Mushroomgodmat
Über Member
- Location
- Norwich
Bit of an odd one this I think.
I have a new set of wheels (falcrum racing 5), and a new cassette. No matter how hard I try im unable to tighten it enough - the individual cogs have slight movement on them, and I can see a gap between them of about 1/3 a mm. Its a very slight gap, but a gap all the same. You can hear them clatter/rattle together if I bounce the wheel.
I tried to fix this a number of times - took the cassette off, reset it, re tightened it, but no matter what I was unable to close the gap between the cogs and they continued to rattle.
So in my annoyance I took the rear wheel off my 2nd bike which also has exactly the same wheel set (not new, but about 9 months old, but exactly the same spec/model) and fitted the new cassette to that - doing exactly what I had done on my new set of wheels
And low and behold it fitted just fine - No rattle, just right.
So I swapped it again back to my new wheel, and its loose. Put it back on my old wheel and its fits fine again.
This tells me there seems to be a slight tolerance issue with my new wheels. But does anyone have any other thoughts/or experienced something like this before/any fix anyone knows of?
cheers all!
Btw - fitted with a decent torque wrench set to 40nm. I probably tightened it a touch past that too.
I have a new set of wheels (falcrum racing 5), and a new cassette. No matter how hard I try im unable to tighten it enough - the individual cogs have slight movement on them, and I can see a gap between them of about 1/3 a mm. Its a very slight gap, but a gap all the same. You can hear them clatter/rattle together if I bounce the wheel.
I tried to fix this a number of times - took the cassette off, reset it, re tightened it, but no matter what I was unable to close the gap between the cogs and they continued to rattle.
So in my annoyance I took the rear wheel off my 2nd bike which also has exactly the same wheel set (not new, but about 9 months old, but exactly the same spec/model) and fitted the new cassette to that - doing exactly what I had done on my new set of wheels
And low and behold it fitted just fine - No rattle, just right.
So I swapped it again back to my new wheel, and its loose. Put it back on my old wheel and its fits fine again.
This tells me there seems to be a slight tolerance issue with my new wheels. But does anyone have any other thoughts/or experienced something like this before/any fix anyone knows of?
cheers all!
Btw - fitted with a decent torque wrench set to 40nm. I probably tightened it a touch past that too.