Individual Shimano Sprockets

cormpat

I've got an 11-28 Ultegra Cassette that I got for the Alps, but I've no use for now back in Ireland with such big gaps. I'm wondering if you can get individual sprockets to turn it into an 11-25 or something similar. I've checked ChainReaction & Wiggle & there's nothing on either site. Can this be done? Or am I imagining this?

Thanks in advance.

blorg

The simple answer is no, unless you find someone who disassembles cassettes and sells the individual sprockets. Harris Cyclery in the USA used do this. But for all practical purposes, no, sell that one and buy a new cassette.

cormpat

Cheers Blorg, I'll guess I'll have to move to the Alps to give it some use!!!!:D

penexpers

blorg wrote: »

The simple answer is no, unless you find someone who disassembles cassettes and sells the individual sprockets. Harris Cyclery in the USA used do this. But for all practical purposes, no, sell that one and buy a new cassette.

Miche produce individual sprockets but the quality is meant to be pretty poor.

cormpat

penexpers wrote: »

Miche produce individual sprockets but the quality is meant to be pretty poor.

Do you know where you can buy them? I had a look at their website & there's no mention of Ireland, also do you know if there Shimano compatible? From the picture on their website they doesn't look like they would fit the Shimano hub.

Thanks,

cormpat

On second thought, I'd probably be better off following Blorg's advice & just buy a new cassette as I couldn't be arsed if its not a simple matter of just slipping the new 25t sprocket on to the hub & then just sliding the next one on.

As Homer Simpson says "if something is to hard to do then its not worth doing"!:D:D:D

100Suns

Maybe buy a Miche cassette with different ratios and swap out the sprockets. Not ideal as Miche isn't as durable as shimano. The most cost effective solution is a new shimano cassette

blorg

Mavic also sell individual sprockets albeit I think maybe with different spacing to Shimano and needing a Mavic hub. I don't think the idea of buying third party sprockets and trying to mix them up with bits of your existing Shimano cassette makes any sense or will necessarily work very well. Even with the disassembled Shimano cassettes the shifting ramps will not necessarily line up right any more if you are combining sprockets from different Shimano cassettes. It is meant to still work, but the whole thing is a very big hassle if you consider you could just buy a new cassette in the range you want probably not for any more money. As far as I can make out new 105 is virtually indistinguishable from new Ultegra.

cormpat

new cassette it is!

Hermy

blorg wrote: »

Harris Cyclery in the USA used do this.

Any idea why they stopped this service? Lack of demand?

blorg

Hermy wrote: »

Any idea why they stopped this service? Lack of demand?

They may well still do it for all I know, it is still on their website. The main driver of all that, though, Sheldon Brown, passed away some years ago.