Patent 7690128 was granted and assigned to Motion Pro, Inc on April, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A tool is disclosed for alignment of forks in a wheeled vehicle. The tool includes a plurality of connecting members, each having a receiving cup, which is configured to receive the curvature of fork tubes of the forks of the vehicle, and a slide bar which attaches to a portion of the receiving cup. The connecting members are held in slidable relation to each other by at least one fastener when the fastener is loosened. The fastener can be tightened to lock the connecting members in fixed position relative to each other to capture the spatial separation dimension between the forks at a point along their length. Also disclosed is a method for achieving parallelism of forks in a wheeled vehicle.