I love my steel frame hardtail.
No, this fool isn’t fawning over his physique.
My frame is a bit more soggy cat tail than steel.
And hard tail?
When it comes to getting along with others I’m a bit of an arduous arse.
Naw, I have a Brodie Climbmax steel frame hard tailed mountain bike.
I love how it rides.
Even better?
It’s this neat colour of blueish green that Laura always tells me that I get wrong.
Whatever colour you think it is - whether green or blue, it’s a really pretty bike.
It’s also cursed.
On the Lake Charlotte Mini Epic?
I caught a rock in my derailleur and limped the final thirty kilometers of the ride.
Then on the latest ride, the second ride back since it was fixed?
I caught a stick in the derailleur and ended up snapping the derailleur hanger.
That part is like a sheer pin in a boat motor.
It’s built to break lest you mangle your frame and make the bike unridable.
These hangers are frequently unique to the bike frame.
And my pretty little Brodie?
They only did one run of this frame.
None of the suppliers have a hanger for this frame.
So the piece that was engineered to fail in order to preserve the rest of the bike is not available for sale.
So instead of having a really broken bike, I have a partially broken bike.
What do you do when the piece you need isn’t available?
I’ve been told to find a machinist.
When all else fails and a solution is not for sale, sometimes you need to pay an expert to manufacture one for ya.
I’ve been using hub gears…
When you find the machinist, have them make two. I'm sure you'll never need the second hanger:)