Originally Posted by
unterhausen
Is it really his name?
We used to straighten forks at the shop I worked at in the '70s. We even had a frame jack. I straightened a lot of forks. I think shops nowadays are afraid of liability. You have to find a shop where the owner has no assets to lose.
Most bike shops are now used to working on carbon forks for road and gravel bikes and suspension forks for mountain bikes. I'd bet it's pretty rare that someone walks in the door and wants their steel fork checked for its alignment. But, yeah, liability of probably another point as well.