Better it than me I suppose.
I was at my favorite muni spot, Belle Isle, riding along the edge of an
old quarry with a shear drop of about 30 ft. I wasn't trying to be a
dare devil or anything, in fact I think I was about 5 ft. or more from
the actual edge, along which run two metal cables to act as a fence.
I simply hopped onto a log and instead of hopping off the other side, I
slipped and lost grasp of my uni. It proceeded to roll right under the
cables and over the edge, and then...THUD! It came to rest on a trail
(thank God no one was on it!) directly below and along a reservoir of
sorts.
It was all in one piece, and as I approached it, I thought maybe
everything would be ok. No such luck. The tire was pressed up against
one of the forks, and the bottom half of the main cap of that fork was a
little loose, but there was no play in the frame itself.
Now, when forced to rotate, the tire remains pressed against the same
fork with more or less the same pressure. This leads me to believe the
problem is not in the wheel, but the frame.
So I took the frame off and put on the other way. Sure enough, the
other side of the tire presses against the fork. However, the frame
does not appear warped to my untrained eye.
So what do you think? This ever happen to anyone else before? Could it
be fixable with a vise? If so, which way should I bend it?
(It's a Yuni frame, affectionately named '\"Hell on Paint\"'
(http://gallery.unicyclist.com/album163) by someone on this forum.)
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