Component Question

[SamuelJames]

Can you use Shimano Deore or XTR on a road bike?  Curious because I will building up a Yves Gomez soon and that is what I have lying around.  Thanks

[dougP]

Can't see why not. Right now, there's a 20+ year old Deore on my
Atlantis that was OEM on a 7 speed MTB. The Atlantis came with long
cage MTB derailer, & is 8 speed. The original one just got kinda
sloppy & loose after 8 years.

Run whut yu brung.

dougP

[Steve Palincsar]

Sure. Only issue might be a MTB rear hub is 135 OLN, and a road frame
usually is 130. No idea about an Yves Gomez.

[Peter Pesce]

If the Yves is basically a Sam with a mixte-tube, then you should have no problem.
Aside from durability, I think MTB drivetrains are mainly about having enough chain wrap capacity to use a really small stump-puller front ring.
The ONLY thing I can think of is some front deraillers have a very deep inner part of the cage that can be tricky to set up with the Sugino triple cranks and their seat tube / chainstay geometry. I had a Shimano LX that I couldn't get to work on my Sam. The FD's that Riv sells - the IRD and Campy - work fine.

[PATRICK MOORE]

Yes.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:54 PM, SamuelJames <samco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can you use Shimano Deore or XTR on a road bike?  Curious because I will
> building up a Yves Gomez soon and that is what I have lying around.  Thanks

>> http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
>

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[Rene Sterental]

AFIK, rear hub width is irrelevant. You can use MTB components on any road frame. Usual caveats apply such as making sure shifters are the same brand as the rear derailer and so on...

 

René

[Tim Whalen]

Or use JTEC shiftmates to marry Campy with Shimano/SRAM for rear D's.  I've got a Campy brifter working fine with a long cage XTR derailleur on my newly set up Atlantis dirt roader.  The front one works fine with the front Ultegra triple D without JTEC intervention.

Tim

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Rene Sterental <orth...@gmail.com> wrote:

AFIK, rear hub width is irrelevant. You can use MTB components on any road frame. Usual caveats apply such as making sure shifters are the same brand as the rear derailer and so on...

 

René

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[Steve Palincsar]

If the rear hub is too wide for the dropouts, you either have to get the
hub respaced, or you have to get the rear triangle spread. Not doing
either, but just forcing the hub in there is, according to a recent
posting by a noted framebuilder who used to build frames for Serotta,
the leading cause of broken dropouts.

So no, it's not irrelevant, it's just something you have to deal with.

[Leslie]

Front half of my Rambouillet is Dura-Ace/Ultegra, back half is XT... Works fine...

[Michael_S]

Shimano road and MTB are interchangeable except the hub spacing thing. Not so with SRAM.

 

And their some Campy-Shimano marriages that work without any fancy added parts, like Campy 10spd shifters with Shimano 8 speed cassettes.

 

~mike

[SamuelJames]

Thanks for the feedback...I will probably buy a new wheel set which
will be 700c since it's a 62.

[Philip Williamson]

Ahh... Steve is the only one who correctly guessed that SamuelJames
(the OP) was asking about wheels! It looks like everyone else
(including me) thought "XTR = derailleurs." I'd put an XTR derailleur
on anything.

Here is Ellis Cycles' David Wages on his sculpted dropouts:
http://bit.ly/ellis-dropouts

Philip

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www.biketinker.com

[Bruce Herbitter]

Some Rivs come with 132 mm rears to accept either road or mountain hubs. With steel, you can usually spread the dropouts by hand to get a MTN hub in a 130 opening. I would not try that on an older 126 space.

The derailler of course, has nothing to do with the hub size. I have an XT on my road Saluki and it works great. Deore is widely sold as a lower market road derailler and very often on touring bikes.

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Can you use Shimano Deore or XTR on a road bike?  Curious because I will building up a Yves Gomez soon and that is what I have lying around.  Thanks

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[David Sprunger]

Sam,
It sounds like your question has been resolved, but I used XTR M900
for the drive train and wheels on my Rivendell custom and am most
satisfied with the results.

http://www.cord.edu/faculty/sprunger/bikes/riv1334/

David Sprunger
Fargo, ND

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:54 PM, SamuelJames <samco...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Can you use Shimano Deore or XTR on a road bike?  Curious because I will
> building up a Yves Gomez soon and that is what I have lying around.  Thanks
>