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Can't find answer to this one on google.
Got shiny new 11speed Shimano 105 group set for the road bike. Just realised my existing wheels have hub which won't take 11speed road cassette (it's an MTB hub).
So the expensive option is new hub or wheels.
Or will an 11sp MTB cassette work with the 105 rear mech?
It can be made to work if you add something like a woolftooth roadlink...
https://www.wolftoothcomponents.com/products/roadlink
Do you really want a 40t cassette on a road bike?
edit: only with a 10t difference between front chainrings though
Is the hub Hope, and can it take a 40T freehub if so?
There's a version of the 40T freehub with a deeper pocket that takes 11sp road (and needs a 1.5mm spacer for any MTB cassette)
If this is an option it's probably your best answer.
Ah hadn't thought about the very big cog on mtb cassette. Only need 34t max and think that's max for rear mech anyway. Just trying to find a solution that avoids new hub wheels or rear mech
And the main issue is the hub it's not deep enough to accept 11sp road cassette, that's the problem I'm trying to get round.
I just grind the ends of the splines down until the cassette goes on. Depending on the metal its a few minutes a spline with a file. Done half a dozen now.
The inner bit of the high spline I mean just leaving enough to stop the cassette binding on the hub. If you want to go back to 10 speed an old 15t 10 speed sprocket is the prefect spacer.
yeh, piece of piss mate. Just take a cog + spacer out of the middle of the cassette; something like the 16t.
Set your limit screws on the mech so you can't over shift, and bobs your uncle. You'll only have ten gears on the back, but who GIS!
Yeah 10sp per David sounds a plan. Cheers
what hub is it?
Drop a sprocket and run it 10 speed with a spacer and limit screws.
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