Bought a 10-speed Shadow Plus mech and was going to just bite the bullet and buy a Shimano shifter to operate it with, but folk are saying you can do a simple mod to run this mech with a 9-speed Sram X9 shifter. Will the combo work as well as Shimano-Shimano, and is it a reasonably easy fix for a technical dunce? Anyone got any details or pics they could share? Ta v much.
I didn't know you could use either, I always thought shimano rear mech has to be used with shimano shifter? and same with sram?
You can bodge a 10 speed shimano rear mech to work as a 9 speed mech with a 6mm shim on the cable bolt paired with a 9 speed sram shifter. If you want to run it 10 speed then needs to be with a 10 speed shimano shifter
I have a spacer I machined that you can have. Send me an email with your address WL and I will send it over.
daveagiles - that's mint, I'll email you now. Ta v much indeed.
Pleasure.
The page that possibly started it all off;-
http://www.pinkbike.com/forum/listcomments/?threadid=148662