Lock Stop? GPZ500?

[johnsmith222]

Hi guys.

The lock stop on my mates GPZ500 has been damaged from him crashing it. I believe it's on the bottom yoke (I had a look at it, but it was a while ago).

The handlebars now touch the fairing upper and tank. Is there a way to fix this, or is it just a case of a secondhand lower yoke from ebay or something?

Thanks for any advice.

It's not a huge issue, but It'll be needing to go through an MOT soon.

Thanks for any help.

[Frost]

Depends on the design of the bike, but usually there is a bump on the frame and them lumps on the bottom yoke that hit the frame and stop it moving. Those lumps can get smashed off in a crash. You can replace the bottom yoke, get some new ones welded on or body some on yourself.

[Teflon-Mike]

New or 2nd hand bits, would sort it, but being creative, may be possible to salvage what you got, depending on whats damaged & where.
My CB750 went DTR at some point in its life. Arrived in my custodianship with a horendouse cam-moo-flage paint job, not quite sure if it was pretending to be a fresian or an arctic sniper, covering the scrapes and bashes of its tarmac encounter.
Bigest give-away though was the head-lamp mounted on a bit of box section clamped to the head-stock.... the hack-sawed remains of a wind-jammer fairing, long since destroyed!
Bars toughed the tank on the left hand side, and inspection revealed the log on the bottom joke a little advanced but main problem the stop on the head-stock bent back and dented.
Pondered the problem, and awfully tempting to add a bead of weld to the frame-stop to build it back up... only with the reputation of Honda Regulators, and the CB's blted almost on the head-stock, decided that that could wait until I ever stripped it down for poweder-coating.
So, rather than strip off all the friable electrics to hit iot with an arc, and rather than risk snapping the lug trying to bend it back, I drilled the kig to take an M5 grub-screw as an 'adjustable' stop.
But to get it through the MOT, I just put a jubilee clup over the frame stop, as a 'get-me by'!
Have a look, have a fiddle, and use a bit of imagination.
Doesn't HAVE to be stripped and parts replaced....
BUT, depending on how hard it went down, may be a good idea to strip and inspect. Fatigue creases are often left at the stress raiser of the Joke-Clamps and only really obviouse when dropped from the jokes. Likewise a hefty crash can ding head-stock bearings, again, not obviouse unless inspected.
So check it over, see whats what, and apply a bit of cocum as to how 'best' to effect repair.
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