Cassette needs replacing?

mjd611

Perhaps i'm just being overly cautious (i'm still learning bike mechanics), but the gap between the teeth look a little lop sidded to me. Does the cassette need replacing?



Thanks for your help,
Matt

giant_man

Matt, your teeth don't look that bad to me. Re your gears slipping? Looks to me that you still have life left in your cogs personally. I've seen teeth that look far worse than yours. Hope this helps.

mjd611

Thanks for the reply.

I'm not sure if i would describe it as slipping, but sometimes i can't shift down 1 gear cleanly, instead i have to go down 2 and then up 1.

amaferanga

Try replacing your gear cables.

keef66

Worn cassette usually means that if you stomp on the pedals the chain can lift off the teeth and jump forward. Especially noticeable if you fit a new chain to a worn cassette.

Shifting problems as you describe are usually indexing / cable related

secretsqizz

To my little eye, the cassette looks like it has had its best days.
Of course youmight as well replace if ONLY just to get rid of the plastic 'I darent trust my rear mech setup/indexing to trash me spokes' disk.
They are harbingers of germs and bacteria dont you know?

topdude

Your cassette teeth look fine to me
Strip out the inner cable, clean and grease it, re-install and set up the indexing.

mjd611

secretsqizz wrote:

To my little eye, the cassette looks like it has had its best days.
Of course youmight as well replace if ONLY just to get rid of the plastic 'I darent trust my rear mech setup/indexing to trash me spokes' disk.
They are harbingers of germs and bacteria dont you know?

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to spy that. Not sure why i've never taken it off, guess i just like being a dork.

Thanks for the help.

Meds1962

If the chain isn't slipping there's no benefit in changing the cassette.

rake

ask speedking.