It's probably fine. I did have a ten speed in high school where I hit something and bent the fork. My dad bent it back, and it worked, until I hit the back wheel of another high school cyclist making a U turn in the middle of the road. The fork bent way further than it had originally, and my dad couldn't believe it was caused by me hitting another bike going (mostly) the same direction. The upshot was a replacement used fork.
"How did it happen?" I'm overtaking a classmate on the way to school. He drifts out toward the center of the road, so I drift out, too. Suddenly he's pulling a U turn, and I'm hitting him. Unexpected. Philip www.biketinker.com On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 12:56:00 PM UTC-8, Anne Paulson wrote: > > My adult son has a Rambouillet. He commutes on it. This guy doesn't > ride lightly; he has more of a bulldozer approach to riding, it seems. > One time he broke a frame by riding into a parked car. Yeah, his steel > Trek frame broke at the head tube; I was so pleased that the frame > broke to protect that valuable Trek fork. > > Anyway, when he took his bike to the shop for some very overdue > maintenance, they noticed that his fork was slightly bent back, > undoubtedly because he hit something. The bike is still ridable, but > the handling would be better if the fork were as designed. > > The shop says they can get a frame builder to bend the fork back. Is > this a reasonable thing to do? > > -- > -- Anne Paulson > > It isn't a contest. Enjoy the ride. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
