How much...

[Rob W]

...stuff have you lost while on the bike?

After losing my third pouch of baccy today while out it got me thinking. So far I've lost 3 pouches of baccy, 2 mobile's and very nearly my wallet a while back. Really should make sure my pockets are done up properly before I set off, .

So, what have you managed to lose while out for a ride? Or is it just me?

[truslack]

My wallet came out of my pocket once.... containing my tax disk, the new keepers supplement for my bike (which I had yet to use to apply for a V5 as I hadn't been given one), £80 cash, my debit card, licence etc.

I managed to go back 10 miles to where I felt something fly out, found my new keepers supplement, snapped licence, wallet, and £20.
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Current: Suzuki RG 125 Gamma, Honda H100, Triumph Tiger 800XC, Suzuki SV650 (minitwin)

[teampots]

lost a wallet on the a64 although pulled over and ran back up the road and picked up all the cash that had fallen out and the wallet itself
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[The Artist]

wallet, loose notes £20 once, £10 another time of someone else money, a tomtom sat nav, 2 brand new 50g pouches of GV and various parts of my bike.

None of which I have ever noticed till miles later and couldn't go back to find. Sat nav was at night in the rain.

[Pete.]

Lost my wallet once. I had put it in my inside jacket pocket - or so I thought. Turns out I had missed the pocket and it was just resting inside my jacket, and it fell out on the A2.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[truslack]

Oh yeah, I lost my glasses lens the other day near knott end, went back and found it in the middle of the road, minus a small bit of glass at one side
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Current: Suzuki RG 125 Gamma, Honda H100, Triumph Tiger 800XC, Suzuki SV650 (minitwin)

[KevTM]

Nothing. Well, apart from the odd bolt maybe

[Rob W]

I've actually managed to lose a slip-on exhaust on the CB, .

It used to have a Viper slip-on can, went out for a ride once and didn't even notice until I got home that the thing had just fallen off.

How the fuck do you not notice your exhaust falling off?

[WishayKillie]

Riding up to start my nightshft at my old job a few years ago and my backpack decided to open while doing a fair speed. I managed to loose my portable DVD player, Mob Phone, Newspaper, 3 dvd's and my pack lunch box that my mum had made.

Looped back down the carriageway and manged to recover my DVD Player minus the remote, 1x DVD, and my Dairy Milk. The player still worked amazingly.
Unfortunately the Quavers, Apple and my Cheese and Pickle sandwich were beyond rescue .
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Previous; 05 Triumph Daytona 600, 08' Ducati 1098s.
"Needs a check-up, fae the neck up!"

[Clanger]

Lost a couple of hair scrunchies, and a couple of bolts from the sv...but that's about it. I am quite anal about checking my pockets whilst out and about riding, as in I will check them over and over...
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[Charlie]

Lost the heat shield from my exhaust on my hornet 250 on the motorway, I heard a clatter looked in mirrors to see a bit of metal on the slip road.

20 miles later I filled up with petrol and realised what I had seen on the slip road was my heat shield.
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Past: Honda x8rs, Honda City fly, Honda Hornet 250, Honda VFR750, Yamaha xt600e.
Current: Honda CBR929RR & Yamaha XT660Z Tenere

[Kickstart]

Hi

Paid of shoes that were bungeed down on the rack. Went back and found them, but they had been run over. They were more comfortable after that.

Related, what is the strangest thing you have ever carried on a bike? I have carried Scalextrics sets twice, once solo with it on the pillion seat, once carried by a Charlotte on the (got to about 50 and the wind started to push them backwards). Also had Charlotte carrying a 125 2 stroke engine on the pillion seat, and carried a 125 2 stroke engine in a Bagster tank bag.

All the best

Keith
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[Rob W]

[The Artist]

I carried a TV on the back of my ped Corners were interesting to say the least. I have carried a spare wheel and various other large items before.

[Jayy]

Lost two phones, got them both back... lucky.

[Al]

Not lost much but the other day I was riding home in the dark, stopped at some traffic lights, looked down and there was twenty quid right next to my foot.
There was a car stopped behind me so I had to get off and to pretend check something on my bike while sneakily picking the note up.
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[Clique]

I've lost a shoe from my favourite pairs on the A27. Was travelling with loadsa stuff back to my apartment in Brighton and it would appear the knot pulled through. Entirely my fault as I figured I wouldn't need a proper knot as well... a GS doesn't exactly go fast. Heh live and learn I suppose.

Edited: Adding in the strangest thing carried.

A friends Minimoto, bike on bike action!

[GSF Jamie 600]

[Flip]

Lost? 25g of baccy and a tax disc.

Strangest carried? VCR from memory.

[slyrob]

i picked up some lunch for me, the misses and her sister. she had ordered and forgotten the fact that I took the bike and ordered coffee's and juice for all of us. I put them in a box and strapped the box on the back of the bike....technically I only lost half of the drinks


coffee with apple juice in it is shit
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[ms51ves3]

Just a few nuts and bolts. Worst one was on my Raleigh, two bolts held the tank and mudguard up above the rear wheel, one fell out so the tank fell on one side and was dangerously close to the wheel.

[Sam_Y_93]

I dropped my phone once.I turned around and had to sit at a red light watching it in the middle of the road, and saw it get ran over.
As for strangest I guess it would be golf clubs, always get odd looks when you have a set of clubs strapped to ya back

[TheDonUK]

Keys, i lost keys once.

And the strangest thing i ever carried was a pre assembled Ikea clothes rail, balanced in the footwell of a ped...

I just underestimated its size in the shop and by the time i came out it was a case of fuckit....
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[Current Bikes - GSXR-750 K5 & C90-97 ] [Previous Bikes: Runner 125, YBR 125, GS500, Bandit 600, Hornet 600, ZX6R-99, C90-99, R1-99, XT600E-04, GSXR-750 K4, CRF250L '16]

[Noxious89123]

I lost a pair of gloves, my girlfriends t-shirt and my pants

I was riding home from work one day, and saw a bloke on a similar CBR6F4 with an entire full size chest of draws sat bungeed onto the pillion seat
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'53 Ford Ka 1.3 ~ '03 Vauxhall Astra SRi 1.8 ~ '52 Vauxhall Astra SRi 2.2 ~ '53 Vauxhall Astra GSi

[Carl_steveo]

I don't have a pouch for tools under the seat so just threw it all in. Started to realise after a while that things were going missing. I started losing spanners, wrenchs, screwdrivers and my mates metal rod thing he uses to take his spark plug out.

Was doing some work on my bike and threw the nuts and bolts under the seat with everything else. Lost my tank bolt and blamed my mate for losing it lol.

Then I lost loads of allen keys and I started to get a bit pissed off that I was losing all this stuff. Then one day I took the back side panels off the bike for loads of stuff to fall out. When riding they had jumped over into the fairings. There was all my tools and even a butter knife.

Weirdest thing I've carried on the bike.............24 toilet rolls under a cargo net on the pillion seat. I struggled to get on the bike and get my leg over (not in that sense dirty bastards) the toilet rolls. People were looking at me funny at the lights and stuff. Carried a huge bag of sawdust for the rabbit under the cargo net too.

Carried the whole food shopping in my Berghaus bag including all the food and a crate of coke cans. It weighed a ton to the point where I felt the bike's suspension was fucked a little bit.
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