Can I get a gearhanger?

Posted on Thu 6th, August 2009

• #1

lightindustrialunit

I'm helping build a bike for a friend and she wants a single chainring with some gears on the back but the old carlton frame has no gearhanger brazed on, just a horizontal dropout. Is it possible to get a bolt-on gear hanger, I seem to remember cheap rear mechs with thier own hangers but I wanted to fit a better mech to go with an 8 spd campag wheel I'm donating. Any ideas?
• #2

Bernhard

Get a sturmey archer hub, that way you don't have to worry about a gear hanger.
• #3

mooks

I'll swap you one for a 'hell yeah'?

Sorry...
• #4

lightindustrialunit

Glad my sense of humour isn't wasted on y'all, well i say sense of humour...
• #5

lightindustrialunit

Answered my own question thanks to trusty Sheldon. It's called an adaptor claw apparently and that led me to this thread: http://www.londonfgss.com/thread22839.html for anyone else who might be interested.

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