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What happens when you lose the key on a ride! - jessie928 - 05-02-2008
Gidday,
i thought to share a little dillema i had recently when i went on a weekend ride with mates.
we left home sparrow fart ( 5.45am ) on saturday, riding on a few different roads, all up between swimming, eating and riding we managed about 500km's of good fun!
topped the afternoon off with a sunset swim in the ocean, and walked up the beach back to the cabin and spent the evening chatting, snacking and sucking on a Nargile ( shisha) overlooking the beach.
Sunday, had our long morning swim, and started uwiliningly packing for the 11am checkout time, we were out of the cabin around 10.30 where we took some last minute pics of the bikes packed ready to head home. This is where my dillemma started.
NO KEY? cant find it anywhere! the cabin was ransacked, everyones gear was ransacked, we scoured the ground outside the cabin, and i nearly tipped the bike upside down and shook it to see if it fell out of somewhere.nope, NO KEY. To make it worse, i left the ignition in the LOCK position, no steering....
anyway, i tried a mates suzuki key, jiggling my lock, no go. gave it a rest, pondered possible non lethal solutions, and then gave it another shot. After a good 20 mins i managed to jiggle the ignition into the OFF position and kept trying for some ignition, by this time another 20-30 mins had passed- no luck.
so i started pulling the covers off to gain access to the loom, Bugger it, i'll short circuit the ignition. So i splice the wires, pull the plug out and try this, try that, 5 wires in all possible configurations and no luck. FI light flashing....
then i find someome with internet, do a search, and find out that ECU/start system has a theft prevention device, a 100ohm resistor has to be bridged into the wires.
By now its about 1pm in a small coastal town, the possibility of my finding a 100ohm resistor is pretty slim, but i try my luck and through a bloke i met at a servo i manage to get hold of the local electronics guru, but he is shut ( obviously). but luckily, my bloke give me his home address, and i go banging on the guru's door. I explain my predicament and he forages through his stuff and hands me 2 resistors, refuses to take any money.
anyhow back at the ranch, i wire in the resistor, we have ignition.
ETA liftoff 20mins.
We hit the road, thrilled that i dont have to park my bike hundreds of k's from home and get a lift back on one of the other bikes to return with a spare key,
On the road again! After a while riding we pull in at a servo ready to fill them up and take the scenic route home.
The split second i open the sidestand, it hits me like a freight train, NO KEY for the fuel lid!
!@#$!@#$
try jiggling fot half an hour, nope.
does not budge, its impossible to get the bastard open by any means other than breaking the lock ( and i would rather drive 5000km's on a moped to fetch the key , than take to Busra with a hammer/drill/screwdriver)
i ponder my options, fill from the overflow, slowly slowly, this would be painstaking as there would be no venting.
nope, tanks coming off, and i will fill it from the sender. Anyhow, i pull the tank, flip it, remove the sender and fill her up. put it back on, fire her up and voila, i have a full bike. :)
i dont wanto do this again, so we donot take the scenic route and i pray to god that Busra can get home 320km's on 1 tank of gas ( even though she is running like a pig ( need new pump and injector clean) and slamming down the unleaded fast.
so back on the road,
EDIT. after 2km's the bikes splutters and grinds to a halt.... i think what could be the issue, kinked lines perhaps?
NOPE, fuel petcock left in off position.. :), fix that issue aswell, ( user error)
back back on d road, and i i baby her, keeping the average consumption at 17.2km/s per litre, which is an absolute first ( and hopefully last) for me.
anyway, we got there in the end, it took over double the amount of time it should have taken but got there none the less.
+1 for not deserting the ship :)
cheers,
JEs
RE: What happens when you loose the key on a ride! - Heidi1 - 05-02-2008
DUDE!! You ROCK!! I would have done my nut at some point far earlier than that and kicked the f*** out of my bike AND my gear AND anything else that came near me.
You must have the patience of a saint!
RE: What happens when you loose the key on a ride! - jessie928 - 05-02-2008
heheh im not a very patient person actually, but in times that its pertinent to be patient, it comes from somewhere, i dont know where..
I also forgot to add ( i will edit) that after i topped the tank up, the bike stopped again about 2km's down the road.
No fuel. I forgot the fuel petcock on off..hehehehe
JEs
RE: What happens when you loose the key on a ride! - Speed Demon - 05-02-2008
With any luck in 5-10years hopefully they'll have something like fingerprint activation and totally do away with all this getting keys coded and shit
RE: What happens when you loose the key on a ride! - BLACKZOOK - 05-02-2008
Great story
Next time 6mm drill bit striaght down the key hole and turn her on with a screw driver - then remove the entire fuel cap and surround with an allen key.
RE: What happens when you loose the key on a ride! - jessie928 - 05-02-2008
BLACKZOOK Wrote:Great story
Next time 6mm drill bit striaght down the key hole and turn her on with a screw driver - then remove the entire fuel cap and surround with an allen key.
drilling, or breaking the lock was not an option :)
as for the fuel flap, removing the allen head bolts does not allow the cap to be removed. Knowing this, i still tried, without luck.
cheers,
JEs
RE: What happens when you loose the key on a ride! - TimF - 05-02-2008
What a brilliant story, and well told also.
RE: What happens when you loose the key on a ride! - VNSVLE - 05-02-2008
you just lucky you got old school bike and not one of the gen 2's with the security system and coded key. Well done you have more patients than me i think.
RE: What happens when you loose the key on a ride! - Volvi - 05-02-2008
man thats some persistency you werent gonna take no for an answer.
RE: What happens when you loose the key on a ride! - Mutha - 05-02-2008
Great story, Geeze, I don't know what I would have done.
I think I would prolly just start crying, as you do.
I know what I'm going to do from now on,
Carry my spare key on me.
RE: What happens when you loose the key on a ride! - BUSGO - 05-02-2008
Excellent story but bad luck with the lost key mate.
A friend found himself in the same situation when we were vacating our house at Phillip Island a couple of years ago.
After turning the house upside down, including all the garbage bins and flipping all the matresses etc, we decided to give him a lift up to the nearest locksmith.
He sat down to put on his boots and VOILLA... key in the boot trick....
RE: What happens when you lose the key on a ride! - crazzy54 - 05-02-2008
That is tatally crazy.... You need to give out your number and start up an NRMA Road Side service style gig. You'd be able to charge a motza to rescue blokes in a simmilar situation......
RE: What happens when you loose the key on a ride! - black13 - 05-02-2008
10 out of 10 for persistance jess
its a valuable story for everyone to heed ya made it home without leaving ya ride behind,i wouldve called my motoring organisation[quote=BUSGO]
Excellent story but bad luck with the lost key mate.
A friend found himself in the same situation when we were vacating our house at Phillip Island a couple of years ago.
After turning the house upside down, including all the garbage bins and flipping all the matresses etc, we decided to give him a lift up to the nearest locksmith.
He sat down to put on his boots and VOILLA... key in the boot trick....
thats murphys law with a happy ending
RE: What happens when you lose the key on a ride! - Rev - 05-02-2008
Very resourceful indeed, it's amazing how your clarity of thought can be improved by being stranded in the middle of nowhere on a dead bike
RE: What happens when you lose the key on a ride! - Pommie - 05-02-2008
jessie928 Wrote:i dont wanto do this again, so we donot take the scenic route and i pray to god that Busra can get home 320km's on 1 tank of gas ( even though she is running like a pig ( need new pump and injector clean) and slamming down the unleaded fast.
I got a spare pump if yur interested. Send me a pm