where do you keep your mobile/wallet when riding?

**pyrocam** · 6th July 2005, 15:32

re: http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...7&page=1&pp=15
I wonder where you guys and gals stash your essentials.

as a daily comuter I keep both personal and work mobile phones in work pants under cordura's with wallet in other pocket.

you?

**T.I.E** · 6th July 2005, 15:34

locked givi box on the back handy as hell. keps a dry set of clothes in there too. just for wet days like today.

**dveus** · 6th July 2005, 15:35

I have a small camera bag that I put my phone and wallet in then stick em under the seat. It's a pain whenever I need to stop and get something, but don't really like riding with anything in my pockets. That and my leathers dont have any pockets so that kinda helps make my decision.

**TonyB** · 6th July 2005, 15:38

now that I've got leathers with no pockets.....either in my Camelback or in a bum bag strapped to the bike.

Note for those that have not yet discovered this- don't put your wallet in a magnetic tank bag.... it can wipe the magnetic strips on your eftpos/ credit cards....makes it difficult to pay for anything....

**Waylander** · 6th July 2005, 15:47

Just have jeans for the moment so stuff goes in my pockets or in the inner pocket of my jacket.

**MSTRS:Me** · 6th July 2005, 15:59

In my tankbag if I'm using that - or in a pocket in my leather jacket

**vifferman** · 6th July 2005, 16:01

My wallet's usually in my pocket (unless I've left it at home on the bench, next to the toaster...)

Cellphone lives in my right shoe, watch in the left one.

Shoes live in my bag.

Bag lives on the packrack.

**Ixion** · 6th July 2005, 16:03

In my pocket, or in the glovebox

**BNZ** · 6th July 2005, 16:05

I like to put my wallet in an open outer pocket so I can share it and its contents with anyone following me on the wellington motorway.

Actually it normally goes in the "boot" now and cellphone goes in pants pocket.

**Lou Girardin** · 6th July 2005, 16:24

Cellphone in inner pocket since I drowned one.
Wallet in non-waterproof outer pocket that has proved to actually be waterproof.
Shoes, lunch, bike cover, kitchen sink, thermite grenade, SIG-Sauer in top box.
Ear plugs in ears.
Neck warmer on neck.
More bloody preparation than the James Cook did for his South Pacific holiday.

**oldenuf** · 6th July 2005, 16:27

Phone in outer pocket,handbag..in pack,an licence in outer pocket for when mr Law wants to view my credentials..saves fumbling in pack on rainy days.

**Wolf** · 6th July 2005, 16:28

Originally Posted by Lou Girardin

thermite grenade, SIG-Sauer in top box.

You'd be better off with a HE grenade and a Walther P99.

**Hitcher** · 6th July 2005, 16:30

Backpack? Don't get me started. Suffice it to say that I put the wearing of backpacks into the same category as the non-wearing of gloves or other protective equipment.

Tankbag for both wallet and cellphone. I don't trust the waterproofness of any gear sufficiently to protect either (the GoreTex layer is often underneath pockets), and I wouldn't like to land on either object in the (hopefully) unlikely event of an off.

**Blackbird** · 6th July 2005, 16:30

Just a safety warning (which I'm embarassed to say that I often ignore). One of the Tokoroa bikers had a car turn across his bows in town a couple of years back, resulting in his F650 collecting the front wing of the car and him sailing through the air. He had a garage door opener in a breast pocket and it moved sufficiently in his short flight to drive edge on between his ribs and cause internal bleeding.

I guess we think it will never happen to us, but any hard object in our pockets can cause injury if we come off.