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10-speed can catch you out with the spendiness quite quickly if you’re not careful.
Shimano has the issue that 10-speed road and mtb are not cross-compatible so you’ll have to commit to one and accept that only the cassette will be able to be used with road stuff if you ever want to share parts later. Shimano MTB stuff looks great these days but it ain’t cheap. The road flat bar shifters are a bit pony looking unless you shell out for R780 and you’ve got the issue that they’ve just changed their shift ratios to match 11-speed so you need to make sure you get the right ones.
SRAM X7 and Rival 10-speeds are both the same shift ratio (Exact Actuation) so will work each other - I’ve just done that with my GT. Got to say the X7 shifts really nicely and looks good IMO. I’ve also got the classic carbon X0 9-speed which looks really cool but doesn’t shift anywhere near as nicely. My NIB old stock shifters were about £35 and a VGC secondhand derailleur will set you back about the same again.
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After a sweet ride in the country on my lht today I’m really keen to get this going...
Looking at the partial shimano 10sp groups on eBay but can’t see many 1x chainset options that aren’t big money. Should I be looking at sram too? Could prob stretch to £150 if needs be for a full group.