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• #2
I would have bent the blades before brazing them into the crown. I would make a jig out of two peaced of wood with the desired curve that fit together. Place each blade into the jig and clamp the entire lot into a vice, this would make sure you could bend as many as you want at the same angle. Havening said this I've never build a pair of forks so should not really speak, but that is how I would approach it, it's all about the jigs if you want consistency..
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• #3
A quick google reveils this http://www.flickr.com/photos/79122810@N00/1882875948/
diffrent from my idea but a jig none the less.
another one
http://www.flickr.com/photos/evershedm/3991798721/
one more
http://blogs.phred.org/blogs/alex_wetmore/archive/2007/04/25/reraking.aspx
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• #4
I bent my fork blades slightly so that when I take my hands off the bars it steers lightly to the left. They look straight to the eye but riding without hands prove that they are not perfectly aligned. Has anyone had a similar experience, and found a good bike shop to rejig them, or way to get them perfectly straight?
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• #5
How did you bend them, crash? No handed riding isn't the best test as there could be many other factors making a bike pull to one side. Headset not adjusted properly, brake cable pull, even your own body being out of whack (chiropractors ftw)
ive built a set of forks for my track bike but now need to put some bend into them is there a way of bending the blades without quinking them and also getting both blades even?
cheers