Re: Sram red cassette - better gearing options?
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 12:50 am
Those elastomers... you can replace them with o-rings.
A friend of mine who worked at SRAM for a while told me when one of mine snapped that a simple hardware store o-ring will suffice as a replacement. Surely they'e not identical and really the elastomers are there to absorb vibration so that it doesn't echo through the hollow cassette...
Also- I have over they years accumulated perhaps a dozen SRAM cassettes and have mixed and matched the cogs (sometimes on purpose, other times due to inattention) and never had any adverse results...
And here in Chicago, save for the occasional 30mph tailwind, my 11 rarely sees a chain...
-J
A friend of mine who worked at SRAM for a while told me when one of mine snapped that a simple hardware store o-ring will suffice as a replacement. Surely they'e not identical and really the elastomers are there to absorb vibration so that it doesn't echo through the hollow cassette...
Also- I have over they years accumulated perhaps a dozen SRAM cassettes and have mixed and matched the cogs (sometimes on purpose, other times due to inattention) and never had any adverse results...
And here in Chicago, save for the occasional 30mph tailwind, my 11 rarely sees a chain...
-J
