92gli said:
Thanks for waving your finger at me like a child. I appreciate your crusade, we all need something to cling to. Once again you grab the pic off sheldon brown's site but you still haven't explained to anyone how that cassette body is functionally DESTROYED. It may be cosmetically damaged but from what I can see a solid 75% of the width of those splines is intact and still attached to the body, so what again are we talking about ? I have a DT 240 on a friends bike right now that I had an lx cassette on for 4 years. It didn't look that bad (mostly because mine was clean and not filthy for drama's sake), but it was similar. I filed down the gouges and his Xt cassette slid right on. He's been riding it for a few months now on his trainer with no complaints.
I wave my finger because you are giving bogus advice. You are giving advice based on
ONE experience, not many years of experience with many, many hubs. The photo is a perfectly good example from Sheldon Brown, whom by the way would have (if he were still alive) more experience than almost everyone on MTBR. You are going to run into several problems. First off, getting the cassette off the FH body when it needs to be replaced (BTW-if you had a LX cassette on your bike for 4 years...you don't ride much). Once it digs into the splines, it can be a b!tch to remove. I removed several for customers over the years after they gave up. Continuing to then run the cassette will further cut into the splines until they go thru them thus destroying the FH Body. Yes, you were able to file down the gouges and put the
PROPER cassette on and salvage the FH Body. This is what I often did for customers too...it's called corrective action.
But if your so confident that you can run lower cassettes...why don't you remove that XT and put another lower end cassette on and get back to us in four years
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