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 Post subject: Interchanging sram and shimano
PostPosted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:17 pm 
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Looking at replacing various warnout parts, currently bike has sram gearing, Im going to buy new shimano rear mech and shifters. If Replaced the sram cassette with a shimano one do I need to change the chain and front sprockets to shimano too??


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 Post subject: Re: interchanging sram and shimano
PostPosted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:19 pm 
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No the chains n cogs are interchangeable it's only mech and shifters that have issues

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 Post subject: Re: interchanging sram and shimano
PostPosted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:44 pm 
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Brilliant, thanks


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 Post subject: Re: interchanging sram and shimano
PostPosted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 9:01 pm 
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And just to make matters a bit more interesting, some mechs and shifters are interchangeable too :D

Shimano front mechs will definitely work with sram shifters, but I think shimano rear mechs will only work with shimano shifters (something to do with actuation ratios). No idea about shimano shifters and sram mechs.


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 Post subject: Re: interchanging sram and shimano
PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 8:02 am 
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To cause even more confusion, Sram did at one point make a rear shifter that was compatible with Shimano rear mechs, I vaguely recall they were Sram Attack and at a similar level to the x5 range.


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 Post subject: Re: interchanging sram and shimano
PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 11:10 am 
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From what I gather named SRAM are compatible with shimano but numbered are not

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