First off also I'm glad that you're ok! You're not alone. I ran my baby into the carport (roofrack, doh!) last year, and the rear end crash thing happens to the best of us.
Carefully visualy inspect the bike, look for cracks and variation in the paint like bubbles, crinkles, feel the frame for any bulgeing, ripples. That's what clued me in that my baby was hurt.
Your LBS will do this too and take *everything* off the bike to inspect inside the frame as much as possible. Once the bike is stripped your shop should simply turn the fork all the way round. Any resistance means your fork is damaged, it should turn smoothely.
What's your frame material? One of the things I like about steel is that when i crunched my baby they simply sent it to the village blacksmith (JK, sent to a builder authorized my Mondonico) and *poof* new downtube.
Anything other than steel or maybe Ti might not be fixable.
But don't ignore it because damage to the frame is a safety issue. My shop said that if the damage was slight he'd reccomend check it before any ride and if it changes THEN it's time to replace the frame. Because i have a lightweight frame we had to fix it before it failed and caused a crash.
By the way, that ride looks fabulous!



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