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To keep your bike fully functional, you should clean the cassette regularly. You only need a few tools and a little patience to make your bike fit for spring. In this article, we explain how to clean the cassette properly.
Instructions: Cleaning the bike cassette
To ensure that the components of your bicycle last a long time and function fully, it pays to clean them regularly. Here’s how to clean the cassette from your bike properly:
- Disassemble the rear wheel by shifting to the smallest sprocket, releasing the brake and quick release and pulling the wheel out downwards.
- Take a chain cleaner and apply it to the sprocket and the gaps.
- Let the cleaner work for a while to loosen the coarse dirt on the cassette.
- Now wipe the sprockets with a cloth to remove any dirt.
- Use an old toothbrush to clean the spaces between the sprockets again.
Tip: Remove and clean cassette on bike
If you want to clean the bicycle cassette even more thoroughly, you can remove it first to get to the components better.
- Use a sprocket puller to open the end ring of the sprocket set and thus remove the cassette from the bicycle.
- Use a coarse brush and some citrus cleaner to clean the cassette.
- Lay the sprockets down in the correct order when cleaning so that you have an easier time installing them.
- After cleaning all the sprockets, put them back on the freewheel and tighten the end ring to about 40 Nm.
