Converting an 8 speed rear mech to 9 Speed

[Nigel777]

Hello,

I've been stripping down one of my old bikes and am quite impressed with the rear mech.

Its an old SRAM esp 5.0 composite (plastic some may say).

Either way its damn light (234g) and has never let me down.

Would it be a simple case of swapping over the jockeys to 11T and it should work?

This has come about as I've bought a rear mech from ebay and it turned out to be a GS cage and not SGS.

Cheers
Nigel

 

[hamster]

It will still work with the existing jockeys. Swap it to the 9 speed SRAM shifter and it should work fine.