I had a bikeshop do this for me years ago, they had a jig they put the fork in and just mainupulated it until it was true to the jig. Now my fork was squashed in shipping so not sure about the front to back bending.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Bill Lindsay <tapebu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Within reason, sure. There was/is a shop tool that clamps to the fork > tips like a hub would, and braces itself on the BB shell and you turn a > leadscrew to push it back out. If the forkblades are wrinkled at all, then > you get a little more queasy about it. Feel under the top tube and down > tube right behind the lugs to check there for wrinkling as well. But yes a > competent framebuilder can advise when he/she sees it. > > > On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 12:56:00 PM UTC-8, Anne Paulson wrote: >> >> My adult son has a Rambouillet. He commutes on it. This guy doesn't >> ride lightly; he has more of a bulldozer approach to riding, it seems. >> One time he broke a frame by riding into a parked car. Yeah, his steel >> Trek frame broke at the head tube; I was so pleased that the frame >> broke to protect that valuable Trek fork. >> >> Anyway, when he took his bike to the shop for some very overdue >> maintenance, they noticed that his fork was slightly bent back, >> undoubtedly because he hit something. The bike is still ridable, but >> the handling would be better if the fork were as designed. >> >> The shop says they can get a frame builder to bend the fork back. Is >> this a reasonable thing to do? >> >> -- >> -- Anne Paulson >> >> It isn't a contest. Enjoy the ride. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
