Rough, lumpy, transmission

[PAB855]

Recently while riding my bike through the local park, I blanked out and crashed, coming to lying still astride the bike. From my injuries it's clear the bike fell on to its right side. The Gearing is 9 x 3.

After a week in hospital I'm on the mend but the bike is not .

I managed to raise the rear wheel above floor level and try the gears. Strangely it appears that all work, but turning the pedal by hand isn't as it should be. I can 'feel' every link as it slows and need s an exra effort so it's a lumpy, rough, stiff movement.

Unfortunately my eyesight has recently deteriorated enough to make close inspection difficult and I can't yet .lift the bike up to eye level for a proper look.

Derailleur damage, probably, but why is it working at all?

Any suggestions apart from changing to a Rohloff.

[Eyebrox]

Hope you feel better and retain your enthusiasm.
Sounds like a bent derailleur. Could've moved it just enough to cause the chain links to touch the mech frame on its way through but not enough to prevent the gears changing successfully. If not the derailleur perhaps the hanger. Both can be straightened - the derailleur using the teeth of a shifting spanner and the hanger using an alignment tool.

[PAB855]

Yes, thanks for these reassuring words.

The derailleur was replaced not long ago and is pressed steel, which at the time I thought inferior to its previous design, but now, bending it back into position might be easier.

I don't have an alignment tool, but I know a man who has !

Thanks again