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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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Having another look at that frame, it's a bit on the flash side... Where the downtube and top tube meet the head tube it looks fillet brazed, but on the head tube side it looks lugged. Seat cluster looks rather nice too. Would be hugely surprised if the guy who built that frame thought such a bodgy-looking hack as bending the fork so it looks pranged was even an option.
Kimmo
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.