WTB: GS500E Inner Fork Tube

[stafebak]

For my 1996 GS500E, I need a STRAIGHT inner fork tube.

Part #8 on http://www.bikebandit.com/1996-suzuki-gs500et/o/m6056#sch249842

Mine has developed a minuscule bend that I am apprehensive to ride on, so I want to get it replaced asap. Lemme know wacha got! I'll provide my eBay feedback page if you want too...and I'll be making an intro post once I get unlazy

Thanks!

[The Buddha]

For my 1996 GS500E, I need a STRAIGHT inner fork tube.

Part #8 on http://www.bikebandit.com/1996-suzuki-gs500et/o/m6056#sch249842

Mine has developed a minuscule bend that I am apprehensive to ride on, so I want to get it replaced asap. Lemme know wacha got! I'll provide my eBay feedback page if you want too...and I'll be making an intro post once I get unlazy

Thanks!

Dont ride on a bent fork tube, straighten it, I knew of a guy that would do it, but, well ... no one wanted to pay for it and hence I am not doing that sorta crap anymore.
Cool.
Buddha.

[stafebak]

For my 1996 GS500E, I need a STRAIGHT inner fork tube.

Part #8 on http://www.bikebandit.com/1996-suzuki-gs500et/o/m6056#sch249842

Mine has developed a minuscule bend that I am apprehensive to ride on, so I want to get it replaced asap. Lemme know wacha got! I'll provide my eBay feedback page if you want too...and I'll be making an intro post once I get unlazy

Thanks!

Dont ride on a bent fork tube, straighten it, I knew of a guy that would do it, but, well ... no one wanted to pay for it and hence I am not doing that sorta crap anymore.
Cool.
Buddha.

Well, I haven't yet, and wasn't particularly planning on it. Anyways...that sucks, as I can't find a replacement tube on eBay right now

EDIT: Maybe I'll just get a shop to straighten it actually.

[The Buddha]

You dont think that steel grew out of the ground in that 37mm dia pipe form do ya ...

Well that is just me being a smart a$$ and yes I grew up that way.

OK steel is not a metal that has a memory. It wont misbehave the second or third time its subject to that stress or even if it did warm up ... the steel in your fork tube was cold drawn over mandrel, machined to tolerance and chromed since the last time it was annealed. Cold rolling essentially squeezes the steel into shape, sorta like a flour tortilla before it is made into a tortilla. The stresses you induce in it, it essentially has forgotten, which is why it stays stable in the shape of the tube. The bend will straighten out and your tube wont jump back to the bent position if you used it normally and didn't load it in that same direction. If you do load it that same direction, it will require near about 95% of the original force to show that same deviation, and that = you ram it 95% as hard as you did last time with it fitted in the same position and it will bend to there.
If you fit it in a different direction then its back to 100%. So if you bent the back part as it is on the bike, put it in front. If you bent left, put it right etc etc working on the theory that you bent it with one of the boo boo's you are prone to doing.

Small bends wont matter, big ones will not seal cos it will craze and eventually peel the chrome, even bigger ones will rip the pipe when you straighten it.

Cool.
Buddha.

[stafebak]

  I think you're entitled to a little sarcasm when you go to those lengths to explain something to someone

Surprisingly this isn't one of my boo boos directly, as I bought the bike with bad fork seals, and didn't notice the slight bend until I replaced those. Thanks for the wealth of knowledge. My ninja edit was because I actually read something like what you wrote, but less in depth. Your explanation is better, as I like to understand things more. Thanks!

[stafebak]

Bumppppp!