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  • Speeds are dictated by the shifters with Sram. You can use 10 or 11 speed mechs for either. Match the levers and the cassette.
    If you have 10 speed wheels and 11 speed levers, I can't help you

  • speeds are dictated by the shifters with Sram.

    Yes and no. I think they changed the geo of the 11 speed mechs to match the gaps in the 11 speed blocks.

    The shifters pull the same amount of cable [exact actuation] , ten or eleven speed, for each click.

    But plug them in to an 11 speed mech and the amount it moves will be different to the same shifters plugged in to an ten speed mech.

    Obvs with a ten speed block and mech you'll have a spare shift that you'll need to absorb with limit screws.

    @jon. - plug it in to a ten speed mech.

  • Can't find the link now but there was a handy article of someone mixing and matching all aspects of 10 and 11 speed components. What you said makes sense though so now I'm confused

  • @jon. - plug it in to a ten speed mech.

    Could also break an 11 speed sram road cassette, do away with the biggest cog, effectively making it a 10 with 11 speed spacing, right?

  • I don't think that's correct, not with their road stuff anyway. I'm running a 10 spd rear derailleur with 11spd everything else and it works perfectly. The geo of the derailleurs are the same.

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