Difference between Shimano HG51 8-Speed Cassette and Shimano HG50 8-Speed Cassette

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What is Shimano HG50?

Shimano HG50 8 Speed Cassette, available in 12-25, 13-26, 11-28, 11-30, 11-32 and 11-34 teeth gear ratios. High quality 8-speed cassette. Hyperglide sprockets have a computer designed tooth configuration with contoured shift gates, resulting in a crisp smooth shift even under load.

Are all 8 speed cassettes compatible?

Most Shimano-compatible freewheel bodies accept 8-speed cassettes.. Note the following exceptions: Aluminum 10-speed freehub bodies with taller splines work only with 10-speed sprockets. The wider 8-speed cassette does not fit on the narrower 7-speed body.

Are SRAM and Shimano 8 speed cassettes interchangeable?

In some cases, it is possible to run a cassette from a different brand than the rest of your drivetrain. SRAM and Shimano cassettes, on either road or mountain bike, are interchangeable with each other as the spacing is the same between the sprockets.

What does CS mean on Shimano cassette?

I am looking at getting a new bike, and am trying to figure out what the shimano abbreviations for cassettes actually stand for. Their cassettes are broken into two groups, CS and MF. The CS has a free body hub, and the MF has a screw on type cassette (my favorite type).
Oct 28, 2018

Are all Shimano cassettes compatible?

All Shimano and SRAM cassettes up to 10 speed are broadly compatible. They all use Shimano’s Hyperglide II freehub body spline pattern. Cassettes with the same number of sprockets have the same sprocket spacing, sprocket width and overall width.
Feb 7, 2020

Are Freehubs interchangeable?

Most Shimano Freehub bodies are interchangeable.

What cassettes fit Shimano Micro Spline?

Currently, Shimano only use Micro Spline for their mountain bike cassettes; namely, the XTR M9100, Deore XT M8100 and the SLX M7100, with the 10-tooth top cog.
Apr 20, 2020

What is Shimano HG?

HG (Hyper-Glide) HG, short for ‘HyperGlide’, is the most common and traditional freehub body design available. Created by Shimano, it is the standard used for cassettes that have at least an 11-tooth cog as the smallest cog on the cassette. HG Specific cassettes are available in 8,9,10, and 11speed options.
Jun 26, 2019

Is an 11 34 cassette good for climbing?

All other things being equal, the 34T sprocket on the 11-34T cassette is going to give you the easiest gear. If your bike is currently fitted with an 11-28T cassette, switching to an 11-34T cassette will make climbing less of a struggle.
Dec 6, 2016

Does the number of teeth on a cassette matter?

The tooth count does not matter, but the cassette on the trainer may be in slightly different position in relation to the derailleur than the cassette on your wheel. This is true even if they were the exact same cassette.
Mar 2, 2021

Are all freewheels interchangeable?

No, freewheels are completely different from the cassette / free hub system and are not interchangeable. A freewheel includes the ratchet mechanism that allows the sprockets to rotate backwards as well as the sprockets themselves, and threads into the hub.
Oct 21, 2019

Can I use a 105 cassette with tiagra?

If you go for Tiagra you can’t upgrade to 105 one component at a time because 10-speed and 11-speed drivetrain components aren’t interchangeable. You’d have to upgrade most of the groupset components at once for optimum performance.
May 15, 2021

Are 7 and 8 speed cassettes interchangeable?

7-speed cassettes fit fine on 8- and 9-speed (and most 10-speed) hubs if you put a 4.5 mm spacer onto the body before the cassette.

Will 8 speed cassette work with 9 speed hub?

Yes. 8 and 9 speed cassettes are interchangeable.
Aug 13, 2010

Will 8 speed chain work with 9 speed cassette?

As for using an 8 speed chain on a 9 speed cassette, it is less than optimal. You might get lucky and it will work acceptably with some parts combinations. But it is the wrong part, no way around it. The chain is too wide and will tend to make noise, run rough and stick between the sprockets.
Apr 24, 2020

Can I put a bigger cassette on my bike?

Yes, almost any bike is compatible with bigger cassettes, bike drivetrain is groupset of components that works in perfect harmony, any miss reconfiguring can break the perfect functionality of the system, parts that need to be changed and reconfigured when putting bigger cassette which is long-chain, wide cage

Which cassette is best for climbing hills?

Your best bet, especially if you’re a slightly heavier cyclist and you have trouble keeping up on hills, is to install a rear cassette that has a large cog size of 34 or 36. With that option available for climbing, those ascents will be much easier to handle.
Sep 9, 2020

Is an 11 34 cassette good for climbing?

All other things being equal, the 34T sprocket on the 11-34T cassette is going to give you the easiest gear. If your bike is currently fitted with an 11-28T cassette, switching to an 11-34T cassette will make climbing less of a struggle.
Dec 6, 2016