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[Closed] Fitting a 40T ring - this ghetto fix OK?

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 hora
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My cassette doesn't split to enable removal of the 17T ring so I found an old spacer and removed 2xsmallest rings instead. Apart from obviously losing my two lowest gears is this OK? Sanity check really..


 
Posted : 01/01/2016 5:31 pm
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Why remove 2 if your only adding 1 ?


 
Posted : 01/01/2016 5:36 pm
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It's probably ok. But also silly.


 
Posted : 01/01/2016 5:43 pm
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What's the point? Run a smaller chainring on the front.


 
Posted : 01/01/2016 5:53 pm
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Sanity check

Just read some of your old posts and decide for yourself on that front. 😉


 
Posted : 01/01/2016 5:55 pm
 hora
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Doesn't work- I can't stop shifting into the spacer at the end. Humphh. Just wait until I have to refresh the drivetrain/cassette next.


 
Posted : 01/01/2016 5:57 pm
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You do you know that you can adjust the cable to limit movement don't you?


 
Posted : 01/01/2016 6:05 pm
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You can get a 13t lock ring and keep a smaller cog .


 
Posted : 01/01/2016 6:05 pm
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Wind the hi & lo mech stops so the mech "stops" then put the shifter in the smallest sprocket, thread the cable up, and Fanny's your uncle's wife.

Job done.


 
Posted : 01/01/2016 6:22 pm
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Just Dremel the pins out of the cassette and stack the sprockets the way you need them.


 
Posted : 01/01/2016 6:27 pm
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Buy a less shit cassette


 
Posted : 01/01/2016 6:34 pm
 poah
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use a 13t lockring from absolute black.


 
Posted : 01/01/2016 6:47 pm
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Swap the 40t thing for a 30t n/w chainring, refit original shit cassette and mtfu.


 
Posted : 01/01/2016 7:45 pm
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Haven't you effectively got less range by dropping the lower two sprockets?


 
Posted : 01/01/2016 7:47 pm
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Possibly not as he is raising the range with the 40 and lowering it with the removal of two cogs - essentially shifting the range to [s]softy[/s] more granny and less top end

Also please just adjust the mech to stop the shifting.


 
Posted : 01/01/2016 8:03 pm
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As said above - Dremel the pins and the cassette should now be splittable. It's only the heads that need to be removed.

Not sure why you removed 2 sprockets when you were only adding one though...


 
Posted : 01/01/2016 8:03 pm

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