Road Bike Cassette Installation

Look for a wide space between splines.

Road bike cassette installation. There s another cog system called a freewheel and the procedures in this video. Multi surface ridable gear ratio current gear combinations. After that all the tips you need are in the video. Cassette tools vary based on whether you re using sram shimano or campagnolo so make sure you get the right one for your cassette.

Iirc 35 n m is the specification for shimano cassette lock rings. Offered in a wide range of road gearing the hg50 8 cassette is perfect for 8 speed road drivetrains. If anything pedaling action will tend to loosen a lock ring that was not properly torqued. 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.

Installing a bike cassette. Slide the new cassette onto the freehub body. With the new cassette body in hand you only need to know how to remove the old one and install the new. They were able to find the 11 speed cassette body for their wheels online and order it.

To move a mountain bike s derailleurs or chainrings to a road bike. This shorter hub body and one piece cassette design allow manufacturers to use 10 tooth cogs and even 9 tooth cogs with the limitation now being the axle circumference and chain. This is one cassette that played very well when it comes to a wide range of terrains. 3 best rear cassettes you can buy today for your road bike 1.

Cassette freehub bodies and cassettes are often designed so the cogs will fit in only one orientation. To put this into perspective and give you an idea of how much that one tooth on the cog changes the ratio look at this comparison. Inspect splines of freehub body. That s pretty darn tight though not as tight as campy with a 50 n m specification.

Here most wheel companies help too with video instructions usually on their sites or on youtube. This permits manufacturers to align shifting ramps to specification. A 53 11 has a gear ratio of 4 82 and at a 90 cadence would produce around 34 mph. Inspect the internal splines of cogs.

11 28t 11 30t 11 32t 12 25t 13 26t. Our first best choice was the shimano 6800 ultegra 11 speed cassette. 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. Best rear cassette for road bike.

Shimano 6800 ultegra 11 speed cassette. Removal of the old cassette body.