The biker Gods must be pissed with me...or maybe I'm just stupid.

[Ms Piggy]

I have a feeling it's the latter.

Arrrrrgggggggghhhhh!!! I've lost my keys :brick: :brick: :brick:

After months of thinking..."I really must get a spare set of keys cut."

Oh yes you guessed it! And the worst part is - there is no-one else to blame!

I had to start work early today b/c I wanted to finish early so I could go to the Airport to "Goodbye" to my Aunty who is flying out tonight at 6pm - she is over from Scotland. So I was running late enough to have to leave without any make up on! Yikes! Got all my gear together just to leave and couldn't find my keys!

They aren't: in my jacket pocket, on my desk, on the bench!

The only thing I can think of is that I dropped them in between the place I park the bike and the walk down to my house. About 500 metres and some public pathway.

The other issue is I have the steering lock on, so I couldn't even try and use another key to switch on the ignition!

How stoopid do I feel? THIS STOOPID!!!!


:cry: :eyepoke: :thud: :ar15: :weep:

[TonyB]

Ooops. You'll find them, they have to be about somewhere. Are your bike keys seperate from your house keys? My wife has a habit of leaving the keys hanging in the lock of the front door of the house. If they're not seperate- you got inside so they must be about. If they are, then maybe they're still in the bike?
Good luck!

[PuppetMaster]

If they are, then maybe they're still in the bike?Good luck!

Done that before. Get back to my bike on Lambton Quay and the keys are still in it.


Bummer CSL. Im sure they'll turn up. they usually do. :niceone:

[vifferman]

...maybe they're still in the bike?
Good luck!
Yeah, I've done that. Parked the bike, gone shopping, come back - "Where they phark are my keys?!?"
Oops.
In the ignition...:pinch:

Good luck!
And you don't have to do anything to make the BikerGodz angry - they are evil, pernicious, capricious and do things just for a bit of amusement....:confused:

[pyrocam]

Oh no.

Good luck finding them mate!

I nearly shat myself when I lost my keys last. with my helmet on I didnt hear them fall out in the petrol station. luckily they wernt too far away :)

[ajturbo]

that will teach you to go on hoilday!!!
and not take us with you!!!!
and have too much fun while you were doing it!!!


honestly.. i hope you do find them... just thinking WHEN you find them..... what are you going to do................new keys???

have a good look matey they cannot be far..
probly down the steps...?

[Velox]

Sorry to hear luv! I did it last week too (except I had a spare set). Still haven't turned up and I'd just made this really cool keyring for it too! :brick: It was funny though cause I rode down to the end of our road really slowly looking for if I'd dropped them when I was out possum hunting, and this guy turned up on a bike while I was slowly riding around aimlessly looking at the ground, without helmet etc too.
How are you going to get another ke sorted without a "master copy"? Do you have to get a new ingnition bit?

[TonyB]

And you don't have to do anything to make the BikerGodz angry - they are evil, pernicious, capricious and do things just for a bit of amusement....:confused:
OOoo, that's tempting them. Watch out mate, they'll get ya!

[XTC]

i usually find that anything i've lost is always in the last place I look :) (cause I stop looking when I've found it)

[Hitcher]

You're lucky you've got nice, low cost, easily replaceable keys. Mr Honda's HISS system is another matter entirely (which is why I have recorded the key number as a precaution in case the unthinkable ever happens).

[ManDownUnder]

The other issue is I have the steering lock on, so I couldn't even try and use another key to switch on the ignition!

I did that a while back... the steering lock on the cage and my wife in Taranaki (no-where near the car in Auckland). I could have cabbed home to to get the spare wheel lock key but it worked out to be cheaper to catch a cab to repco, buy a hacksaw, cut off the lock and buy a new one.

So there am I, in my car, hacksawing away at the clublock at midday...

Did anyone stop to question it? NOPE. Hell's bells I can see why car theft is rampant...!

[Ms Piggy]

If they are, then maybe they're still in the bike?
Good luck!
Not in the bike b/c I have the padlock key on there as well, so I have to tkae the keys out of igntion to lock to padlock & steering lock. :(

I do key my house keys & bike keys seperate.

[XTC]

I did that a while back... the steering lock on the cage and my wife in Taranaki (no-where near the car in Auckland). I could have cabbed home to to get the spare wheel lock key but it worked out to be cheaper to catch a cab to repco, buy a hacksaw, cut off the lock and buy a new one.

So there am I, in my car, hacksawing away at the clublock at midday...

Did anyone stop to question it? NOPE. Hell's bells I can see why car theft is rampant...!
I'm really surprised no offered to help in case you got tired with all that sawing..... Wow sawing is a funny word to look at :)

[Biff]

Isn't that the most annoying frustrating feeling there is. At least in my house I can blame Ms Biff, the kids & the dog every time 'I' misplace my bike keys (which is very common).

I usually hunt for them for ages, and then they turn up. Guess where - yup, in the seat lock at the rear of the bike. Every bloody time!! Apart from once when I was dying for the loo and placed them on the window sill in the sit and think (sounds like) room. A bloody week it took before I noticed them there.

I hope you find them soon.

[vifferman]

So there am I, in my car, hacksawing away at the clublock at midday...

Did anyone stop to question it? NOPE. Hell's bells I can see why car theft is rampant...!
I think if you're confident or cocky enough, people figure you're not a thief.
Or else they don't care. :eek:

:Offtopic: :whocares:
I've climbed in the window of just about every house I've owned, and never had anyone blink an eye about it. Also broken into a few cars. One of the guys at a lab I used to work at used to so regularly lock his keys in his car that he kept wire and stuff in his locker so he could break into the car.

Another guy I knew used to be a gang 'associate'. When they were bored, they used to have competitions to see how quickly they could break into each others cars. When they were pissed/stoned, usually, but still in less than 10 seconds.

Heh - old Morris Minors and Oxfords were hard case. I had friends with both, and had a Minor myself. The Oxford could be broken into and started with a screwdriver or any similar-sized key, without any damage. Very handy.
You could hot-wire the Minor by sticking a 20-cent coin across the fuses in the engine compartment (just fitted). Did this one night to a mate, while at a party up a very long driveway. Hotwired it, sent someone inside to tell him it was being stolen, then drove down the drive just fast enough that he couldn't quite catch up running flat out. Stopped at the bottom, and pissed myself laughing when he flung the door open and was gasping his lungs out. After a minute or so, he managed to say: "<GASP!><WHEEEZE!!> Y-y-y-ou ...<GASP!><WHEEEZE!!>... fucken ...<GASP!><WHEEEZE!!> bastard!!"
It was funny at the time.:confused:

He kinda got me back though, when he accidentally lost the keys to my Minor. Unfortunately, the windows and door locks were sound, but the boot was unlocked, so I climbed in, levered up the leather tab on the back seat, folded it forward, climbed in, popped the bonnet, and started it with a 20c in the fusebox.
Never found the keys though. Lucky I had a spare...:yeah:

[Wolf]

Argh! Lost keys are always a bastard.

Have prayed to the Celtic Goddess Epona that the lost keys are found (I figure that the Gods and Goddesses have moved with the times and the Goddess of Horses would deal with motorbikes as well these days)

All the best CSL, hope the keys turn up soon

[XTC]

One of the guys at a lab I used to work at used to so regularly lock his keys in his car that he kept wire and stuff in his locker so he could break into the car.

Why didn't he have a spare key in his locker instead??? :spudwhat:

mmm Lab..... Maybe he was an experiment???

Like on the simpsons when Lisa is doing the experiment "is bart dumber than a hamster"

[vifferman]

Why didn't he have a spare key in his locker instead??? :spudwhat:

mmm Lab..... Maybe he was an experiment???

Like on the simpsons when Lisa is doing the experiment "is bart dumber than a hamster"
Because he was a moron.
He was the same guy that used to go out and get pissed on the weekends, and come back to work with one eyebrow missing, or a bald patch shaved into the middle of his hair, or something else weird. His equally moronic friends used to inflict such "jolly japes" on one of their number when he was comatose or otherwise not in control of his faculties. So usually it was Kyle (or Kylie Mole, as we used to call him....)

[Waylander]

Anyone ever leave their keys in thier helmet at home then forget they are there the next day? Did that once and looked for them for about 3 hours till my dad came home and got the extra from him. Went to put my helmet on and my keys fell out and hit me on the head. Felt incredibly stupid then.

[F5 Dave]

The best one was coming back from the Brass we stayed in a motel & one of the guys lost his keys. Searched for hours & he was saying just go without me & we were thinking about ways to hot wire it safely + fill gas (6 month old GS1200).

Then I had a brainwave. Cool as custard I sez. “Tell us about your Tank bag”. [tense voice] “I’ve looked in there”. “No tell us about it. Any special features”

“What do you mean, it’s a tankbag, it’s magnetic it’s . . .”[penny drops]

Sure enough, stuck to the bottom on the bike tank. Hahaha.

Flipper please stand up!

Cathy I’d offer to come get the bike & take it to a locksmith but booked up today, will be in town tomorrow night though.

Sometimes the seat lock or petrol cap has the numbers on it to go get one cut, or you can take the ignition off to get one cut, but usually has to be open to take off.

In the future keep a spare in your jacket & at home or work.

[Waylander]

In the future keep a spare in your jacket & at home or work.
And also keep a piece of paper with your keys code written on it in your wallet so that if you lose both keys. I do that because at the moment I only have one key for it.

[toads]

i hope you've mnaged to find them Cathy, but here's a few places to look, the dirty laundry, and pockets of clothes that have been worn in the past day or so, the rubbish, often I can sweep stuff off the bench and into the rubbish, below the keyholder, when another set of keys has been grabbed by someone else and mine have been knocked ot the ground, inside the lining of your helmet, my key always end up inside my helmet, inside your bie jacket pocket.

[MikeL]

The one good thing about getting older is that experience (bitter experience) has taught you a few lessons...
Whenever I get a new bike, car or house the first thing I do is pay a visit to the friendly local locksmith and get 2 spares cut. Cheapest insurance you can get. One spare set of vehicle keys is always kept hanging on a key hook in the house.
Years ago when I was an impoverished student with my first bike (all of 50cc) the key fell out of the ignition while the bike was going along. Didn't notice until I got home. Had to disconnect the main fuse. For months afterwards, to start or stop the bike, I had to undo the side panel and fiddle with the fuse. Tried to get a replacement key from local dealers but they laughed. Even wrote to Japan - the letter was returned weeks later - undeliverable. Finally in desperation I rummaged through a jar of old keys my father had - found two different ones (can't have been bike keys) that fitted the ignition and solved the problem.

I think I may have told this story before. Just ignore... Alzheimers mumble mumble...

[XTC]

I know this doesn't help but my keey holder thingy says "put your keys on the hook and you'll know where to look...." And with two 2 year old boys running around it pays to put them on that hook or you'll eventually find them in the back of the pantry or under a bed or in the loo.....

[Monsterbishi]

I keep my keys in a sleeve pocket in my riding jacket, that way, when I put my jacket on - the keys are there...

[Will]

:spudwhat: Have you found them yet? :spudwhat:

Apart from all of the above, the extra bit that I can add is to look in your bike.
Sounds stupid but I "lost" my keys once. They slipped out of my hand (still had my gloves on) and without me knowing at the time, slipped down between engine and fairing. As someone else said you don't hear it when your helmet is on. I eventually found them sitting on the fairing at the very bottom where it curls back under the pipes. :2thumbsup

[LB]

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I hope they've turned up CSL.....

One of my friends bought a second hand bike, with only one key. Was going to get around to getting a key cut "one day". Parked in the bike park one day, keys on the seat while she took her helmet off. Keys slipped off and fell....into the grate of the stormwater drain that the back wheel was sitting on. Took three of us almost all day to retrieve them, in the end we got the Council to come and use a big vacum thingy to empty the drain of all the water and crap. Boy did it stink.

Another friend of ours lost her key at Wanganui the day after Boxing Day 2003 - we were all ready to go when she couldn't find it. We searched the motel unit, searcyed the route we'd walked to the track and back, went to the cop shop and sifted through the "lost keys" box, all to no avail. Got a locksmith in the end. Boxing Day 2004 when we got to the motel, they produced the keys - they'd fallen into the guts of the couch/sofa bed and had been found when someone opened up the couch to use as a bed.


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[Ms Piggy]

Hey so if I have the numbers can I just go and ask for them?

I know the numbers b/c when the bike was stolen they bastards f*cked the ignition so it had to get a new ignition & therefore a different ,key but the steering lock still used the old key. So everyday I ride I have to look at the key number to make sure I put the correct key in.

F5_Dave - I'll have 1 last really good look around my place before I get a locksmith. I'm broke as a broke thing at the moment so I want to try and not have to pay for a locksmith if I can help it! Cheers for the offer though! :niceone:

Thanks for the sympathy btw and I know I've f*cked up :o

[F5 Dave]

Yeah you should be able to get a key cut from the number. We can probably force or remove the steering lock. I’m coming into town tonight so if you want your bike moved if it is still in town then buzz us.

[Ms Piggy]

Yeah you should be able to get a key cut from the number. We can probably force or remove the steering lock. I’m coming into town tonight so if you want your bike moved if it is still in town then buzz us.
Nah the bike is parked up at my place, at home. So thats all good. I shall go and see the key cutting bloke today! All is not lost :confused2

[Ms Piggy]

Ok good news on the key front, I didn't know this but after ringing a bike shop & emailing an out of town place I called a Locksmith in Petone (Armstrong, 802-2555) and they are able to cut me new keys & courier them to me cos I had memorised my serial numbers. :niceone:

Betty is still wounded tho and that still has me f*cked off.

[jazbug5]

Yay!

(Not 'yay' that Betty's wounded, 'yay' that you're going to be able to ride her again.. you know...)

So- writing down serial numbers: Good Idea.

[Paul in NZ]

Thank goodness for a wonderful memory..

I have trouble remembering anything.. rego numbers? Phone numbers?? Sheesh!

Paul N

[Ms Piggy]

The only reason I recalled them was b/c I had to look at them everyday to make sure I put the right one in the ignition.

[TonyB]

Maybe this can be shot down/ has been suggested BUUUuuuuuT...Is it possible that your keys going missing had something to do with the bike being attacked? Not suggesting that you went out in your sleep and attacked it or anything, but were the bike lock keys and ignition keys on the same key ring? What I'm postulating is that someone found the keys in the bike, but then couldn't knick it because they didn't have the key for the bike lock. Slimbag then gets pissed off and kicks bike over. Just a thought.

[TonyB]

Not in the bike b/c I have the padlock key on there as well, so I have to tkae the keys out of igntion to lock to padlock & steering lock. :(

Just shot down my own theory. Oh well.

[Wolf]

Ok good news on the key front, I didn't know this but after ringing a bike shop & emailing an out of town place I called a Locksmith in Petone (Armstrong, 802-2555) and they are able to cut me new keys & courier them to me cos I had memorised my serial numbers. :niceone:
Great news about the keys! :2thumbsup

Of course you know that this means you'll find your other ones now - always happens after going to the trouble and expense (especially the expense) of getting a replacement...