Request: How to align a bicycle frame.
Status: We need more parts and/or tools before I can produce this tutorial. Any bike shop or company who is willing to donate parts/tools for this tutorial will receive credit. Contact me if you are interested.
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Perhaps, too, you could look at (in a separate video, or in this one), how to do this with the methods that might be more available to people than the standard shop frame alignment tools (I looked into them, I don’t think too many will be interested in running right out to find them for cost sake).
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/frame-spacing.html
I don’t know how well this worked out for a home-made alignment tool, but for dropout alignment, I used a couple of bolts and nuts and then bent the off side of the frame of one of my bikes using a pair of pliers so the ends of the bolts would rub together.
Also maybe talk of the differences between material of a frame and how to tell whether a frame is safe for using?
Frame straightening.