Road Bike Cassette Lockring
The video below explains how to get the cassette off a road or mountain bike and fit a new one.
Road bike cassette lockring. The lockring sits outward from the smallest cog. After that all the tips you need are in the video. Cassette sprockets slide over these splines. 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.
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. And in this post we re going to find out what they are who sells them and which is the best or rather which will do the job with the minimum fuss. Cogs slide onto the freehub body and are held in place by a lockring.
The freehub body has a series of splines on the outer shell. Let me know if you have any questions. This gives you access to the cassette lock ring the part of the cassette closest to the edge of the axle. I hope this video showcases some methods that others have used and the one i found for myself to work a bit better.
If your cogs look like this you probably have a lockring type cassette. You therefore need a chain whip and a lockring tool. This cylindrical mechanism ratchets counter clockwise for coasting and locks clockwise for driving the bike when pedaled. 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.
To tighten the cassette remove the rear wheel from the bike and unscrew and remove the quick release skewer from the wheel. It is one of your core principles that you like to avoid shredding your fingers whilst undertaking bike maintenance. A typical cassette can have anything between five and 13 sprockets although most modern bicycle drivetrains use either 9 10 or 11. 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.