Easy Fork Blade Benders

Step 6 Assemble and bend away

Thread in your bolt, attach the clamp with the clevis pin, and you're ready to go.

Clamp the far end of the bender to your workbench. Clamp the tip of the fork blade with the bolt, and bend the leg down. You will probably need to slide a piece of larger tubing over the fork blade to get enough leverage. Some designs use two long arms mounted to the frame with a grooved nylon roller to lever down on the fork leg, which would be an easy thing to add to the frame.

If you are trying to do tight bends, large rakes, and are using thin fork legs, you might have to pack the legs with sand to keep them from kinking. The one in the photo below has a pretty tight radius, I'd recommend you try something a little flatter to start out with.

Comments

[dniedz]

does the bolt seat into the actual dropout, or the base of the fork leg? what would you say the total cost of this was?

[drwelby]

You usually bend the legs before you put the dropouts in. So the bolt clamps the leg. I built it out of remnants that I buy by the pound, so I'm sure it was under $20 to build.