Originally Posted by
Iride01
However the OP didn't give just a profile pic of the bike with the fork installed as I was hoping for. I've seen several people come here to BF with pictures of a fork that is obviously bent or a bent downtube putting the headtube at the wrong angle and they'd swear themselves nothing looked odd. Even though it very much did when compared to a pic of the same model.
here's one in profile, and a close-up of where the fork meets the head tube. The bottom half of the headset is aligned fine and I don't see any obvious bend in the direction of travel or otherwise. the crash in question came from a loss of traction in loose dirt -- luckily, there was no front-on impact so i don't believe it was bent backwards at all?