Scott, an easy work-around for that is using 10 speed road shifters and 9 speed mountain derailleurs. I'm running that on two bikes. Works 100% perfectly. One bike has 10sp Dura Ace bar ends mated to an old XTR M950 derailleur. The other to an XT M772.
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Scott McLain <scottamcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Be careful going to ten speed. Remember that 9-speed shimano road works > with 9-speed shimano mountain. But with ten speed it does not. I would > stick with 9-speed. If you go to 10-speed mountain cassette, you can use > your same deraileur (probably) but you will need to get the micro-shift > mountain bar ends. This what surly is building their new LHT with. > > There are great youtube videos out there on how to adjust your rear > derailleur. I think your cable just needs adjusted. > > Scott > > On Monday, June 20, 2016 at 4:05:25 PM UTC-6, Michael Hechmer wrote: >> >> Ok, this is a bit off topic, my apologies, but I am perplexed. >> >> I run 9 speed silver friction shifter on all of my bikes except the >> tandem, which has Shimano bar ends. I usually run it in friction, mostly >> because I don't have regular experience with indexing and when they need >> adjustment, I struggle until I say, oh the hell with it. But I have been >> trying to get this indexing right because I am thinking I want to try 10 >> speed on this bike. So here's what's happening. >> >> I can lift the chain from the outside 11 to the inside 28 in consistent >> steps, but when I try to drop the chain it hangs up for an extra click >> right at the start and then jumps across the 12 to the 11 at the end. >> Occasionally, it will jump from the 9 to the 7 position on the second >> click. Everything works OK in friction mode, although the 9 to 8 did seem >> a bit wider, so I tightened the low set screw until the chain would just >> barely reach, then backed it out a couple of degrees. This made no >> difference. It just occurred to me that I have not measured the chain, but >> it's hard to see how that could cause this behavior. >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> Hot, even in VT. >> >> Michael >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/p4Ne75v5T7s/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
