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    Fork unbenders

    Who's good for unbending forks?
    Then I could get a Kb Tshirt, move to Timaru and become a full time crossdressing faggot

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    Uri Geller...? (Badum-tish...)
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    Someone with an 80 ton press, hope there are no creases in the staunchions

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    place in cambridge, forget the name....

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    Quote Originally Posted by kiwifruit View Post
    place in cambridge, forget the name....
    They the fellas who straighten bent rims?

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    Quote Originally Posted by speights_bud View Post
    They the fellas who straighten bent rims?
    thats the one

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    Quote Originally Posted by kiwifruit View Post
    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by kiwifruit View Post
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by speights_bud View Post
    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

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

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    Compliments of yellowpages.co.nz:


    Wheel & Frame NZ

    07-827 6688
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    Wiki-ed

    http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/wiki/inde...el.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.

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

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    Most automotive machine shops do this sort of work, and they should also be able to crack test the forks. Which latter is important...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Motu View Post
    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.

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