Hanger Banger
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Anybody has this thingy?
What usually happens if your mech accidentally catches something on the trail? What has more chance to get bent, the mech or the hanger? I'd say the hanger because more leverage acts on it.
If you had a hanger banger, my reasoning is it would protect the hanger, and the mech would bite the dust. So I think the thing is good to protect frames with fixed hangers, but bad for those with replacable hangers because the hanger is cheaper than the mech... right?
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What usually happens if your mech accidentally catches something on the trail? What has more chance to get bent, the mech or the hanger? I'd say the hanger because more leverage acts on it.
If you had a hanger banger, my reasoning is it would protect the hanger, and the mech would bite the dust. So I think the thing is good to protect frames with fixed hangers, but bad for those with replacable hangers because the hanger is cheaper than the mech... right?
<font size="1">To clip or not to clip, that is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind of men to suffer the dings and contusions of unclipp'd riding, or to bind thy feet against a sea of gnarly singletrack and by these contraptions, ride o'er them with ease. To clip... to slip no more, and by clipping to end the buttache and the thousand natural shocks that ryders are heir to; tis a consummation devoutly to be honed. No clip - to slip perchance to be thrashed most heinously...</font id="size1">
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iirc Fozzy has one. i think they are a waste of time.
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mostly agree only useful for IF you throw your bike down..
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Hmm and the little thing costs a lot![8)]
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Yeah i'm with nick , if i'm honest i can't see the point for it at all.
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Its about as useful as a broken pencil.
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hanger bangers are great for shore style riding as you snap mech hangers all the time on skinnys whilst learning .i have never snapped a mech ever.
ride it like you stole it
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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by jedi</i>
hanger bangers are great for shore style riding as you snap mech hangers all the time on skinnys whilst learning .i have never snapped a mech ever.
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but please explain how it does this wonderful job. as far as i can see it does nothing.
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it sandwiches the hanger and mech strengthening the whole lot along with the skewer.
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Dropping your bike from beams or onto beams.
Will still damage either the mech cage or the mech hanger though.
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it's less likely though luke.
the banger hanger acts as a end on the QR, so it also increases the distance from the mech / hanger and lowers the leverage but IF you have a bad smack you will bend the frame not just the mech hanger..
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it doesnt,as i said!
i ride 4 days a week minimum at herts shore on skinnys narrow as 1 inch.as i said,never snapped a hanger(demo9)or mech
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ok got on in the post to see what is so great/bad about them.
i still dont see how it holds the mech.
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Is doesn't change how the mech CAGE is protected at all though fozzy. Which is why i don't really see the point in it.
Granted its stiffening up the interface between mech and mech hanger. But i've never seen that as an issue.
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it does luke...
the mech is pinned from the ouside using a thread locked bolt.
this is the bolt that secures the Mech to the replaceable hanger. when you break the mech hanger bolt you leaver the bolt off the hanger, the banger hanger goes on the outside of the mech hanger bolt and prevents this leverage.
feck i have one and i say it's not worth it, i was kind enough to be given it by andy B and it's saved my mech once taking a huge hit from a cut off tree, i clipped the mech on the stump but it actually clipped the banger hanger and took a HUGE chunk out the stump...
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i lost 3 mechs in two weeks with it fitted...
doesn't stop everything...
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i have used maech protectors for 3 years and never lost one
ride it like you stole it
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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Fozzybear</i>
i clipped the mech on the stump but it actually clipped the banger hanger and took a HUGE chunk out the stump...
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> so all that force was then taken by the frame? Qr axel?
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both the hanger replaces the QR end, a bolt goes into the mech hanger hole and the whole lot clamps together.
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