When I lock the bike, I keep the front wheel straight, turn the ignition to the left and press it down and lock it with the key. I have been doing this for a couple of years.

Lately that isn't working. The key is getting stuck in the ignition, and it won't turn. I have to jiggle the key to try and get it to release it.

After getting the key out, I have to turn the wheel to the left, and then lock it.

Am I not supposed to be locking the ignition with the wheel straight?

 

I can lock my ignition switch with the wheel straight like you were doing or I can lock the fork.I would try the old standby,WD-40.

 

Try this and use graphite or use a pencil

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I stopped at the dealer on the way home from work and they said the ignition switch can only be locked with the forks all the way to the left.

I thought that was BS....so I went home and looked at my owners manual.

It says the ignition can only be locked in the Fork Lock (wheel all the way to the left) or Acc positions.

Guess I was wrong.....please don't tell my wife!

 

Mine locks at any position. It only locks the bars full left once you turn it there.

 

Same here.

 

On my bike you can push it down and lock it in any position. However the steering still moves because the only place for the pin (I think spring loaded) to drop down and lock steering is all the way to the left. Locking it is other positions just makes it so you cant turn on ignition.

 

I know, that is the way I have been locking it for the last 2 years, and now that I have a problem doing it that way, they say I shouldn't have been doing it that way in the first place.

 

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Same here...although when my 15 SGS was only a week old, I the wheel left & locked the neck to run in a store. When i came out and tried to unlock the ignition, the key would not rotate and was stuck. Had to get a dealer mechanic out to the site, and after an hour of fiddling and trying to pick the lock, they trailered it back to the dealer. Turned out the ignition switch had 2 weak springs under 2 different pins, which would not allow them to pop back up after inserting the key. The took an ignition switch off a new bike and had me on the road in an hour.