was having a breather at the top of Garburn chatting to a lad who was coming over from the other direction, we talked bikes etc and I boasted that my 6 year old Eldridge had never given me any trouble.
hopped on and statrted descent into kentmere when scrunch! rear mech relocated to 12 o'clock position. pushed back over summit and freewheeled back into Windermere for an early bath.

I've done a few over the years. Always carry a spare. Even managed to bend someone else's hanger when I wasn't riding their bike… was on a switch-backy bit of trail at Coedy and dislodged a rather large rock which rolled down the hill and hit the bike on the level below me thus detroying the hanger. Oops.

06/06/08 was the first and last time I bent a hanger