You get used to it... apparently! Having ridden my MC21 for 12 years with RWU forks, the lack of steering lock was a bit hard to get accustomed to though!
My "lock-stop" is a length of threaded bar through one of the holes in the instrument cluster/front fairing stay, with a plastic cap on each end robbed off some dipole ground planes I found in my Dad's garage! (Don't ask me how I know what dipole ground planes are, please!!) I had the lock-stops on the RS250 triple milled off and was going to make up some eccentric stops, but the threaded bar works really well, and I never got round to replacing it.
In normal daily riding, you'd never hit the rad... unless you have a mad tank slapper! The MC21 shouldn't ever suffer from that though, unless the suspension is in poor condition or poorly set up.
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