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Woodyuk":3bbrnkyk said:
Thanks for the info .... Perfect
I knew it was not going to be easy but that must be one of the most complicated ways tyo set up a cassette :facepalm:
Well it will be a fun evenening tonight
It was designed so that rather than be stuck with a fixed combination of sprockets, you could (in theory at least) get the best of both worlds - slick (for the time) shifting and a choice in terms of what sprockets could be used and in what order, in the cassette.
It's interesting - one of the original selling points of cassettes was that users could, back in the day, build a cassette quickly and easily to suit the terrain they were racing over - building freewheels historically having been a bit trickier as most sprockets screwed on and they were not always that willing to be unscrewed (Maillard being a notable exception with the ARIS-type freewheels).
I can remember building cassettes that went in sequences like 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 21, 23, 24 so that I had *exactly* the gear(s) I thought I'd want on the climbs, or so that the riders I was working for did ...
Now, we are stuck with fixed sets of ratios and increasingly, if we want the standard of front shifting that the market now demands, a very limited choice of chainrings, too. Almost time for internally geared hubs to make a comeback at this rate :-D