Originally Posted by
shelbyfv
Think it was suggested last go around that you were in over your head. This seems to confirm it. If you want to have a reliable bike you need to find a good shop.
+1 on the need to find a good shop.
Not sure if he's necessarily in over his head, but he needs to 1) get educated on what he's doing--
and why (i.e., read, watch videos, etc.), and 2) tap into his inner mechanic. The one that would say, "instead of me putting the derailleur hanger into a bench vice, standing on a stool and
torqueing the entire frame to bend one small piece, maybe it's
easier to keep the frame still and just straighten the part that's bent? In a manner where I could actually--even if just visually--determine its alignment."
As a corollary, we've got to get rid of the part of him that wants to say "
How else would I do it??" With responses like this, he's showing he can't (or seemingly doesn't want to) think outside the box. And with bike mechanics, this is something you need to do a lot.