Old 11-07-22 | 02:15 PM
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Originally Posted by McCycle
Frame and fork look straight to me, I wouldn't bothered if there was that kind of damage, not even as a wall hanger.

I used to straighten bent Schwinn forks by throwing the bike on the lawn on the forks in a way to bring them back to true, metal "has a memory" and it usually worked quite well, a trick an old timer showed me.
Head tube angle looks unnaturally steep to me, which prompted me to take a closer look at the photo of the down tube/head tube junction.

Still, as long as you have clearance between the front tire and the down tube, the bike should be fine to ride. I slammed into a tree at speed on my Cannondale mountain bike on a fast downhill back in the early 1990s; the frame (aluminum, of course) was undamaged, but both blades of the steel fork were bent back several degrees. Didn't even notice for a couple of days. I actually preferred the way it rode with the bend fork.
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