How To Install Mountain Bike Cassette
I am getting my mountain bike ready for spring and after taking it for a quick ride i am realizing that the chain keeps slipping.
How to install mountain bike cassette. This is happening when i change gears and sometimes just when i am riding normally. The video below explains how to get the cassette off a road or mountain bike and fit a new one. Your mountain bike cassette is the main part of your bike s drivetrain found on the rear wheel. The cassette is made up of circular sprockets which have teeth on to hold your chain.
Install quick release skewer and install skewer nut on outside of remover. Mountain bike gears typically have a wider range of sizes than road bike gears but the cassette containing the rear wheel s gears should be interchangeable with a road bike cassette of similar width. To move a mountain bike s derailleurs or chainrings to a road bike the derailleurs chainrings cassette freewheel and shifters on the road bike. The skewer acts as a holding device for freewheel removal tool.
When you buy your new cassette make sure it s a compatible brand with your bike s hub there are grooves in the cassette that line up with ridges on the freehub so the cassette will only go on in one orientation. Purchase a new cassette. If the sprockets on your cassette are worn then the cassette will need replacing. Calvin demonstrates how to remove and install cassette cogs and choose the correct lockring tool.
Slide the new cassette onto the freehub body. Mount bike in repair stand and remove rear wheel from bike. Mountain bike cassettes usually come with 9 10 and 11 sprockets depending on your number of gears. In order to remove the cassette you ll need a freewheel or a cassette lockring removal tool make sure you get one specific to the group you have on your bike because some tools are handle like and others are cyclindrical.
There s another cog system called a freewheel and the procedures in this video. Installing a bike cassette. Engage remover into splines notches. Snug skewer nut against remover.