Straightening A Bent Bike Fork With Little Brute Fork Straightener Tool
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- čas přidán 11. 03. 2018
- I show how they used to straighten bicycle forks bent from a front end collision, using a vintage Little Brute Fork Straightener tool. I got this tool on eBay. They are out of production and hard to find. I really don't recommend trying to fix forks that are bent back from a collision, but instead that they should be replaced. Forks are are damaged in a crash like this are weakened, and straightening them weakens them more leaving them prone to failure. Fork failure is often catastrophic and can lead to injury or death. Do not try to repair them!
The bike in the video is badged as a "Campi". Made In Italy. I don't know anything about the brand. It has Campagnolo shifter/derailleurs. The brakes are Universal 61.
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I'm glad you posted that caveat, too. Because my first bike accident was popping wheelies over this upset asphalt in our driveway that was over a bunch of tree roots. I popped the wheelie, the fork broke and the wheel kept going forward. I remember eating dinner with two huge patches of scabs on my elbows that hurt everytime I moved, especially at the dinner table.
Interesting tool... Thank you for your teaching
Very useful safety reservation at the end of the video. Thnx!
Great video! That tool used to be a staple in well equipped bike shops back in the Eighties...As you point out,long out of production and exceedingly rare.I have the Parktool FT-4,another rare tool.I have used it to correct MINOR bends,less than 8 degrees off axis.Cold working a steel fork....Tange,Columbus..nothing work-hardened.. is safe for a bicycle that is being ridden,but,I agree,the safest option is to simply replace the fork...
You're one of the good ones RJ.
that WAS a cool tool - thanks for showing!
Nice demonstration and great words of wisdom regarding safety...regardless ingenious tool
Such a cool tool !
Very cool and GREAT recommendations! 👍
I got so excited that I could fix my bent fork. It’s about a half inch too wide. I didn’t check the angle like you showed. Handlebar/ front is also a little bit off. I got hit by a torpedo shaped bike. I really want to save my bike. Steel pro series 1986 trek I’ve had since 1987. Ride it every day. If I can find forks that fit, is a challenge. Good video.
Thank you 🙏 RJ that was fun and confirms my suspicions……..
I once did this in the middle of a mountain bike race when I bent my fork/frame into unusability. I used brute force and was still able to finish in the top 10 after spending 5-10 minutes manually bending the fork. I threw the bike away after that though because it was obviously ruined, even if it was a steel frame.
Wow vintage bike love it
You are genius man!
Thanks RJ. Cool tool. And your right. Replace the fork. I was thinking that when you were straightening the fork out. That after you did straighten it out. That the metal would be fatigued and or fractured from just that. Thanks buddy, great video for my "Bicycle" category on my channel. Shalom
That is a cool tool
It would work great for fixing bikes that you want to display! I have a Centurion Accord. Awesome bike. One day I was turning left thru an intersection in my neighborhood, and wasn't looking where I was going. By the time I turned my head straight, I was met with a Groot recycling bin that some shmuck put in the road vs keeping it on his driveway. I hit the bin head on, and it brought me to a dead stop. Then I tipped over smack on to my right shoulder. Ouch. I got up and inspected my Centurion. The fork was bent, and there was a bulge underneath the downtube near the headtube. :'( That sucked a lot. I still have the frame and fork, and always wanted a cheap way to straighten the fork so I could hang the frame and fork on the wall. Anyways great video RJ! Love them as always. :-) Keep up the good work.
Great idea! Quick and easy cosmetic fix!
I hope see more restoration video from this vintage peugeot
Excelente manera de enderezar la horquilla de la bicicleta, saludos desde Mérida Venezuela..!
Cool Tool !
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge, time and experience your videos are very helpful. I've been looking for a brute fork straightener but it's really impossible to find one. Maybe you know where I can get one? Thanks again.
very impressed
That's a sweet frame.
It was. Both frame and fork are damaged. :(
My forks are slightly bent to right and the gears on my mountain bike are loss how do I fix them ur videos help me greatly my stingray has the bent forks.
Cool demo but I totally agree, salvage the parts and the frame and fork are scrap, I once got a free by the side of the road old Raleigh only to get it home and see the dual rust spots behind the head tube and then learned what that meant, got a lot of good donor parts though.
great job, ive got a 56 raleigh superbe, same problem, but slight kink in the top n bottom tubes as well, any ideas on how to straighten the frame> cheers :)
Oh now, i so covet one of those!
From Hunchback of Notre Dame... You ring the bell. Your the bell ringer..
Great video RJ..what a cool obscure tool! What does text text say that flashes up for a split second around the 4minute something second mark? I tried to freeze it but couldnt catch..Im intrigued!
Its ok..I got it! Cool hidden message
Terrifying! Neat tool, but SCARY!
I was just like “whaaat rj that’s a good way to end up eating the pavement” UNTIL your warning came along. Just had a customer come in to the shop with a fork like this one, he said he wanted it straighten, i said we wouldn’t do it because he’d loose his teeth, ended up fitting a new one.
That bike looks incredibly like a Gitane Tour de France I had in my shop for a bit. It had Campagnolo components and exact same colors and other details.
The headbadge says "Campi" Made In Italy. It does have Campagnolo components.
Hi! Nice tutorial. But is it safe to do it? I'm scare of this to be broken easily while going on the street and receive some kind of impact.
My friends either Netflix & chill or Spotify & chill. I RJ-the-Bike-Guy & chill. :)
I've got one of these. I picked it up with an ancient truing rig. Pretty cool tools. If someone out there is interested...maybe for your bike museum, let me know. They are both for sale.
Interested
Still for sale?
Do u have a dirt jumper u should do a video on how many bikes u have
Disclaimer aside, these tools are great, if you had the park tool frame straightener to go with it with the bike would be now perfect for another 100 years.
Brilliant video, c'mon who's been on ebay looking for the tool?.
Emilie Jade ...ive got one...
Nice tool, I'm curious about bike which you are working on, is it made by gitane because it looks similar to my Roger Reviere bike. Keep on making amazing videos man.
The badge say "Campi" Made in Italy.
Hey fella i was wondering if ist possible to bend back forks that hmm how to describe ? umm if you look straight down your arm make a fist then swing said fist to the left or right not up or down but left or right as thats pretty much how the forks i have are bent and the bend is at the bottom of the threaded connecting tube to the bike .hmm hope that came across lol. thanks in advance .
Are you based in the UK I have been trying to source someone to sort my forks out on my dawes Galaxy I can't find any Forks anywhere
A little boy out riding his bicycle knocked down an old lady. She was a bit shaken, but got up, dusted herself off, then turned to the little boy and said, 'Don't you know how to ride a bike?' 'Yes,' he answered, 'but I don't know how to ring the bell yet.'
it took me way too long to pause at that second
Congratulations. You have just discovered the secret message.
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4:04 "A little boy out riding his bicycle knock down an old lady. She was a bit shaken, but got up, dusted herself off, then turned to the little boy and said, 'Don't you know how to ride a bike?' 'Yes', he answered, 'but I don't know how to ring the bell yet' "
Still a great joke!
Nice easter egg!
Is it safer to straighten the seat stays like you did before ? I was planning on doing so , but what you said at the end of this video left me thinking
yes A LOT safer....
curious tool
Great little tool, she said, never...
Where I can buy this tool?
Can you make a video for how to lace a 28 holes hub in 36 holes rim
mark macayan can’t be done properly, 32 hubs in 36 rims can be laced somehow skipping a hole every 8 spokes but 28 can’t be done evenly.
Nice video! This bike is legnano Roma?
The headbadge says "Campi".
I crashed my apollo 2 into a moving car when i was a kid ,fork didnt bend but frame bent @ top & down tube just behind the head tube lugs,front 27 inch wheel had a slight buckle but wasnt taco'd though,bike was never the same after that & used to make creaking noises while riding down the road :(
What bike is this,I have one here with the same hubs and frame lugs,but no branding.Thanks!
Read the description.
It has to be steel. Right?
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Lol cleaver jok. I can ring a bell. Lol 😆 1👍👍👍
Is that a legal waiver that pops up for half a second at 04:08?
I am scared about the weakening of the metal drop arms what if the steel develops cracks inside !
How much would you say an original 1992 peugeot festina race replica bike would be worth? Still has the stock tyres on it and in very good condition
You need to do the research. And values vary by geography anyway.
RJ, did you ever think to build (solder) your own steel frames?
Maybe someday. Takes a lot of special equipment.
As you said many times before, you like tools and equipment.
Didn't know such tools existed. Almost certainly a bent / kinked steerer tube there, so impossibble to fix without brazing. But... what about the milder sideways distortion sometimes caused by just falling off? Really fiddly to fix with the bike upside down and an aluminium scaffold pipe used as a lever over the fork blade. Is there a better way?
If the fork steerer is bent, replace the fork. If the blades are out of alignment, they might be able to be aligned.
Tolong, carq pembuatan alatnya di bagi
I live in a place where spare parts are just hard to come by, can i just try to straighten my fork? you think it'll work on long term? it's a tiny bit shaky.
If it's bent back like from a collision, replace it. It is already compromised. If you bend it back, it will just become weaker and prone to failure. When a fork fails, it tends to be instant and catastrophic. Leading to the possible injury or even death. Not worth it.
and can make a video of it if you do
Better to leave as it is and earn to get an exact replacement or a new frameset
Yeh, time to buy new fork.. Oh well, mine wasnt bent as much. Frame should be ok. It is not like I am jumping or racing down the mountain with it.
I'm thinking if you don't have this tool, turn the handlebars around and attached a rope to the frame and front wheel axle loosely, then put a dowel in the rope and tighten it slowly, or use your own method for pulling it back rather than push it forward.
Don't try to straighten a bent fork. They are dangerous. Just replace it.
Wow, that must be a expensive tool.
What if one prong is bent. Not both?
If the fork is bent, replace it.
Lil Brute ? They make a lawnmower crank straightener, equally phycadelic
hay is there any other way u can do this
REPLACE THE FORK!!!!
The greatest tool for a cyclist is his mind.
...and credit card
For lugged forks, this is acceptable. For a unicrown fork, absolutely not. If you feel a unicrown fork you notice the tubing has deformed, rather than just being bent back it's also changed in diameter at the damaged area, which isn't reversible by bending it back.
I Just Read That Story On Single Frame I Stopped Set The Speed To 0.25x And Hunted The Frame It Was Totally Worth It. HAHA
4:04 just after the wordf "it" as he says "not worth it".
I was skeptical watching the video
I'm pretty sure i can use it with carbon fork :D
You mean its possible in a crash with a steel bike you can have your wheel seemingly straight yet your fork would bend?
this needs more safety warnings!!
Лучше вилку снять с рамы! что бы не вызвать напряжение метала в швах рамы
That's the way to tool was meant to be used.
who has one in Chicago?)
Wow I'd never ride a bike that's been in a crash like that... Not a very useful tool honestly. But cool!
Promoting Subliminal jokes now.........Love it.
Everyone saying "replace your fork, dont repair it" clearly feel like money grows on tress how do they start at $200??? Buy a whole new bike for like 2x that and have no issues
Oh man! I think you should be buying, or getting made, new forks. Once stressed back like this they are weakened. And then bending them back weakens them again. So weak forks - what could possibly go wrong once they've been bent both ways? He's absolutely right - get a new frameset.
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0:00 OI M8 YE GOT A LICENSE FOR THAT FORK STRAIGHTENER??
-Are You still There?
-Me and My gf
So much does the massive tool cost?
If it's $100, well, it's hardly worth buying a $100 tool that I will only use once.
LOL! Good luck even finding one! And as I said in the video, don't do this! Replace the fork.
"Works like" hahaha that is an old car bumper jack.
Not exactly. The company probably started with bumper jacks and modified them.
Bike for sale. Babied.
no Pepsi?
And no socks!!! :-D
apply too much force and the wheel pops out of the fork ends. this thing scares me. looks home made too.
maybe get a new 5$ fork :(
I know but my parents don't want to spend money
Tell them a new fork is cheaper than the hospital bills when the old straightened fork fails.
dont walk a mall wearing that thing...
A little boy out riding his bicycle knocked down an old lady. She was a bit shaken, but got up, dusted herself off, then turned to the little boy and said, 'dont you know how to ride a bike?' 'yes,' he answered, 'but I don't know how to ring the bell yet'