Keys dangerous on the ride?

[Ana]

I just ordered a wallet to carry all the essentials while biking: cash, credit card, ID, keys, etc....

Is it dangerous to ride with your keys in the back pockets? Has anyone ever had a mishap/accident in which your keys jabbed/stabbed/injured you? :eek:

Thanks!

[ehirsch83]

Nope.
I only take the keys necessary for me to get in my house and place them in a ziplock back along with my cell phone and some spare cash. The ziplock bag then goes into my jersey pocket and off I go. I have never had an issue with it.

[Grog]

I do take only my house key and fit it in my jimi-style wallet most of the time, along with credit card, transit pass (you never know), and a little cash. I wouldn't carry a bit set of key.

I have a hard-time imagining a bike accident where I'd land on my back, but when I have only my key (I carry ID around my neck, always), then I put it in one of the side pockets of my jersey, not the middle one...

[bmccasland]

I put my car key (I ride from the office and back), cell phone, inhaler, spare insurance card in my bento box. Office ID goes either there, or in my back pocket, so I can reach back and pull it out to show the gate guard when I come back.

Did a quick google search and found a picture:
http://www.polardiscount.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idProduct=109

Since one of my shoulders is still moderately tight, I don't use my back pocket very much for anything I might want to actually grab while riding. And I don't want anything non-breathable back there - I sweat like a stuck pig.

[RoadRaven]

Only injury I have sustained from my keys is when I forget they are sitting loose in my back pocket and I sit in a chair or lean against a door before I get changed.

I do have my keys wrapped in a plastic bag with my money card and swipe card, so they are a little bit "insulated" I suppose...

[OakLeaf]

I insulate my key just because I keep it in the same ziploc bag as my credit card, insurance card and ID. A key would definitely tear those up, just riding. I took a piece of closed-cell foam packing material (not EPS, the slightly more flexible stuff, I don't know what it's called) about 1 cm thick, cut it into a rectangle about 1 cm longer and 1 cm wider than the key, then put a slit in the center to hold the key.

That's my house key. Depending on where I'm riding from, I carry only a house key or a car key, not both. My car key is an RFID key - that, I have wrapped tightly in plastic cling wrap (one of the few things I use that stuff for!) so I don't corrode the electronics with sweat when I put it in my running shorts pocket, or if my cycling ziploc bag isn't completely watertight.

[Andrea]

I use my key hider when I ride from my house or stick my car key in my seat bag when I go to a ride someplace. I did get a really bad bruise on time when I wrecked in a crit and had my inhaler in my back pocket. I landed right on it & it left a goose-egg on my backbone.

[Tuckervill]

Ouch.

I don't carry a house key, because we changed our front door lock to a combination lock with multiple users. My middle son thinks I can tell who's coming in and when. shhh, don't tell him. ;)

Yesterday my car key saved my hand from a burn--but I was walking, not riding. I was making my way around a drunk guy who had accosted me earlier, and I didn't see the little curb that outlines the wheelchair ramp from sidewalk to street (you know the part that should have been painted yellow?) I twisted my ankle down the curb, fell off my shoes, hit the pavement with my left hand, which happened to be holding my car keys. Then I rolled over on my back, laughing very hard. The key took the brunt of what would have been a pretty bad road rash had it not been there. The key got a pretty bad rash, too. It was embarrassing, but also very funny. Until I got mad because they didn't paint the curbs yellow. What if I were elderly?

Falling on the car keys in the jersey pocket reminds me of Wil Smith in I Am Legend, when he falls on the knife after cutting himself out of a trap. ::shudder:::

Karen

[shootingstar]

I feel like a real Freda...:D I just always carry my pannier...and lock.
has my keys, etc. I actually need to have my full set of keys..rather than fragment and try to remember to put together access to different parts of my life.