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A new key cut for your bike where it is parked — including when every key is gone.
- Category
- Motorcycle
- Availability
- 24/7
- Coverage
- 10 GTA cities
- The visit
- 4 steps
On this page
Overview
A motorcycle key is cut from the bike's own lock or its key code rather than copied from a key you no longer have, so losing the last one is not the end of it. The technician works at the machine — driveway, underground garage, roadside — with the cutting equipment on board. Where the bike also carries a transponder, the electronic half is a separate job on the same visit, and you hear which halves yours needs before anything is cut.
Why a bike key is not just a smaller car key
One key usually runs several locks on a motorcycle — the ignition, the fork or steering lock, the seat, and on a touring machine the topcase and panniers. That is convenient right up to the moment the key is lost, because then every one of them is shut at once, including the seat lock standing between you and the battery, the toolkit and the fuse box. The locks themselves are small wafer mechanisms living outdoors in salt and rain, which is why a bike key that has gone stiff is worth mentioning on the phone: sometimes the key has worn, sometimes the lock has, and the fix is not the same one.
When there is nothing left to copy
All-keys-lost is the normal case on a bike rather than the rare one — there is rarely a spare in a kitchen drawer. A key can still be originated by reading the machine's own locks or its key code, so the job is to establish the code, cut to it, and confirm it turns everything it should. What we need from you is the boring half: documents in your name showing the bike is yours. If nobody can establish ownership, we do not cut a key, and on a motorcycle — the easiest vehicle on the road to lift into a van — that policy is doing real work.
The visit
Step 1: Call and describe the bike
Make, model, year, and which locks have stopped being usable. That is what tells us whether this is a cutting job, a programming job, or both, before anyone drives out.
Step 2: Ownership checked at the bike
Photo ID plus paperwork tying you to the machine — ownership, registration, insurance or a bill of sale. Checked every time, and it protects you more than it inconveniences you.
Step 3: The key is originated on site
Cut from the bike's own lock or code with the equipment we brought. Where a transponder is involved as well, that is programmed in the same visit rather than booked as a second call.
Step 4: Every lock tested before we leave
Ignition, fork lock, seat, and any luggage that runs on the same key. A key that starts the bike but will not open the seat is a half-finished job.
Included
Keys originated from the bike's own lock or key code — losing the last one does not mean the bike is stuck where it sits
Cut at the machine, so nothing has to be trailered to a shop and back
Proof of ownership checked before a key is cut — the same rule that stops someone else having one made for your bike
Questions
Usually, yes. A key can be originated from the machine's own locks or key code with nothing left to copy. Tell us the make, model and year on the phone, because that is what determines how the key is originated and whether the electronic half needs programming too.
Where we go
Toronto2 cities
- Toronto
- Scarborough
Peel Region2 cities
- Mississauga
- Brampton
York Region3 cities
- Vaughan
- Markham
- Richmond Hill
Durham Region3 cities
- Pickering
- Ajax
- Oshawa
More of this work
Every service category
- Emergency4 services
- Automotive7 services
- MotorcycleYou are here4 services
- Residential4 services
- Commercial4 services
Call us
The fastest way to reach us
- Nights and weekends included — any hour, any day
- A real locksmith answers and walks you through it if needed
- You hear the price before anyone drives out
Text us a photo
Send a photo of your lock and we can quote more accurately
What to include
- A close, in-focus photo of the lock or the key
- The whole door, or the make, model and year of the vehicle
- Your area, so we can confirm we reach you
We call you back to talk it through and give you a price.
Send a photoService area: 10 GTA cities across Toronto, Peel Region, York Region and Durham Region