Was doing a loop round Torridon last weekend and managed to snap the rear mech hanger on my Remedy. I wasn't carrying a spare. Lesson learnt the hard way.
Repaired it at home, but had to use a big shifting spanner set to 22mm-ish.
That aint gonna be carried around with me. Wondering what others do?
I carry one. I took a cheap bike tool, one of the flat spanner/piece of plate types and filed one end into a 22mm spanner.
Oh and fwiw I get the hangers from j e James - great vfm!
Don't carry one - never bent a mech hanger in 20 years (jinxed it now)
No, but I must do, thanks for the reminder.
Multiday rides I carry one, day rides I don't. It can always be bodged
At least with a HT it can be bodged, but an FS...
In the same mould I always carry a Gerber as if I ever need to put a tube in (instead of my tubeless setup) I need the pliers to get out the valve.
Not normally. Although if in a group a couple of people have the emergency ones which fit most frames as a temporary measure.
can't believe anyone would go on a ride without one
why risk ruining a ride for the sake of a few grams in your camelbak
can't believe anyone would go on a ride without one
why risk ruining a ride for the sake of a few grams in your camelbak
have seen forks break on a ride more than once i am shocked more people don't go out with a spare pair.
I've carried a spare one for the entire 3 years I've had my EX8 but only recently realised I needed a separate tool to fit it. Thankfully i've not been in the middle of nowhere with a broken hanger only to realise then!
forks arent designed as a sacraficial part of your bike though!
and as i said mech hanger costs very little and weighs nothing
[i]have seen forks break on a ride more than once i am shocked more people don't go out with a spare pair[/i]
A mech hanger is probably one of the smallest and lightest items in your toolkit, why wouldn't you carry one? Then add on the fact that you may not be able to source one the same day or even the same week without driving miles, you could ruin a whole weeks riding if on holiday.
My secondhand frame came with three spares, two years later I've two slightly bent ones and one good spare remaining...
Spooky and Kimbers, have a spare to keep in the tool box, fine, but at what point so you draw the line. The amount of crap i see some people carry, and these are usually the same people who will proceed to carry out maintenance on the bike when you meet up for a ride. There does seem to be some inverse relationship between amount of crap carried and lack of maintenance performed.
I have broken front mechs, rear mechs, cables, chains, tyres, handle bars, pedals and broken a pair of forks. Never broken or bent a hanger though. And of the hangars i have seen get bent it usually transpired the mech was badly adjusted and that was the root cause, and it isn't many.
2 hours from the car, you snap your mech hanger either through poor adjustment, a stick in the wheel or a crash...10 minutes fitting a new hanger, a four hour walk back, or messing about for ages trying to singlespeed the bike (which doesn't work for full suss's anyway.
I know what I'd choose 🙂
I've had to push a bike back once, unfortunately it was a test bike with an X0 carbon mech. It was badly set up from the shop, mech went into the spokes and ripped off the hanger. Unfortunately the mech bolt half ripped out of the hanger seizing it solid, meaning the two couldn't be separated so the spare hanger I was offered couldn't be fitted. Oops...luckily I was only 10 minutes from the car park.