Originally Posted by
neurocop
Such a crash would lmost certainly have damaged the fork/steering tube, so look there.
Not always. Fewer than 50% of the frames that I've run across with front end damage have bent steerer tubes. The steerer tubes and/or fork blades held up; leaving the frame to absorb the impact.
I'm not suggesting it's impossible for the steerer to be bent on this Paramount, but it isn't engraved in stone either.
-Kurt