VG SPORTS 8/9/10/11/12 Speed Ultra-Light Bike Cassette for Mountain Bike 11-40T/11-42T/11-46T/11-50T/11-52T MTB Cassette Lightweight Aluminum Bracket Cassette

Had to piece together a bike and needed a 10 speed cassette. The purple rainbow color matches the bike detailing and accents, but costs a fraction of what a name brand version would cost. For my purposes, this will work great.The finish of the HG lock nut was kind of an odd chrome plated metal, so I ended up using a nut from the old cassette - something about it didn't seem trustworthy.I am noticing that around gear 4-6, the bike doesn't like shifting and requires you to shift 2 gears, then back one. (In either direction, which is odd). I don't know if this is the cassettes fault, or a setup/tuning problem, or my shifter. Just something to be aware of.In short, for an around town bike, I highly recommend. If you plan on crushing a a hundred mile ride, maybe this will survive, maybe it won't...🤷

I bought this inexpensive 11-46 11 speed cassette to see if I could use a 46 tooth large gear with my SRAM Rival 1 long cage. By adjusting the “b” screw, I was able to make it work but I had to add a spacer behind (between the cassette and the wheel) the cassette in order for the cassette to fit tightly and not have some slack between the gears. Once I did that, I was able to get into the 46 gear and up and down the gears. It is still a bit sloppy but that might be because I really don’t know how to fine-tune the shifting using the “h”, “l” and “b” screws and the barrel adjuster. But I am able to run from 11 to 46 and back down again, so for an inexpensive cassette, I am so far pleased. FWIW, only one ride so far, but did 20 miles and over 2,000 feet of climbing, with grades up to 15%.

This is the third cassette I've purchased from VG sports and they have all worked very well.These larger versions have aluminum spiders to save weight.The shifting is accurate and although not quite as smooth as the Shimano cassettes I've used, it's at least on par with the SRAM cassettes I have.So far I've put a few hundred miles on each cassette and they're holding up well. I've not seen any unusually deformation of the teeth from chain load and I haven't had any of them bend. Although I have been riding for a really long time and am not prone to missing or forcing shifts.I really appreciate the fact that I'm able to buy cassettes in tooth/cog combinations that were never offered by the big brands.

I’m doing a 1X bike conversion. I wanted to use an 11-40T cassette, but it seemed I could only find 11-42T. The more well-known brand was out of stock on the 11-40T. I settled on ordering this one, because I needed it now. There’s an old saying that you get what you pay for. In this case, I don’t think I got what I paid for, because while slightly lower priced, this cassette was not inexpensive. Yet, when I received it and looked it over, the plating looked like what I see on cheap products covering bad steel that breaks. Appearance: The red anodization on the spiders was flaked-off in several places. Installation: The first problem was putting it on my gravel bike wheel’s rear HG Shimano-style hub. This hub is compatible with 10/11 speed cassettes. When installing a 10-speed cassette on an 11-speed hub, because the 10-speed cassette is narrower than an 11 speed, according to the industry standard for a Shimano freehub, 2.8mm of spacers are needed before the cassette goes on (this is typically a 1.8mm specific HG hub spacer followed by a 1mm spacer). Spacers are needed to allow the rear derailleur to shift the chain properly, especially at the derailleur’s top and low limits (cogs 10 and 1). I installed the two spacers first and then placed the cogs. The cogs were grouped together oddly and fit together oddly, especially the small 10 cog (yes, I place it on the correct side). I put on the lock-ring and found that it would not fit. I used my cassette installation tool to really push down on the lock-ring; it started to tighten, but I could not get it to torque spec. I took off the cassette and removed the 1mm spacer, leaving only the 1.8mm spacer (some have said that was all they needed). I reinstalled the cassette and was able to tighten the lock-ring to Shimano’s torque spec. I installed a rear derailleur extender, a Shimano 105 5700 10-speed rear derailleur and a properly sized new KMC 10-speed chain, and then installed the rear wheel. I made sure the derailleur extender and the derailleur were aligned correctly. Performance: No matter what I did, I just couldn’t get the derailleur to shift smoothly on the cassette. I took off the chain and checked the derailleur’s top and low adjustments—both fine. I checked the chain line. I tightened; I loosened the derailleur’s cable tension. My friend who is a professional bike mechanic helped troubleshoot. We could get it to shift down through all the cogs from the 10 cog to the 1 cog, but could not get it to shift up from 1 to 10 without having it often skip cogs two at a time. Even the downshifting was not consistently smooth. It was often noisy. We gave up. Possible problems: We think the cassette is too wide, thus it cannot use the specified 2.8mm in spacers. As a result, it’s not correctly positioned on the hub for correct shifting. Upon close inspection, it appears the spacers installed between the cassette’s cogs are of an inconsistent width; some appear wider spaced than others. This surely affects shifting and could account for the cassette’s width being off. I and my mechanic friend put a lot of time into trying to get this to work. It’s bad engineering, bad design and bad manufacturing. I sent it back for a refund. Postscript: I ordered a cassette from another better-known manufacturer. It installed correctly with 2.8mm of spacers. After installation, it shifted up and down smoothly and without skipping with only a few minor tweaks to cable extension and one to the top limit.

I bought this to replace a trashed XT cassette....1) it's half the price. 20it comes in groovy colors. 3)Lots of products are made in the same factory as name brands, but sold under the "generic" name for less money, so I figured I'd give it a shot. I'm a larger human that rides my bikes hard...lots of popping, jumping, tossing the bike around...my chains will generally last 1-5 months before it snaps. Teeth on chain rings get broken, and small cogs on cassettes tend to wear out. The XT smallest cog was spinning freely til I did a garage "fix" then the derailleur snapped and the cassette and a couple things got torn up.When i got this cassette my first look and it looks very similar to the XT.I"ve ridden it maybe 30 miles so far...some town riding(includes heavy torque and jumping over things, and a good trail ride). So far..shifting is good...no slips..nothing broken. If this gives me 6 months of my riding then I'll be very happy and buy another!