You guys are legends (and so is Brian) for helping me get my derailleur issue sorted. We're on a 10 day ride from Canberra to Melbourne via the high country.
A stick managed to bend the b bracket on my rear derraileur just up from Cowombat Flats. Bent it back into shape using a national parks sign as a vice. Cracked it half through in the process. This gave me all my gears back but I knew it would eventually crack the whole way through.
Broke off just as we started the climb to Falls Creek just out of Anglers Reach. I then ditched the broken b bracket and jerry rigged the derailleur directly off the hanger. This gave me 3 gears back in the middle of the cassette. On the big cogs the top pulley would foul on the cassette and in the lower gears the derailleur cable arm would foul the cassette. Was not a fun setup for a dau with several thoisand meters of climbing and a fully laden bike. Was better than walking.
Long story short but we managed to roll into Mount Beauty just after lunch and fitted a new RD. All is now good.
Big thanks to
@moorey and
@Litenbror for getting this sorted while I hustled up the mountains.
Tomorrow we'll be setting off out of Harrietville for 3 days in the wilderness and we're still on schedule thanks to Brian and you guys.