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Had a nose dive style landing and spectacular crash yesterday and I'm just doing a bike check up now. The front disc was bent and me being paranoid thought that maybe the fork leg may have also twisted a bit causing the disc to rub further. Is there any way to tell if its been twisted or bent other than measuring the distance between the legs at top and bottom then comparing? It's hard to tell just by looking, need some way of measuring.
It's a Rock Shox Pike 454 if that helps - are they tough enough to handle such crashes? It involved me going sideways into a landing, front tyre nosediving then pinch flatting/washing out to an over the bars kind of thing.
Put a 'true' wheel in and see if the wheel sits centrally. Also check the fore and aft dims.
I don't have any true wheels :\
Slide the axle through, does it catch on the opposite leg in anyway or does it just fit straight into the dropout?
The lowers are magnesium that snaps not bends so check them for cracks, the uppers are steel/ali steerer and Ali sliders that does bend, so pull them apart and put a straight edge against them to check if they are bent
Ok cool so the lowers should be ok then so long as there are no cracks?
Reckon the motion control assembly is completely ****ed as it was always leaking oil before but its really bad now. I never use it anyway so hopefully it won't matter too much?
I'd split em, give em a good coating of looking at, and if they look ok, send em for a service and get the innards sorted by loco off here or tf tuned