Mine works fine on my WG. Maybe the little "bolt" isn't going all the way back inside the lock body on yours or something.

 

just like everyone said you have to give it a little wiggle I know that on my super glide it is a little sticky but if you wiggle the handle bars it comes out..

 

I lock mine all the time. I don't know if "wiggle" would be the term I would use but you definitely have to take the pressure off of the locking pin to get it to work.

Jimmie

 

+2, Mine is the same way. When the bars are at full left it just doesn't quite want to lock until I pull right about an inch. Then it locks right up, every night when I put her to bed!

 

This exactly.

 

oh my god guys, i feel like an idiot. I had not been able to get my forks to lock since i bought my bike in september. all the japanese bike i've owned would always lock with the forks as far left or right as they would go. first time, every time smoothly

i thought maybe my forks were bent or warped...something. tried the wiggle thing you talked about today as an experiment & it worked lol.

 

+1 I've never had any problems either. I lock and unlock mine with the bike on the stand leaning and the forks turned to the left.

You've got a lock problem.

 

Exactly what I found. I didn't use it for a few months because I thought it was faulty and then a mate showed me this trick.

 

 

2010 Fatboy. I get off the bike with the bars turned to the left, walk around and turn the lock. It never matters about level ground, on a grade, hot , cold, etc. The key effortlessly should go in and out locking & unlocking the bike. The last thing I'd ever want to contemplate is having the front end lock on me at a critical moment....like at ANY TIME WHATSOEVER.