SRAM rear mech failures

llamafarmer

I'm asking this out of curiosity more than anything, but I was riding at Afan with a few mates yesterday and one of the lads on a Stumpy FSR pulled up with a bent rear mech hanger, which he was adamant wasn't caused by any kind of impact damage. Another of my mates was convinced it was somehow caused by his SRAM X0 mech and said he'd been on a ride a few weeks ago with someone else and the same thing had happened.

Anyway, we singlespeeded the Stumpy and headed back to Afan Lodge for dinner, with me still unconvinced that a mech would just buckle the hanger like that, but when we mentioned it to the guy at the lodge he said he regularly saw X0's and X9's failing like this. Is it a common problem that others have experienced? And if so what's causing it? :?

The Northern Monkey

SRAM gearing is pants!
Shimano FTW!!

nicklouse

sorry what failed?

the hanger or the mech?


never bent a mech hanger with a sram mech just riding along.

llamafarmer

nicklouse wrote:

sorry what failed?

the hanger or the mech?


never bent a mech hanger with a sram mech just riding along.

The hanger failed, which is why I couldn't understand anyone blaming the mechs - I was sure he must have bashed it on a rock something. I'm not trying to open any tinned worms here, I'm just curious

nicklouse

I bet it was poorly set up or hit.

but without seeing it you cant say.

Andy B

I've seen as many broken Shimano as Sram.

Still prefer Sram though

llamafarmer

nicklouse wrote:

I bet it was poorly set up or hit.

but without seeing it you cant say.

It had twisted the hanger inwards, so that the cage was about 5mm from the spokes. I'm sure you're right about the set up nick, I was just surprised to hear people suggesting it was a common problem because I'd never heard of it before.

andrewjoseph

I had an x9 mech fail once, during mayhem 25hr event, climbing up a steep muddy track.

the friction and mud clinging to the chain and jockey wheels was too much.

Not sure which broke first, mech hanger or mech itself, but both were beyond repair.

I've not had it happen since and I only use sram on the 4 family mtb's.

delcol

delcol empties that can out..

shimano should stick to fishing reels,, sram are way better...

have sram on all my bikes, x7 x9 and xo... not had any trouble, in 2and half years.

handon94

wow this is umberleavable i had the same problem was riding down a hill get to the bottom and everythink came to a massive stop turned around and half the hangar was missing i dont know how but the hanger got stuck in the spokes and snapped clean in half i was so confussed

llamafarmer

delcol wrote:

shimano should stick to fishing reels,, sram are way better...

As I said, I'm not looking to start a SRAM v Shimano debate - although needless to say the two of us running Shimano gave him some stick, but we'd have taken any excuse to do that!

delcol

nor was i,, i was meerly having some friendly banter with benji. thats all..

i have shimano xt on my rocky mountain vertex.. and shimano on my scott road bike..

llamafarmer

delcol wrote:

nor was i,, i was meerly having some friendly banter with benji. thats all..

i have shimano xt on my rocky mountain vertex.. and shimano on my scott road bike..

Fair play, I'll let you off