When changing the back wheel

DonDaddyD
DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
edited August 2008 in Road beginners
When changing the back wheel to a new wheel how do you change the cassette from the old wheel to the new wheel?

I'm considering upgrading my stock wheels from my Giant SCR 3 to Fulcrum 7s.

Will this change be an issue, i.e. the size of the cassette, if I ever choose to move up to a 10speed?
Food Chain number = 4

A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game

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  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    You will need a cassette lockring tool and either a chain whip or a high pain threshold.
    Stop the cassette from spinning with the chainwhip, unscrew the cassette lockring with the tool, unscrew, slide off cassette, revers on other wheel. Put a bit of grease on the freehub splines before fitting.
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    http://www.parktool.com/repair/readhowto.asp?id=48
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    will3 wrote:
    You will need a cassette lockring tool and either a chain whip or a high pain threshold.
    Stop the cassette from spinning with the chainwhip, unscrew the cassette lockring with the tool, unscrew, slide off cassette, revers on other wheel. Put a bit of grease on the freehub splines before fitting.
    AND
    jashburnham wrote:
    http://www.parktool.com/repair/readhowto.asp?id=48

    Thank you both. I think I may know how I'll be spending part of the bank holday weekend! :D
    Food Chain number = 4

    A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    will3 wrote:
    You will need a cassette lockring tool and either a chain whip or a high pain threshold.
    Stop the cassette from spinning with the chainwhip, unscrew the cassette lockring with the tool, unscrew, slide off cassette, revers on other wheel. Put a bit of grease on the freehub splines before fitting.
    AND
    jashburnham wrote:
    http://www.parktool.com/repair/readhowto.asp?id=48

    Thank you both. I think I may know how I'll be spending part of the bank holday weekend! :D

    Won't take you more than 10 minutes with the right tools
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    will3 wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    will3 wrote:
    You will need a cassette lockring tool and either a chain whip or a high pain threshold.
    Stop the cassette from spinning with the chainwhip, unscrew the cassette lockring with the tool, unscrew, slide off cassette, revers on other wheel. Put a bit of grease on the freehub splines before fitting.
    AND
    jashburnham wrote:
    http://www.parktool.com/repair/readhowto.asp?id=48

    Thank you both. I think I may know how I'll be spending part of the bank holday weekend! :D

    Won't take you more than 10 minutes with the right tools

    The internet said the same thing about changing pedals. Still took me 4 hrs, in that time I lost my temper and flung a mallet around the garden....
    Food Chain number = 4

    A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
  • lochindaal
    lochindaal Posts: 475
    looking at the cost of the tools I didn't see the point. My LBS charged £5 to do it
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  • woody-som
    woody-som Posts: 1,001
    I'd buy the tools and do it yourself. Usefull to remove the cassette to clean it eventually, or even fit a different ratio one. Winter rides things get really messy, I'm always removing mine to clean things.

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