Originally Posted by
SquatchBiker
This time I did something while shifting (went from high gear to low gear or something) and my derailer stuck in the spokes on my back wheel. Took the bike back to the shop. Busy shop and it was ten days before I could get the bike back.
What did they tell you? I am wondering if you bent the RD hanger in the accident. I once bent my hanger on my touring/commuter bike one winter. Was too lazy to get it fixed and forgot about it. One spring day I was out training for a tour and decided to shift into the lowest gear to see how it felt going up a steep hill. KABOOM! As soon I heard the noise I knew what I had done. The RD cage had gone into the spokes. The thing asploded into a bunch of parts and the hanger got twisted. Amazingly, the wheel suffered only a minor tweaking. And fortunately, the hanger was not so twisted that it needed to be replaced. I was only about 3 miles from home. Skateboarded where I could then walked the rest of the way.