10 Speed

Yeti Baz

Hi all,

Currently building a Yeti 575 and I really fancy the new 10 speed system from shimano, but have a few queries that i'm hoping someone could answer on here!

Would I have to use a shimano chainset? As I would prefer to keep my Raceface Atlas cranks and us 2 rings with bashguard

Leads me nicely onto my other query, what would be the best chainring size, cassette to go with? I very rarely use my granny ring on a triple setup hence wanting to move to a double setup, but at the same time don't want to be spinning the cranks to much when flying downhill

Would I just be better off sticking 9 speed???!

Any help would be most appreciated

nicklouse

have a read first,
http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12733834

njee20

You'll be fine with your existing chainset. Nominally 10 speed rings are slightly thinner, in practice they'll work just fine.

You may as well have the 11-36 cassette, or there's very little point in going 10 speed. Chain ring choice is very personal. I ran 28/42 last year, and going 36t single ring for next season. 26/39 is SRAMs more 'trail bike' friendly ratios!

VinceCable

Ive just bought the Anthem X1 2011 with the shimano 10 speed set up, its great - the thing I notice the most is that the gears are a lot closer together and a lot smoother.
42/32/24 - 11/36

I am having a bit of an issue in that the lowest gear is higher that what I am used to but other than that I am v happy with it.

The Rookie

VC, looking at your other post, your lowest gear on the Anthm is lower than it was before - DOH

Simon

VinceCable

The Beginner wrote:

VC, looking at your other post, your lowest gear on the Anthm is lower than it was before - DOH

Simon

yeh i'm seeing that replied to your post

cavegiant

I speculate that 10 speed will cause grief as the chains are getting too thin (why did we even move to 9 speed?) faster wearing rings as well!

I will not be going ten speed for a while!