Friday, May 19, 2006

Multi Rock Tool

Last night we headed out for the Mt.bike group ride. The plan was to check out the park and then if it was too muddy to get on the road. I was pleasantly surprised to find out how dry and ridable things were. Nobody really wanted to lead and I wanted to go easy, somehow I still ended up out front. We took things really easy and it was fun to just cruise around at a leisurely pace all night.
On one of what turned out to be the last climbs Cory hit a rock and broke his derailleur hanger. Bob had one on him and normally it wouldn't have been a big deal to change it and keep going. But when he hit the rock it lodged the hanger up in the derailleur really hard. After some pulling twisting and pounding on it with a stick we decided to take it off and go single speed home. While Cory was trying to get the chain back together again Bob and Jeff took the derailleur back to the rock that broke it. I guess they found another rock and went after fixing it cave man style! By the time we got the chain back together they came back with it fixed. It was starting to get dark by now so we quickly broke the chain again and got the derailleur remounted.
I don't think we set any records for fixing a derailleur hanger...4 men and 30 minutes. It was pretty cool though fixing it with a set of rocks!

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