buying a shimano HG30 cassette?
I learned my lesson about SRAM cassettes but is going right for the very, very bottom of the shimano range based on cost a terrible mistake (not worried about weight)... ?
anyone gone this far down market before?
I think that may be my spare one... what issues are you anticipating ?
I learned my lesson about SRAM cassettes
a little cryptic?
What do you think might happen, it probably wont catch fire
only issue will be if you have an alloy freehub shell. the cheap cassettes with separate cogs rivetted together will make a right mess of it.
Cheap cassettes are usually heavy, use discrete sprockets (which can be dismantled and asset-stripped or customised) and have poor corrosion protection...usually a brown Parkerising-type treatment that rusts when exposed to salt.
Wear can be faster too, as the steel is not SAPH or hard-plated so can go shark-tooth and hold on to the chain.
But, it will work and cost very little.
Use it with a new cheap chain and run both into the ground.
PaulD
Well I'm not sure...
I've had hg50s in the past they were fine just concerned the hg30 might not shift so well or not be as robust/wear as well...
Never buying another SRAM mid range teeth were actually twisted...
"mid-range" being?
"mid-range" being?
Sorry bit of a terminology mix up by 'Mid Range' I meant Mid gearing range, as in the Middle few sprockets on the Cassette.
but if we're talking price range then the Cassette was a PG-850/8-Speed/11-30 I think, so probably little a bit below "Mid-Range" price wise probably about ~HG50/Deore sort of level; Bag'o'shite IMO, Never had such poor performance from a Shimano Cassette, so I'm going back to them...
My cheapo HG31 (9 speed) turned up last night and I'm actually slighty impressed, it didn't seem as heavy as I thought it would be, it actually seems to be very similar to an HG50 in terms of the Sprocket profiles, drillings, shift gates and material cut away (Probably bashed out with the same tooling) the steel used is obviously cheaper and the finish is just black passivated, so I'll need to watch closer for rust but it still seems a better, smoother finish than the SRAM, fewer Sharp un-finished edges, it's riveted (Where an HG50 is bolted together) I may well dremel those off so I can have it apart properly for cleaning...
TBH I think it will do the job and I can happilly live with it, but Obviously it's not on a par with XT...
ach at the end of the day - whats a wee bit of rust 😉 just ride more = less rust 😀
Weight is the only issues I would suggest as a downside..
I think I said in my first post that weight wasn't my concern, I just wanted reasonable durability at rock bottom price, we'll see how I get on.
Its a relatively cheap experiment if it's as shite as the SRAM then I'll know never to buy anything cheaper than an HG50...