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super lame day: just bent the fuck out of my Singular Swift gear hanger..

actually kinda funny, ive been toying with the idea of setting it up singlespeed with Supermotos as a fun city bike. Today's ride was sort of test ride to see if id miss gears and knobbys enough to not make that switch. Then this had to happened, so i guess that settles that. At least the views were nice, and switching to a 100mm stem felt good :)

That's a shame, bike looks fantastic fun, I've always had a soft spot for them.

Shut up scooter

Only my friends call me that...

I apologise for my intoxicated comments.

Yeeewwwww!

After unscrewing the derailleur cage to get the mech free, i pulled the QR out, and had to pull the stays apart enough for the bent hanger to clear the cassette. Wheel plunked out nicely.

I then mounted up a shitty old mech and grabbed it with the tongue and groove pliers in order to bend it back by the bolt and not fuck up the actual hanger. Bending it back felt soft, but not as metal-fatiquey as id feared.

Eyeballed it, bent it some more, eyeballed it again, and BOOM! Works like a charm! Its sure enough only a 9 speed, så the tolerances arent as small as for eg. 11sp, but this is far better than i could have hoped for.

Super surprised the mech isnt more fucked too. The carbon cage was super bent and totally tensioned out, so i thought it was a goner, but very little bending is visible after putting it back together. One of the pulley wheels is cracked almost in half but no worries otherwise. Small kink in the wheel, but disks so fuck that.

The shop i work in has a proper Derailleur Hanger Alignment Tool (similar to the one parktool makes) so ill do some final tweeks with that within the next few days. Actually a brilliant tool btw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE-VphZDRwI&feature=youtu.be

Excellent work

Now run it SS anyway

;-)

haha you would comment that ;)

hanger still needed a fair bit of adjustment in all directions. Now 100% true!

@enghoff came to the rescue again! This time with a no fuckin bullshit version! Third time's the charm..

It's a hand me down from his Grandpa, so much love for lending it to me. He even took photos! <3

It weighs 45 kg. There has never been so much lag between steering my front wheel and the cetma rack. Felt sort of like driving an oil tanker on a slack line.

Now i just need to find a good spot for it in the workshop. Considering making it removable, because it takes up a lot of space..

The pics don't work for me, it says they don't exist or no longer avaliable.

same, the description is incredibly intriguing tho

@vp1337 @platypus cheers should be there now

Now that's a vice!

A proper Vice should be the heart of every workbench. Fixate it sturdy. Nothing better than proper workpiece-holding!

That's brutal haha!

oh wow that looks awesome! good one

Did you get the seatpost out of the MBK?

Ive borrowed my shops mech hanger tool for every geared frame I've bought. 5 minute job and makes a huge difference to shifting, why ride dura ace if itll feel like sora on a fucked hanger

Not yet. I bolted the vice to the table and it works a charm for direct clamping, but it just seems the side to side wrenching caused by twisting the frame with the post clamped isnt what a vice is best at. There is quite a lot of room for the jaws to slide from side to side, if that makes sense..

I think next step is using a reciprocating saw down into the post, and chiseling it out bit by bit

Word. Its the small things that count.

Anyone tried it on Titanium? I wonder if its as easy..

Ti has similar properties to steel no? If youve got a fucked ti frame it cant hurt to try. Ive done minor alignments on alu frames without snapping anything

I got two frames steel frames with stuck alu posts in it, so we're in the same boat. The vice didn't work for me either. There's the caustic soda trick as well, but I'm not sure, I'm brave enough :-)

What's a reciprocating saw called in Danish?

Luckily none that are fucked. With out knowing for sure, i feel like Ti is a bit more brittle and prone to snapping than steel, but not as bad as alu. Good to hear u've had success with adjusting alu though!