Old 12-14-05 | 09:34 PM
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HillRider
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Bikes: '96 Litespeed Catalyst, '05 Litespeed Firenze, '06 Litespeed Tuscany, '20 Surly Midnight Special, All are 3x10. It is hilly around here!

Litespeed road frames don't use replacable hangers but seem strong enough that if you hit something hard enough to damage the hanger, you will damage a lot more anyway.

A couple of years ago, I rode over a piece of steel coat hanger wire that got caught in the chain and sucked through a nearly new Ultegra rear derailleur. It absolutely distroyed the derailleur, bending the cage and the parallelogram into a twisted mess. The derailleur hanger was completely undamaged.
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