Shimano XTR 9-Speed Shifters with Shimano 105 Road triple front derailleur
04-14-24, 01:30 AM
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Shimano XTR 9-Speed Shifters with Shimano 105 Road triple front derailleur
Will Shimano XTR 9-Speed MTB shifters work with my Shimano 105 Road triple front derailleur?
Btw, I'm assuming the shifters are friction mode for the front derailleur-- is this true?
Btw, I'm assuming the shifters are friction mode for the front derailleur-- is this true?
04-14-24, 06:22 AM
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These will be indexed front and rear. The front may not work well, mixing mtb shifter and road derailleur. If the derailleur is appropriate for your chainring setup, you may want to source a flat bar road front shifter such as the R3500. Or if you do want friction front shifting, use a grip or thumb shifter. Rear should be fine as-is.
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For 9 speed and below generally everything was compatible (minus a few oddballs like some of the 74xx DA stuff) so you should be fine. It is all indexed. To get friction you would need thumb, downtube or barcon shifters but it should work decently well enough.
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These will be indexed front and rear. The front may not work well, mixing mtb shifter and road derailleur. If the derailleur is appropriate for your chainring setup, you may want to source a flat bar road front shifter such as the R3500. Or if you do want friction front shifting, use a grip or thumb shifter. Rear should be fine as-is.
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agreed mostly with the above. Questions like "will X work with Y" where X and Y come from different manufacturers, and maybe even generations of components, are very difficult to answer with the degree of certainty that the OP expects.
not to mention the definition of "work". Will it jockey the chain back and forth ? Maybe. Will it shift with precision and flawless reliability ? Hard to say.
Given what a used MTB front derailleur costs, that would be the route I'd suggest, but it's hard to advise the OP further because we don't know if he's runninng double or triple chainrings, etc.
/markp
not to mention the definition of "work". Will it jockey the chain back and forth ? Maybe. Will it shift with precision and flawless reliability ? Hard to say.
Given what a used MTB front derailleur costs, that would be the route I'd suggest, but it's hard to advise the OP further because we don't know if he's runninng double or triple chainrings, etc.
/markp
