Good place to "stash" the spare key?

swall said:

I just carry mine in my wallet. Has worked well so far.

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That's fine...until their spouse comes home unexpectedly and you're flying out the bedroom window without your trousers! No trousers, NO WALLET...unless you're wearing it on a chain around your neck....just sayin'!

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Motodan said:

That's fine...until their spouse comes home unexpectedly and you're flying out the bedroom window without your trousers! No trousers, NO WALLET...unless you're wearing it on a chain around your next....just sayin'!

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You'll be in even more trouble, if you wear it around your "next."


E.

Guys, Guys... please

...your confusing what goes in the wallet that goes on the next!

If your flying out the house window with anything like chains or zip-ties holding it on, your going to loose it. It will slip right off as the situation deteriorates!

You really want the spare key... duct taped to the upper right side of your ass cheek (if your right handed).

That way the key is available quickly allowing you to snatch and go.

Instead of taping it to the butt cheek, just insert the key........

I don't have keyless ignition on my '12 GTL. I keep a spare key in my jacket pocket. I don't ride without the jacket. When I'm riding on a longer tour with my brother, I give him an extra key and he gives me a spare fob for his bike. So far, so good.

I just carry a spare key on my truck/ house key ring in my pants. Since I never leave home without my house key, I always have a spare bike key in my pants under my gear.

My primary bike key is all by itself on a leather fob. Multiple keys in the ignition aren't the best thing for the lock/switch on a 34 year old bike. Key stays in the bike when in the garage.

98lee said:

I just carry a spare key on my truck/ house key ring in my pants. Since I never leave home without my house key...

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Or your pants, I hope...

All good information for fellow riders!

Just a reminder, this forum can be read by anyone as a Guest and the content of this forum is searchable on the Internet.

Try "stash spare key bmwmoa.org" on a browser.

/Guenther

Velcro wrist watch starp

PoorUB said:

Guys, I am not interested in carrying the key on my body. Not in my wallet, boots or in my jacket pocket. I am doing that now, but with wearing different jackets, too much crap in my wallet already, and simply not wanting to deal with it I am looking for options to hide it on the bike.

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I once read somewhere a rider using a cheap Velcro wristwatch band with the spare key zip tied to it.

I'll add one comment. If you use a wire tie make sure it is a quality one. Cheap ones get brittle and fail in short order. Or use wire.

Guenther said:

All good information for fellow riders!

Just a reminder, this forum can be read by anyone as a Guest and the content of this forum is searchable on the Internet.

Try "stash spare key bmwmoa.org" on a browser.

/Guenther

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I know any things possible...but, I'd worry a lot more if this was a where do you stash your stash thread

I am shocked and surprised. Four pages of responses and they've, for the most part, stayed on topic!

Lots of good ideas here.

Trust that Henzilla guy to veer off into the weeds. (No pun intended!)

36654 said:

I liked the small flat keys you could carry in your wallet. But, that was a long time, ago

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The plastic one that came w/ my '16 RT went into my wallet and has never left.

Guenther said:

All good information for fellow riders!

Just a reminder, this forum can be read by anyone as a Guest and the content of this forum is searchable on the Internet.

Try "stash spare key bmwmoa.org" on a browser.

/Guenther

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I am not very concerned. How many BMW's do you think a thief can look over and pop off side panels and such to find the one with the hidden key when there are motorcycles out there with the key in the ignition.

I ride with a guy that has a 2012 Harley Limited and his keys and key FOBs are still in the trunk, (Top case for the BMW impaired). The only time he has taken the keys out was to put new batteries in the FOBs, then right back in the trunk. Sitting outside a motel near you!

Spare Key location

PoorUB said:

Riding a 2018 R1200RT. I have the FOB and the plastic emergency key. I was thinking of hiding the key on the motorcycle somewhere. My best idea is to duct tape it under the licence plate. Any other ideas?

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I've had mine on a loop of string secured inside my (break away) mirror 45K later still there.

jad01 said:

Or your pants, I hope...

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Ok, I've been struggling to not include this CIA sponsored hiding place, but this last comment opened a door and now I can't resist:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/videos/cia-fake-scrotum

Anyname said:

Ok, I've been struggling to not include this CIA sponsored hiding place, but this last comment opened a door and now I can't resist:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/videos/cia-fake-scrotum

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Wow. My first thought was, "A guy with two scrotums is going to raise questions." And on a female spy....

Then I watched the video and saw it was sort of an over-scrotum, which was intended to hold a not-so-very-miniature radio and now I'm thinking a set like that would be so big as to raise all sorts of other comments. No wonder the idea never made it into the field.

Yeah, but I'd bet that you'd never forget where your spare key was...

Anyname said:

Yeah, but I'd bet that you'd never forget where your spare key was...

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Around my neck on paracord won't be hard to forget. Riding with that sac might prove very uncomfortable.

Have you ever wondered...

Will the spare key allow me to open the fuel cap door? If you've "lost" the FOB itself while out traveling, your likely to need some gas to get home!

This happened to me once upon a time when I didn't know "all the stuff" concerning the electronics on the newer bike.

Usually I wear the FOB on a lanyard around my neck. One morning it was swinging in my way while packing and breaking camp.
So I stuffed the device into the outer chest pocket of the riding jacket; NO... I didn't zip it
Geared up, started up, and off I ride southbound on the Ice Fields Parkway, away from Jasper.
About 50 miles south I decide to synch-up a little more around the neck area, rather chilly it was.
You likely realize what's coming.
I come over a hill, long straight ahead, nobody following or ahead... I reach up to adjust my jacket collar real good.
The lanyard latches on to the velcro at the jacket sleeve cuff without my knowledge.
I lower my hand toward the controls and simultaneously glimpse, and feel something extra... departing the journey!
Confirmed in the mirror view, the FOB and lanyard spinning and tumbling, oh the horror of first thinking I would loose it... as "it" flung off into the weeds.
A well executed and panic induced 180 racing back, had me momentarily hopeful... was that "it" up ahead in the road?
YES! And then... that horror thing again, over the rise came a fleet of motor vehicles. Equidistant to the FOB as I was.
As I lowered the kickstand on the opposite shoulder of the roadway, I noticed the yellow warning icon displayed on the instrument cluster...
some folks actually waved as they passed by.
They were riding a big commercial tour bus that finished off the FOB; this was especially painful...and in shock, I think I waived back!
I hurriedly collected the aftermath... "it" was no longer an operable Key FOB, no matter how closely I held the smashed array of mangled parts to the bike.

So there I stood; the bike running and now without a FOB, on a Sunday morning in a remote location far from home.
Wondering... Does that little spare key I have open that fuel latch?

I know the "rest of the story"... do you?