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In the past I've made my own custom cassettes by swapping certain cogs in and out, but the shifting
is never quite as good as a stock shimano cassette because the ramps don't line up. Two thoughts
just occured to me:
1) FToo bad Shimano had to make their cassettes idiot proof, with sprockets only going on in one
orientation, so we can't manually line up the ramps on our custom cassettes.
2) Is there a safe way to alter either sprockets or the hub body so that you can orient the new
sprocket so its ramps line up properly? My concern with this (say I filed the sprocket) would be
that the sprocket wouldn't engage the hub body well enough and could be stripped. But then again,
Sheldon sold me some sprockets that appear to have their inner edges cut so that they work with
Shimano and Campy, or something like that - the inner edges are very strangely shaped and don't
make "full" engagement with the splines of the hub body, probably only half of them - and I've
never had a problem with them (except that they don't shift all that well).
Kyle
is never quite as good as a stock shimano cassette because the ramps don't line up. Two thoughts
just occured to me:
1) FToo bad Shimano had to make their cassettes idiot proof, with sprockets only going on in one
orientation, so we can't manually line up the ramps on our custom cassettes.
2) Is there a safe way to alter either sprockets or the hub body so that you can orient the new
sprocket so its ramps line up properly? My concern with this (say I filed the sprocket) would be
that the sprocket wouldn't engage the hub body well enough and could be stripped. But then again,
Sheldon sold me some sprockets that appear to have their inner edges cut so that they work with
Shimano and Campy, or something like that - the inner edges are very strangely shaped and don't
make "full" engagement with the splines of the hub body, probably only half of them - and I've
never had a problem with them (except that they don't shift all that well).
Kyle