Putting Mountain Bike Cassette Road Bike

The best aspect of the cassette is the smooth transition of gears as well as quiet coasting.

Putting mountain bike cassette road bike. The largest sprocket on a road bike cassette is generally smaller than those on mountain bikes providing smaller jumps between gears. Riders convert mountain bikes because it s their only bike or to try their first granfondo road group ride gravel grinder or simply to commute. Most road bike cassettes have an 11 12 or 13 tooth smallest sprocket then between 21 and 32 teeth on the largest sprocket. An actual road bike uses a different size tire but you can get some slick narrower tires for your mtb.

The sram pg850 is a mountain bike cassette worth a mention and that s why it took the fourth position. Riding a mountain bike on the road may seem out of place but it s actually quite common. Road typically has a smaller range. Installing an 11 40 shimano mountain bike cassette on a road bike using the wolf tooth road link.

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. It is about the range capacity of the derailleur. Is also works with shimano and sram chains while providing light and stiff features for efficiency and the much needed accuracy.

Unless you live in a really big neighborhood that you re really going to be getting some distance in you ll probably be better off just riding the tires you have. A road bike will typically come with a short cage derailleur. I doubt you ll want to constantly change back and forth though. I wanted the wide gearing ratio of a triple crank road bike with the simplicity and reliability of.