Hyperglide

Shimano 8-speed cassette showing the Hyperglide teeth profiles

Hyperglide is the name given by cycling component manufacturer Shimano to a sprocket design in their bicycle derailleur tooth cassette systems.[1] 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.

  1. ^ Sam Tracy (2012). Bicycle!: A Repair and Maintenance Manifesto. PM Press. p. 135. ISBN 9781604866407.