Has anyone used a recon aluminium cassette before

[marin man]

I think that you could be right and the dura ace one I am running at the mo is probably lighter anyway I just like the gold colur that is all

 

[FluffyChicken]

I think that you could be right and the dura ace one I am running at the mo is probably lighter anyway I just like the gold colur that is all

If you have the pennies to get one then give it a go and report back, doubt it would look gold for very long once there is oil on there. I know my silver one's never do.

Probably for dry weather with a light oil sort of cassette. Orfor racing once and throw away :twisted:


Gold 9spd 11-32 is 175g (claimed ?) from a quick search. I assume they are coated like the Middleburn Hardcoats... but I know my hardcoats had ripped right through that on the sides after a few shifts :roll:

Nobody make Steel or Ti in a Ti:Nitride or similar coating like the KMC chains ?

This chap seems to have some other Alu one's on the site and there is an ebay link
http://luckynino.blogspot.com/


EDIT apparently that 175g I gave is for the Titanium Gold version (so that answers a question above)
http://www.stealthcycling.com/product/R ... -136g.html

 

[Agency_Scum]

...and that's me in the short bus.

 

[marin man]

Recon do a titanium cassette in ti nitride but it is as you say 175 gm's my dura ace is all titanium and weighs about 125 gm's but the low gears are lacking a bit,not that it makes to much difference in norfolk I will have a think and If I buy one will report back on this thread,Thanks for the sensible disscussion,it makes a change

 

[Student Bob]

Nobody make Steel or Ti in a Ti:Nitride or similar coating like the KMC chains ?

Goldtec used to - this is the full titanium, ti-nitride coated 12-28 8spd cassette that I run about on.

Can't recall what it weighs, but it's not much! Durability however is pants. It's probably done a few hundred miles, and if it wasn't irreplaceable I'd have replaced it by now.... besides, it's a nice colour. FWIW I had an alloy cassette on a road bike a while ago, shifting was rubbish and it lasted a few hundred miles too, I swapped it for a nice durable campag steel and ti one.

 

[marin man]

Give me the golden cassette now :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

 

[gibbleking]

i have ridden an alloy casstte before and ripped 7 teeth off in one hard sprint ....never went back....they break very easily and wear out even quicker....dont waste ya money...get some thing else fella..

 

[marin man]

Fair enough tony but I am alot svelter thean you ,with your beer belly and all

 

[gibbleking]

ive also broken hollow chains and a tioga revolver crankset whilst sprinting too...light is overated..

 

[marin man]

I do not know If I am more surprised at you using the word sprint,or that you have broken something mind you beating gravity,at your weight,whilst getting up the slope at gorleston seafront does put a lot of load on equipment