Road Bike Cassette Lockring
Cassette sprockets slide over these splines.
Road bike cassette lockring. The video below explains how to get the cassette off a road or mountain bike and fit a new one. Let me know if you have any questions. A typical cassette can have anything between five and 13 sprockets although most modern bicycle drivetrains use either 9 10 or 11. To tighten the cassette remove the rear wheel from the bike and unscrew and remove the quick release skewer from the wheel.
This lock ring may be a separate component or may be incorporated into the smallest cog of the cassette. This gives you access to the cassette lock ring the part of the cassette closest to the edge of the axle. Qkurt bike cassette removal tools kit 3 pcs bike chain whip tools with cassette lockring for 7 8 9 10 11 12 speed chains with lockring nut tool 5 0 out of 5 stars 1 14 99 14. With the modern cassette cog systems all cogs are fitted with splines.
The whole part lockring and sprockets is called the cassette and the individual sprockets are called cogs it s a simple design and easy part to work on and fix as long as you are capable of removing your rear wheel and have the right tool for the brand of cassette used on your bike. Cassette tools vary based on whether you re using sram shimano or campagnolo so make sure you get the right one for your cassette. If the sprockets on your cassette are worn then the cassette will need replacing. Cogs slide onto the freehub body and are held in place by a lockring.
A bicycle cassette is the cluster of sprockets located on the rear hub of your bike slotting onto a freehub body and held firmly in place with a threaded cassette lockring. You therefore need a chain whip and a lockring tool. If your cogs look like this you probably have a lockring type cassette. After that all the tips you need are in the video.
The freehub body has a series of splines on the outer shell. It is one of your core principles that you like to avoid shredding your fingers whilst undertaking bike maintenance. The cassette hub uses a freehub sytem which is a type of clutch mounted to the body of the hub. This cylindrical mechanism ratchets counter clockwise for coasting and locks clockwise for driving the bike when pedaled.