I am not too sure if they are bent, i have been looking at Mrs Nezbo’s bike (in the background of the pic) and they seem a bit straighter (although they are 80mm and not 100mm so it may have a bit of a prospective thing), i maybe in denial but the I think the crown may be slightly bent.

What do you think?

Based on the pics above, it does look like they’ve been bent back…

Stanchions are usually angled slightly forward of the steerer/headtube which yours don’t seem to be.

Hit anything very hard?

Yes.

edit.

tricky. They look bent in the bpic, but dont seem to deflect much when against a straight line. Maybe just lens distortion ?

Cant help but feel that there should be just a little more offset in the lowers than that ❓

From the pics, it certainly does look like the crown is banjaxed.

I would say they are – looking at Stoners picture, the crown of the forks is not in that line – ie the fork lowers should be offset, however the bottom is…?

Warranty…?

Great cheers 🙁

I think the pic is a good representation of the forks.

I haven’t hit anything at all, so I am not too sure how it has happened.

Looks noticeably different to me

I am not too sure they will be covered under warranty, because they are 2009 forks so they may be out of warranty.

Guess it may be new forks time 🙂 thanks for all the advice and help (I don’t think it’s worth riding with bent forks)

Blimey I’d forgotten how ugly bikes can be…

You should hear what bikes say about you, Al

better pic

They look bob on from that angle to me.

Just a thought… are they definitely the forks that came with the bike – any chance they came from a Gary Fisher? GF Uses a different fork with bespoke geometry, offset in particular.

Clubber you own one?

warranty for bending a fork?

looks like a rubbish mobile phone pic with lens distortion, especially as you are close up to the bike so it will distort even more.
best way to tell is remove fork and lay them on a flat table.

Al, no 😉

(though I have a much fuglier bike)

nobody else going to? ok, I will

It’s perspective, not prospective! 😀

MrSmith – the picture is a good representation of the forks with the bend 🙁

They are from a Giant Anthem X0 originally so I guess they are classed as bent.

Where’s the other fork?

FFS Stoner WTF are you doing?

OP – remove the forks and use something you know to be perfectly straight to tell! (remove the lowers too to be sure)

I’d be removing the forks from the bike to check.

FFS GW WTF is lodged in your anal cavity?

motivforz – well done d**K head you can spell, but I’m dyslexic and to be honest what you said I not very helpful. So in conclusion go and **** yourself and hijack someone else is post, prick… (and yes I did use MS Word)

I’ll try removing the forks and take some more pics. I am sure they are bent though. Thanks for all the advice.

9/10

I need to find out what the colour code for those forks is.

Can I suggest evening primrose oil?

I stupidly drove into a car park overhead barrier with the 456 on the roof and ripped it clean off the bike rack on the roof, rack was mangled and that didnt bend my revelations or frame so you would have to really go some to bend a set of forks i think.

Testiment to On One steel frames too 🙂

Can I suggest evening primrose oil?

Why don’t you try it and see what happens?

That Marin looks incredibly ugly, and flexy too.

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I stupidly drove into a car park overhead barrier with the 456 on the roof and ripped it clean off the bike rack on the roof, rack was mangled and that didnt bend my revelations or frame so you would have to really go some to bend a set of forks i think.

Testiment to On One steel frames too

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Testament to On One owners you mean! (waits for backlash) 😯

P.s. Forks off, and run a spirit level on the steerer and the stantions…

Stoner – Member
FFS GW WTF is lodged in your anal cavity?

No idea, maybe I can send you a picture and you can rotate it a bit and disect it with the help of MSpaint and let me know? 😈

That Marin looks incredibly ugly, and flexy too.

Isn’t it an Alchemist (ie. the 100mm frame they launched to great fanfare for 2010, then withdrew as they couldn’t make it light enough or stiff enough – linky)?

Andy