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Date: 15 Oct 2007 16:20:30
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Subject: Swapping cassettes
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I'm restoring a nice old mountain bike. I'd like to change the 7-speed
cassette to an 8-speed (found nice 8-speed shifters at a bike swap).
Question is... can I just swap cassettes or do I have hub issues? All
advice is appreciated.
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Date: 15 Oct 2007 20:19:47
From: Jeff
Subject: Re: Swapping cassettes
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<mjhagan@comcast.net > wrote in message
news:1192490430.219112.318630@k35g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
> I'm restoring a nice old mountain bike. I'd like to change the 7-speed
> cassette to an 8-speed (found nice 8-speed shifters at a bike swap).
> Question is... can I just swap cassettes or do I have hub issues? All
> advice is appreciated.
I'm very unsure of this, but I also have an older 7 speed mountain bike and
seemed to remember that the rear spacing between the dropouts was slightly
less than the now standard 135 mm. I think that someone told me that it was
close enought to allow me to pull out the rear triangle to make a 135 mm hub
fit that would accept an 8 speed cassettee. ...again, I'm not positive here,
but pointing out that you might want to check this spacing also.
Jeff
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Date: 15 Oct 2007 16:47:10
From:
Subject: Re: Swapping cassettes
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On Oct 15, 7:31 pm, A Muzi <a...@yellowjersey.org > wrote:
> mjha...@comcast.net wrote:
> > I'm restoring a nice old mountain bike. I'd like to change the 7-speed
> > cassette to an 8-speed (found nice 8-speed shifters at a bike swap).
> > Question is... can I just swap cassettes or do I have hub issues? All
> > advice is appreciated.
>
> Some hubs yes, some hubs no. What is it?
> --
> Andrew Muziwww.yellowjersey.org
> Open every day since 1 April, 1971
The bike is a 1990 Fuji Suncrest. I haven't removed the cassette yet
to eyeball the hub.
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Date: 16 Oct 2007 15:08:07
From: John Everett
Subject: Re: Swapping cassettes
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On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:47:10 -0700, mjhagan@comcast.net wrote:
>On Oct 15, 7:31 pm, A Muzi <a...@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>> mjha...@comcast.net wrote:
>> > I'm restoring a nice old mountain bike. I'd like to change the 7-speed
>> > cassette to an 8-speed (found nice 8-speed shifters at a bike swap).
>> > Question is... can I just swap cassettes or do I have hub issues? All
>> > advice is appreciated.
>>
>> Some hubs yes, some hubs no. What is it?
>> --
>> Andrew Muziwww.yellowjersey.org
>> Open every day since 1 April, 1971
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>The bike is a 1990 Fuji Suncrest. I haven't removed the cassette yet
>to eyeball the hub.
You can eyeball the hub without removing the cassette. I'm guessing
it's a Shimano of some sort and by its age probably a Uniglide
freehub. See Sheldon Brown's cassette web page for compatibility
details:
http://sheldonbrown.com/k7.html
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jeverett3<AT >sbcglobal<DOT>net (John V. Everett)
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Date: 15 Oct 2007 18:31:20
From: A Muzi
Subject: Re: Swapping cassettes
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mjhagan@comcast.net wrote:
> I'm restoring a nice old mountain bike. I'd like to change the 7-speed
> cassette to an 8-speed (found nice 8-speed shifters at a bike swap).
> Question is... can I just swap cassettes or do I have hub issues? All
> advice is appreciated.
>
Some hubs yes, some hubs no. What is it?
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Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971
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