Need input from SRAM Red cassette users
 

Hi all. Now that I can get live.com to work, I am thinking about buying a cassette for my dedicated race wheels. Two questions:
1) Anyone experience freehub body gouging with the Red cassette? I have read that it may be likely.
2) Will the weight savings (Red vs. Force) be unimportant, given that the cassette is at the wheel's center rather than at it's perimeter (rim)?

Thanks in advance.

1) The Red cassettes I have don't gouge freehub bodies at all. Zero. Zilch. None. I'm coming up on 1yr/thousands of miles of using the Red cassettes.
2) Weight is never completely unimportant... but it isn't super important when talking about a cassette.

Yeah, I'm just wondering if the weight savings is worth the extra $$$, even at eBay prices.
Thanks for the input, BD.

An additional data point: The cassettes still show virtually no signs of wear. I do cycle 3 chains on a monthly basis, though, which may help.

I think the belief that WHERE weight is located matters has been proven false.

I disagree.

I find that the fact most of the weight is located on my fat ass matters a lot.

I'll give that a +1.

No gouging, and weight is weight. As for durability, my cassette developed some kind of warp that I've been meaning to contact SRAM about...

your Red cassette warped?

I think that means there's too much wattage in your cottage.

Confirmed.

:roflmao2:

fyi, umd I was totally effing with you in the PM i sent.......

I know :thumb:

just making sure you didn't get your chamois in a bunch.

Nah, was working on a new thread

gouging usually occurs on alloy cassette bodies. I doubt it would have anything to do with the cassette unless your cassette was made of equally soft material.

No, the question was whether the red cassette gouges the cassette bodies. The design of the red cassette makes gouging less likely.

No problems with my Red cassette on a Mavic Ksyrium ES freehub body so far. :thumb:

Thread closure: I bought an 11-26 Red cassette for my race wheels. Brand new from eBay when Live.com was doing a 30% kickback, so my net price was $115 delivered.

Got it mounted and took it for a ride today. Contrary to some 'net stories, it actually seems quieter than my Force cassette. Shifts nicely, too. I like.

Thanks, all, for the advice.

mine runs quiet but shifts loudly, compared to the 1070 cassettes