How To Remove Mountain Bike Cassette Without Tool

Remove the rear wheel from the bike.

How to remove mountain bike cassette without tool. This demonstration is with a shimano lockring type cassette. Adjustible wrench for use with park cassette lockring tool torque wrench ft lb newton meters chain tool. You will also need some way to hold the old cassette to undo the lockring. Let me know if you have any questions.

The skewer acts as a holding device for freewheel removal tool. Lay the bike upside down shift to the small chainring in the front and the rear in the 2nd or 3rd gear from the smallest. Then clamp an adjustable wrench on your lockring removal tool and turn it counter clockwise to. Inspect cassette and select correct type of remover.

First either place the bike on a stand or upside down. As per comments they re a few dollars from china or about 10x that from your local bike shop immediately. Other types should be similar. You need a cassette lockring removal tool.

Engage remover into splines notches. Mount bike in repair stand and remove rear wheel from bike. Bikehut cassette tool extra info. Works with most freehub cassettes.

To change a rear cassette on your bike wheel start by removing the rear wheel from the bike. Park sr 1 again expect 30 years service out of this. It works with most freehub cassettes including sram and shimano. Snug skewer nut against remover.

Use a rag to hold the cassette and then insert the cassette tool with a lever arm like a big wrench and then hit the lever arm with a hammer in the direction that the cassette turns. I hope this video showcases some methods that others have used and the one i found for myself to work a bit better. Next remove the skewer which is the rod running through the center of the wheel and insert a lockring removal tool into the center of the cassette. Install quick release skewer and install skewer nut on outside of remover.

Here i show how to remove your bicycle cassette locking ring without a chain whip or cassette locking tool. Bikehut cassette tool the bikehut cassette tool is a tough hardened steel cassette tool ready for some action. Bikehand bike bicycle cassette freewheel removal tool chain whip with 15mm pedal wrench 2 in 1 great for 5 12 speed road mountain bike cassette 4 8 out of 5 stars 8 19 90 19. Made from hardened steel.

Shift the rear derailleur to the highest gear smallest cog. Remove the old chain utilizing a chain tool. The correct tool is a chain whip. Park fr 5 likely to last decades.