Parking pass on a bike

[MarJay]

Hi BCF, font of much biking knowledge.

Here's a question for you. My office has just implemented a new policy concerning our underground car park. Currently the man on the gate just lets me in, but from Monday we have to use an electronic credit card sized pass to open the gates (we think, until it happens nobody can really be sure).

Does anyone have a solution for this? My commute is 50 miles each way and I don't want to lose the pass, but also I don't want to have to hunt out my pass from my top box or pockets when I arrive.

I was thinking of one of those armband ID pouches that you see doormen wear, and strapping it to my right wrist so I can swipe my hand over the sensor to let me in...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003CK2H7O/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=A2KVF7QXNCLV8H&psc=1

Does anyone on here have the same issue, and if so how have you gotten around it?
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[Nobby the Bastard]

I've been considering one of those but I can't find one with a removable cover that stops it being visable.

I'm not supposed to display it off site so can't have the pass showing whilst riding to work.
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[Easy-X]

I would imagine it'll be a contactless tag of some sort. Normally these come in two forms: "credit card" or key fob.

Might want to look at something like this:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61aO3k1fQyL._SX466_.jpg

So either a lanyard round your neck or the retractable thingy clipped to a belt loop.
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[Hawkeye1250FA]

Glue a plastic zip bag on the inside of your right glove.

Card goes in that. You open the gate by harry-pottering the sensor with the back of your hand.

Worked for me for years using the M6 toll.
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[Tdibs]

Small tank bag.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I've tried various solutions and arrived at the one you've hit upon.
Viper Tactical Arm Band
I put it just above my elbow and turn it so the card faces inwards. (I want people to see the cool dude in the helmet, not the pie-faced old git in the photo-card, nor my name.) Moments before arrival I turn it round, flex my (right) bicep at the card reader (incidentally raising a fist at the security gatehouse) and a cloud descends as I enter the site. I guess it would be slightly less convenient if the card reader is on the left (needs neutral gear).

[MarJay]

[weasley]

How close to the reader does the card need to get? Our site access gate reads the card from a few feet away, so in the car you just wave the card near the window without having to open it and on the bike just having my card in a pocket or even in the topbox is enough to open it.

If it’s like a contactless card kind of deal then I would probably stick it in the back of a glove. The ideal would be like they do with ski lift passes and have a little pocket in the arm of your jacket. In fact if you a Google ‘lift pass pouch’ a few options come up.
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[MarJay]

[iooi]

A couple of options I used.

Lanyard round the outside of your neck and card tucked in a pocket.

Other option was I have a screen on bike. Stuck a small plastic folder on the inside which had a popper to keep closed.
Just used to pull it out and scan.

Our passes do both gates and doors, thank god. But stupidly like yours need to touch the box now, even then they fail to work far to often.. Before you could just get it close and it worked.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

In contrast I have trouble leaving the work site when I'm aboard the R1. It doesn't trigger the sensor buried in the tarmac, whereas the Kawasaki will. I have the same trouble at the traffic lights exiting IWM Duxford. If no car joins behind me I have to jump the lights. I can only assume there's not enough iron low down on the Yamaha.

[MarJay]

[Minty]

I wear jeans under my textiles, my lanyard is around a belt loop of the jeans, comes out between my textiles and card holder lives between Little Minty and the tank. No damage to paintwork and I know exactly where it is when I get to the reader (which is on a slope up to the car park shutter).

Only downside is it gets a bit damp on a wet day but I have another lanyard on my desk to swap over. Our passes are the photo cards typeto enable us to move around the office through locked doors that are then car park enabled so we have to have them on us all day.

I assume you can't just slalom round the gates? Obviously I can't as we have roller shutters.
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[Sister Sledge]

Not work related but at the Tyne Tunnel there was a charge for motorcyclists. The operators of the tunnel began realising why massive queues were building at certain times - it was being caused by bikers hunting for that tunnel pass or fumbling for change for the barriers. The result is motorcyclists now travel free at the tunnel. An automated camera system recognises bikes and lifts barriers for them as they get close.
Not similar to your situation but a few rain damaged/lost passes or queues building at your works car park might have management seeing a problem they had not foreseen?
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[stinkwheel]

[yen_powell]

I have to swipe or use a blipper every day (depending which car park I am going in to) and I just put them in my lower right bike jacket pocket, which over the years has either been zipped or pop studded shut.

I have to stop on a steep slope so it works as follows..... stop in neutral, right foot on the rear brake, gloves off and pushed into gap between handlebars and screen, out with the card to swipe or the blipper to err blip, back in the pocket and ride in to the car park with the gloves still off.

My biggest problem is remembering to take the card out of my bike jacket if I use a car to go to work as it is my only way of getting into work or printing stuff without relying on other people.
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[MarJay]

[Robby]

Assuming its a short range RFID card, I would attach it to my glove or cut out the chip and glue it to the zip on my jacket cuff.

[Easy-X]

[almostthere]

Ski lift pass holder? the ones that retract into your pocket
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[Robby]

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[1198]

[Easy-X]

[MarJay]

The pass remains company property and there's no chance I can cut it up, and I don't want to lose it as I have to pay £5 for a new one.
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Remember kids, bikes aren't like lego. You can't easily take a part from one bike and then fit it to another.