Quote Originally Posted by Thorn View Post
The circle of plastic or metal that sits between the largest gear in your rear sproket and the spokes. The purpose, I believe, is to prevent the chain from dropping into the spokes if you overshift.

I have yet to remove my dork disc. Maybe if I get a Seven, I'd feel different, but mine doesn't make any noise. There was a previous thread that talked about cutting it off. I'm so mechanically dis-inclined I'd probably succeed in cutting a spoke.
You don't have to cut off the dork disk. That's really dorky. Just remove the cluster and the disk should just come off.

Speaking of which, one of the fuuniest sight I've seen over the years back in the days of freewheels. A FRED was happily riding his bike, it was making some fuuny sound as he rode. It was sounding rather odd, so I rode next to him for a while listening and looking for the sound. The smallest cogs screwed into the rest of the freewheel body and it had unscrewed itself. So there it was two sets of cogs just dangling on the skewer... It turns out he never rode in the smallest of cogs. The four lowest gears were fine. Top two was unusable in that state.