Info on cassettes

[yoothgeye]

For starters, forgive my ignorance.

I bought a tool that removes Shimano multispeed cassettes. It is splined, you slide it in the cassette, put a wrench on it and it unscrews the cassette from threads on the hub.

Recently my friend had to remove the newer style from a wheel where the hub is splined and you remove a lock nut and slide it off. Thaat didn't go so well for him, but he got it off and lesson learned.

Here's where my question comes. On the older style hub with the threads, do they make an 8 speed cassette in that style or are all the 8 speeds on the newer style?

Thanks.

 

[scrumblero]

when you say old and new... I think you mat be talking about a freewheel (old) and a cassette (new) , freewheels come off in one piece.. cassettes come off as a stack of gears and spacers.. with no moving parts.. :roll:

 

[Anonymous]

I just take all mine to my LBS.

Charlie over there whips them off for free in 2 seconds.

 

[ifitsfreeitsforme]

I think once 8 speeds were introduced they were the "new style" you refer to, cassette.

 

[c.p.odom]

Eight speed thread-on freewheels exist but they were rapidly eclipsed by cassette freewheels. The major problem with eight speed thread-on freewheels was the long length of unsupported right side axle, these had a tendency to bend or break.

 

[yoothgeye]

Eight speed thread-on freewheels exist but they were rapidly eclipsed by cassette freewheels. The major problem with eight speed thread-on freewheels was the long length of unsupported right side axle, these had a tendency to bend or break.

This was the answer I needed. Thanks.