Originally Posted by
delicious
you guys have good eyes or something, i don't see a bulge or anything that would have made me believe it was crashed.
is the smoking gun the sort of matching paint chipping on top and downtube where they would have bent a bit? the fork appears straight though, no?
99.9% of the time the
smoking gun is the chipped paint and it is possible to beend a frame without bending the fork and vice versa. All combos are possible: buldges in tube/no chip paint no buldges/chip paint bulkdges/chip paint and all of those with or without a bent fork.
Buldge in tube can be seen in this pic: