How To Install Mountain Bike Cassette
Purchase a new cassette.
How to install mountain bike cassette. The video below explains how to get the cassette off a road or mountain bike and fit a new one. The skewer acts as a holding device for freewheel removal tool. There s another cog system called a freewheel and the procedures in this video. Inspect cassette and select correct type of remover.
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. 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. Install quick release skewer and install skewer nut on outside of remover.
Below are the instructions on how to install a new cassette on a mountain bike. 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. 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. If the sprockets on your cassette are worn then the cassette will need replacing.
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. Snug skewer nut against remover. Engage remover into splines notches.
Installing a bike cassette. Mount bike in repair stand and remove rear wheel from bike. Calvin demonstrates how to remove and install cassette cogs and choose the correct lockring tool. To move a mountain bike s derailleurs or chainrings to a road bike the derailleurs chainrings cassette freewheel and shifters on the road bike.