Here is another of my bike bodges ...
As most of you probably know, Yorkshire, Lancashire and Derbyshire have some big, steep hills. I bought a cyclocross bike last year and found it very overgeared for said hills so I resolved to lower the bottom gear as much as I could with as little expense as possible. I put a huge 12-36 road cassette on but the rear mech would not cope with it. Here comes the bodge ... I discovered that 9-speed Shimano mountain bike rear mechs work very well with 10-speed Shimano road shifters and cassettes (as fitted to the CX bike)!
So here we are - a 9-speed rear mech for a 10-speed bike; it works perfectly!
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