BBB cassettes opinions

[Nigelnaturist]

As it says, anyone with any experience of them, read a few unfavourable reviews.

 

[HarryTheDog]

Once bought one with bigger than normal largest sprocket one for my son to do the kentish killer sportive with, he is a 14 stone power lifter, going up the big hills on the largest cog it was making pinging noises. The largest sprocket was a little bit bent by the end. It got thrown in the bin. NB the chain was the right length, bending not caused by too tight a chain.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I am looking for smaller cogs, but your experience seems to backup what else I have been reading, the problem I have is that 10sp the three lowest cogs are on a spider, 9sp and below I used to make up my own ratios.

 

[HarryTheDog]

Is it campag you are after? I know more about shimano but I thought the Veloce Cassettes were all individual from what I can remember on cleaning one. I just looked at a campag spare catalog and no veloce cassette spares listed, looks like they do a centaur version that only pairs the last 2 cogs ( 21-23, 23-25,23-26 or 26-29) another centaur version and other versions of ghibli all seem to stick the last 3 together. When
I was in Holland 3 years ago ( Assen) I went into a bike shop which had a massive table of campag individual sprockets of all different sizes and version where you made your own, pity the dam shop wasn't here. It was useful for all the kids different cassette restrictions for racing.

 

[the_mikey]

I've had mixed experiences with BBB 9 speed Shimano cassettes, I had difficulty indexing gears with one cassette, but immediately replaced with another cassette purchased at the same time at the same store worked perfectly. I suspect there's not much quality control at wherever these cassettes are being made, rather than any particular problem with the cassettes themselves.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@HarryTheDog no its Shimano I am after, I have an idea for the future, but not sure if it will work, which is an 11-21 on 24/36/48, the only thing I am not certain will work is the 24th inner I know my 26-38-50 works with a 12-27, but I find the 38th 24-27 on the low side, also the 17-19 jump is none to nice, I am not certain if the 5703 FD will go as low as a 24th inner ring, if it does and it works, it will give a 30-115" range in almost single tooth ratios. same as a 50-34 11-30 (not that I can see one, 11-32) as you can imagine as I hate the thought of the 17-19 gap, you can imagine the I wouldn't like the bigger gaps, so I am looking into ways to get the range, with close ratios.
@the_mikey thanks for the input. I did read people had difficulty with indexing then switched to a shimano one and it was spot, again this is backing up what I have read.

 

[HarryTheDog]

11-21 ,might be hard to source, I looked at Miche who do individual shimano + campag sprockets and spacers and do a largest sprocket of 21.
http://www.miche.it/en/catalogo/catalogo-miche/pignoni/pignoni-primato-10-sh
Dont have much of a clue about their quality. Also I dont know where you could order the individual parts from maybe them direct as they have individual prices for each part. I dont know if the 5703 FD will go as low as a 24th inner ring

 

[Smokin Joe]

11-21 ,might be hard to source, I looked at Miche who do individual shimano + campag sprockets and spacers and do a largest sprocket of 21.
http://www.miche.it/en/catalogo/catalogo-miche/pignoni/pignoni-primato-10-sh
Dont have much of a clue about their quality. Also I dont know where you could order the individual parts from maybe them direct as they have individual prices for each part. I dont know if the 5703 FD will go as low as a 24th inner ring

I used a Miche Campag compatible cassette once. I wouldn't do it again, the shifting was not nearly as good. Cassettes are the one thing where I'd avoid the budget look a likes.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@HarryTheDog I know upto 19 is easy enough mix two cassettes starting with the 11, so 11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19, its above that thats a problem, as you know, suppose I could get a 21 from the Cs6700 12-30, but its getting expensive the only way I can see it is three cassettes.
@Smokin Joe if all these independents are so bad how come they are in business.

 

[Smokin Joe]

@HarryTheDog I know upto 19 is easy enough mix two cassettes starting with the 11, so 11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19, its above that thats a problem, as you know, suppose I could get a 21 from the Cs6700 12-30, but its getting expensive the only way I can see it is three cassettes.
@Smokin Joe if all these independents are so bad how come they are in business.

Because their stuff works, but in my experience not as well as the originals they are copied from.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

With out checking price there isn't much in price between them.

 

[fossyant]

Sram cassettes are fine, and generally lighter than the similar spec Shimano

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Sram cassettes are fine, and generally lighter than the similar spec Shimano

Still on a spider at the low end, some are, I will see if I can find some docs on them, I did once get an exploded diagram of the cassettes, but I can't remember which ones.
It seems like shimano the lower three are on a spider, might be easier doing it on a 9sp starting at 12, a 48x12 is 105" same as a 52x13, can get a variate of cassettes pretty cheaply and mix and match.