Originally Posted by randyjawa

A good question.

In my case, I eyeball the fork from both sides and square on from the front. A center line, drawn through the head tube and extended down the fork blade will help to determine bent or unbent. Hard to explain how to do this but easy enough to do. If the center line of the head tube extends down the center line of the fork, you are OK for that part of the gauging.


Looking directly square on at the front, does the wheel evenly split the distance between fork blades? If you, that is another positive suggesting no fork damage. If the wheel does not evenly split the distance, the problem could be either a bent fork or an out of true wheel (just turn the wheel around and install to see if the even split thing changes - if not, the wheel is probably OK...