How to bend back frot forks

[mjavor]

Hello,

Due to a mishap with a dirt road, my front forks got bent. It looks like the right fork tube is the one which is bent. I have to hold my handle handle bar about 5 degrees to the right in order to go straight.

I was thinking of using a 2x4 and use the other fork as leverage to bend it back but am worried about damaging the other fork.

Bike is an ex500.

Any tips would be appreciated!

[SLaP]

Might not be bent but just tweaked. Can you see noticeable bend in the fork tube(s)?

Read up on "rocking" the forks...
http://www.ex-500.com/index.php/topic,276.0.html

[omnivore]

loosen all pinch bolts a little on the upper and lower triples, but not too much. Then bang wheel against a curb the opposite way that it is tweaked. Should straighten it out. Then retighten.

When you say your forks are bent, the rest of us envision a fork tube that is bending back towards the engine as though you ran head on into something. What you have done is twisted the fork tubes in their triple clamps from a fall over.

[mjavor]

Yup, sorry about the wrong term... first season here.

Thanks for the tips, will give it a try this weekend.