 After an altercation with the back of a car this morning, the forks on my old Alpinestars Cromega are bent slightly. They're cromo, and I'm thinking I could probably clamp them in a vice and straighten them. But is it worth it, or are they likely to be dangerously knackered? I know alu forks are scrap once they're bent.
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 Best leaving them be I reckon, even steel they're going to be seriously compromised...
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 What do you use the bike for? If you don't give it much abuse then I would have thought that you could get away with carefully bending them back 
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| Edited: 03/07/09 15:33 |
 Are they bent mid tube or near a weld point?
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 that's some seriously gay tyres you've got there 
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 Did Grahame Norton own that bike, or even Elton John. Chuck them away, forks do snap.
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Having read the first line of this thread I'm amazed there isn't a rant blaming the driver of the car for the 'altercation'.... Cracking tyres. I wish I was that comfortable with my sexuality.
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Pantani rode a pink bike in a few tour de france races, Pink has little to do with sexuality,more to do with Barbie, as in the doll.
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 I take it you are colour blind?
I'd say replace as it is likely to be pretty catastrophic is they do fail.
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 I'd say leave em be, my old fully rigid ended up with twisted forks, when the wheel is straight the crown is pointing slightly to the right, but they still track true, the handling is unaltered and for years after they've had some good stick down the woods, I give it some welly, they're fine. Steel will take the odd bend, its only when you try and un-bend a bend that you compromise the metal. On the other hand I got some 1" cromo forks as spares for it (just in case) from sjscycles.co.uk, so have a look they may have some kicking about still.
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It's OK, someone on Retrobike.co.uk has a set of pink forks off the same model bike. He's posting them tomorrow. I'll commute on the bent ones for a couple of days. They're bent at the shoulders, top of the fork blades, nowhere near a weld point. Frame seems ok. As for the tyres well, I am totally straight, but quite comfortable with pink. The bike is a 1991 model with dayglo paint job, largely in shocking pink (it was very popular back then). The tyres match the frame, although to be a retro purist I should have amber wall Porcupines or summat like that. They get a few admiring comments from the teenagers heding for the local school on a morning!
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Personally I love pink bikes - Here's my old Cove for example... Complete with GOLD Hope hubs, stem, lever blades and headset... Graham Norton on wheels!
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They get a few admiring comments from the teenagers heding for the local school on a morning! kids can be so cruel
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Nowt wrong with pink. I don't like the way it's been commandeered by men who ride on the other bus. I'm reclaiming it for the majority!
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