Cassette for Turbo

[Gunk]

My advice would be to buy an identical cassette for the turbo. I have a Tacx with the roller and use a spare rear wheel, I stupidly bought a cheap aftermarket Campag cassette and it was awful, I replaced it with an identical Chorus 10 speed cassette with identical ratios and it now works a treat.

 

[plastic_cyclist]

I grew up and Cheadle and now live in Stoke

My Dad was a Cheadle man all his life. Keelings Road, spent many a day/night at the South Moorlands Leisure centre !

 

[figbat]

My advice would be to buy an identical cassette for the turbo. I have a Tacx with the roller and use a spare rear wheel, I stupidly bought a cheap aftermarket Campag cassette and it was awful, I replaced it with an identical Chorus 10 speed cassette with identical ratios and it now works a treat.

I agree. With the same cassette at least you know the chain is the right length.

 

[CXRAndy]

I agree. With the same cassette at least you know the chain is the right length.

Chain length usually only becomes an issue if the user chooses a larger range cassette.

Eg original cassette is 11-32. 2nd cass is 11-25, it will fit with no issues. Only if they use a 11-36 or 11-40 chain length needs to be accounted.

I agree if you're setting your bike on the turbo a new chain, same link count will be beneficial to smooth running

 

[cougie uk]

Get the same speed and similar ratios so if you need to you can swap them over. You can go down in the groupset hierarchy if you want.

 

[Tenkaykev]

I wouldn’t go for a wide-ratio cassette, personally. As Andy says, you can turn down the trainer difficulty gradient setting so you don’t need the granny gears.

As a rule of thumb, I usually ride 30% trainer difficulty and am nearly always in 53x17 or 53x16, except when I’m doing erg-controlled workouts, which are in 39x21 so that the power response is more faithful.

I got a JetBlack Volt which came with an 11 speed cassette. As the turbo bike was 9 speed I got a suitable cassette from Decathlon which works well. I was really struggling on the turbo, then read the bit in the manual where it said by default the difficulty level was set to 100% 😁

 

[Legs]

swadlincote

I've just realised that I did a job last year for someone with your name, near Stapenhill cemetery in Burton-upon-Trent. Small world, eh?

 

[Legs]

Was it you @cyberknight , or are there others out there? (It was structural calcs for a house extension.)

 

[cyberknight]

Was it you @cyberknight , or are there others out there? (It was structural calcs for a house extension.)

someone esle , there are a few around here although not many related to me