Locked Bike Shed, Lost Key!

[Angelfishsolo]

Go down your new local pub, mention to some shifty types that you know where some nice bikes are... get them drunk enough to agree to go amd break into the shed... get them to do so, then kill them, put the bodies I'm the shed, lock it (with a new padlock) and fuggedaboudit... only issue is a worsening smell, or leaving your bikes out in the yard...

What are you on????

 

[coffeejo]

Not based on personal experience at all, but have you checked your pockets *properly*?

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Not based on personal experience at all, but have you checked your pockets *properly*?

 

[HLaB]

If its a wooden shed just set fire to it anything metal should be survive, if it the key is inside you'll be able to open the lock then

 

[Crackle]

Have you found it yet?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Have you found it yet?

Yeah. After I locked the shed I must have had the brilliant idea of putting the key on a random keyring with some random keys for locks that I'm unaware of, if that makes sense. To you, not me of course otherwise I'd have known what I'd done. Anyway I trawled through all the keys I could see last night and there it was - huzzah!

I did use a couple of poll options though, I did have a glass of beer and I did swear, but then I would have done that anyway more than f*cking likely.

Thanks for the useful suggestions, accountantpete's and Fnaar's will definitely get used at some point as they're so straightforward and practical.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

Should have just used it as a great excuse to buy another bike. Simples.

 

[byegad]

As I know to my cost the key is totally lost until you crop the lock. Then it will turn up.

I spent three hours yesterday looking for a bottle cage, one of a pair I'd bought two days ago. I used the first on the day I bought them and then found a use for cage number two. In the end I went to the LBS and bought another, fitted it and promptly found the missing cage, and this is important, where I knew I'd left it and had looked there several times over the course of my wasted three hours!!

 

[Angelfishsolo]

As I know to my cost the key is totally lost until you crop the lock. Then it will turn up.

I spent three hours yesterday looking for a bottle cage, one of a pair I'd bought two days ago. I used the first on the day I bought them and then found a use for cage number two. In the end I went to the LBS and bought another, fitted it and promptly found the missing cage, and this is important, where I knew I'd left it and had looked there several times over the course of my wasted three hours!!

It clearly had a perception filter around it

 

[Speicher]

Not based on personal experience at all, but have you checked your pockets *properly*?

Look in the pockets of the jacket/fleece that you might have been wearing. You may have forgotten that you put a extra layer on, because it was unexpectedly cold for the time of year. Oh yes, you have checked your pockets, but only your trouser pockets.

 

[Tynan]

dear god, I'm useless but anything I use regular is on my keyring and the spare (!!!!) goes in a pot of spare keys, by now to almost every lock we've ever had in the last 30 years

I do padlock the keyring into the bikeshed every couple of months if that helps OP

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I do padlock the keyring into the bikeshed every couple of months if that helps OP

Not sure if it helps but I'll probably give it a go!

 

[Bman]

You could also use a bump key

or a shim?


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjGRFjIX4xI

 

[Angelfishsolo]

or a shim?

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=BjGRFjIX4xI

Need to try that for myself (on my own lock) but if it is that easy that it is scary!

 

[I like Skol]

or a shim?

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=BjGRFjIX4xI

Jeez, that is worrying. Once he got to cutting the peice into a T shape I guessed exactly what the tool would do. I suspect on any reasonable quality lock the tolerances would be too tight to allow the shim to fit? Maybe I need to check my padlock (not used for the bikes but does still need to work!)