I wrecked and bent my (steel, canti brake) fork to the side badly a couple of months ago. Clamped it up in a jig and unbent it, aligned forkends, set overlocknut distance. Measured side-to-side error was within +-1. 0mm. Buttoned her back up and I could not notice in general riding.


Since then, I feel like I now notice a slight pull to the left, and my fork appears to have relaxed towards the initial bend, although I haven't pulled it to measure, and I threw away the paper I'd made all my measurements on before.


If you bend and then unbend a steel fork, is there any memory in the metal such that it might relax towards its initial bend over the course of a couple months or am I just insane?