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just to add for anyone reading:
Any 8spd shimano cassette freehub body will take a 10spd cassette - however, 'some' (with alloy bodies or alloy cassette spiders) may need a small spacer be it SRAM, Shimano, Sunrace, Sunrun etc - anything designed for Shimano splines
Any shimano road/ MTB SIS (slant parallelogram) specific rear mech from about 1984/5 onwards will go all the way up to 10spd road and shimano 9spd MTB, that includes 10spd Shimano flatbar road shifters
As above, when shimano split the road and MTB shift ratios, it all went wrong and the the days of pick & mix were over
Some issues may happen with frames that have very thick stays, it can interfere with the mechs adjustment reach to the topmost cog as the derailleur is a few mm further away from the wheel
You 'must' use narrower chains with the corresponding mech otherwise wider chains can rub against the narrower mech cages - fiddle around with jockey wheels to suit but it doesnt matter too much.
Front mechs are a hotchpotch of experimentation as to what goes with what as the fronts often only index properly to their corresponding release years
Any 8spd shimano cassette freehub body will take a 10spd cassette - however, 'some' (with alloy bodies or alloy cassette spiders) may need a small spacer be it SRAM, Shimano, Sunrace, Sunrun etc - anything designed for Shimano splines
Any shimano road/ MTB SIS (slant parallelogram) specific rear mech from about 1984/5 onwards will go all the way up to 10spd road and shimano 9spd MTB, that includes 10spd Shimano flatbar road shifters
As above, when shimano split the road and MTB shift ratios, it all went wrong and the the days of pick & mix were over
Some issues may happen with frames that have very thick stays, it can interfere with the mechs adjustment reach to the topmost cog as the derailleur is a few mm further away from the wheel
You 'must' use narrower chains with the corresponding mech otherwise wider chains can rub against the narrower mech cages - fiddle around with jockey wheels to suit but it doesnt matter too much.
Front mechs are a hotchpotch of experimentation as to what goes with what as the fronts often only index properly to their corresponding release years
