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according to ask1974 looking back a month he had his lovely orange five fitted with an xtr 2x10 chainset, yet when ive emailed orange before and it also states on their site that you cant run 2x10 xt/xtr chainsets on a five?
i have emailed ask1974 to find out a bit more, whether his LBS did something special to make it work etc...
ill be pretty miffed if it does work as ive just recently acquired 3x10 chainset and i desperately wanted to do 2x10 but was told otherwise from the brand themself?
any ideas?
You run into problems with the big ring hitting the swingarm/pivot without changing the chainline considerably (36t middle ring is periously close on a dbl/bash)
I asked Orange a few weeks back they said 34-32 is about the max you can run on a double as the chain may foul the swing arm, 36 was almost impossible with a normal 50mm chain line, apparently depends on the tolerance of the frame.
You skiving Mr M?
You shouldn't have a problem.
Just remove the outer and middle and replace with bash and 34t-36t nine speed ring.
I converted my 3X10 770 XT cranks to double and bash with 36/24 rings on my 2011 five with zero issues.
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I've been happily running a double and bash on my '09 Five since new without any issues.
Have run both Middleburn RS8 And XT with 36T.
I've also been using a BB mounted stinger with the XT but as that just replaces the spacer, that shouldn't make any difference.