Looking for a hanger alignment tool (£40 ish)

Hey.
Looking for a hanger alignment tool to be given to myself by a family member for helping them out with bike stuff over the last year, and they want to say thank you with a new tool, which of course, they will also benefit from.
Anyone got any recommendations?
Looking at CRC/wiggle etc their own brand stuff seems to get reasonable reviews at £35, so tempted that way for simplicity, but the reported bearing wobble is likely to bug me.
Ta!
Looking for a hanger alignment tool to be given to myself by a family member for helping them out with bike stuff over the last year, and they want to say thank you with a new tool, which of course, they will also benefit from.
Anyone got any recommendations?
Looking at CRC/wiggle etc their own brand stuff seems to get reasonable reviews at £35, so tempted that way for simplicity, but the reported bearing wobble is likely to bug me.
Ta!
Intent on Cycling Commuting on a budget, but keep on breaking/crashing/finding nice stuff to buy.
Bike 1 (Broken) - Bike 2(Borked) - Bike 3(broken spokes) - Bike 4( Needs Work) - Bike 5 (in bits) - Bike 6* ...
Bike 1 (Broken) - Bike 2(Borked) - Bike 3(broken spokes) - Bike 4( Needs Work) - Bike 5 (in bits) - Bike 6* ...
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I found it’s reasonably easy to determine if the hanger is bent when you’ve dropped the bike.
It may not be absolutely accurate but it’s certainly good enough.
At the price it’s only worthwhile if you are doing a lot of servicing. If it’s for your own bike you are not really going to be using it enough to justify it. I think I’ve used mine about 4 times in 2 years. I regularly service bikes for friends and even poorly looked after bikes don’t need the hanger touching unless it’s really took a knock. If you ride MTB it may be worth it cos if the nature of the riding but if your only touching road bikes then there is little point at the price of Park tools version
Thanks for that thought. I'm looking at it for friends & family, and I keep getting told by the LBS's that the hanger is out one bikes when I can't get shifting to work properly, so might be more than 4 times in 2 years, but probably only 10-15 times a year (from a just check it point of view)
Bike 1 (Broken) - Bike 2(Borked) - Bike 3(broken spokes) - Bike 4( Needs Work) - Bike 5 (in bits) - Bike 6* ...
I'm often surprised by how far out they can be, on bikes I've not crashed or dropped.
I know I've knackered a few hangers in my time, and the kids bikes I help look after are always getting dropped on the expensive side, so happy to have something to exclude a bent hanger from issues if I can..
Bike 1 (Broken) - Bike 2(Borked) - Bike 3(broken spokes) - Bike 4( Needs Work) - Bike 5 (in bits) - Bike 6* ...
Read somewhere on here to wrap a bit of plumbers PTFE tape round the contact bits to take out the play. Works well.
Still don't use a torque wrench on bicycle stuff though.
Marin Nail Trail
Cotic Solaris
I have 3 sons and whilst they're still little at the moment, I expect to be spannering a fair bit over time so it made sense to invest. None of them seem to be so cheap you save so much.
Not much fun as a gift, but you can always do it with threaded rod and a few nuts and bolts.
- re-reading the above I realise it's not much help! I really did shop about on this one myself for a while
Big saving in time and effort even if only to confirm that hanger is ok.
after a trip where due to, let's be clear, my stupidity, my bike fell over and slightly bent the hanger, eyeballing it is not enough to re-align accurately, two weeks of not quite right shifting followed
on return i made a lightweight tool to take on subsequent trips, it only works with an etap rd, but has the advantage that the alignment can be done without removing the rd (the same may be possible on others, depends on the hole in the rd mounting)
it weighs 99.5 g, mostly carbon fibre, it's so good i don't bother with the park tool one anymore...
http://weightweenies.starbike.com/forum ... 5#p1240162
the same approach could be used to make a 'normal' tool that screws into the hanger
You have the right idea about hanger alignment.
It does not matter how bent the hanger appears, as long as the threaded hole is parallel to the hub axle, shifting will work perfectly.
So, all you need is an M10 threaded rod screwed into the hole (eg an old quick release axle) with atleast one nut on the rod butted against it. You bolt the rear wheel into the dropouts tight then work the rod by eye until it is parallel from two planes (view from above and view from the side).
Then , re-index the shifting.
It should not take more than 10 minutes to do, even with people ogling what you do.