For Sale: Klein Road bike

Hadn't seen that much of the photos so didn't pick up on that, but yeah fair enough!
History is everything.

^ that is quite a strong statement. It's not the prettiest fix. But fundamentally it's an ok way to have a hanger attached.

A mild steel hanger from a sub £100 mtb has been fixed with a screw to the old dropout and is held in place by the rear wheel.
It's a bodge, and certainly not "fundamentally OK"
As Dammit says, there is no way of knowing how this came about, but my guess would a crash. The dropout on a 1992 Klein is not only a thing of beauty, it is a thing of great strength. To break it takes a lot, so I would suspect that the dropout is likely to be out of alignment too, but I speculate.
If I were to buy a Klein frame of that vintage I would want to know it had been in the hands of someone who knew how to look after good bikes, not how to bodge them.

for me the main problem will be, in the case of another crash, that bolt could rip the remain of the drop out, making the bike useless... the hole for that bolt has weaken the dropout. food for thought

I'd be a bit more concerned at the extra stresses on the QR skewer (effectively doing the job of the axle but certainly not built to do so). Not a safe 'repair'... at all. Fine as a get you home bodge but otherwise really dodgy. If that is the only way to fix it then I'd say that frame is a goner.

Didn't Klein's come with a non-replacable hanger? Stiff but game over for the frame if it breaks (which this one appears to have).

EDIT: Yep, it would appear they did/do (or at least this one did):

I guess you could try and magic gear it like this one.
Pic came from this thread:
http://www.bikeforums.net/archive/index.php/t-500595.html

Wow...I missed all this!!

Bike is Sold..

I have been riding it for over a year without any issues. It belonged to friend who had owned from new..no reported issues with replacment hanger or skewers etc.

Tks

It probably will be fine but its not something I'd want to own or buy. It may have been safe whilst you had it but ultimately its not safe. I'm 100% certain it didn't come from new like that so something must have happened.

It belonged to friend who had owned from new..no reported issues with replacment hanger or skewers etc.

The issue would be that replacement mech hangers aren't available, hence the bodge on your old frame. The skewer is fine until it snaps, which it could feasibly do on that setup as its putting far more stress on it than it would if it didn't have that extra bit of metal (the bolted on hanger) on the dropout.