Can I change 10 speed rotor to 11 speed?

yop

Folks
Have a new rothar and its an 11 speed.
The wheels I have are Aksiums with 10-speed rotor and that was fine as the old bike was a 10 speed. But if I wanted to use these wheels now on the new bike, can it be done?

Do you need a conversion kit or something?

Thanks

sconhome

Change the cassettes. Should be fine.

yop

AKW wrote: »

Change the cassettes. Should be fine.

Ok, out of interest why does it state "10 speed rotor" in the details of the wheels off the crowd I bought them from?

wav1

yop wrote: »

Ok, out of interest why does it state "10 speed rotor" in the details of the wheels off the crowd I bought them from?

Because 11 speed wasn't born at the time.Should be just a straight changeover.You may have to leave out the spacer if theres one on it with the 10 speed cassette

quozl

Aksiums are 11 speed by default and you have to use a really thin spacer to use a 10 speed cassette with them.

You can check this by taking off your ten speed cassette and seeing if you have a really thin (1.5mm maybe???) spacer underneath it.

I found this out by buying a pair of 2nd hand Aksiums that didn't come with the spacer And they're not strictly 11 speed, they're something bizarre like .025 of a mm off and are Mavic's own weird width which by coincidence turned out to be almost a perfect match for 11 speed hubs when those were released. Or at least that's what lots of googling and swearing at the time found me.

Juan More Time

If you are using a shimano ten speed cassette on mavic aksium wheels, then you need to use the supplied mavic spacer plus the thin spacer supplied with the shimano cassete.

With a Shimano eleven speed cassette, no spacers are required...

yop

excellent thanks lads. yes there is a spacer....its me.
The 11 speed will work a treat

Unknown Soldier

{edit} Ignore, I read this backwards :?