I have been wondering for a few years now..........

solosuperia
solosuperia Posts: 333
edited March 2013 in Road general
I ask the question because from the replies on here it seems that the groupset governs your choice of gear ratios!
When did the flexiblity of just building up your rear spockets with whatever size cogs you fancied stop.
I know you didn't have complete freedom but there was a flexibilty there.
Can you now only buy a complete cassette with pre-determined cogs on it?
And as for front rings I used to ride Campag record and I must have had a selection of 6 or 7 rings large and small that I changed depending on the terrain to be covered.

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  • smidsy
    smidsy Posts: 5,273
    The main thing with cassettes now is that not all the cogs are individual. You can swap some of them from one cassette to another to 'customise' your stack, but I suspect not many people do.
    Yellow is the new Black.
  • ju5t1n
    ju5t1n Posts: 2,028
    You can get sprockets individually to build your own cassettes from Marchisio

    http://www.marchisio.eu/en/sprockets-cassette/
  • crankycrank
    crankycrank Posts: 1,830
    SoloSuperia wrote:
    I ask the question because from the replies on here it seems that the groupset governs your choice of gear ratios!
    When did the flexiblity of just building up your rear spockets with whatever size cogs you fancied stop.
    I know you didn't have complete freedom but there was a flexibilty there.
    Can you now only buy a complete cassette with pre-determined cogs on it?
    And as for front rings I used to ride Campag record and I must have had a selection of 6 or 7 rings large and small that I changed depending on the terrain to be covered.
    I also find the "throwaway package" bikes of today highly annoying. I believe you can still order some of the individual cogs from Shimano and Campag from your LBS. Go to the mfrs website for parts diagrams and get the part numbers. Usually you will have to go to the lower ranges to get the individual cogs since higher end is usually several+ clamped together with alu carriers and or Ti cogs etc. Best thing to do IMO is to write the Mfrs. an email telling them that you prefer to have spares rather than saving a few grams (mainly out of your wallet) on some ridiculously expensive and short lived cassette. SRAM wins for most ludicrous for now with their machined-from-one-piece Red cassette somewhere in the 200+ quid range.

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