Custom cassette: will this work?
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Yeah, in the old days, since all the cogs were individual, it was very easy to mix and match and get the cassette you wanted. Was the shifting perfect? Maybe not but it worked just fine. As long as the space between the cogs is maintained for 8 speed, the shifter will work and if the derailleur has the capacity, it will work fine as well.
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This appears to be available on Amazon India. It might be what you need. If I've done the currency conversion correctly, it appears to cost the equivalent of <$20 US. Not sure about shipping/handling costs to your location in India.
https://p-y3-www-amazon-in-kalias.am.../dp/B08GQ48ZQG
There may be others available on Amazon India, or locally, at lower cost. This was the first I found.
Best of luck, both with the bike and the knee.
https://p-y3-www-amazon-in-kalias.am.../dp/B08GQ48ZQG
There may be others available on Amazon India, or locally, at lower cost. This was the first I found.
Best of luck, both with the bike and the knee.
While I searched for Road link was unaware of knockoffs.
Contacted several bikeshops that are open to customising bikes. They had never customised a cassette. They were willing to try (one offered to try at no cost) but since I live a round trip of 10 hours away, had to give up.
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If it is your intention to buy those three cassettes, break them down, and use the cogs you want with spacers in between, make sure noe of the cassettes use ‘spiders’ that combine several cog outer rings with a common inner mount. Typically seen on more upscale cassettes to save weight, less common on lower end units. Often, cassettes are held together with rivets or long thin screws, which are primarily for ease in installing and removing the cassette as a unit. These will have to be removedin to re-order the cassette. Rivet heads are easily ground off with a Dremel tool, screws are removed using a small Allen key.
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I have used custom cassettes and no issues with shifting. I mixed 10 speed , 11 speed cogs and different brands and it never made a whole lot of difference.
You can also just file down the long tab on the cog and put it in any position you like.
My advice to the o.p is get the gearing you need.
By changing cassette or chain ring. Trial and error. Your knee will thank you.
You can also just file down the long tab on the cog and put it in any position you like.
My advice to the o.p is get the gearing you need.
By changing cassette or chain ring. Trial and error. Your knee will thank you.
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In my experience, I have not found any issue with using an 18t from a cassette paired with a 15t preceding it and using a 16t instead. And then a 20t after if that was designed to work with a 17t preceding it. I’ve never experienced any lag in the shifts.
I assume that mfg’s design enough variability so that a particular cog will work in more than one cassette configuration. It would be a very poor business model to have unique designs in that 17t to 28t range.
And as dedhed pointed out people have been using non ramped cogs for years. My old 74XX drivetrain with Retroshift levers was pretty quick and smooth. Could probably upshift multiple cogs faster than STI’s, Di2 excepted.
John