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Do you hide a spare 🔑
« on: June 05, 2022, 11:18:51 AM »
After giving myself a needless fright 40 miles from home one frigid morning.....I set about secreting a spare ignition 🔑 on my scooters.
Have you done the same?
It is visible here in this morning's pic....



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Re: Do you hide a spare 🔑
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2022, 11:22:56 AM »
No, not concerned about someone using it.
My scooters are either behind locked doors, or where I am looking at them..


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Re: Do you hide a spare 🔑
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2022, 12:00:23 PM »
Yeah? Where?
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Re: Do you hide a spare 🔑
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2022, 03:46:08 PM »
Is that it hanging out of the top case lock?


I know some owners of bikes with saddlebags that need a key to open who took spare keys and added a knob on the end to make them look like dials covering the key holes and just left them there all the time.


I've always kept a spare key hidden on my bikes someplace, though not where they can be seen. On my AK, since there is no "key" involved being keyless, I put my spare fob in a RFID pouch (bought a pair on Amazon) and drop that in the storage box under the seat. I have a secret seat latch release that I can use to open the seat to get at it. The RFID pouch prevents the AK from "seeing" that fob from the storage box.
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Re: Do you hide a spare 🔑
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2022, 05:09:53 PM »
Yeah? Where?

It’s like a Where’s Wally? puzzle!
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Re: Do you hide a spare 🔑
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2022, 06:31:58 PM »
It’s like a Where’s Wally? puzzle!
Whooze Wally? Har, har!
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Re: Do you hide a spare 🔑
« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2022, 07:36:56 PM »
Whooze Wally? Har, har!

Ah, that’s a UK only phenomenon I take it?
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Re: Do you hide a spare 🔑
« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2022, 08:14:45 PM »
Duct-taped under the rear rack....with a bit of stout string hanging so I can reach it to pull it out of the tape.
Have since started carrying my old Swiss Army knife with the phillips blade. So key is behind a panel now.

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Re: Do you hide a spare 🔑
« Reply #8 on: June 09, 2022, 08:46:30 PM »
Ah, that’s a UK only phenomenon I take it?

In the US it's known as Where's Waldo?
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Re: Do you hide a spare 🔑
« Reply #9 on: June 09, 2022, 10:23:19 PM »
In the US it's known as Where's Waldo?

Next time I'm on the group W bench I'll look around for him.
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Re: Do you hide a spare 🔑
« Reply #10 on: June 10, 2022, 06:57:06 AM »
In the US it's known as Where's Waldo?

Now I remember!
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