Originally Posted by
Road Fan
I have an LBS looking at this - haven't picked up the fork yet, but they say they were able to bend it nearly straight, but did not try to reverse the original bend. Essentially they added a new complementary bend, it should be straighter.
Golly that sounds goofy to me. For a second opinion, try the frame building forum.
I wouldn't worry about the work hardening thing, but that's not the issue. Think about what a steer tube does and how it fits in the headset. I'd think that if the steer tube isn't pretty nearly perfect the headset cones aren't going to be parallel and the headset is going to bind up.