Managed to tear off the rear derailleur after hitting a tree in Stanmer earlier today. Luckily a friend had some cable ties and a flash of inspiration...
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...few removed chain links later and I had a fully ridable singlespeed. Annoyingly the chain wouldn't stay on an easier gear ratio, so I was stuck with a brutal ride home.
Anyone else impressed themselves with a trial side bodge?
I've had to do the same thing myself, although it was the shifter that died, not the mech, so I was able to stick it in a relatively sensible ratio to get home. 44x11 must be, er, interesting up hills...
rossrobots legs when he got home
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Ah, loads..
I got turned onto SSing when me shifter gave up the ghost on one ride.
Used a bit of wire to hold me frame together once when it snapped a few miles from home. Used couple of bits of wood and zip-ties when another frame snapped mid-ride too.
Had to zip-tie and tape me seat on last Monday when me seatpost head broke.
I've just managed to straighten a buckled rim using a piece of wood and brute force. 🙂
Zip ties , tape and bits of wire are what you need on a ride in case of emergency, no fancy tools malarky.
Realman - painfully true - legs are still sore.
why did you not put it in middle or bottom at the front out of interest?
cruzheckler - to be honest we didn't think of that. In hindsight that makes a lot more sense. I think we were too giddy from solving the problem to think about improving the solution.
lol
That's one more of us and one less of them.
new sticker 'one more of us,one less of them'....eh Charles ? 😉
Went for a ride once with 27 gears... and came back with a dandyhorse.
Since then, I've never ridden more than 2km without a multitool with chain thingy and some quicklinks.
