Shimming a cassette

Posted on Mon 9th, December 2019

• #1

atz

Is it possible to shim a cassette at all? I’ve got a wheelset where the indexing is just a tiny bit off against my turbo (and a winter wheelset) and having to tweak it is starting to irritate me.
• #2

Dogtemple

yup, you can get shims. if you have a friendly lbs that does repairs you can usually drop in and get them for not a lot
• #3

chiroshi in reply to @atz

Both SRAM and Shimano have recently released shims for cassettes that made noise and didn't shift ideally. How much are you talking?
• #4

atz

It's in the range of annoying clicking so probably no more than 0.5-1mm out. If the LBS can't shim it I'll just get them to index it for the wheel I use on the road then figure it out later.

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