Wanted: Octalink 10-speed crankset

Posted on Fri 7th, April 2017

• #1

hard.hat

preferably compact
• #2

Mechy
I have a 105 chainset 53/39T FC 5501 172.5mm - £20

1 Attachment
• #3

Mr_Bump

Shimano didn't produce a road '10 speed'/compact Octalink chainset, by the time 10 speed came along they went to external bearing BBs and the only Shimano compact Octalink is the 'new' 8 speed Claris. It should work but you'll need to check the BB lengths to the one you presumably already have. Ritchey did produce Octalink compact c/sets but no idea what spindle length they used.
Other alternate is using a shimano MTB crank but the pull ratio of the derailleurs won't match Road STIs. If you're friction shifting then that's not an issue.
• #4

cybernck

One can use "9 speed" chainset with 10-speed system no probs. No compact version though, as it has been mentioned. But you can use Hollowtech 2 chainset on your frame too.
• #5

hard.hat in reply to @Mr_Bump

Thanks for the info, that clears up a lot I wasn't sure about. I'll either wait* for a Ritchey WCS frankest to crop up on eBay or I'll buy a new bottom bracket then.

Post a reply
- Bold
- Italics
- Link
- Image
- List
- Quote
- code
- Preview
Formatting Help

Don't worry about formatting, just type in the text and we'll take care of making sense of it. We will auto-convert links, and if you put asterisks around words we will make them bold.

Tips:

Create headers by underlining text with ==== or ----

To *italicise* text put one asterisk each side of the word

To **bold** text put two asterisks each side of the word

Embed images by entering:
![](https://www.google.co.uk/images/srpr/logo4w.png)
That's the hard one: exclamation, square brackets and then the URL to the image in brackets.

* Create lists by starting lines with asterisks

1. Create numbered lists by starting lines with a number and a dot

> Quote text by starting lines with >

Mention another user by @username

For syntax highlighting, surround the code block with three backticks:

```
Your code goes here
```
Just like Github, a blank line must precede a code block.

If you upload more than 5 files we will display all attachments as thumbnails.

For a full reference visit the Markdown syntax.