Try your Hand at Working on the Bike Cassette

Once you ride nearly 1,000 miles on your bike, you must look closely at the cassette. The wear will differ greatly based on the chain's condition and the ridden terrain, mountain or road. If the teeth in the most-regularly used cogs seem like shark fins than the curved humps of the little-used cogs, you must swap the cassette. Sometimes it’s feasible to swap individual cogs rather than the whole cassette, but all cassettes don't have replacement parts, so it’s better to replace it fully. Ask your neighborhood bike mechanic to know what’s best.

Modern bikes have style hub. To check its type, remove the rear one of the carbon road wheels and look at the tiniest cog on a cassette. If you observe a lock ring outside the tiniest cog, then you possess a cassette free-hub. It is devised to hold cassette cogs in place on your hub. To remove and swap your cassette, you should remove it. You’ll require three tools: chain whip, cassette lock ring remover and hefty bendable crescent wrench.

When you have taken out the rear wheel from your carbon fiber wheelset, take away the quick release skewer. Insert a cassette lock ring remover into the cassette and rotate it till it seats in one position. If a typical cassette lock ring remover won’t fit the cassette, ask the bike tech. For holding lock ring remover close to cogs, remove springs from fast release skewer and reinsert the skewer back to the wheel and tighten.

Standing behind the carbon fiber bike wheels, and draping the chain flog over a larger cog, you might hold the handle with the left hand. Adjust the large wrench to accommodate the exterior of lock ring remover. The chain whip prevents your cassette from spinning, as you utilize the wrench. Press wrench and chain whip levers in reverse directions. As lock ring is loose, release chain whip and wrench, and keep unscrewing the ring by twirling the lock ring remover. Remove it and slide the cassette out. Remove your cassette cautiously if you mean to use any parts or pieces again, the cogs or spacers occasionally come apart.