Originally Posted by 3alarmer

...cold bending of steel framed bikes like yours is a pretty standard repair for them, and used to be done routinely.

There are a lot of places that refuse to do anything that involves bending the frame now, and quote liability as the rationale. Regardless of liability issues, the steel in a bike frame is not going to spontaneously return to where it was in the out of alignment state........if that were possible, then a frame that got a little bent, like yours, would be self correcting.


It's not rocketry or nuclear physics, but such a straightening and realignment technique does require a modicum of sophistication in terms of technique. I guess the guy you're using as a mechanic has more of that than you do, so my inclination is to say you should go for it. Like I said, there are places now that will simply refuse to perform such a repair........and for no good reason I can discern.