Bent handle bars?

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After my little off this week i think the handle bars are bent or slightly off track. Since im still new to the biking scene im not really sure where to start.

How do i correct this?

any help will be much appricated

thanks
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[Kickstart]

Hi

If the bars are bent then pretty much replace them. However probably more likely in a very low speed off that the forks have just twisted in the yokes.

All the best

Keith
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[carlnicholson...]

I've tried in vain to straighten bars before but it's almost impossible to get them exactly as they were. If it is the bars, then replacements aren't always expensive, but are well worth it compared to bodging the old ones.
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[Dom]

Renthals are cheap and generally let you improve on the standard riding position as well. If they're bent that's the way to go.
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sorry, wrong choice of words, I dont think they are bent, like kickstart said i think they are twisted slightly
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Motorcycles are perfectly safe as long as you remember they're dangerous.

[Kickstart]

Hi

In which case, slacken off the wheel spindle and the pinch bolts holding the forks on the top yoke. Then pull the brakes and bounce the front suspension up and down. Then retighten everything.

All the best

Keith
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[doggone]

Sometimes you can improve things a bit even on the roadside by standing in front of the bike and gripping the front wheel between your legs - then get hold of the bars and heave them in the direction you think they should go.
Worth trying anyway.

[pa_broon74]

[Kickstart]

[pa_broon74]

[Dibble]

In an "I've got to ride home" emergency sit on the bike line the side of the TYRE up with a lampost and using the bars smack the TYRE into the post. Everything normally pops back pretty much straight.

Dibble

p.s.TYRE is in capitals as I have marked a rim doing this