Got my replacement keys from Kryptonite
I had lost my set of bicycle keys in February. I had kept my bicycle keys separate from my house and car keys. When I go riding, my bike keys are in my fanny pack with some other quick access stuff I need when I ride.
I'm not sure what happened that day when I lost them. It was a Wednesday when I had dropped by Dairy Queen for a late lunch. I had taken my beater bike, so my good winter fat bike was locked up in my garage.
After I had gotten home, all I needed was my garage and house keys to get back in so I hadn't noticed my lost bike keys until the next Friday to meet friends for lunch. That's when I realized my keys were gone. I had no way to lock my beater bike so I took the transit.
Friday evening I searched where I thought I had remembered where I kept all the spare bicycle keys. Strange. I searched the other drawers in other cabinets and boxes of bicycle stuff.
Having given up searching, I then went to the Krytonite site and requested a new set of bicycle keys - the problem was that they needed the key numbers. I remember I had registered the keys so they must have the key numbers on file.
Almost a month later I get an e-mail with the two key numbers and asking which one I wanted to which I replied "Both".
A week and a half later, I get a response saying they are working through a backlog and any further correspondance will create a new requisition.
So I hold off until mid May in which I write a followup to the existing request. Of course Kryponite is in lockdown by now but they respond that key production has been suspended but I should expect mine by the end of June.
Today June 10th, I recieved my keys. Not just one of each but two.
I'm glad I'm a pretty patient guy. But I have to admit, I was preparing plan B, which was to try to break the locks. I just know that as soon as the locks were broken, my keys would arrive. Secondly, it's my winter bike that's locked up, so I wouldn't need to do this until snow starts falling.
So now I got my keys, I took a photo where I keep them and noted in a file called "Where Things Are". That file also has a photo of all my various types of shoes and footwear because when my wife cleans up I can never find things.
And as for my working set of keys, I keep them chained with my house and car keys too.