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

**Wolf** · 23rd February 2005, 11:43

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** · 23rd February 2005, 14:07

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** · 23rd February 2005, 14:16

Originally Posted by Andyadams

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** · 23rd February 2005, 14:17

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** · 23rd February 2005, 14:56

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** · 23rd February 2005, 16:49

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

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** · 23rd February 2005, 17:57

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** · 23rd February 2005, 20:02

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** · 23rd February 2005, 20:13

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** · 23rd February 2005, 20:22

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** · 23rd February 2005, 20:22

: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.

LB · 24th February 2005, 03:59

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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** · 24th February 2005, 08:14

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!

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

**F5 Dave** · 24th February 2005, 08:25

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** · 24th February 2005, 09:26

Originally Posted by 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.

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