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Matt Vandart

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Shimano and Sram shifters pull different amounts of cable, and that shifter is designed to be Shimano compatible. Pretty sure they aren't compatible anyway.

Also, what spacing is your cassette? Theres different spacing used for different cassettes and they all need the right shifter to work properly.

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By the way, as said above, sram & shimano pull different amounts of cable, 1.1 or 1.2 ratio, sram do shimano compatible shifters (I've got 1 & it's crap) but I'd just use a cheap shimano thumb shifter & an old short cage xt or xtr mech, can't go wrong.

Basically if your cassette & chain are 8sp, your shifter has to be 8sp, you can use a 7sp shifter too as it's the same spacing you'll just a lose 1 click/gear. But a 9sp shifter will piss it all up, avoid such a skinny chain on a trials bike, 8 is my limit.

I use an old 8sp sachs wavey gripshift (shimano compatible) with an xtr short cage mech & it's perfect.

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