Forgot about the M950/M952 distinction. For some reason I always think the first Olympic XC was on 9 speed.
I don't consider the 10s groupsets to be the same MY, they were available exactly a year apart. Like I said, same this time.
This thread got me thinking I might go 2x11 when I rebuild my bike with XTR cassette and shifters. I then checked the price of the 11sp XTR cassette compared to the 10sp XT and realised 2x10 will be just fine.
[i]This thread got me thinking I might go 2x11 when I rebuild my bike with XTR cassette and shifters. I then checked the price of the 11sp XTR cassette compared to the 10sp XT and realised 2x10 will be just fine. [/i]
It was riding a demo Orange 5 (1x10 c/w Hope T-Rex) that made me realise that while I'd 'decided' that my next bike would be 1x11, in reality it didn't need to be.
Since bought a FS and put 1x10 on with a Hope 30T front and 40T T-Rex works great and will be far cheaper to run (based on destroying 3 rear mechs in 2 years along with wearing out couple of cassettes per year and many chains).
AlexSimon - MemberThey would have to launch a new rear mech and then you'd get all sorts of incompatibilities that they'd have to explain.
Nah, the standard mech actually works almost well enough- it'd only take a small tweak and it's pretty likely they could just run the entire line like that rather than having parallel models. But at worse it'd be no more confusing than short and long cages (which they make more confusing than it should be with their secret codes)
I don't consider the 10s groupsets to be the same MY, they were available exactly a year apart. Like I said, same this time.
Nope, second half of 2010 for all 3 of them...
Edit: although that was the old groupsets, they revamped the groups in 2012, but they were 10 speed before.
