Pet Hates........or FFS

[Len Co]

What's a rear cassette

The mind boggles!

[walpurgis]

rear multi-sprocket

[struth]

Is that the rear wheel cogs. Never had one go and I cycles a lot when young

[walpurgis]

Is that the rear wheel cogs.

Yup.

[Minstrel SE]

Rear cassette a year? Mine lasted nearly 10,000 miles, riding to and from work. Just lubed it regularly.

No not every year...sorry I should have made that clear. This is my anti theft bike not attractive to thieves so I do tend to let the chain stretch more than it should which is naughty. I do have a chain wear indicator tool and an in situ chain bath cleaner. The chain is oiled but this bike generally gets more neglected.

Get it lazy and I end up replacing both chain and cassette because the worn stretched chain has started to affect the cassette. The chain should be replaced as soon as the stretch indicator is between 0.75 and 1%. It all lasts much longer with a careful monitoring and replacement as the cassette will bed in again with a new chain before its cogs are too worn. a cassette should last three chains they say. My old bike however is a lesson in pure laziness and I can get these 7spd cassettes quite cheap from some suppliers. I will have effed a chain and cassette in two years which isnt too bad and I dont even care about the cheap suntour chainset on the front

Im very familiar with chain skip with a new chain because Ive run it all for too long. The cassette then must be replaced together with the new chain. You know when you have a worn cassette ready for the bin

Cassettes are much easier to get off with the chainwhip than screw on freewheels. I trickled down the 7 speed cassette wheel Ive had for 18 years. Cassettes were invented yonks ago and nobody should really be running screw on freewheels

My better bikes get a careful maintenance routine. I mainly run Shimano Hg chains and I have 7, 8 and 9 speed cassettes.

Anyway its still much cheaper than the bus for a year

[Macca]

Once again Sainsbury's shelves were groaning under the weight of 8 different types of doughnut. But not the ones I want.

'There might be a problem at the warehouse', a member of staff speculated idly.

Once again mugs were queueing for the self service when you could just walk up to a manned till and get served with no wait. I think they must pump something into the air, it beats me.

[walpurgis]

Once again Sainsbury's shelves were groaning under the weight of 8 different types of doughnut. But not the ones I want.

Try the little Eccles Cakes in the cake aisle. They're lovely!

[Macca]

Try the little Eccles Cakes in the cake aisle. They're lovely!

Yeah I could get in the cupboard under the stairs to eat it. Pretend there is still a war on.

I had no idea they still made such things. My Nan always used to have them in. Was never keen, it's the currents I don't like. But you didn't turn a cake down back in those days.

[struth]

Morrisons own in store bakewells are good

[Macca]

Had a couple of Apple Danishes in the end. They were pretty good. And count as two of my '5 a day'.