A Clever hack I had not seen before.

[rowdyflat]

We were riding the Cascade trail on the weekend and one of our riders suffered a broken rear derailleur cable towards the end ,leaving her stuck in the default highest gear.
Someone came along , pulled out a short piece of the top end of a cable with the " nub " that fits into the shifter .
He fed the cable thru the last cable stop at the top of the derailleur,the nub jammed at the stop , pulled the chain onto a middle cluster sprocket and tightened the derailleur clamp on the cable.
Voila.
If my explanation is not clear , I can clarify.
Its a quicker better alternative to screwing the high limit screw in for miles, to get the chain to stay in a low gear.

 

[leitch]

Yep, classic fix, allows you to choose your gear rather than getting stuck in the lowest highest.

 

[moorey]

I like it. So simple I can’t believe I hadn’t heard of it. I usually carry a spare inner in my pack, but ima pack a little piece like that as a back up.

 

[slowmick]

Excellent idea, but will say i was expecting more cable ties.

 

[Cardy George]

I've done it by clamping the cable under my bottle cage bolt

 

[Mr Crudley]

This is a great idea. Will have to stash a small piece of old shifter cable in the backpack. Smart fix.

 

[Halo1]

It’s only happened to me when I was 200m for the car. Good to know as it would not have occurred to me.

 

[Petero]

That's neat. Love it, thanks for sharing.

 

[hellmansam]

Nifty, can be done using the outer cable socket on the derailleur if the frame doesn't have any cable stops.
The current Norco Storm with Deore 11spd come packed with this holding the derailleur on one of the lowest gears

 

[Stredda]

That's a great idea. I'll have to remember that.

 

[HamboCairns]

That sounds like a great hack! Now can someone show me what the heck this looks like?

 

[leitch]

That sounds like a great hack! Now can someone show me what the heck this looks like?

Let me GooGle that for you

 

[HamboCairns]

Let me GooGle that for you

Thanks! I wouldn't have known what to GooGle for there. I'll bookmark that so I can quickly retrieve on the trails.

 

[Daniel Hale]

Thanks! I wouldn't have known what to GooGle for there. I'll bookmark that so I can quickly retrieve on the trails.

ingore them, ScoMo has already told us to do our googling on BING - they must be lefty leaning vegan types/communists who ignore authority -just go with the Liberals on things like a rape allegation, and I quote the home aff. minister -we don't get into a he said she said on such matters

 

[Flow-Rider]

This is one of the best derailleur hacks I've seen, done by a geologist. It got ridden a fair way like that I believe.

 

[moorey]

This is one of the best derailleur hacks I've seen, done by a geologist. It got ridden a fair way like that I believe.



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That rocks!

Even if it’s too dark for me to see what’s going on.

 

[HamboCairns]

That rocks!

Even if it’s too dark for me to see what’s going on.

That pun was as solid as granite.

 

[Flow-Rider]

That rocks!

Even if it’s too dark for me to see what’s going on.

Originally a stick went into the derailleur and bent it, they just tied it on the rear.

 

[SummitFever]

The brilliant bit for me is the stick zip tied to the chain stay. Good thinking indeed.

 

[moorey]

The brilliant bit for me is the stick zip tied to the chain stay. Good thinking indeed.

Missed that bit. Assumed it was the offending stick.