the part of my frame where the derailleur goes is bent and i need to try to bend it back without snapping off. should i heat it up? also if it snaps can i replace it somehow?
by WesternHoliday5797
the part of my frame where the derailleur goes is bent and i need to try to bend it back without snapping off. should i heat it up? also if it snaps can i replace it somehow?
by WesternHoliday5797
9 Comments
This frame is dead. Buy a bike that works
This is why derailleur hangers are a thing
Yeahhh bad setup but if you’re handy enough really you can just refabricate it
Hard to tell from the pic, looks kinda chewed up. If the threads are still good, the tool that could fix that is a derailleur alignment gauge, don’t need the fancy park tool one, a cheap Amazon tool would work fine. If it does snap that frame is done.
It doesn’t actually look to bad from the first pic. You can bend it back using an alignment tool. I would heat it up with a torch to soften it to reduce the likelihood of snapping. Get it as close as you can to flush just using a set of pliers before using the alignment tool.
If you want to keep riding this bike there’s deraileurs that clamp under the bolt on an arm
Let’s just put it this way, no matter what you do it will not shift perfect again. Could it be brought back to a state that it works again? Maybe. But as I said it won’t be perfect. Do you need it to just work? Or do you need it to be perfect? That’s for you and your local bike shop to decide.
Yah, that’s almost certainly toast I’m afraid. You can try GENTLY bending it back but it’s very likely that it’ll snap, and if it doesn’t snap now it will snap soon.
It depends how pragmatic you are, but I’d personally be using this as an excuse to buy a new frame / bike / several bikes.
its toast