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Also forgot to mention rear is 135, so proper MTB wheels will mostly be 142 these days, and hence not work?
Nope. 135 will exist alongside boost and other propriety standards like AI for a while yet.
The big issue - which I should have flagged up above - is finding factory MTB hubs that take road 11 speed cassettes.
Howard-
The big issue - which I should have flagged up above - is finding factory MTB hubs that take road 11 speed cassettes.
I need a solution for this too, as I've got XT M8000 hubs and a Di2 6870GS mech and just assumed I could get a Shimano 11 speed MTB cassette in 11-32.
All the 11s MTB cassettes seem to have 40t+ dinner plates.
I found "CS-HG800" mentioned at http://productinfo.shimano.com/#/com/1.8?acid=C-253&cid=C-544 but there are no results for HG800 in the product spec section.
Then found one listing for "CS-HG800-11":
https://www.paul-lange.de/shop/de/shimano/11-fach/kassette-cs-hg800-11-fach.html which is 11-34.
Emyr
Thanks all.... good advice on keeping hub identical. The Ines on there at the moment are only Bitex anyway, so not exactly gonna break the bank with another set. Also forgot to mention rear is 135, so proper MTB wheels will mostly be 142 these days, and hence not work? It's looking like original idea of handbuilt is the way to go.
Rear mech is a medium cage. I've had no issues with 50/34 and a 11-28 cassette so far, so am hesitant to get a big cassette for now as it will make changing wheels more of a ball ache, as I amgain 36t would need a much longer chain.
Also got the cables at the front end tidied up, as they were a bit too long and bugging me. The cabling is about as clean as it could be now I think.