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Bend Metal Using Bicycle Parts with Smart Skills. Posted: January 18, 2025 | Last updated: March 6, 2025. Watch as bicycle parts are ingeniously repurposed to bend metal with pure technical skill!

If you want to bend metal to make shapes, you might use equipment like a brake. But if you don’t have one, no worries. You can still do a lot with common tools like a vise and torches ...

This metal-to-metal contact will leave noticeable grooves in the rotor surface. When this happens, the rotor can be resurfaced by a machine shop or replaced entirely.