At 02:16 PM 01/03/2008 -0600, Brad Luecke wrote:
>In the old days we had something we called a "fork jack". Stuck one end on
>the BB and the other on the axle of a hub fixed in the fork drop outs. I
>"fixed" many frames with it.
Like this? http://img151.imageshack.us/
I made that to straighten my son's low end frame some years ago. It straightened the fork and the bent top and down tubes at the head lugs with only some cracked paint to show for it. Not sure how well it would work on the double butted high alloy steel on the De Rosa, though.
John Betmanis
Woodstock, Ontario
Canada