yeah good morning YouTube so I picked this up a couple months ago it's a 10-speed cassette
for my monster cross gravel bike whatever you want to call it this one is 11 to 45
so this is going to replace the 11 to 42 tooth cassette that I have on there now
so I put that on a few years ago and I've been quite happy with that when I first built the
bike I had an 11 36 cassette from Shimano so I really like this 11:36 cassette because this
end of it is really nice for riding on pavement you've got 11 13 15 17 19 and 21 2004 28 32 and
36 the only thing I really didn't like about it was it only went to 36 teeth I think that
gave me around a 15 gear inch low gear and I found as I started riding steeper Hills
I'd needed something a little bit lower geared so that's when I went to the Sun race and the Sun
race we had a 36 and then it added a 42 tooth on there but the problem with the Sun race was it got
rid of one of the gears here in the middle and so the Sun race which is still on the bike out
back has 11 13 15 but then it made a three tooth jump to 18 and then another three tooth to 21 that
was a 20 percent jump from 15 to 18 and that was right where you ride on the pavement on bike lanes
and flat smooth pavement you'll be riding along it's a 90 rpm and the 18 year and then you try
to shift to 15 and you just come to a complete stop it's just too big of a jump I am used to
riding big cassettes so this is the freewheel that I used off of my 1974 Schwinn sports tour
and this was awesome at the time five speeds 14 17 22 28 34 at the time I thought this was the
best thing ever but you could see how chunky it was huge jumps and then when I went to this I got
spoiled because the jumps were so small just two twos jumps halfway through here now this is the
garbha route 11:45 so I wanted to give a shout out to Julie over there at Garber ooh she did
a really good job getting this to me that I had ordered this I think late February early March and
got caught up in all of the airline shutdowns and air freight not working and so Julie did a really
good job getting this to me from Poland there were two things that I was interested in with
this cassette Sun race does make an 11:45 but I think all they changes the top end but this
one has a really neat feature it goes 11 13 15 17 and then it jumps to 20 and 24 so I'm hoping
the jumps here maybe are a little bit higher up on the cogs so percentage-wise they're a little
bit less so I'm hoping this one will have a nicer on-road ride on the top end and then at the big
end it has a 38 instead of a 36 the nice thing is this 38 will be just a little bit lower than
the 36 I have now and then you've got the 45 if you really need it yeah so that this 32 is the
same the 28 the same the 24 is the same but the top-end is a little bit different so I'm hoping
this will ride better on the road okay there we go YouTube's got it mounted up so we've got the
11:45 cassette on there this is my 9 speed rear derailleur here and I've got a Wolf's tooth road
link adapter which drops the hanger down and the only adjustment I had to make I had to turn the B
tension screw in about a half a turn because the jockey wheel here was just touching the
teeth on the 45 but let's roll through the gears I'm in the middle ring here on the big one there
no problem there yeah there's a pair of the chains getting pretty loose huh max out there
I mean I never run that combination but I can run up to have a little bit of change
big big big it's pretty tight but I didn't add any links to the chain just KMC ten-speed chain
as it comes you know like say that's pretty darn tight I again I don't run that combination
if we're going to go into about maybe there they're usually I'm from this point over on
the small side when I'm in the big ring and then the middle ring I'll use the whole cassette and
then women the smaller ring I kind of use from maybe six down to one so I noticed there's two
things you need to get used to when you're running this low of a gear ratio one is that the shifting
is sluggish because it takes over two turns of the cranks to shift gear so I'll start pedaling
here and I'll click to the next gear and you can see it takes almost two revolutions of the crank
to switch gears so you have to be patient you know you don't want to shift at the last minute
because you've got to allow for that so I have a what's called a rapid rise rear derailleur which
means it's spring-loaded going to the big cog right here I'm in what fourth cog I can click
in all the way to number one so I'll go one two three I've clicked in three gears and then as
soon as I start pedaling it'll go up on to the big ring that's why I really like this rapid
rise rear derailleur for riding off-road or dirts and really technical writing because it's easy to
shift up onto the big cogs it's a little harder to shift down so if I were sprinting for a race
win and the Tour de France I don't like that I want to shift to my highest gears easy but this
one lets you shift to your lowest gears easy and that's what I really like about the rapid
rise but they don't make them anymore 9 speed the or xt rapid rise and long cage and then the other
thing is you need to keep your cadence up so when you're in this really low gear here you've got to
be spinning probably 70 at a bare minimum or you will fall over because you're riding maybe
one and a half or two miles an hour in this gear here you probably can't maintain balance and ride
up a really rocky climb so you've got to keep your cadence up so I try to keep maybe 70 to 90
on the cadence so yeah 900 percent between this year so that's about a 12 is the middle there's
the big guy 11 there we go and I think this is like a hundred and four something like that that
works pretty good so yeah we'll take it out on a test ride today and maybe I'll try to give you
an update and let you know how worked yes I'll post updates over here on the left side and if
you have any questions post up in the comment section below and as always thanks for watching