A retired frame builder told me my dropout alignment was fine and I've been chasing the wrong problem for 3 weeks

Grace Lane · 2026-09-17T16:30:04.479015+00:00

He looked at my rear triangle for 10 seconds at his shop in Portland and said "your hanger's bent, not your frame," and I felt like an idiot for not checking the simplest thing first, so now I'm wondering how many other jobs I've overcomplicated because I skipped the basic check.

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