Customer Reviews

SRAM PG950 Bicycle Cassette (9-Speed)

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Got about 2000 outdoor miles on my first one. Replaced it and have 12,000 miles on my second one. Though these are mostly spinning miles. I will buy again.

I am finally retiring my 9 speed SRAM cassette. It is over 5 years old. It has over 12000 miles on it. I don't cross my chain big to big or small to small and keep the chain well lubed, and know how to shift without hammering the piss out of the drivetrain. I hear of chains and cassettes only lasting a couple of thousand miles. I have to laugh. I absolutely am buying another SRAM 9 speed cassette and chain. Oh, the only reason I'm retiring it is because my sonin law disassembled the cassette and one of the spacers disintegrated.

So far works well. Changed out my 53-34 to a compact shimano ultegra crank and this 11-28 cassette. I have ultegra group on my trek. This cassette is much heavier than my ultegra cassette but it has one higher and one lower teeth. The weight is worth it if you are losing it somewhere else. Like when I changed out my crankset I lost it there but gained on the back. The shifting so far is good. It's not a smooth but works.
Can't beat that price.

The 950 came as OE on my recumbent. I have about 900 miles on it. It has often skipped in the middle two cogs, even after adjustments on the barrel adj. Today when I took it off to place it on an new upgraded rear wheel, all the 9 cogs fell apart...and there was a small thin bolt/pin laying by them. "What the hell is this?" Well it goes thru the first 5 or so large cogs, and then screws into the 3rd smallest cog. However there is no way for the average cyclist to do this. It apparently requires a special tool. Looking @ the old wheel I could see where the loose bolt/pin had buggered up three of my spokes near the hub! So I guess it is good I'd decided to upgrade the wheel, as the old wheel with damaged spokes could have been a real probem on the road due to this cheaply made cassette.

Shifted fine for the first month of road riding. Then the chain began skipping over or jumping off the 4th and 8th gear. After replacing it with a Shimano Tiagra cassette I examined the SRAM closely. I found some of the coggs on the SRAM had bent. I'm 6'5" and 240LBS, a klidesdale! Still the cassette should have used a stronger alloy for durability.

I bought this cassette as a replacement to gear up my Trek hybrid. I wish SRAM had a standard cassette 11 - 30, but they don't. The original PG cassette that came with the bike went up to 26, as did the lowest chainring. So I was pulling 1:1 up hills... not a big deal on a bike as light as this one but still, I'm not getting any younger.

Now I have at least a "2 tooth" differential that helps a little bit. Since I replaced one PG cassette with a slightly larger PG cassette there is no discernable difference in performance. Excellence, as usual. Smooth transitions between gears.

Excellent product. Great price. Delivered promptly... excellent service.

I purchased this item online strictly because of the price. The price was right. The product works fine on my bike. It was about half the price of the Shimano cassette it replaces. Not much else to say. The cassette is fully functional.