Replacement forks/ Straightening forks

[porka944s]

I spent a month rebuilding my old Radford MTB a while ago, i got it when i was 13 for a paper round and at 20 i gave it to a friends little brother. At 27 i got it back and it was still as broken as the day i gave it to him, just a lot dustier. I spent about £75 changing a lot of parts, but after the first time i went out on it i had twisted the forks because i chucked it on the lawn at a funny angle.
It gave me a good excuse to buy a nice new bike, but i would like to fix it again, its a shame as it has too much new stuff on it to let it rot in the shed.
Thing is it was never a fancy bike in the first place and it doesn't have a standard size stem that all bikes seem to have now, its smaller, and i think it is a wedge type. So a quick browse on the net leaves me none the wiser to fork replacements, any tips? Or can i even get the old ones straighten?
Cheers Mark

[Gompo]

You can pick up threaded forks on Ebay easy enough for about £10, obviously you'd need to know the diameter but I dont imagine it's less than 1"?

[porka944s]

I'll have to measure it up, they look promising. i like riding but unfortunately i am clueless on terminology, what products there are ect, so all help is appreciated. what do you attach to the threaded end? or do you just use spacers and get a 1 inch stem to clamp on to it?

[Gompo]

Unfortunately I've not done much with bikes for 10+ years so forgotten a lot of the terminology and what goes with what myself. If you have everything from your old bike complete you shouldnt need to buy anything else other than the forks and things do go together quite easily, but be sure to make sure everything goes back on in the right order.

It may be worth replacing the 'headset', which is the group of ballraces etc that go between the fork's steerer tube and the frame's headtube.

One thing you will probably need to do is cut down the new forks steerer tube to match your old ones. This isnt difficult with a metal hacksaw, just make sure you dont cut it shorter than the one on your old forks.

...I'm sure somebody else on here can explain it better but it really is quite an easy swap if you take your time. Any problems/questions will get an answer on here I'm sure.

[magpie215]

sounds like you need a threaded set of fork prob 1" diameter that will accept a quill stem HTH

[porka944s]

cheers fellas ive seen some on ebay for 8 quid ill get them and try it out!