Thread: Converting 9-speed flatbar Bianchi Axis to 8-speed dropbar. What am I overlooking?
View Single Post
Old 06-09-14 | 11:30 AM
  #2  
Bezalel
Senior Member
15 Anniversary
 
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 1,579
Likes: 11
From: City of Brotherly Love

Bikes: Raleigh Companion, Nashbar Touring, Novara DiVano, Trek FX 7.1, Giant Upland

Your friend will need a flab bar road FD. Also the fact that you have an XT RD is reason to suspect that you may also have a MTB cassette in which case your friend will also need to verify that his RD has enough capacity otherwise you may also need to swap RDs.
Bezalel is offline  
Reply
0