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Surely not. The bend is generally added to the tube when building a fork, isn't it? It would simply be a matter of employing a different bending jig to apply less bend to make a fork with less rake. Two different forks for the range of sizes was the norm, IIRC.
Fairly certain the blue bike has had a hit. If you zoom in on the head tube and fork and look across your screen, you can see that not even the rear edge of the blade is parallel, let alone the centre line.
That ain't no barrel distortion - look how close to round the wheels look; it's a proper bike pic, zoomed in from far.
Kimmo-
The bend is generally added to the tube when building a fork, isn't it?
You can buy pre bent legs. That’s what I’d have to do as I don’t have a bender that’ll do legs.
You’re generally going to have to trim fork legs down though so it’s easy to adjust the rake by trimming them at the bottom rather than the top.
I guess if you wanted a long a2c for big tyres and guards out of you wanted to use a socket style dropout then you might not be able to trim the fork in that way.
I think if you were making forks on the regular you’d get a bender. It’s something I do pretty rarely so I’ve not invested.
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actually you're right about the barrel distortion - the seatstays look pretty straight to me, so not that. the back wheel looks slightly closer to the wall, though, and the photo looks like it was taken on a level with the top of the seat (NDS brake lever is level or maybe even above, and NDS chainstay is much higher), so could still be some kind of optical illusion...
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ibob
Is this actually a thing, bending the forks backwards to reduce the rake? I always thought it was just an optical illusion.