New steel frame showed up bent af

Also after weeks of waiting my shiny pink Surly Straggler frame finally arrived all the way from Seattle... And it's hella bent!

The drive side rear triangle is basically bent inwards so that the rear spacing is about half what it should be. The threaded dropout adjustor thing is also totally bent...

Obviously I'm getting a refund, but just out of curiousity anyone ever bent something like this back? Or does anyone know of a bike shop that is good at bending steel?

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Shitter. Best get the opinion of a frame builder but I'd bend it back and ride it. Steel is real after all.

Fuck. How was it packaged?

Positive, I like it

Surprisingly pretty well, no noticeable damage to the outside at all. Big surly box

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Surprisingly pretty well

Except nothing between the rear dropouts bracing them I suppose. Bugger.

There was some sort of plastic thing between the dropouts that is shattered to pieces

Looks like its been loaded on its side . Lash it get a new one and my sympathies on your new arrival . You must be gutted,

Oof, looks like someone stood on your box to get another box.

That'll buff out.

A lot of leverage required, I'd sack it personally.

Steel is real and all that but honestly I wouldn't trust it hasn't cracked after that much bending, especially near the seat stay bridge

Thanks for your thoughts everyone. Just for clarity the retailer is refunding me all the money and all the shipping, but they've also intimated that depending on how much return shipping is going to cost them, they may not want the frame back...

So essentially I might be getting a bent frame for free, so if there is a route to go down to have the frame corrected, even if it involves paying a professional, I'm interested in exploring it...

Yeah ultimately this is important thing, especially as the bike I'm building is going to be carrying a child seat

It’s not for the bin but it may need new stays

Maybe someone you know is making a tall bike?

Suspect new stays will be needed as that metal has stretched and deformed.

Have had steel, alloy and aluminium motorbike frames straightened by professionals at motoliner in maidstone. They quite a few techniques such heat as well as compression, and expansion hydraulics. But then it depends on the thickness of the metal of the pipework. Might be worthwhile to give them a call and see if they could help.

That'll buff out.

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Top bants, I'm sure

Just run a 50mm spaced rear, it’ll be fine.

I reckon it'd be very unlikely that you (or anyone) would get it to bend back exactly where it bent the first time.

A repair by a proper place (Vaz, BJ etc) might be uneconomical but one of the forum's kitchen framebuilders would probably have a go at replacing the seat and chainstays and might even be able to save and reuse the original dropout for a decent price.

I'd probably have a bash at it but I'm in Glasgow not London and I could only braze it rather than weld.

I can see pieces of this becoming one of your amazing creations. :)