over the car behind me, bounce off the bonnet of the next car and smash into tiny peices on the road.

[the mouse]

"I was following behind a guy whose jacket came open"

Heh Heh , happened to me once, zip gave up the ghost.
Kept visor down at fuel stops to avoid the embarrasement of the wrap around grey duck tape.

Triumph's worst bits to come off have been a muffler requiring ear plugs to get home, and a chaincase inspection plug coming off. Result is a boot covered in oil spraying out from the hole.

Haven't lost any luggage, had a kind motorcyclist following who waved me down one day as my tent was sliding off the seat toward the spokes, that could have been nasty.
Bungy them on good people.

[gijoe1313]

Today, I was riding back to Donor's demesne and I had a backpack with a plastic bag filled with beans from the graden (trying for a first here!) and shortbread.

Suffice to say the plastic bag leaked three beans and Donor squished them before pulling me over and securing said bag! :o

Ahyuk :drool:

[moT]

I lost my knee slider the other day i was gutted it was a brand new one!!

[McJim]

So I lost my hat out of my backpack on the way to the Vincent Rally. Gijoe1313 sent me a new one from Haldane's today.

Big thanks to him!

[Guitana]

I lost my mate off the back of my bike whilst pulling a wheel stand apparently he was'nt expecting it and broke his arse!!!

[homer]

i lost half a number plate

somehow it broke in 2 and then undid one half all on its own

[Hinny]

I lost an O'neil topbox full of clothes on trip back between Coopers Beach and Whangarei, Wednesday after Anniversary weekend tour. Mounting bracket is made of very light pressed sheet steel. This bent and the front lugs dislocated.
Thought the bike was going a bit better. Had some good gear in there - Gore-tex jacket etc.