How to remove, and mount, a cassette, or a freewheel

Tools needed, and instructions how to remove, and mount a bicycle cassette (freehub), or a freewheel.
Table of CONTENTS:
00:00 Introduction - why remove a cassette?
01:46 Freehub vs Freewheel + Uniglide
03:55 Tools for freewhels and freehubs
05:58 Removing a freewheel
08:38 Mounting a freewheel
10:12 Removing a freehub cassette
14:02 Mounting a freehub cassette
19:30 Tightening torque
Useful LINKS:
If you have any questions, please use the BikeGremlin forum (I try to respond to every comment, but KZbin sucks at notifications, especially when it comes to any follow-up questions):
www.bikegremlin.net/
Cassette mounting - spacers:
• Mounting a cassette on...
Unior 1670.5/4 cassette lockring tool (Amazon affiliate link):
amzn.to/32m8tUO
Mounting (anti-seize) pastes:
bike.bikegremlin.com/7172/ant...
When to replace a chain (when is a chain worn):
bike.bikegremlin.com/733/chan...
Freehub vs Freewheel:
bike.bikegremlin.com/199/bicy...
Rear sprockets explained:
bike.bikegremlin.com/209/bicy...
Cassette (and freewheel) standards:
bike.bikegremlin.com/3573/bic...
Rear hub compatibility:
bike.bikegremlin.com/1259/bic...
List of all the BikeGremlin videos, sorted by categories:
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Camera: Gox, the pale witcher :)
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If you have any questions, please use the BikeGremlin forum (I try to respond to every comment, but KZbin sucks at notifications, especially when it comes to any follow-up questions): www.bikegremlin.net/ Relja

[@jamespickering9961]

Brilliant video, nice to understand the different types, well explained. Thank you! Also nice relaxed style makes it super easy to understand

[@PW-CreakySaddle]

Watched all of this. very well presented and practical advice. Thank you.

[@saidelbelghiti1655]

Thank you that's really helpful you are a great teacher

[@wyattsdad8561]

It totally worked for me! 😃Thank you so much for taking your time to make this video. I even did the vise trick. I had first tried it without using my vise and it was so tight that I was worried I’d either break the tool (that i got from Amazon) or break my knuckles on the hub and sprockets. So I did what you demonstrated and it worked great! Even when using the vise and the wheel for leverage, it felt extremely tight. I had my 10 year old son hang out with me and work on it with me because i wanted him to learn about working on his bike. It was a fun thing to do together. And he enjoyed working on it together too. So I just wanted to make sure to thank you again for giving us something to do together and explaining the proper way to remove one of these. You’re awesome man.

[@BikeGremlinUS]

This was very nice and heart-warming to read. Thank you. :) I used to fix stuff with my father all the time, and have some great memories for life. Relja

[@danashe2675]

Great Video,great tips easy to understand, also enjoyed the flint-stones clip art-frames, as I am from the old school,it is a very good Tutorial ,NO PERSON CAN GO WRONG IF FOLLOW THROUGH THESE STEPS.

[@BikeGremlinUS]

Thanks. :) Nice to see another Flintstones fan. :)

[@owenbruce4120]

Thanks...great info 👍

[@lloydsplace101]

good video. I've been trying to remove my cassette from my 84 rossi that I'm refurbishing.

[@ramnaracemotilal265]

Question:can a mountain bike magrim ring nut be removed?

[@BikeGremlinUS]

I don't know what a "magrim ring nut" is.

[@ramnaracemotilal265]

@@BikeGremlinUS ok its the part on which the sprocket is screwed onto in a non-casette, old style hub.

[@BikeGremlinUS]

@@ramnaracemotilal265 All such hubs I've seen had the cassette mounting threads cut into the hub's body - not a removable part (as far as I know).

[@ramnaracemotilal265]

@@BikeGremlinUS but freehubs, i.e. the cassette style hubs can be disassembled down to the nut (ringnut) on which the freehub is screwd into, and on which the cassette's are mounted, correct?

[@BikeGremlinUS]

​@@ramnaracemotilal265 Yes - freehub can be removed and disassembled.

[@noureddinebennasria7522]

Speak little Bit slowly , so People dosn' t speack verry wel englech kan olso follow you yours steps. Good luck to you

[@BikeGremlinUS]

Thanks. :) If it helps: Automatically generated subtitles for English can be turned on. Also, playback speed can be set to 0.75 or even 0.5 for any KZbin video (the voice is a bit deeper, but it's definitely slower).

[@legendalegenda3690]

Ja sam proba freewheel skinut i sad veceno silom ali nece

[@BikeGremlinUS]

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