How to upgrade almost any 10speed wheel to work with 11speed: 7 tips tricks and hacks

Here is a very common problem. You have an older 10 speed wheel and want it to work without your new 11speed bike / gearing. Here we run through the 7 ways you can make the conversion for almost any wheel. Also don't overlook all those 10 speed wheels sold second hand at rock bottom price because people want the 11sp version.

If you have a short attention span and want a quick answer go to 12:44

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[notsponsored]

Brilliant, thanks for taking the time to put this together. I love improvisation and low budget solutions. I buy most of my stuff second hand, don't mind being a season or two behind, after all, the rider makes the bike, the bike doesn't make the rider. Keep up the good work.

[softbingan]

Man.. I don't even have a bike. But after watching this and because of his zeal and passion, I might go and buy a 10 speed bike tomorrow and do all the work needed to make it takes the 11s cassette.

[sesarman]

At first I thought oh God 14:00 minutes long, but you managed to fit about an hours worth of content in that 14, this was extremely on point, thank you.

[globeRM]

I've done this on my 10 speed Shimano RS 80 wheel. Machined the freehub, so it works now perfectly with 11 speed cassette.
Also used a 11 campagnolo cassette with Sram 11 speed gears - works great as well.

[gadget]

Dude, this is an amazingly useful video. Well done. Thanks so much for all the work you put in to create this.

[karstenruf]

Thanks for the tip! Took the 13T sprocket out of an 11s 11-32 cassette to run an old RS10 wheel in an 11s drivetrain. Works like a charm, just adjust the L limit screw. Indexing still works unchanged

[CRGX]

Thank you. I had an old set of Mavic wheels that I thought were out of date but I found the spacer, removed it and replaced my daughters very heavy wheels.

[peterpaterson]

Great post, explains the whole picture, which of course in cycling is seldom entirely straight forward ! Thanks for the video

[williamwightman]

This is an excellent video. Very helpful and well presented. I am using option 7, custom 11-speed mono-block 11-34 cassette. Thanks.

[paulgladwell]

Simple advice but hey, it got me going! Thanks for putting this together, really helpful!

[terry_hutt]

I have a campy 10 speed wheel. I'm having trouble getting 10 speed cassettes lately. Love the idea of just getting an 11 speed and not using one. Thanks

[jbrennan]

Excellent description on the video. Just saved me a tonne of grief! Thanks

[MadTrapper]

So much good information. Thanks for letting us all know.

[michaelsnedden]

Such a useful video! Thank you so much for putting it out there for us to use. -Mikes Bike's Work

[om]

Can you advise? Currently have trek checkpoint 4 with Tiagra 10 speed and want to ultegra it
Think this is possible?

[SaabIsSaab]

this is such an informative video. thank you!

[mym]

Shimano 11sp MTB cassettes are concave at the back at 1.85 mm just like Campy and Edco therefore fit perfectly on 10sp road hubs.

[ricciricci]

Great video 👍 very helpful thank you 🙏

[martinmartin]

6.27...that was very informative..solved my problem....thanks

[MenInStone]

So would I also have to change out the rear derailer, shifters, and front cassette?