I picked up my new Orange 5 Pro yesterday and noticed it comes with a pretty crap looking shimano cassette that appears to be made up of individual sprockets instead of having the majority mounted on a alloy carrier.

Which cassette would you recommend in the region of £40? Familiar with Shimano but are Sram worth checking out?

Your advice would be much appreciated as i seem to recall people saying that the individual sprocket type cassettes chew up freehubs, which i don't want to do to my lovely Pro 2 hubs.

http://www.merlincycles.co.uk/mountain-bike-cassettes/sram-pg-980-cassette.html

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tdk 90min

ermmm what?

http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/cassettes.html

Pah! Kidz these days know nowt!

Swapped from a SRAM 990 to an XT on my 5 SE bit lighter and has lasted longer and is cheaper!
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How about a lovely BASF ?

I've always found them much the same. See what you can get for your money. The biggest difference between models is weight.

i bought a couple of these today :

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=8333

Mini Discs and CD's when i was growing up 😀

cheap ones use poor materials, wear quickly and get chewed up

My " The best of Toni Basil" – is still going strong – and it was a bargain.
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