Casette Lockrings

[Tom Booth]

Just a quick question. How tight doesa casette lockring have to be? is it finger tight? or emmensley tight? or is it just a bitta pasty tight?

Cheers

Tom

[Ali C]

emmensley tight!

[Shaun H]

Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugely tight, as Ali said.

I had a cassete go on my FR bike from doing roll backs (I think ) and to tighten that I used a *massive* breaker bar with the tool. Had it been done like a fairy then it would probably have come undone at a much more inoppurtune time rather than when backpedaling whilst being towed by a mate on his ped

[Ashley Smith]

40 N/m

[AdamR28]

40 N/m

Haha, I was gonna post that for a laugh too.

I would say about '50% beans' with a foot-long lever (depending on how many pasties you've eaten)

Adam

[petit_pablo]

I just tighten till it wont turn anymore!

[Ashley Smith]

I just tighten till it wont turn anymore!

then things tend to go ping...................oh dear the thread has stripped or crossed

[Tom Booth]

Cheers lads Kinda getting the impression it should be a bit of a weetabix job

Tom

[rich4130]

Haha I always do mine finger tight with just the tool!?

I've never actually had any problems haha.

[Tomm]

Haha I always do mine finger tight with just the tool!?

I've never actually had any problems haha.

That's exactly what I was going to say. Otherwise they're a total bitch to get off. I don't think there's any real danger if it works loose a bit, it's not as important as, say, your crank bolts.

[shovel]

toight, toight like a toiger

[Onza Kieron]

I run mine fingertight too, never done me any harm, evenwhen it did come off the cogs just moved a lil' bit and i was doing DH on the T-Rex so i don't think it needs to be too tight, as long as you make sure it's biteing on the lil' notches on the end of the cassette.

[Ingram]

it is 40 N/m, Too tight, you wont get the bloody thing off again, or as people said, probily strip the thread, they dont need to be super super tight, like 5 foot long breaker bar. You'll know if its loose anyway.

[Ashley Smith]

I run mine fingertight too, never done me any harm, evenwhen it did come off the cogs just moved a lil' bit and i was doing DH on the T-Rex so i don't think it needs to be too tight, as long as you make sure it's biteing on the lil' notches on the end of the cassette.

dont you think if the manufacturer puts a tightening torque on somehting it is there for a reason though........only my oppinion (i like to try and stick to official settings)

finger tight in my view is not tight enough it should be done up quite tight..........not always a need for a torque wrench just doing the lockring up tight will be sufficient

ash

[Janson]

i just give mine beans. has only come loose once, and that was when the stupid bikeshop didn't tighten it up, which was a fair while ago.. They're not hard to get off, just use a chain whip..