[msocko3]

this is why I quit using the fork lock many years
ago on all my bikes. isn't going to slow a thief down
much and will cause a world of pain if it locks up
many miles from home.....

I had a fork lock fail several hundred miles from home. I can also say locked forks will slow down a thief when they are dealing with a 800 pound bike. The key wouldn't turn because a tumbler broke. As luck would have it a dealer Horsepower Harley Davidson was only 6 miles away. They sent a tech down who tried to get it unlocked on the street, as luck would have it he couldn't get it. They sent a truck with a lift gate so the three of us pushed pulled and drug the sucker over to the truck and on to the lift gate. Once the gate was lifted up we had to push pull and drag the sucker into the truck. The whole deal from start to finish took the 3 of us about 20 minutes. So I don't think large touring bike is going any place quick with locked forks, even a jack wouldn't have helped much do to the road surface and the height of the lift gate lip.

Got the bike to the dealer where the tech worked on it in the truck because he didn't want to fight the heavy bastard off the truck and in to the shop. I don't know how he got it unlocked just know he did. The folks at Horsepower are top notch in my book. They charged me zero for picking up the bike and only 1 hour labor for the repair. They had more than 1 hour invested in the deal not to mention 2 people.

 

[msocko3]

:redrolf:Really? You must not go to far then. Just go to bars with big windows? Don't take your bike to work, vacation, or store?

Garage Jewelry. Must take a short ride on Saturdays as long as it doesn't look like rain. We have dozens of them like this around my neck of the woods. They get their bikes out on Saturday dress up like Capt Jack Sparow so they can ride and pose.