Re: Had a wtf? this morning - Ping AMuzi

On 2/23/2025 5:12 AM, Shadow wrote:

On 22 Feb 2025 22:21:58 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:
 

Shadow <Sh@dow.br> wrote:

Went out for my morning ride. Just before a rather steep hill changed
down and I heard a clump and the chain jammed.
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I looked back and half of my rear derailleur was sitting on the
asphalt.
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OMG, I thought to myself, this is almost as embarrassing as a crank
arm falling off. Then faced the "walk of shame" home.
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Note, I scrub chain/jockey wheels/sprockets with water and detergent
every 200 Km. Was almost due for a new clean. Gear change was
absolutely smooth until the incident. HI and LOW screws perfect, no
way the chain came off and "fell into the spokes".
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Note I managed to rip a spoke clear out of the wheel with the
breakage. What fell into the spokes was half the derailleur. I suppose
that'll mean a new wheel too
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:(
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The "cleaned" in the filename is because I cleaned the EXIF metadata,
not the parts after the incident....
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So "wtf" happened, what did I do wrong and how can I prevent it from
happening again?
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TIA

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Did the derailleur come apart due to impact with wheel/cassette or a
failure and then do so?
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My old commute bike, had a rear mech fail where the cage and parallel meet
apparently was glued in place? Was an Alivio so broadly similar to the
Tourney I think from memory, Cues which I replaced it with is substantially
more heavily built like the MTB mech’s as to if it will last any longer?
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The Alivio lasted 9 years and 19,000 miles so probably got my moneys worth!
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Mind talking of Andrew I expressed surprise that front mech’s could wear
though! My Gravel bike front mech (Sora) had to be replaced due to that!
Only just shy of 12,000 and 7ish years old so definitely sub par, though
have replaced like with like and didn’t really seem any reason to match the
rest of the bike ie GRX mostly with Tiagra shifters.
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Okay (at least in uk) neither of Tourney/Alivio/Sora/Cues are particularly
expensive being £30ish for a derailleur.
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Roger Merriman

  Thanks for the reply. The gear had around 8000 Km on it, and I
replaced the jockey wheels last year the cogs were looking like spikes
they were so worn.
I have no idea what caused the breakage. There was a lot of
debris on the road, but I was only doing around 15Km/h, possible but
not likely I managed to pick up a twig and it flew into the spokes.
It felt like it just decided to break..... I would have
expected it to show some signs of failure beforehand.
The bike has 8 gears at the back. The derailleur that broke
was a RD-TX35, designed for 7 gears. Maybe that forced it.
I can get a Shimano Tourney TY300 cheap, around US$ 15, or an
Altus RD-M310L for around US$ 35. (since salaries, pensions etc in
Brasil are roughly 1/10 of British, multiply by 10 to get an idea of
relative prices).
  PS I have no idea if it's short, long, over under etc. I have
the only Shimano gear in town. Nothing to compare it to. People here
use "Sunrun" and "Yamada" which sell for around US$ 4.
[]'s

Those Shimano prices are comparable to US rates:
https://www.amazon.com/Shimano-Tourney-TY300-Derailleur-Standard/dp/B01K5C6F1U?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80264466539886&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583863993594891&psc=1
not much over currently lowest price sources here.
https://cambriabike.com/products/shimano-tourney-ty300-6-7-spd-mtb-rear-derailleur?variant=41153396179126&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=PLA&scid=scbplpGM061319-31&sc_intid=GM061319-31
Given that it was well used, could well have been just overall wear.  You set the low gear limit back when it was less worn, but now all the pins and pivots are sloppy. Only takes a couple of millimeters more travel to go from normal clearance to engaged on a spoke.
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