GPZ1100B1 Steering lock lug position

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GPZ1100B1 Steering lock lug position

23 Mar 2025 08:19
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Hi, anybody know if there were different steering lock lug positions on GPZ1100b steering head. I have a UK bike and the lug is broken off but looks like it was on the front of the steering head.
The only reference picture I have is a  European bike that has it on the right side (See pic)
(I know on other bikes sometimes German bikes had different steering locks)
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1981 GPZ1100b1, 1980 CB750Fa, 1981 RD350LC, 1980 DT175mx, 1982 GS550ez

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Re: GPZ1100B1 Steering lock lug position

23 Mar 2025 14:05
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The picture you have posted is the same as my American import 82 Ltd 1000 ?

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Re: GPZ1100B1 Steering lock lug position

24 Mar 2025 10:04
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This is mine, a GPZ1100B1 UK bike from 1982 on the V5. Keeps on throwing up mysteries 
 
 
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Re: GPZ1100B1 Steering lock lug position

24 Mar 2025 10:37
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I think that one has "a few story's" to tell :)

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Re: GPZ1100B1 Steering lock lug position

27 Mar 2025 12:46 - 27 Mar 2025 13:13
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more I look at this the more I think its not been changed. Parts catalogs show there were 2 different iggy switches for the GPZ1100B1 and I suspect one would never work with the lug on the right side of the steering head but it would line up with whats left on my frame. But Im not sure this lock would fit my top yoke. Now I dont know whether to fab & weld a lug to fit the current lock or take a chance and buy the other lock and see if it fits, Dont suppose anyone can shed light on why the different lock types, could it be something like a a fairing and different clocks which are also shown in the parts catalog for a B1
Another option is that my bike was first registered in 1982 so could it be a B2 frame which would have different clocks/fairing. I had a look on zedder at Vin numbers and although zedder shows an incorrect modern 17chr Vin format, the actual range of numbers it shows makes mine a B2!!! So did B2s have a different frame lug to B1s
Questions, questions!


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Re: GPZ1100B1 Steering lock lug position

02 Apr 2025 10:20
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just to close this off, Ive now confirmed there was a different steering lock lug on later frames, mine must be a B2. Heres a pic  I got today
 
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