You are reading a single comment by @Picard and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
-
What direction are the forks bent in? If it's a sideways kink they can be adjusted. I've done this with my own forks. Cold-setting is something that all steel frames go through as final adjustments whilst being built. Paint stress marks doesn't necessarily mean the steel is ruined. Steel can flex much more than paint.
Picard-
Rearward, I've had a look at sheldons suggestions but I'm not confident. More than anything I'm mostly upset because I've been having a nightmare of a year already, and this is just another notch to add to the clusterfuck of 2017.
Ah well, I'll keep an eye out for some scaffold pole, and see if I can get my hands on a car jack at some point.
matteroftaste
Yeah he stopped, I had to tell him to though. Didnt have a clue and got defensive. I literally had to explain how he'd boxed me in. I'm starting to reevaluate if I should even get back in the saddle as the biggest danger these days is clueless riders. Every day someone pulls some dangerous shit, it's infuriating.
@Double_J was a lovely machine, I'm pretty certain it's a write off, devastatingly I've not had it long at all, built it up about six weeks ago.
I've called around local frame repair places and no one fixes forks. Headtube is suspect too. Ugh.