Well if it's shimano it should work with the 11 speed. They are made wider. If memory is correct when I went from 9 to 10 speed I had to add a spacer. I would make sense that removing that spacer now would make room for the 11 speed. You may not have to replace the wheel.
Been wrong before but that is my memory of it. Kelly On Thursday, November 26, 2015 at 11:38:41 AM UTC-6, Kevin Lindsey wrote: > > I'm building a Sam for my wife and bought a complete Shimano 105 11-speed > STI group for it. Without thinking, I ordered a 650B wheel from Rivendell, > only to find that it's a ten-speed hub. Now, I know there are spacing > issues with STI shifters, but I'm wondering what would happen if I simply > removed the biggest gear from the 11-speed cluster and installed it on the > hub. Would the indexed shifting still work? The spacing between the gears > would remain the same and, in theory, I don't see how the transmission > would know the difference. However, I've built up enough bikes in my time > to know that nothing (well, almost nothing) is that simple. Before I have > the local bike shop build me an entirely new 650B 135mm 11-speed wheel > (which, by the way, apparently are only made now for disc brakes), I > thought I'd ping the group and see if anyone has any ideas. > Thanks in advance, > Kevin > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
