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Sitting on top of a trash can this morning...pretty cool little looptail. but as you can see from the second photo, the forks are way bent. looks like someone ran head on into something.

1983 mongoose californian with stamped headset, stamped cranks, dia-compe hinged seat clamp, sr stem, huffy bars, ( i actually sort of like these bars, they look like they are from a late 90's huffy)
if anyone is in need of some bent mongoose forks, let me know. i do not have the wherewithal to straighten them. would it even be safe to ride them if i straightened them?

nybble · 2012-11-09 9:51am

Good save and nice kickstand!
The experts can answer the safety question.

RDB · 2012-11-09 9:53am

forks look f'd...but nice save man, that frame is

RDB · 2012-11-09 9:55am

I guess if you bent them back and no cracks appeared they would be ok?

I would not ride it hard unless it had different forks, bent back or not

Hunt · 2012-11-09 9:58am

nybble wrote:
Good save and nice kickstand!
The experts can answer the safety question.

"just flip em roun"

mark.fitzpatrick · 2012-11-09 11:25am

Seriously, are they bent or just mounted backwards?

xtremevert · 2012-11-09 11:26am

MasterBri · 2012-11-09 11:34am

Forks look backwards, not bent

oldskoolkel · 2012-11-09 11:47am

Cool find, some people got no idea...trash....muppets.

RL Paulie · 2012-11-09 11:51am

They are bent. I went through the same situation with a bent fork on a Californian then people tried to convince me the decals were put on backwards. Don't listen to them! I have become an expert on the bent goose fork! You can tell looking at the legs that the tubing is bent. The tubing should be straight!

jayjay80 · 2012-11-09 12:13pm

Nice find!

BMX KYLE · 2012-11-09 1:29pm

Great save...

tkBMX76 · 2012-11-09 2:05pm

Build it!!! That frame looks great love those gooses

joey1320 · 2012-11-09 5:19pm

Nice find. The bars look like the same ones I had on my '99 Huffy Bandit. I traded the frame but kept the bars cuz I really liked them lol.

Fox · 2012-11-10 12:34am

even if they are bent you can flip them around and they will be fine

RoadRunner · 2012-11-10 2:40am

save, man.

MrOlive · 2012-11-11 6:56am

The forks would bend back super easy. Use 2 wood sawhorses. Use a body tool slide hammer dent puller. Center it on the bend. Isolate the bend as the only "open" spot through the 2 2x4's. and give it a couple cracks. Metal always wants to return back to it's original bend after it's bent. You just have to help it get back there. I've fixed and rode a bunch of them. You probly don't want to jump them or be a chunky guy tho, lol

Draw · 2012-11-11 8:48am

RL Paulie wrote:
You can tell looking at the legs that the tubing is bent. The tubing should be straight!

x2.

still a nice find and you can never beat free !!!

digilante · 2012-11-11 12:14pm

So I got this bit-o-scrap apart, and I have laid the forks next to a dead straight set of nearly identical forks. The unbent pair are Tange, from a late 70's early 80's Team Mongoose. I am not disputing that the Akisu pair is bent, but how in the heck did they bend so "perfectly". What I mean is, how did they bend to the exact point that they match the rake on an undamaged pair when turned backward. Considering the rake on these when undamaged, it is curious to think that they bent so far without one leg or the other bending more or less than the other leg. Also, what is with the extra threading on the Akisu pair? The head tube on the frame seems to be the same as every other mongoose frame. Anyone? Additionally, when I pulled the mongoose stamped opc cranks, they were stamped 165. Does that make this frame a mini or what?

BMX KYLE · 2012-11-11 12:20pm

Nice save.

bmx4fun · 2012-11-11 3:33pm

Great find I have a complete goose that was chased down for 10 miles then I bought it for 10$ that guy was taking it to th landfill and thought we were crazy.

sithlord3 · 2012-11-11 3:36pm

Isn't there a groove for the keyed spacer on the headset? Would be the back and would tell ya if they are bent. Or am I stupid and they have no groove... I dunno

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Godzilla · 2012-11-11 3:39pm

sithlord3 wrote:
Isn't there a groove for the keyed spacer on the headset? Would be the back and would tell ya if they are bent. Or am I stupid and they have no groove... I dunno

Logic! Nice.

sithlord3 · 2012-11-11 5:18pm

vassar · 2012-11-11 7:09pm

Forks are definitely bent, legs should be straight with no curve at all. Easy fix however. I fixed quite a few forks lately.

Nice save BTW.

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