{"id":3002,"date":"2012-10-05T10:43:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T15:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2012-11-16T20:11:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T01:11:03","slug":"unusual-rear-derailleur-problem-and-bike-break-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/?p=3002","title":{"rendered":"Unusual Rear Derailleur Problem and Bike Break Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have had some bad bike luck lately. I had a flat tire a few days ago which was not that bad although I do not usually get a lot of flat tires. Then yesterday I had a very unusual bike break down at the end of my ride.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t doing anything out of the ordinary. I was just riding down a hill on a neighborhood street and all of a sudden I heard a terrible noise and my pedals would not work. I kind of thought that my chain just got hung up but there was some noise from the back wheel too. I stopped (I didn\u2019t really have a choice about that) and took a look and my rear derailleur was bent and hitting the spokes on my back wheel.\"Bike<\/a><\/p>\n

I also noticed that one spoke was completely ripped out of the wheel and wrapped around the cassette on the back wheel. The pedals were locked and would not move. I tried to bend the derailleur back but could not get the pedals to work although I did get it so the back wheel would turn freely so I could walk the bike home. You can see the mangled spoke and where it was ripped out of the wheel in the photo.<\/p>\n

One little side note. It was starting to rain so I wanted to get back home a little faster and discovered that I was able to use my bike as a scooter (by standing on one pedal and pushing with the other foot). This is actually a lot faster than just walking if you get stranded and if the bike will still roll.<\/p>\n

My best guess at what happened is that maybe my rear derailleur was too close to the wheel and somehow got hung up on a spoke that might have been sticking out or something. Then when the derailleur caught the spoke it ripped the spoke out and pulled the derailleur into the wheel.<\/p>\n

Why did this happen? I have no idea. It was a weird thing to just happen randomly after everything was working just fine for the last 12 miles.<\/p>\n

I’ll be bringing my bike in to my LBS later today to see how much this repair is going to cost me. I suspect that this will be an expensive repair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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