Hey,
So, I just back from an hour or so of jumping, and I had a rear derailleur issue. Being that I haven't jumped in a couple weeks, the jumps were freshly reshaped, and I'm a little bit of a hack on jumps, I was having a rough time judging my speed for the first set. I nailed it a bunch of times, and then on one run I overshot it by a tiny bit and was also a little nose heavy. My front wheel came down fine, but my back wheel slammed down extra hard for some reason even though I didn't case the jump. My wheel was fine, but my rear derailleur is trashed. Somehow, the downward force of me landing pulled it downwards and inwards without bending my hanger. So now I have a derailleur with a cage that is twisted by about a quarter to a half inch into my spokes. Has anyone else had this issue? I really can't understand how it happened, I'm starting to think that the metal was just fatigued from being bounced around so much on the hardtail and also from when I case jumps oster_oops:
Secondly, now I need to find a new rear derailleur. I'm cheap, so I'm thinking I might use a long cage XO that is hanging off of an old partially dissected XC in my garage. Is there any reason for me to steer away from the long cage and by a short cage X.9 or something?
So, I just back from an hour or so of jumping, and I had a rear derailleur issue. Being that I haven't jumped in a couple weeks, the jumps were freshly reshaped, and I'm a little bit of a hack on jumps, I was having a rough time judging my speed for the first set. I nailed it a bunch of times, and then on one run I overshot it by a tiny bit and was also a little nose heavy. My front wheel came down fine, but my back wheel slammed down extra hard for some reason even though I didn't case the jump. My wheel was fine, but my rear derailleur is trashed. Somehow, the downward force of me landing pulled it downwards and inwards without bending my hanger. So now I have a derailleur with a cage that is twisted by about a quarter to a half inch into my spokes. Has anyone else had this issue? I really can't understand how it happened, I'm starting to think that the metal was just fatigued from being bounced around so much on the hardtail and also from when I case jumps oster_oops:
Secondly, now I need to find a new rear derailleur. I'm cheap, so I'm thinking I might use a long cage XO that is hanging off of an old partially dissected XC in my garage. Is there any reason for me to steer away from the long cage and by a short cage X.9 or something?