mech / casstte help

diamondback are not dead
edited June 2007 in MTB workshop & tech
will a sram mech and chain work with a shimano 8spd cassette

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  • as long as the chains 8spd. and its a sram shifter
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    this is not MSM use the edit button.
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  • Simple Jumper
    Simple Jumper Posts: 1,376
    SRAM mechs only work with SRAM shifters, but they will work on a Shimano cassette.

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  • JinjaNinja
    JinjaNinja Posts: 1,033
    <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Simple Jumper</i>

    SRAM mechs only work with SRAM shifters, but they will work on a Shimano cassette.

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    Not quite, SRAM Attack and Rocket shifters will work with Shimano mechs... Tose are the only 2 though.

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  • spikedjack
    spikedjack Posts: 41
    incorrect, sram shifters will work with shimano mechs and vice versa

    you just have to be carefull of which ones as sram often have different pull ratios to standard

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