Timeline for Bending back a bent head tube - is it worth trying?
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| Sep 10, 2018 at 18:46 | history | edited | Argenti Apparatus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 10, 2018 at 18:44 | comment | added | Argenti Apparatus | The point of my answer is that yes, I absolutely would worry about the frame cracking and collapsing. The tube wall of the downtube just behind the headtube is folded almost 90 degrees. Localized deformation and stress weakens metal enormously. A crack would probably form along the line of that fold. Hit a bump and the headtube would likely rip right off sending you face first into the ground. | |
| Sep 10, 2018 at 18:34 | comment | added | user21245 | Gotcha. I'm going to try to straighten anyways, since I have nothing to lose. Assuming I don't crush/ovalize the head tube in the "un-bending" process, you would still worry about the frame collapsing? Like the metal shearing somehow? | |
| Sep 10, 2018 at 17:46 | history | answered | Argenti Apparatus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |