Bending rear fork

'rear forks' and 'poles'

I'm lost?

Snap.

Try again.

As rich says, It sound like your wheel has slipped in the frame rather than the frame is bent. Try re-centering your wheel and tightening.

Forking Poles!

I think we need to get Jonathan Creek on this mystery.

This thread is beyond parody. Either Tynan or Chris Morris...

Fork handles?

got any "o's".

If you skidded on a corner and then the back end bent, it could help you go round a corner.

Two wheel steering if you think about it.

It sounds to me like you're on to something - I wouldn't go about fixing it.

A man walks into a pole.

Gives him a job.

Yeah I'm gonna straighten out the wheel, perhaps it is just a weird perspective mixed with paranoia making the rear polefork bendy.

Try again.

Yep it's the seat stay. Weird fucking name if you ask me.

weird perspective mixed with paranoia making the rear polefork bendy.

What the fuck have I been smoking

Maybe you have heard people refer to the 'front fork', an expression that has always puzzled me since there is no 'rear fork'? Anyway 'polefork' is a marvelous word. I am going to start calling the bottom bracket shell the 'pedaling tube' and my saddle the 'arse ledge'.

I want to see someone describe an entire bicycle using just these weird words. One I hear a lot is 'seat pillar' although I have a feeling that one is regarded as correct.

Why don't you rotate your skids, once to the left once to the right then it should even itself out. Or just buy a brake ;p

Stefan he does not need help from a bent pole

Have you thought about taking a pic from the rear of the bike?

Sorry, just thinking out loud while facepalming myself.

It won't matter which side I skid from surely as the chain is still connected to the right hand side of the central part of the rear wheel's barrel...

thom

it will make a difference, there is a spindle through your bottom bracket

push forwards with the right pedal and the frame flexes in one direction, push on the left and it will flex in the other direction

i think you ought to spend some time on sheldon brown and learn some bicycle terminology, it might make us helping you a lot easier if you used the same language as us

So I noticed yesterday my rear fork has bent inwards toward the chainside from skid stopping.

No it hasn't. Your frame is rusting/already damaged/was poorly built.

If it's a cheap frame, buy a new one. If it's worth it see if a builder can swap the necessary tubes.

you live with a pole, can you lend him one?

Are you saying that Thom needs a Polish builder to replace his tubes?