Straightening Forklegs

Yep. Should be there with a big red pontiac with flames and a convertable
'official pace car' (can't miss 'em) amongst the others somewhere.

 

(sound of addition being made to calendar)

 

Back in my day, if you bent the forks, you would stand in front of the bike
with the wheel between your legs and turn they bars till it all lined up
again. Then you'd ride home. Bloody young people today always trying to do
things the expensive way

 

Back in your day, 3/4" forks were LOOOXURY!

-----sharks

 

Oh 4whore oh two 4whore oh sex hoe ate two (in a Kiwi accent (sorry Cam J))
in case I'm lost in the crowd mate.

 

3/4" forks - try girder ;p

Johno

Coopers?

 

As a boilermaker and a motorcyclist of 12 years tinkering experience
i'd say; buy aftermarket replacements, but buy good ones. The chroming
on the cheapies wears off quicky. I've had good success in the past
with franks forks (or maybe frankie's forks) somewhere in the states.
They've made replacements for a couple of bikes i've bought crash
damaged (a bad habit of mine as my partner keeps reminding me).

I wouldnt trust my own safety to re-bent forks, though i have against
better judgement straightened the mast on my catamaran which is loaded
in compression always. it had not kinks or wrinkles. My shop has a
good variety of presses; about 9 i think, and if you wanted to ride out
to smithfield im sure i could convince one of th press operators to try
and rebend it for you, free of charge. You'd have to disassemble it
yourself. I would think that any re-bending would then require
machining down to original specs and then re-chroming which starts to
get expensive.

If i was going to do it really on the cheap, and as someone who has
seen 300+kph i know what it means to do repairs on the cheap, i would
shrink it with an oxy and a wet rag. I would also be happy to do this
free of charge just for the fun of it, but you'd have to sign a waiver
;-)

Shaun