Motorcycle Keys in San Mateo
Keys cut and transponder chips programmed for motorcycles and scooters, $112 to $269.
$112–$269
Typical price
23 min
Avg. arrival
24/7
Availability
A motorcycle key disappears in the same places a car key does, and the bike is harder to move afterward. The garages under the Bay Meadows towers, the racks at the downtown Caltrain station, the Coyote Point lot after a Sunday ride, a workshop off the Shoreview flats. Hillsdale Lock & Key cuts keys for Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Harley-Davidson, Triumph, BMW, Ducati, KTM, Vespa and most scooters, at the bike, from the ignition or a lock code. No trailer, no waiting on a dealer's parts counter.
The paperwork is checked before any lock is read, because a bike can be wheeled off by one person: ID against the registration or the title. Then the ignition or the seat lock is decoded. Most bikes leave the factory keyed alike, so one correct blade ought to run the ignition, the fuel cap, the seat and the helmet lock, and each of those is tried rather than assumed. Bikes with an immobilizer, whether Honda's HISS, BMW's EWS, Ducati's red-key arrangement or a newer keyless system, need the chip enrolled with the module, and that is done beside the bike. The fork lock gets several turns before the van leaves, since it is the lock most likely to bind on a blade cut a fraction shallow.
Motorcycle keys are written at $112 to $269. A plain mechanical key for an older Honda or a scooter is $112. Transponder keys, and immobilizer bikes where no key exists and the module has to be read, reach $269. The $89 service call is inside that figure. An ignition lock damaged past reading is written as its own line before any work starts. Weekends carry no premium; only the $45 evening and $75 overnight figures apply.
Describe the bike: make, model and year, whether it has an immobilizer, whether any key still exists. It is written down: the figure on the work order on that call. The van pulls out: the name and the window by text. Cut: ownership, the cut, programming where needed, and a test of the ignition, the fuel cap, the seat, the helmet lock and the fork lock. The receipt matches, card or tap at the bike.
“Our 1928 Spanish-revival house has the original mortise lock and the front door swung shut with my keys on the hall table. $138 written down on the call. The text with the technician's name came before I had finished walking to the neighbor's porch, and the van was outside in twenty-three minutes. He picked the mortise cylinder without a mark on the brass and the card was charged $138.”
Every job is priced from the list below. The figure is written down on the call, before the van pulls out, and the receipt matches it line for line.
- Daytime (7am–8pm)standard rates
- Evening (8pm–12am)+$45
- Overnight (12am–7am)+$75
FAQ
Motorcycle Keys: quick answers
A Harley with no key at all, in a garage under a Bay Meadows building.+
Straightforward. The ignition switch and the fork lock on most Harleys can be read in place, and a key is cut to that code at the bike. Models with the fob-based security system need the fob paired or the PIN entered, which is done with you standing there. Text the level and the space number, and come to the garage gate, since the fob that opens it is likely on the same lost ring.
A Vespa, or a small commuter scooter?+
Scooters with a gas engine are cut and written like small motorcycles, and their locks read quickly. Several models carry a shutter over the ignition that opens with a separate magnetic key; mention it on the call, because the shutter key is a line of its own. An electric scooter locked only through an app is a different trade, and you hear that on the call rather than at the curb.
Someone forced the ignition with a screwdriver and now nothing turns.+
A forced ignition usually has snapped tumblers inside and gives up no code, so the lock comes off the bike. The cylinder is rebuilt to your existing key where it can be, or a replacement goes in keyed to the seat and the fuel cap. That figure is written before any panel comes off.
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24/7 — nights, weekends & holidays
One call, one figure on the work order, the same figure on the receipt
Calls answered 24/7 across San Mateo and the towns beside it. The $89 service call, the labor and the parts are inside the number written down on the call, and the receipt matches it line for line.