Cassette Freezing Over

LostInTheWoods
LostInTheWoods Posts: 50
edited January 2009 in MTB general
Hi,

On my commute today I noticed that on the smaller cogs, the chain was just slipping over them. On closer inspection the outer half of the cassette was just frozen over with bits of road grit and ice. Now, I have read elsewhere of people weeing on the cassette to defrost it, but I was wondering if there are any other ways of stopping this from happening? Maybe I should carry anti-freeze spray?

Ideas?

LITW

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  • gazvenn
    gazvenn Posts: 121
    anti freeze or chip it off with small screwdriver/ set of keys i'd say
  • johnsav
    johnsav Posts: 775
    id say keep it all clean and dont worry about it. mine worked fine when it was 10 below the other week?
    its not that cold now anyway is it
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Had this happen in the snow years ago and apart from stopping to clear the cogs the only solution that I had was a crudclaw from my box of bits.

    CrudClaw4b.jpg
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  • LostInTheWoods
    LostInTheWoods Posts: 50
    johnsav wrote:
    id say keep it all clean and dont worry about it. mine worked fine when it was 10 below the other week?
    its not that cold now anyway is it

    'tis here in Sweden :wink:

    I have found this mainly when cycling through slush that kicks up and then freezes. Normal snow is weirdly quite dry and doesn't stick.
  • LostInTheWoods
    LostInTheWoods Posts: 50
    The crud claw looks like just the job. I will now toddle off to ebay and see if i can pick up a bargain. :P
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    edited January 2009
    LostInTheWoods wrote:
    The crud claw looks like just the job. I will now toddle off to ebay and see if i can pick up a bargain. :P

    You'll be lucky, I don't think they've been made for a few years.

    I stand corrected, there are two on sale at the moment but these items are retro when the newest thing in cassettes was 8 speed, however they should fit and do the job as it is just the smaller sprockets that are freezing up. If the teeth of the comb asre to big then you'll need to wear them away as this is how Pete Tomkinson made the early prototype. He used a casette in a pillar drill to cut the teeth in a piece of plastic.
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  • LostInTheWoods
    LostInTheWoods Posts: 50
    redvee wrote:
    You'll be lucky, I don't think they've been made for a few years.

    Why is that? Didn't they work, or did people think they were unnecessary?
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    LostInTheWoods wrote:
    redvee wrote:
    You'll be lucky, I don't think they've been made for a few years.

    Why is that? Didn't they work, or did people think they were unnecessary?

    They worked, I can testifiy to that, think they just went out of fashion etc.
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  • johnsav
    johnsav Posts: 775
    ahh svvveeeeeeeeden, fair enough!

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