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Oldschool rider:

--- Quote from: Rom Bloke on January 14, 2007, 06:51 PM ---yeah a lot of old school bikes have a severe rake on the forks, so they may not be bent...get a pic up

dave

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Hi Dave, i have 3 other bikes with the same forks, and they all look straighter though.

Oldschool rider:

--- Quote from: Bigplinky on January 14, 2007, 06:55 PM ---I've used both the bearing press method and big bar method and it takes a lot of force to bend a good set of forks so I don't think just riding into a wall would work (maybe on burner forks  :LolLolLolLol:). I would try the big bar method as it's controllable and you'll get them back to were you want without over stressing them.

The other thing is I've had a NOS set of Hutch forks next to a second hand set (both unbent as when you look straight down the leg there was no curve just straight tube) and the NOS set had significantly more rake. Also got two sets of Pro Star forks which are very different even though they are the same fork so maybe just production tolerance.

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Funny you should say that as i noticed my NOS tange tx 1200's on my cromo mark one are quite raked forward, and they dont look as raked on some other bikes i got.

Oldschool rider:
Thanks for all your help so far guys  :daumenhoch:

The annoying thing about it, is that i sent the frame and forks to London Chromers, and i got back the wrong forks- i got Haro ones back!! They had only chromed one other set of frame and forks for another guy in the last 6 months, who also has 2 cromo burner mark 2 bikes, same as  i sent them. He reckons he never had my forks, but hasnt sent back the ones they chromed for him to prove this. They still have his aero-pro frame though, as he sent it back to them as he wasnt happy with the finish.

So the forks which are on the bike now were a spare pair i had, which have obviously had a hard life, and they re-chromed them for me for free because mine are missing. These forks were made by tange, and are exclusive to the cromo burner mark 2. So its not as if i can just get a set.

Cheers J

oberonspacefruit:
just go down there and punch him right in the face.

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