Swapping cassette onto new wheels?

aspender
aspender Posts: 96
edited September 2012 in Workshop
I'm about to stick my new Dura-Ace C24s onto my bike and ordered a new Ultegra cassette with them. The existing chain and cassette have done about 850 miles on the old wheels.

Would you swap the old cassette onto the new wheels so that the chain/cassette wear consistently, or put the new cassette on?

The cassettes are the same ratios.

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  • smidsy
    smidsy Posts: 5,273
    I would swap the current ones over and save the new cassette then put the new cassette on when you eventually replace the chain.
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    smidsy wrote:
    I would swap the current ones over and save the new cassette then put the new cassette on when you eventually replace the chain.

    +1. Wear in the drivetrain is nowt to do with the actual wheel so there is no more reason to replace the cassette when you change the wheel than there was before you changed the wheel!
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  • aspender
    aspender Posts: 96
    Cool. Just to be clearer, the reason for the new cassette is that the old wheels will still get used in poorer weather/winter. I'll simply put the new cassette on those.
  • mkviken
    mkviken Posts: 217
    im in the same situation only my bike has done 600 miles.

    did you fit your old cassette to your new wheels in the end?

    im not sure which way to do it for the best really.
  • Dmak
    Dmak Posts: 445
    I'd put the old cassette onto the new wheels.

    Replaced all my drivetrain last night, SO SMOOTH! :D

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