Derailleur Hangers

[bvibert]

Here's a picture of a broken hanger from my xam, i've broke 3 of these. serious design flaw IMHO - the '08's went back to a traditional design.

you can see theres no meat to it the way the screws are counter sunk. the newest replacement that i got is an aftermarket cnc'ed one without the countersunk holes, althought the OEM on tyhere has lasted pretty long (knock on wood)

That looks like it would break easily...

 

[gorgonzola]

oh yea - i had taken the picture and had written a letter to send to jamis about this but before i sent it the redesigned '08's came out. i think it was pretty obvious that it worked a little too well....i'm sure they wanted to save a few g's, the whole thing's prabably 1-1/2" long

 

[gmcunni]

i'm heading to my LBS to get a hanger or two. I checked out one of the online stores and couldn't determine what part i needed. Sent an email and told them the make, model and year of my bike and got this response. it is nice of them to offer but it doesn't instill confience in me that i'd get the correct part:

We do not have any documentation as to what hanger your bike requires.
To help us determine if we have a derailleur hanger that will work for
you, would it be possible for you to email us a digital picture of your
hanger?

Here are some photo tips:
* Remove the rear wheel from the bike
* Photograph the rear dropout of the bike (where the derailleur
hanger is affixed) with or without the hanger still affixed to it
* Photograph the hanger from both sides so we can see features of the
hanger
* Remove the derailleur from the bent or broken derailleur hanger so
we can see the hanger in pretty much its original shape
* If the derailleur hanger is broken, remove the top part from the
frame and the bottom part from the derailleur and place it on a flat
surface as if you were trying to reassemble it - then photograph it

 

[cbcbd]

sounds like someone dropped the bins with hangers and now the only way they can figure out what each one is is by visual reconnaissance