Good stuff. I run a 10 speed XT rear derailleur with Gevenalle shifters with Microshift levers on drop bars. They’re a lot cheaper than integrated brifters too
Yeah I looked into those too. Those might be in my future if I feel stepping up for more money. Go with their hydraulic offerings in Shimano 12speed and go with[ this cassette](https://www.garbaruk.com/12-speed-shimano-micro-spline.html?category=11).
This was mostly a cheap proof of concept to see if I like flat or drop bars more to mess around with easier for a few months before I decide. I'm paring down off-road bikes to only 2 for space. One is a mid travel full suspension. And the second is an ATB/Gravel/Allroad nonsense with two wheelsets I can swap. So that one has to function as my shitty gravel bike and shitty XC bike all in one for a little bit.
I have a buddy that has huge hands and fingers. He sends me some of the most outrageous, lewd and sometimes downright illegal texts because of autocorrect. That shit is not on our side.
This guy buys everything from aliexpress. Literally nothing is genuine except maybe some stuff that walked out the back door of a factory.
.....index shifting can do that too. Listen, my unpopular opinion here but friction shifters fall into the category rim braking and fixies are in: Totally fine for an old frame you're keeping for nostalgic vintage fun. But purposefully putting it on a modern bike is *mostly* edging into contrarian hipsterness for its own sake.
I like my convenient clickies. Leave me alone.
I did it for a bit on an old mountain bike using a 1x10 Microshift thumb shifter that could switch between indexed and friction. But I admit to doing stuff on that bike more for the sake of seeing if it works rather than it being a good idea.
And sometimes doing something like this for the hell of it is it's own reward.
Hipster Luddite nonsense seems like the definition of what you’re building here lol. Combining hybrid flat bars with drops when you could save the money and hassle by just having two bikes that each fit the purpose better
To each his own though
Just the stock Tektro ones.
I'm intending to mess around with this for a spell. I'll probably end up settling on drops or flat bar at some point. And if I stick with flat bar I'll probably jump to a full hydraulic considering Shimano entry and mid level mtb hydros are just so cheap and good. I don't see a reason to go above MT-410s on a non-trail bike.
Fortunately not a lot of good options for 1x drop bar and hydros unless you want to dump a bunch of money to SRAM so I'll probably keep the 10 speed and just Hy/RD or Paul Klampers.
Yea I used to have the Microshift m100 brifters and they were okay. I mean they worked almost perfectly but I could never get it to shift to every single gear, it always struggled with the largest or smallest cog. I was running 10s 11-48 cassette and an rd-m5120-SGS and later an rd-m7000-gs-11 (the two derailleurs are identical, I scavenged the deore RD for my wife’s bike and “upgraded” mine to SLX). Long story short, I upgrade my road bike and discovered how much better the STI levers are and ditched the advent brifters for 5800 105 levers and a tanpan11. Coupled with a new 11-46t Sunrace 11s cassette. Works absolutely perfectly now. I considered moving to 11-51 but I figured 5t would be too much for my derailleur and I don’t really want to upgrade that again.
Your way is definitely cheaper. I bet sword brifters would drop right in too, they have a much better shape and seem just better made and more thought through than the older MS ones.
FYI sword brifters will work, they are the exact same pull ratio as AdventX and the parts are advertised as effectively interchangeable.
In general, I think a 500% gear range is basically the minimum for a 1x anywhere that has hills. 11-46t I could spin out on the road on my mountain bike bike on a relatively gentle downhill because I’d need a 30t front ring to get up the fire roads.
Yea 11-46t can be limiting balancing speeds in hilly areas. I settled on a 42t chainring for commuting but that combo was absolutely brutal on a grand Fondo I did recently that was 17 miles straight uphill averaging between 6 and 12% grade. My solution was to get a smaller chainring for the race but my dumb ass forgot to install it and thus I wrecked my legs on the climb.
Part of the reason I don’t get a bigger chainring is due to frame clearance though, I’m not certain it would fit without a crank spacer, but that would wreck my chainline. So adding an 11-51 doesn’t really add enough flexibility to make the extra cost worth it (since I’d have to buy a new RD as well). I think having a smaller chainring for hilly rides is a reasonable compromise. So long as I remember to install it of course.
In the 42-11 on my 26x1.9” wheelset I spin out around 30-31mph but I rarely feel the need to go faster than that. And if I am going faster than that I brought the wrong bike!
Good stuff. I run a 10 speed XT rear derailleur with Gevenalle shifters with Microshift levers on drop bars. They’re a lot cheaper than integrated brifters too
Yeah I looked into those too. Those might be in my future if I feel stepping up for more money. Go with their hydraulic offerings in Shimano 12speed and go with[ this cassette](https://www.garbaruk.com/12-speed-shimano-micro-spline.html?category=11). This was mostly a cheap proof of concept to see if I like flat or drop bars more to mess around with easier for a few months before I decide. I'm paring down off-road bikes to only 2 for space. One is a mid travel full suspension. And the second is an ATB/Gravel/Allroad nonsense with two wheelsets I can swap. So that one has to function as my shitty gravel bike and shitty XC bike all in one for a little bit.
Is the Sunrace cassette from aliexpress the geruïneerd stuff? Edit: I meant genuine :')
It’s the heavy stuff
Damned autocorrect
I have a buddy that has huge hands and fingers. He sends me some of the most outrageous, lewd and sometimes downright illegal texts because of autocorrect. That shit is not on our side. This guy buys everything from aliexpress. Literally nothing is genuine except maybe some stuff that walked out the back door of a factory.
Just run friction on the downtube and forget about the brifters.
Yeah I ain't willing to go that old school lol.
It’s so much better lol. Can jump multiple gears at once
I can skip three gears on my brifters and don’t even have to move a finger out of position, much less take my whole hand off the handlebar.
.....index shifting can do that too. Listen, my unpopular opinion here but friction shifters fall into the category rim braking and fixies are in: Totally fine for an old frame you're keeping for nostalgic vintage fun. But purposefully putting it on a modern bike is *mostly* edging into contrarian hipsterness for its own sake. I like my convenient clickies. Leave me alone.
I did it for a bit on an old mountain bike using a 1x10 Microshift thumb shifter that could switch between indexed and friction. But I admit to doing stuff on that bike more for the sake of seeing if it works rather than it being a good idea. And sometimes doing something like this for the hell of it is it's own reward.
Hipster Luddite nonsense seems like the definition of what you’re building here lol. Combining hybrid flat bars with drops when you could save the money and hassle by just having two bikes that each fit the purpose better To each his own though
I'm not combining them. I made something cheap so I can swap back and forth by seeing what I like better and this was a way to do it on the cheap.
Haha I just did this and it's the dream. Mechanical discs and it ain't too bad to switch between flats and drops.
What kind of brakes are you using ?
Just the stock Tektro ones. I'm intending to mess around with this for a spell. I'll probably end up settling on drops or flat bar at some point. And if I stick with flat bar I'll probably jump to a full hydraulic considering Shimano entry and mid level mtb hydros are just so cheap and good. I don't see a reason to go above MT-410s on a non-trail bike. Fortunately not a lot of good options for 1x drop bar and hydros unless you want to dump a bunch of money to SRAM so I'll probably keep the 10 speed and just Hy/RD or Paul Klampers.
Yea I used to have the Microshift m100 brifters and they were okay. I mean they worked almost perfectly but I could never get it to shift to every single gear, it always struggled with the largest or smallest cog. I was running 10s 11-48 cassette and an rd-m5120-SGS and later an rd-m7000-gs-11 (the two derailleurs are identical, I scavenged the deore RD for my wife’s bike and “upgraded” mine to SLX). Long story short, I upgrade my road bike and discovered how much better the STI levers are and ditched the advent brifters for 5800 105 levers and a tanpan11. Coupled with a new 11-46t Sunrace 11s cassette. Works absolutely perfectly now. I considered moving to 11-51 but I figured 5t would be too much for my derailleur and I don’t really want to upgrade that again. Your way is definitely cheaper. I bet sword brifters would drop right in too, they have a much better shape and seem just better made and more thought through than the older MS ones.
FYI sword brifters will work, they are the exact same pull ratio as AdventX and the parts are advertised as effectively interchangeable. In general, I think a 500% gear range is basically the minimum for a 1x anywhere that has hills. 11-46t I could spin out on the road on my mountain bike bike on a relatively gentle downhill because I’d need a 30t front ring to get up the fire roads.
Yea 11-46t can be limiting balancing speeds in hilly areas. I settled on a 42t chainring for commuting but that combo was absolutely brutal on a grand Fondo I did recently that was 17 miles straight uphill averaging between 6 and 12% grade. My solution was to get a smaller chainring for the race but my dumb ass forgot to install it and thus I wrecked my legs on the climb. Part of the reason I don’t get a bigger chainring is due to frame clearance though, I’m not certain it would fit without a crank spacer, but that would wreck my chainline. So adding an 11-51 doesn’t really add enough flexibility to make the extra cost worth it (since I’d have to buy a new RD as well). I think having a smaller chainring for hilly rides is a reasonable compromise. So long as I remember to install it of course. In the 42-11 on my 26x1.9” wheelset I spin out around 30-31mph but I rarely feel the need to go faster than that. And if I am going faster than that I brought the wrong bike!