What is Hyperglide C?

Shimano uses the trademark “Hyperglide-C” to designate a system with an 11 tooth sprocket. The “C” stands for “compact”. These systems are used with smaller-than-usual chainwheel sizes, or on bicycles that have a small drive wheel, or to achieve higher gears.

How does Shimano Hyperglide work?

Hyperglide is the name given by cycling component manufacturer Shimano to a sprocket design in their bicycle derailleur tooth cassette systems. It varies gear tooth profiles, and/or pins along the faces of freewheel or cassette sprockets, or between the chainrings in a crankset, to ease shifting between them.

How do I know which Shimano freehub I have?

Choosing Your Freehub

Determine the brand: Locate the brand of your existing cassette—most likely it is Shimano, SRAM, or Campagnolo.
For a Campagnolo cassette, choose a Campy freehub.
For a Shimano freehub, count the number of gears on the cassette.
For a SRAM freehub, count the number of gears.

Does Shimano Deore have Hyperglide?

The Deore cassette uses the same Hyperglide+ shifting tech which provides lighting quick shifting under torque both up and down the cassette.

What is Hyperglide plus?

HYPERGLIDE+ HYPERGLIDE+ drivetrain’s redesigned cassette and chain promotes the next generation of MTB riding by enhancing speed, shifting efficiency and smoothness over any terrain.

What is Shimano HG hub?

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.

What is Shimano Hyperglide chain?

Hyper Glide (HG) is Shimano terminology for their system of profiled teeth on their cassettes and chainrings. Technically (according to Shimano), you should only use an HG chain on cassettes and chainrings designed for HG (they also had interglide IG systems and WAY back in the day they had ultraglide UG systems)…

What is Shimano HG freehub?

How do you find out what freehub I have?

To determine if a sprocket is a freewheel or cassette system, remove the rear wheel from the bike. Find the tool fitting on the sprocket set. Spin the sprockets backwards. If the fittings spin with the cogs, it is a cassette system with a freehub.

What is the difference between HG and XD hubs?

Higher-end SRAM 11-speed drivetrains use a special XD freehub but the more affordable SRAM 11-speed groups use a normal HG freehub body. A simple way to tell is to see whether the smallest sprocket on the cassette has 10 or 11 teeth. If it’s got 10T, you need an XD body. If it’s 11T you need HG.

What is Shimano Hyperglide-C?

Sheldon Brown to the rescue: “Shimano uses the trademark “Hyperglide-C” to designate a system with an 11 tooth sprocket. The “C” stands for “compact”. These systems are used with smaller-than-usual chainwheel sizes, or on bicycles that have a small drive wheel, or to achieve higher gears.

What sprockets will fit on a Shimano Hyperglide hub?

Any Shimano Hyperglide cassette with 7 through 10 sprockets will fit any Shimano Hyperglide hub with the following exceptions: 7-speed hubs only accept 7-speed cassettes –though 8 or 9 sprockets can be installed on a 7-speed hub, using 9- or 10-speed spacing.

What does Hyperglide-C mean?

What is a Hyperglide-C cassette?

” Hyperglide-C ” cassettes on conventional bodies. A wobbly cassette may result from a loose lockring, or wear of an early Uniglide hub, but there is another potential cause. Shimano uses the trademark “Hyperglide-C” to designate a system with an 11 tooth sprocket.