VG SPORTS 8/9/10/11/12 Speed Ultra-Light Bike Cassette for Mountain Bike 11-40T/11-42T/11-46T/11-50T/11-52T MTB Cassette Lightweight Aluminum Bracket Cassette

I bought this to replace a trashed XT cassette....1) it's half the price. 20it comes in groovy colors. 3)Lots of products are made in the same factory as name brands, but sold under the "generic" name for less money, so I figured I'd give it a shot. I'm a larger human that rides my bikes hard...lots of popping, jumping, tossing the bike around...my chains will generally last 1-5 months before it snaps. Teeth on chain rings get broken, and small cogs on cassettes tend to wear out. The XT smallest cog was spinning freely til I did a garage "fix" then the derailleur snapped and the cassette and a couple things got torn up. When i got this cassette my first look and it looks very similar to the XT.I"ve ridden it maybe 30 miles so far...some town riding(includes heavy torque and jumping over things, and a good trail ride). So far..shifting is good...no slips..nothing broken. If this gives me 6 months of my riding then I'll be very happy and buy another!

I had my doubts but it shifts great and weights a normal amount. Excellent value.

looks nice and it works

I’m doing a 1X bike conversion. I wanted to use an 11-40T cassette, but it seemed I could only find 11-42T. The more well-known brand was out of stock on the 11-40T. I settled on ordering this one, because I needed it now. There’s an old saying that you get what you pay for. In this case, I don’t think I got what I paid for, because while slightly lower priced, this cassette was not inexpensive. Yet, when I received it and looked it over, the plating looked like what I see on cheap products covering bad steel that breaks. Appearance: The red anodization on the spiders was flaked-off in several places. Installation: The first problem was putting it on my gravel bike wheel’s rear HG Shimano-style hub. This hub is compatible with 10/11 speed cassettes. When installing a 10-speed cassette on an 11-speed hub, because the 10-speed cassette is narrower than an 11 speed, according to the industry standard for a Shimano freehub, 2.8mm of spacers are needed before the cassette goes on (this is typically a 1.8mm specific HG hub spacer followed by a 1mm spacer). Spacers are needed to allow the rear derailleur to shift the chain properly, especially at the derailleur’s top and low limits (cogs 10 and 1). I installed the two spacers first and then placed the cogs. The cogs were grouped together oddly and fit together oddly, especially the small 10 cog (yes, I place it on the correct side). I put on the lock-ring and found that it would not fit. I used my cassette installation tool to really push down on the lock-ring; it started to tighten, but I could not get it to torque spec. I took off the cassette and removed the 1mm spacer, leaving only the 1.8mm spacer (some have said that was all they needed). I reinstalled the cassette and was able to tighten the lock-ring to Shimano’s torque spec. I installed a rear derailleur extender, a Shimano 105 5700 10-speed rear derailleur and a properly sized new KMC 10-speed chain, and then installed the rear wheel. I made sure the derailleur extender and the derailleur were aligned correctly. Performance: No matter what I did, I just couldn’t get the derailleur to shift smoothly on the cassette. I took off the chain and checked the derailleur’s top and low adjustments—both fine. I checked the chain line. I tightened; I loosened the derailleur’s cable tension. My friend who is a professional bike mechanic helped troubleshoot. We could get it to shift down through all the cogs from the 10 cog to the 1 cog, but could not get it to shift up from 1 to 10 without having it often skip cogs two at a time. Even the downshifting was not consistently smooth. It was often noisy. We gave up. Possible problems: We think the cassette is too wide, thus it cannot use the specified 2.8mm in spacers. As a result, it’s not correctly positioned on the hub for correct shifting. Upon close inspection, it appears the spacers installed between the cassette’s cogs are of an inconsistent width; some appear wider spaced than others. This surely affects shifting and could account for the cassette’s width being off. I and my mechanic friend put a lot of time into trying to get this to work. It’s bad engineering, bad design and bad manufacturing. I sent it back for a refund. Postscript: I ordered a cassette from another better-known manufacturer. It installed correctly with 2.8mm of spacers. After installation, it shifted up and down smoothly and without skipping with only a few minor tweaks to cable extension and one to the top limit.

I love it, it works super well, it fits the bike very well.

If you are able to convert to a 1x or looking for upgrade in gearing, look no further. When the time came to change from a 3x to a 1x, this rear cassette did the job perfectly. The gearing helped make up for most of the loss of removing two front gears. There will be slight losses of some of the gearing, but that can be made up with proper training and technique.The indexing of the gears was better than expected at this price point. It seemed like there would be an issue with getting the gears dialed in, but that was not a problem at all.The color of this cassette has nothing to do with the performance, but it sure adds some style to the bike.

Shifting is perfect with Microshift Advent 9. Wide range. Strong. Two aluminum spiders hold three gears each on the low side. This is important for use with alloy freehubs. Individual cogs will cut into an alloy freehub but the spiders prevent this digging in for the six low gears. The 11 and 13 cogs have thicker splines, which also helps. But the 16 cog stands alone so take it easy on that one on an alloy freehub! The real work is done on the low gears. We are indebted to VG Sports for producing this high performance 9 speed.

I wanted to like this. I knew this was steel and heavier than other options and I was fine with that. BUT no matter what I did, the gears in the lower end of the range just would not shift correctly. I'm not sure what the issue is, I put my wheelset with a sram eagle back on and it shifted perfectly again--the issue was this cassette. I had really hoped to have found a cheaper option for my backup wheelset like this, but it's a nope. Maybe you'll have better luck than I did.

Funciona muy bien, cambios rapidos y silenciosos, recomendable!!

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Yo lo he utilizado solo para ponerlo en el rodillo y de momento cumple bien su función.No sé qué tal funcionaría si estuviesen la rueda y utilizase de manera intensiva con la bicicleta.Para uso regular en el rodillo si lo tienes bien engrasado para el uso que yo le doy es más que suficiente

Absolute Billigware.Nur der Preis ist teuer.Bloß nicht kaufen. Euch reißt am Ende das kleine oder 2t kleinste Ritzel ab.

Marchandises impeccable