Plenty of secret space inside the left hand trim panel on a varadero, a small tupperware box fits in there and even bigger if you move a couple of brackets out of the way.
Underseat storage could be great but is ruined by Honda moulding D-lock brackets into the undertray. This is pointless as there is also D-lock starage built into the luggage rack, so I cut this out and sunk in a deeper tray made out of carbon fibre. There is now room for my emergency spares kit, puncture repair kit, tyreman pump and bungee net.
While changing the air filter once I found a 17mm spanner INSIDE THE AIRBOX, no kidding. It wasn't mine and must've been left in there from the last dealer service, about 2 years. So that's not a bad place to store something lolol

Inside the fairings on my versys I keep tubes in case I have a flat that cant be fixed with plugs.

Under the rear wheel arch on an F800GSA...
 

If you look under the rear wheel arch of a BMW F800GSA, there is a panel removed by a single screw. Put your hand up and toward the REAR of the bike, there is a nice little space that snugly fits a Spot Trace.

The signal to/from the Spot Trace seems to work really well, there too. Mine is happily recording rides and alerting me when my bike is moved.

Rachel

In a beemer spare key could be located inside of rocker cover or alternator cover. For a slim key there might be space.

In oilhead wngine guear consist of two alu sheets layered together. Key between them would be in a safe place.

Has anyone ever used the Brief Safe?:blushing:


https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Conten...rds=brief+safe

If you go away for a few days there is no need to waste money buying such itemsdoh

I thought about putting spare keys, some $ and maybe a credit card in my airbox (wrapped up in ziplocks). I have a DR650 so it's kind of easy accessible by unscrewing a few bolts and it's covered by the side panel.

Then I will probably stash some $ somewhere in my riding pants, maybe in the hip protector pouches.

I think for keys and even some cash I am ok with the airbox, if someone steals my bike then I won't need the spare keys anyways and well the cash is just another stash.

Cash and credit cards I try to have them all in different locations, so if I get robbed I still have some somewhere :)

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Brief safe, is it for real, mind boggles, what happens when you get to customs. please buy one and let us know.

I haven't tried this so not entirely sure if possible. On old BMW airheads the battery is fairly big and easily replaced by smaller modern gel equivalent. Could you use shell of old large battery and place the smaller gel battery inside but use the surplus space as a hidden storage area? Would look like a regular battery if done properly with the connections wired up inside the shell.

You would have to make sure the internal connections are rock solid as a failed earth is a common fault on bikes and rectified by cleaning up the earth connection, which would be a fools errand if the real earth connection problem was inside your fake battery case.