I am in the process of experimenting with a crank forward bike design with both wheels being 26 inch . My steering is very sensitive and I was thinking that an increase in positive trail would be worth investigating. My setup has 1.5 inches presently. I would like to increase it to 3 inches plus. The forks are Rocky Mountain and very strong. In the past I have cold bent road bike forks with an electrical conduit bender successfully. Has any one tried cold bending these mountain bike type of forks and been successful? Has any one tried heating and bending these forks with success? What method did you use?
I am in the process of experimenting with a crank forward bike design with both wheels being 26 inch . My steering is very sensitive and I was thinking that an increase in positive trail would be worth investigating. My setup has 1.5 inches presently. I would like to increase it to 3 inches plus. The forks are Rocky Mountain and very strong. In the past I have cold bent road bike forks with an electrical conduit bender successfully. Has any one tried cold bending these mountain bike type of forks and been successful? Has any one tried heating and bending these forks with success? What method did you use?
You'd probably have better luck in rb.tech.
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"GerryO" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:dmdWf.193098$B94.124733@pd7tw3no...
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28 March 2006 8:12 AM
I am in the process of experimenting with a crank forward bike design with both wheels being 26 inch . My steering is very sensitive and I was thinking that an increase in positive trail would be worth investigating. My setup has 1.5 inches presently. I would like to increase it to 3 inches plus. The forks are Rocky Mountain and very strong. In the past I have cold bent road bike forks with an electrical conduit bender successfully. Has any one tried cold bending these mountain bike type of forks and been successful? Has any one tried heating and bending these forks with success? What method did you use?
"GerryO" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:dmdWf.193098$B94.124733@pd7tw3no...
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28 March 2006 8:12 AM
I am in the process of experimenting with a crank forward bike design with both wheels being 26 inch . My steering is very sensitive and I was thinking that an increase in positive trail would be worth investigating. My setup has 1.5 inches presently. I would like to increase it to 3 inches plus. The forks are Rocky Mountain and very strong. In the past I have cold bent road bike forks with an electrical conduit bender successfully. Has any one tried cold bending these mountain bike type of forks and been successful? Has any one tried heating and bending these forks with success? What method did you use?
Yes, there is some useful info there, but Sheldon only has an article about respacing the frame, not the fork like this fellow is talking about.
OnTopic: In fact I respaced a bike frame last night, from 143mm back to it's proper 132.5 mm spacing. *High-tech* measures involving a chair, one 2x4x10, a ruler, and some cardboard were involved.
-- Dane Buson - [email hidden] "I *made up* the term 'object-oriented,' and I can tell you I did *not* have C++ in mind." - Alan Kay, one of the inventors/designers of Smalltalk.
