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    Quote Originally Posted by Shadows View Post
    Fuck I'm not sure if I'll ever feel safe buying a used bike again!
    Yeah that sort of thing lingers in your mind dunnit. I do like Shauns' suggestion though.. but I would still wonder..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shaun View Post
    Send it F1 Engineering in Hamilton, IF STEVE says NO, it is a NO!

    That is a pretty sensible option - but if the cost of new is 1/2 again as much as repair, then I'd just go new.

    As a test, ask how many people have successfully bent a brake lever straight again....

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    Quote Originally Posted by marty View Post
    As a test, ask how many people have successfully bent a brake lever straight again....
    cough, well I did, once.. it wasn't very bent.. Just a wee tweak. Having a previously-bent brake lever fold off isn't going to be very funny, and yes chances are the consequences of that could be very large, but a triple-tree - thats a whole new category.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shadows View Post
    Fuck I'm not sure if I'll ever feel safe buying a used bike again!
    Thanks guys
    Ive been engineering for over 20 years im well aware of the dangers here but were talking the tinyist bend here.. I only know its twisted buy measuring it, I cant even see the bend in it..I do know that cast alloys can be bent its just a matter of using the correct procedure and leaving nothing to chance...
    Thanks for your inputs ..

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    heaps of times .. piece of piss.. The correct tools and procedure is the key

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