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My mates looking for a new triple chainset for his 9 speed SLX shifters/cassette.
Is there any compatability issues if he sticks a 10 speed SLX triple on?
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Thanks for the detailed reply! 🙂
My road 10spd (double) chainset running with 9spd everywhere else does have a niggling issue. in little little the chain rubs against the outer ring and occasionally tries to upshift when the shifting pins catch it. I presume 10spd chains are narrower so the rings aren't as "offset" as 9spd and closer to the centreline. (I got the chainset a while ago and ran my old 9spd rings on it for a while till that drivechain died, no probs, swapped to 10spd rings and the issues started)
On an mtb I've got a 10spd middle ring on an otherwise 9spd system, seems a bit more fiddly to setup the front mech - dunno why tho as shirley a middle ring should be smack bang on the centreline anyway.
Anyway they work [i]well enough[/i] if the 10spd is at a good price but if there's no difference in cost I'd go for proper 9spd.
i ran an xt 10sp triple with a 9 sp chain and cassette etc and it worked perfectly
[quote=porter_jamie ]i [s]ran[/s] [b]run[/b] an xt 10sp triple with a 9 sp chain and cassette etc and it work[s]ed[/s][b]s[/b] perfectly