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    1. MaxHeadroom69420 on

      Both the derailleur and the hanger look pretty bent to me. Take it to a shop to have it aligned. Its more than just a simple adjust, and likely a new derailleur.

    3. ArmyFork on

      Your derailleur hanger is bent, you need to straight or replace that before you can align the derailleur with the cassette

    5. Lordly_Lobster on

      That looks like your derailleur or derailleur cage is bent. You could try taking the derailleur off the bike and bending it back to straight but it will never be the same. Aluminum doesn’t like being bent and bent back. The risk is that it breaks sometime in the future and leaves you stranded.

    6. bradsbikes on

      Both your hanger and the cage on your derailleur are bent. Take it to your local LBS. They’ll straighten it up as best possible

    8. Gullible-Factor-8927 on

      A new hanger and derailleur are around $50-60, your LBS can probably do the whole job for around $100 if you don’t trust yourself…or they can bend/align the hanger and tune the existing cage for around $50, either way it’s quite doable

    9. HumungreousNobolatis on

      The derailleur hanger is designed like a fuse; it bends/breaks to prevent worse damage to the derailleur/frame. I always keep a spare hanger in my bag.

    10. Flashy_Rice_6863 on

      In addition to hanger straightening/ r.d. condition checking, You could also consider adding maybe an inch of extra length to the outer cable run; yours isn’t currently *too*short, but I wouldn’t want mine any shorter.

    11. LeProVelo on

      3rd pic. See the black paint on the frame? There’s a small sliver of silver showing. The hanger is not fully seated in its place.

      Its likely also bent, but it could just be loose.

      Either that, or it’s the incorrect hanger for the frame.

    12. Legitimate_Pea_143 on

      Derailleur is 100% bent I’m not really sure about the hanger though. I’m assuming since the actual derailleur cage is bent the most likely the hanger is also.

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