Switching to 1x11 Touring Setup with 11-50 Cassette

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HugoDrax
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by HugoDrax

Good evening, and thank you for reading my post!

I am in the process of looking into switching my touring bike over to 1x11 from a current 3x9 arrangement.

I would like to reduce weight for faster gravel rides and maintain my lower gears while giving up some of my upper gearing.

I would like to do a 32 or 34 tooth front chain ring with an 11-50, 11 speed cassette while using road shifters.

Would a SRAM 22 road shifter work with an Eagle 12 speed deralleur to pull the chain properly into gear?

Has anyone figured out how to get a 1x11 with a 50t rear to work with road shifters?

Thank you for your help!

tonytourist
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by tonytourist

Why not use an 11 speed cassette with the 11 speed shifters?
https://garbaruk.com/11-speed-xd.html
I don't know what the cage option does, but it would probably be wise to get it.
I think with a 36 and 10-50 you'd have a wide range of gears, just depends on if you can deal with the gear jumps or not.

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HugoDrax
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by HugoDrax

Thank you!

After looking at the derailleur cages they appear to be for mountain bike derailleurs only.

Would a mountain derailleur work with a road shifter?

Overall, I do not mind what parts are used, but I would like to get a 50 tooth rear with a road shifter if possible.

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by Jengaback

With a wolftooth tan pan you can use a Shimano 11 road shifter with a Shimano 11 rear mech
https://www.wolftoothcomponents.com/products/tanpan


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Marin
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by Marin

HugoDrax wrote:
Fri Jan 26, 2018 2:57 am
reduce weight
Did you check the weights of available 11-50 cassettes? They are boat anchors.

10-42 or 9-44 will have better range and much better weight, but you'll need an XD freehub.

ooo
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by ooo

36-22x11-32 vs 1x11: 22/32 = 0.6875 vs 34/50 = 0.68
36-22x11-34 vs 1x11: 22/34 = 0.6471 vs 32/50 = 0.64
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morganb
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by morganb

SRAM Road 22 won't work with an Eagle derailleur. As far as I know there isn't even a cable pull converter out there that will make it kind of work. It won't work with regular 11 mountain but it will work with SRAM 10 speed mountain derailleurs.

HugoDrax
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by HugoDrax

After doing some additional research I am curious to see if:

A- A SRAM Eagle derailleur has the same cable pull as an 11 speed SRAM derailleur?

B- If so, JTEK makes the Shiftmate 9 which allows a SRAM road shifter to work with a SRAM rear derailleur

I have not found anyone who has tried a SRAM 22 shifter with an Eagle derailleur and the Shiftmate to cover an 11-50/10-50/etc. cassette

Thank you all for your responses!

Slammed
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by Slammed

As far as I'm aware the only way you can run eagle with drops bars is with the Paul shifter adapter.

https://paulcomp.com/shop/components/sr ... r-adaptor/

I wouldn't use it for any sort of competitive riding but for touring I'd imagine it would work fine.

tonytourist
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by tonytourist

How about 1x11 with an E13 TRS cassette? 9/46 with a 34 up front should give you plenty of range.

Marin
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by Marin

Needs an XD driver too. Even the standard 10-42 would be better than an 11-50 in every respect.

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by NickJHP

I setup a roadish sort of bike for my wife (who like flat bars and likes to sit upright) using SRAM 1x12 with 34t chainring and 10-50 cassette. As someone who had always had two or three chainrings on her bikes, she was most suspicious of the single chainring setup when I first presented it to her, but it's turned out to be a real success:

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Marin
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by Marin

HugoDrax wrote:
Fri Jan 26, 2018 2:57 am
Has anyone figured out how to get a 1x11 with a 50t rear to work with road shifters?

Thank you for your help!
There's a Microshift bar end shifter for Eagle 12x now. I really like bar end shifters on drop bars - might be worth a try.

ooo
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by ooo

Microshift barend shifters (for mtb rd) is ok for 1 day events, but for touring it can develop carpal tunnel syndrome
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by mattr

ooo wrote:
Wed Jan 09, 2019 1:26 pm
but for touring it can develop carpal tunnel syndrome
I'd like to see some evidence of that.

As (quite literally) thousands of touring cyclists have been using bar end shifters since the 50s and 60s all the way through to modern times with no significant reports of carpal tunnel....... if there was anything, they'd have been all over it!

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