When putting power down the chain skips and won’t stay in gear, I’ve adjusted the shifting a lot, then discovered the play in the cassette after it started getting worse
Is the hub cooked or do I just need to tighten the cassette?
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by WhatIsOatmeal222
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I’d see if you can tighten the lockring, but if not it’s not exactly the hub bearings, more likely your freehub is shot. Sometimes it’s possible to replace just that part, but in my experience it more often than not means new wheel time.
Your cassette lock ring needs to be tightened
You’d have to take the wheel off to diagnose. Chain skipping could be a separate problem if your chain is just old and stretched too thin, or your cassette is too worn. The wobble could mean the cassette is loose, or the freehub is worn or come loose. Freehubs are usually an hour of labor for a bike shop. Some might be ok to DIY that job, but wheel internals is pushing it.
as someone else mentioned. looks like loose cassette. If you tighten that and its still messing about…time for some new parts probably.
Also, cassette may need a spacer for it to fit on hub correctly
Thanks everyone, going to bike shop tomorrow for a tool to tighten the cassette lock ring (don’t have one with me as I’m at college)