So i uhh... locked my keys in my err... bike?

[Cloggy]

So today... after working a 9 hr 3rd shift and staying up til noon (still havent slept as i'm typing this) i rode the bike to town to pick up some donuts.... turns out they dont fit in a jacket unless u want crumbly donuts... so i ran to ACE hardware to grab some bungees.... got the bungees... unlocked my seat, took key out of seat lock (dumbazz) put the bungees in by where the tool kit is... locked the seat back in place... Then... HM, wheres my keys? checked right pocket left pocket, the back pockets... hoodie pocket... nadda... "oh sh1t!" as the current situation walks up and slaps me in my exhausted face...
I only got one key in my bike so i was desperately trying to peel the sides of the seat up to get to the key... managed to get both bungies out, hoping it would drag my poor little key with them...but of course no.

So after a half hour of sweating my arse off in a jacket hoodie and polo... in the 3 h's... still couldnt see the key... i was thinking i was either going to have to have a key made by kawi or cut the seat off... (i have the stock seat sitting around somewhere)....then i lifted the very tail of the seat... to see how the locking mechanism worked and if it could be pryed... looked...nope. kawi made this system quite well, unfortunately...

As my eyes wandered back towards my tail-light, i realize my keys were sitting there... just out of reach! So i grabbed one of the bungees i pulled out and attempted to hook it... touched it, and it fell about an inch deeper in. I thought to myself "eff it, i'll risk a hand injury" (had been in the Ace parking lot for a while now and was starting to attract attention). So i lifted the locked in seat by the tail as hard as i could, jammed a hand in there grabbed it, and thanked my stars i wasn't going to have to call to get my bike towed...

So i unlocked my seat, put my key in my pocket this time... put the bungees back in and was putting the seat back on when a friend of my dad's pulls in the parking lot, asking about the bike, if it was new etc. (had no idea what just happened lol) i said "yeah had it a couple months now" He asked me how many cc's i responded, 650... he said, and i found this funny as it was also referred to by a FZ6 forum member as... "looks like something from star wars" and he went into the hardware store... I laughed and went to get my donuts... a sweaty mess...and when did they start making snapples in glass??? had to shove that in my pocket (luggage def gonna be my first mod).

Anyways, i thought i'd let my good friends at the forum have a nice long laugh at me

2 60+ hr weeks on 3rd shift then trying to stay up takes it's toll on you...lol

Thanks for sharing, hope you manage to get a bit of rest from your work schedule.

couple weeks ago my 2 year old son managed to push the locks down in the car and lock the keys inside with him. Tried to get him to unlock the door but he didn't have the strength to pull the catch up so I had to try and keep him company from the other side of the car while mum went back home (20 mins each way) to get the spare set of keys.

I had to have a big brick ready to smash the window in case he grabbed the hard mints in the front and started choking!!! - We learnt a lesson that day!!!

Luckily the kids are older now but that would have freaked me out

o man i left my key in the seat lock on my old ninja 250 a couple of times... one of those times was two blocks from time square :spank:....thank GOD no one noticed lol:ban:

I once left my key in the ignition, and then put my cover over the bike, the next day I spent more than an hour looking for the key :banghead: luckily no one took the bike :thumbup:

I carry a spare with me all the time! :thumbup:

I always do this when I'm on a longer trip, but not on a day to day basis. I figure if something happens close to home I can always get public transport back home, but I wouldn't want it ruining a good days riding :thumbup:

 

[chunkygoat]

Tit bit of information here for you, now that its too late of course. I had a problem where my seat lock was completely jammed when I went to change my taillight. Well for the life of me, I could not get the key to turn in any direction, even the slightest amount.

Well after looking the bike over, I found under the tail light, the locking mechanism is directly adjacent to the lock itself, and has a spring loaded slider that slides into the groove of this little "notchy stub." Well all that was need to be done was slide the spring loaded mechanism down and the seat literally just pops up. It takes almost less time to unlock it this way than with the key itself...

So now that its too late, if you ever have a similar problem where you lock your keys under the seat, you can very easily, in under 2 seconds, unlock the seat by manually sliding the mechanism adjacent to the lock. Actually defeats the purpose of the lock if you ask me, but I feel most people don't know this.

 

[dxh24]

I carry a spare with me all the time! :thumbup:

Only had one key lol, going to get a spare asap though lol

 

[04fizzer]

I looked for 3 hours around my house once because i lost my keys. Only to find them in the seat lock under my covered bike LOL. But i had a spare made as soon as i got the bike because im an idiot sometimes.

I've done the same thing, except they keys are usually in the ignition.

 

[Popeye70]

I once left my key in the ignition, and then put my cover over the bike, the next day I spent more than an hour looking for the key :banghead: luckily no one took the bike :thumbup:

This summer, I left the keys in the ignition, with the ignition on "Off" instead of "Lock" for a month while on vacation. The bike is parked on the street, but luckily the bike was under it's cover so no one noticed.

I discovered it when I was going to ride to work on the first post vacation day with ok weather and the keys weren't there. Grabbed the spares, removed the cover and voila! There they were. A little worked up i tried to start it, but no success. "Bummer, no juice left in the battery" I thought and went to get the charger. When I returned I noticed the kill switch was on. I turned it off and the bike started just fine, and I rode to work.