Tools and Spares

Keys

If you get mugged you've lost your passport and money and keys. The passport and money can be dealt with in the usual way (whatever that is -- sobbing in the street?) but you're going to be sat there facing a bike which you can't move.

Sure, you could ram a screwdriver into the ignition but that's just adding insult to injury.

What you want to be doing is stashing a spare set of keys on the bike. This gets a bit interesting. One obvious place would be under the seat as that is secure, locked by the key...oh, wait.

You need a better place, secure-ish, ie. unobserved and yet accessible without the key.

Some people have suggested under some resin or goo (for waterproofing) behind the number plate but I tend to think the the number plate is something relatively vulnerable on a bike and in the event of it breaking off I might not be compis mentis enough under the circumstances to remember to go looking for my ripped off number plate to retrieve my spare key.

On my bike I found a spot at the front which isn't visible (so I can't even tell if it's dropped off!) and should be fairly waterproof under some gaffer tape. To gain access I require an allen key which should be fairly easy to get hold of.

My other spare keys are then under the seat.

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