Saul, all your explanations are crystal clear, and they have the added benefit of relaxing me. If something makes me angry, I think I'll just bring up one of your videos. Thank you.
That was very informative. I was reading about the cassette in a bike repair book and I couldn't figure out how the book was describing how to remove it, but this video helped clarify that! Excellent!
Congrats - super clear, the best I've seen to date. You just demystified a subject that most bike shops want to instill fear in you for touching. I agree with TheAlex5552. You've saved me a small fortune in regular store maintenance. Keep it going with other aspects of maintenance.
What a fantastic description of the process. Thank you so much. I have to do this, this week, so I am grateful for the instruction. You make it sound and look easy, reducing the stress of doing something for the first time. Just putting a new cassette on a new wheel, so it should be pretty straightforward. My torque wrench only goes up to 30NM and i think cassette lockrings want 40. What gives i wonder? So just firm pressure I guess. And do some low speed test rides first.
Was looking to refresh my memory before replacing my cassette, thanks for not BSing and making a clean video, tried to watch a different one and had to listen to the guys amateur comedy act before I said screw it and clicked yours.
In some cases they do come apart, however it can be difficult to find individual replacement cogs. Most of us end up replacing the entire cassette. So use your gears evenly.
very well explained, I am interested in bicycle repair in a small community that i highly doubt they have bicycle repair, i want to get started, any tips and suggestions?
just a note to say how important it is to fit the fist metallic spacer before fitting the main body of the cassette, this gives distance between the derailleur arm and the wheel spokes.
@przemlem If it is really old, it may not be a cassette.It may be a separate "freewheel". Freewheels don't have a separate lockring and don't require a chainwhip. In any case if the lockring tool fits all you can do is turn counter clockwise. If it has been on a long time it may reqire a lot of torque...It is possible that it has seized and you may be out of luck...good luck....Saul
Great video. Where do you install additional spacers if you have 10spd cassette on 11 spd hub? Its referred that Shimano 105 cassette will need additional 2x 1mm spacers on 11speed hub.
Hi velotique, I have a specialized allez 2010 comp with a CS 5600 cassette. I'm attempting to service the freehub but I can't find the model name or any videos with the same hub. Yours shows the same cap as mine, it has a grub screw holding it on. I've removed a few dust seals after taking the cap off (4:14) but I've hit a dead end after that. Cheers.
Sometimes called a "pie plate" It prevents the chain from damaging spokes if your deraileur is not adjusted correctly and dumps the chain off the gears. If your gears are adjusted...though it away and save a few grams.
May I mention that there are a few different types of cassetes depending on how old it is. For example I wanted to replace my gear system, and I first thought I'd keep the wheels and just replace derrailleurs and cassette and crancks. But it turned out I had to buy an extra tool to remove my cassette as it was an older one.
Dear Velotique, I followed all your instructions (they are great!), bought the tools, but the thing won't even budge. You say in your video that you need the chain whip to hold the cassette in place, which seems perfectly logical to me, but when I insert the lockring tool, it won't move. The cassette spins as normal but the inside lockring part doesn't and I can't move it either way. What's wrong? Have you got any suggestions, please? Thanks a bunch!
I have a question.Can you put one gear on hub (smallest one) and lock it some how so it can be ridable.Sorry for my bad english im asking because im making singlespeed bike
I have a Shimano FH-M465 hub. When I tighten the lock ring, it has a rachetting click as if there’s some sort of internal torque stopping mechanism. I’m not using a torque wrench. I’m using a spanner wrench. Is this normal?
Hi Velotique,great video again,just wondering if I am to update my cassette from a 7 to a 8 or 9 how will I know if my hub will be ok to take the higher cassette before I purchase a new one. thanks :)
+sobahorse I have heard that a hub that was designed for 8 speeds will easily accept 9 and 10 speeds cassettes. I recently changed one of my bikes from an 8 speed to a 9 speed and had no problems. Measure the length of the hub that accepts the 7 speed cassette and compare it to one that accepts a 9 speed or 10 and see. It all has to do with the spacers and as more gears are added, the spacers are less thick and so is the chain.
+pbodymathis thanks phodymathis for the help,well appreciated,I've decided to get a new wheel set and 9 or 10 speed cassette that should do me for a year or two, thanks again - greatings from Wales uk
Question! My old bike has 6 "Cogs" in the rear wheel, but I just recently purchased a used rim that has 7 cogs. Can I remove one of the cogs from the purchased rim and use that rim on my bike? If so, which one should I remove? The big one or the small one? Please help! thanks.
Very informative and well presented...the best one I've seen yet! I have 2 questions if you please. Is that tool duo standard for cassettes? And if it is, where can ya get it?......
Thank you for your kind words. There are 2 common standards for Cassette lockring removal tools. 1: Shimano/SRAM or 2: Campagnolo. They are available where bike tools are sold. You can Google "cassette lockring removal tool". I have seen double ended universal tools.
@Dario927 Theoreticaly if the spacing of the cassette is the same it should not be neccessary, however experience says be prepared to re-adjust you derraileur.--Saul
My QUANDO "hollow hub" is actually broken into two in the middle due to repeated wheelies. Now I need to change the hub as set, just so going by it I should be able to remove the cassette even with the broken hollow axle right? Not the quick release lever, but that hollow axle with two nuts on the either side, that the this quick release goes into. Thanks!
Is it worn out when I can move the pedal back and forth and the pedal on the other side moves too? Because now it makes clicks and the chain felt resistant to movement.
hi ive recently bought a boardman ht and after riding it for a bout 6 weeks now, ive noticed the cassette has some play in it ? should i just tighten it ? or take it all off and re grease etc ?
can you replace a 11-28 with another type of cassette? also what is the difference between11-28 and a 12-27?is one better for racing compared to long distance rides? thanks for any help
On my rear cassette there is quite a big gap between the smallest sprocket and the 2nd one , almost as if one is missing. Just recently I haven`t been able to use top gear as the chain goes between these two sprockets.It has never happened before. Is this just a matter of adjusting the derailer? Thanks in advance.
It is unlikely that a gear is missing. Are you referring to the space between the gears or an abrupt difference in the size of the gears? To tune your gears refer to "Tune Your Gears" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zBXlwRq_hZA.html
There is a space between the gears , wide enough that the chain will just run freely and not jam when it gets in that space. Definitely not a gear missing but if you imagine on were missing it would be a space like that. Thanks for the link! I`m on it. Cheers
My newish bike has broken, when I turn the pedals the bike does not move, the pedals turn with an occasional lock to turn the bike wheels. Would you know from this what is wrong, which internal part of the rear wheel is broken or has something just gone loose in side the rear wheel.
My friend I have bought Spinergy wheelset, and it has camagnolo veloce cassette, and I want to replace it with sram red cassette,,, do you know if the sram cassette will fit on the wheels cassette body ??
