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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.
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deep into a wormhole... I guess it's this Chapman Cycles - this other bike from there looks pretty similar & the forks look nice and straight at the top to me - seems unlikely it was built with some weird backwards raked forks at the crown...
ibob
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.