ayceejay
Guru
- Location
- Rural Quebec
Given that a rear hanger tool is $40 and a new hanger is $20 which should I get?
rear mech hanger
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mrandmrspoves
Middle aged bald git.
- Location
- Narfuk
Both!
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ayceejay
Guru
- Location
- Rural Quebec
Please stop there guys or before long I will be adding an extension to accommodate all this new stuff.
BTW would either of you care to explain your reasoning that would be really useful?
BTW would either of you care to explain your reasoning that would be really useful?
mrandmrspoves
Middle aged bald git.
- Location
- Narfuk
I would buy both because I love tools - so any excuse!
If I was trying to justify the expenditure to my wife, I would explain that I would get a new gear hanger and fit it to the bike and keep the bent one as a spare once I had realigned it using the hanger tool. A damaged hanger that is a few mm out of alignment is enough to make it impossible to index the gears correctly - so if I have trouble indexing gears I always check alignment and have found it to be the cause of the problem on a few occasions (I service bikes for lots of people) The tool has always enabled me to sort the problem. When I still rode an upwrong, I had a Claud Butler Dalesman which had suffered from a rear derailleur failure and the mech had got thrown into the wheel causing the rear dropout and hanger to bend as it did not have a separate aluminium replaceable hanger. The bike would have been useless if I had not been able to realign the hanger.
If I was trying to justify the expenditure to my wife, I would explain that I would get a new gear hanger and fit it to the bike and keep the bent one as a spare once I had realigned it using the hanger tool. A damaged hanger that is a few mm out of alignment is enough to make it impossible to index the gears correctly - so if I have trouble indexing gears I always check alignment and have found it to be the cause of the problem on a few occasions (I service bikes for lots of people) The tool has always enabled me to sort the problem. When I still rode an upwrong, I had a Claud Butler Dalesman which had suffered from a rear derailleur failure and the mech had got thrown into the wheel causing the rear dropout and hanger to bend as it did not have a separate aluminium replaceable hanger. The bike would have been useless if I had not been able to realign the hanger.
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ayceejay
Guru
- Location
- Rural Quebec
Wonderful! I can see John Hurt playing you in the movie or even TV series.
Thanks Mr Poves.
Thanks Mr Poves.
mrandmrspoves
Middle aged bald git.
- Location
- Narfuk
Probably more John Belushi than John Hurt!
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
What Ian H says. Hanger tools are for steel. Not alloy hangers. If those get bent, get new.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Just buy a new hanger. There are lots of generics/copies that work well and don't cost quite as much as the official replacement. Google is your friend.
