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Title: Bent forks !
Post by: keviboy on June 15, 2012, 07:21 PM
Due to the fact that my numpty step son thinks that every bmx regardless of age or quality is actually a jump bike ! whatever a jump bike is (someone enlighten me) as i thought a jump bike was something like a hybrid mountain bike!! has managed to bend the forks on my chrome Haro revo .So question is how the dickens do i straighten them? He thinks his getting his hands on my Ripper he will loose the use of his legs!!! :2gunsfiring_v1:
Title: Re: Bent forks !
Post by: ron burgundy on June 15, 2012, 07:26 PM
Due to the fact that my numpty step son thinks that every bmx regardless of age or quality is actually a jump bike ! whatever a jump bike is (someone enlighten me) as i thought a jump bike was something like a hybrid mountain bike!! has managed to bend the forks on my chrome Haro revo .So question is how the dickens do i straighten them? He thinks his getting his hands on my Ripper he will loose the use of his legs!!! :2gunsfiring_v1:

Did you not own a bike as a kid?

Turn the bars round and taxi it into a wall. Old school bike, old school fix ;D
Title: Re: Bent forks !
Post by: sawzall on June 15, 2012, 07:44 PM
just find someone with a hydraulic press,support them both ends with some wood,apply pressure  and bobs your uncle,i have done quite a few pairs this

way and have had no problems :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Bent forks !
Post by: keviboy on June 15, 2012, 08:05 PM
Do you think just a heavy fly press would do the same job? not sure if we have a hydraulic one.
Title: Re: Bent forks !
Post by: dordymush on June 15, 2012, 09:00 PM
the ramming the wall trick was well used by most of us lot bitd  :LolLolLolLol:.
proper old school  :)
Title: Re: Bent forks !
Post by: sawzall on June 15, 2012, 09:56 PM
Do you think just a heavy fly press would do the same job? not sure if we have a hydraulic one.

:daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Bent forks !
Post by: Dark Diggler on June 15, 2012, 10:08 PM
Or you could buy some more forks cos if they are bent, they are fooked :idiot2:
Title: Re: Bent forks !
Post by: bobbysam on June 15, 2012, 10:12 PM
Are they as bent as Bobby?
Title: Re: Bent forks !
Post by: keviboy on June 16, 2012, 09:07 AM
ERRR BENT AS BOBBY???? NAH DONT FINK SO!!   WHAT YOU DOING ANYWAY BOBBLAA WAITING FOR D TO PUT DOWN THAT BOOK? YOU COULD BE LACING YOUR WHEELS FOR THE LAD,
OR ASK SOMEONE ON HERE TO SEND A DIAGRAM FOR THE 2 SPOKE WHATEVER ITS CALLED.
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