11 Speed Ultegra & XT 11-40 cassette

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11 Speed Ultegra & XT 11-40 cassette
Nipper99
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My do it all/gravel bike currently has Ultegra hydo shifters and med cage rear mech and an 11 – 32 cassette. Would I be able to run an XT rear cassette on this set up.

With my old 105 10 speed set up it was 11/36 with a 9sp XT rear mech.

Posted 7 years ago

kelvin
Full Member

11spd mtb and road cassette spacing is not the same.
There will be bodges out there, no doubt.

Posted 7 years ago

simondbarnes
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11spd mtb and road cassette spacing is not the same.

Since when? They use a different freehub but AFAIK the spacing between sprockets are identical.

Would I be able to run an XT rear cassette on this set up.

Are you running 1 or 2 chainrings?

Edit : You’ll probably need one of these…
http://www.wolftoothcomponents.com/pages/roadlink-tech-page

Posted 7 years ago

qwerty
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I use an XT cassette on my cross bike, just needed a (? 1.8mm ?) spacer as the road cassette was a tad wider.

Posted 7 years ago

Nipper99
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Thanks Simon – the roadlink looks just the job

Posted 7 years ago

simondbarnes
Full Member

No problem. And as qwerty says, you’ll need a 1.85mm spacer behind the cassette (they generally come with 11spd road/cross wheels)

Posted 7 years ago

fifeandy
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My do it all/gravel bike currently has Ultegra hydo shifters and med cage rear mech and an 11 – 32 cassette. Would I be able to run an XT rear cassette on this set up.

32T is supposed to be the max an ultegra mech can take, you’d need an XT mech as well as the cassette.

Edit: See roadlink edit by simon above

Posted 7 years ago

breatheeasy
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<quote>you’d need an XT mech as well as the cassette.</quote>

But just to point out the XT mech won’t play nicely with the Ultegra shifters so don’t go down this road.

Posted 7 years ago

boblo
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I’ve just done this with a 105 medium cage derailleur and STI’s, an xt 11-40 cassette and a Roadlink. Everything played nicely though I had to reverse the ‘B’ screw to clear the 40 tooth sprocket.

Posted 7 years ago

swanny853
Full Member

Maybe- I stretched a 10s 105 to handle an 11-36 (only rated for 28) but that was 1x. Make sure the mech has the capacity.

If not I can recommend the wolf tooth tanpan plus MTB mech approach. As a nice aside if you pair the 11s tanpan with 11s shifters you can run a 10s MTB mech and cassette- currently a useful way for me to get a bit more use out of the old MTB 10s drivetrain.

Posted 7 years ago

chowsh
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Yes you can with a medium cage derailleur and road link.

Posted 7 years ago