Fork unbenders

[The Pastor]

Who's good for unbending forks?

[Virago]

Uri Geller...? (Badum-tish...)

[MVnut]

Someone with an 80 ton press, hope there are no creases in the staunchions

[kiwifruit]

place in cambridge, forget the name....

[speights_bud]

place in cambridge, forget the name....

They the fellas who straighten bent rims?

[kiwifruit]

They the fellas who straighten bent rims?
thats the one

[speights_bud]

thats the one
Just chatted to dad on the phone, Found the guys:

SMYTHE & YEATES in Cambridge (07 827 8333/John Yeates)

Hope this helps

[FJRider]

place in cambridge, forget the name....

Best kept forgotten. The seals and tolerances would never be/work the same again. EXCEPT for CBR250's ...THEY were never right to start with.

[kiwifruit]

Just chatted to dad on the phone, Found the guys:

SMYTHE & YEATES in Cambridge (07 827 8333/John Yeates)

Hope this helps

thats the one

[tri boy]

John now trades as Wheel and Frame NZ, but yeah, it's still part of Smyth n Yates.:niceone:

[speights_bud]

Compliments of yellowpages.co.nz:


Wheel & Frame NZ

07-827 6688
39 Lake St Cambridge
Cambridge

[James Deuce]

Wiki-ed

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/wiki/index.php/Servicing_%26_Maintenance#Chassis.2C_Wheel.2C_and_ Fork

Try not to think of this in isolation chaps. If you fossick out information like this, PM and point me at the thread or the data.

Cheers

jim

[Motu]

Any garage or engineering shop with a press can straighten fork legs,it's no big deal.

[pritch]

Most automotive machine shops do this sort of work, and they should also be able to crack test the forks. Which latter is important...

[Robert Taylor]

Any garage or engineering shop with a press can straighten fork legs,it's no big deal.

I disagree in this modern era of thin wall fork tubes that crease and flatten very easily. Your statement may have been true enough up to the to mid 80s when fork tubes had considerable wall thickness. But now it is best left to a firm like Wheel and Frame who have all the formers and jigs made up to properly support these tubes whilst they are straightened. Take it to any old engineering shop and chances are they wont have all the neccessary holding / supporting pieces made up.

Given that Wheel and Frame do an excellent job at a rate that is uncomprehendingly cheap its a no-brainer.

[speights_bud]

I disagree in this modern era of thin wall fork tubes that crease and flatten very easily. Your statement may have been true enough up to the to mid 80s when fork tubes had considerable wall thickness. But now it is best left to a firm like Wheel and Frame who have all the formers and jigs made up to properly support these tubes whilst they are straightened. Take it to any old engineering shop and chances are they wont have all the neccessary holding / supporting pieces made up.

Given that Wheel and Frame do an excellent job at a rate that is uncomprehendingly cheap its a no-brainer.

I agree, As a toolmaker/machinist i can say that something that may seem as simple as 'straightening' a tube isn't quite so, ya might manage to get it straight, but chances are 'pressing it' straight will also squash it out of round. the guys at wheel and frame have the proper jigs etc for the job and will get everything true'd up good and proper :2thumbsup:

[Motu]

I disagree .

I thought you might.

[The Pastor]

I'll give wheel n frame a call.

Anyone going from auckland to caimbridge soon ;)

[xwhatsit]

Anyone going from auckland to caimbridge soon ;)

Not with two heavy fat-arse fork stanchions strapped to my back, I won't!

[The Pastor]

Not with two heavy fat-arse fork stanchions strapped to my back, I won't!
builds up your abs mate!

[Robert Taylor]

I thought you might.

Come on, taking things out of context is a cheap trick played by politicians. I didnt want the guy who asked the question to find out the hard way that its not as simple as you suggested. Nothing more, nothing less.

[Ixion]

I thought you might.

I've done it many times. I'd hesitate more on a GSXR1000 than a Honda 50. But even so , it's all a matter of degree, providing the bend is not on the slidey part of the staunchion.

[vagrant]

These guys are little closer. I know they do wheels, and have the gear to crack check them, but I can't say for sure that they could do your forks.


Brugar Engineering Ltd
7 Barrys Point Rd Takapuna Auckland 0-9-486 6832

Give them a ring, the worst they can do is say no.