Steel Fork Alignment: Shop or Framebuilder?

[unterhausen]

My guess is that it's not misaligned in the sense that bending tubes would fix anything. But it probably makes sense to have that checked before taking a file to the dropout. Those old park fork alignment gauges are a crummy way to test alignment, they are usually misaligned themselves. I saw Brian Chapman took the measuring arm off of one and is using it as a fork clamp, which is probably the best use for them.

So I'm recommending finding a framebuilder that will check it.