Hanger Genie 2.0 Hanger Alignment Tool

The derailleur hanger is the part of the bike most likely to bend. It's a sacrificial alignment piece: a soft aluminum bracket that bolts the rear derailleur to the frame and is built to deform first when the bike falls on its drive side. Once it's bent (even a fraction of a degree) every shift on the cassette becomes a small fight. The cable pulls the derailleur to where the index command says, but the derailleur arrives a few millimeters off the cog the rider asked for. Modern 11- and 12-speed drivetrains punish even half a millimeter of misalignment with sloppy shifts. The Hanger Genie 2.0 brings the hanger back to where the drivetrain expects it. What changed in the 2.0 The 2.0 is the second generation of our hanger alignment tool, redesigned around the parts of the original that wore: the head and the axle interface. Welded head with sealed bearing thread-in axle. The thread-in axle on the original Hanger Genie carried a service bearing; on the 2.0 the bearing is sealed and runs