10-speed is still my go to setup. Is everyone these days doing 11 speeds? It is starting to get hard to find parts and that might force the move. But I would prefer to have a choice, even 5 years from now.
I haven’t bothered. I’ve got a 2008 Felt F4 road bike and 2009 Felt B2 tri bike that are still fine. I see no reason to upgrade functional components on an older bike. My cross bike is 1x11, but because it has disc brakes, I couldn’t swap wheels anyway.
10-speed is still my go to setup. Is everyone these days doing 11 speeds? It is starting to get hard to find parts and that might force the move. But I would prefer to have a choice, even 5 years from now.
I just upgraded one of my bikes from 7 to 9 speed. I don’t see the parts getting that hard to find for a good number of years. We don’t have to be lemmings.
Hugh
I bought my road and tri bike in 2009 so both are 10 speed and I have no desire or need for 11 speed. It’s still really easy to get 9 speed parts that were phased out in the 90’s so I think 10 speed will be continued for a very long time given the number of bikes still in use that are 10 speed.
I think the only reason to go to 11-speed in an older bike is in concert with a move to the new electronic shifting tech.
I have a first generation 10 speed Di2 which I love and it is pretty costly to upgrade that to 11 so I’m sticking with 10 until I get a new bike in a couple years.
I’ve been riding long enough that I started with a true 2x5 10 speed. It seems though that ever since the mid 80’s I have always been one gear behind so I am used to it 
Hmmm… I think we are all in a bit of a limbo here. You all sound exactly like I sounded the other day when the guys at my bike shop gave me a hard time. But then I checked shimano/sram sites and went through a bit of a shock. Only Tiagra is 10 speed now. The newer versions of all higher models are 11-speed. WTF! http://bike.shimano.com/...rear-deraileurs.html SRAM Red only lists 11-speed option and a stupid compatibility notice: https://www.sram.com/...ed-rear-derailleur-0 Then I went around looking for bar end shifters and that is when I decided to post here thinking I’m the only lone wolf out there who is still running 10-speed.
10-speed is still my go to setup. Is everyone these days doing 11 speeds? It is starting to get hard to find parts and that might force the move. But I would prefer to have a choice, even 5 years from now.
I have 10-speed on commuter bike and I am not planning on replacing it anytime soon. 10-spd was a great product and definitely no need to switch. I wouldn’t mind 11-speed 1x setup on this bike though.
Im still running 10-speed sram red as well on both my road and TT bike and have no desire to switch unless I go electronic at some point or cant find parts anymore. My two sets of training wheels are both only 10-speed so dont want to spend the money to change those to 11-speed too unless I have to.
We have recently built up 9 speed, 10 speed, and 11 speed bikes in our (small) stable. You can still find lot of 10 speed parts (both new and used) on eBay, so no worries there.
Where do you guys are buying all that thermal paper for the fax machines, the typewriter tapes and the floppy disks?
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I miss floppy discs. They were involved in my favourite joke.
I have no 11 speed bikes. I am tempted to upgrade my 26inch wheel mtb though. I have to make the decision between need and want.
Yep, three bikes and 4 wheel sets, all 10 speed. When I was looking for a newer bike, 11 speed was an option but I saw no reason to
make my bikes no longer compatible.
My old road bike & TT bike are 10spd, my new road bike is 11spd.
Sram red 10 on the roadie, combo of sram and shimano 10 on the tt, 4 wheel set to go on them, I’m figuring on 10 for the long haul
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Four bikes and lots of spare wheels, all SRAM 10-speed. No incentive to “upgrade”.
SRAM has been good about showing love to 10-speed users (note the hydro rim and disc options on that page). Not Red level, but not Apex level either.
Maybe a pipe dream, but my hope is that they’ll release a 10-speed version of e-red (even just a shifter upgrade kit). Doing so would open up a huge market for them, and help them spread out their e-shifting development costs.
My old road bike & TT bike are 10spd, my new road bike is 11spd.
Do you have a strong preference between the two road bikes? I mean to ask with respect specifically to aspects like shifting reliability, gear ratios available, and maintenance (or anything else relevant to you but related to 10 vs. 11).
My runs both 11 and 10 on two of her bikes and she notices no difference. I get one more cog so not much more for the cost to upgrade unless your building a new bike up from scratch. Maintenance and reliability ( I work on all of our bikes) is the same.
10-speed is still my go to setup. Is everyone these days doing 11 speeds? It is starting to get hard to find parts and that might force the move. But I would prefer to have a choice, even 5 years from now.
When I built up my new road bike last year, I specifically built it up 10 speed (SRAM Red shifters, Force derailleurs) because not only were the components significantly less expensive, but because there was far more compatibility for a 10 speed drivetrain with other equipment (such as wheels) than vice versa. For example, I wanted to be able to run whatever wheels I had and not worry if the rear hub was able to accommodate the cassette.
Plus, I wanted to show solidarity with base 10 numerics 
When I built up my new road bike last year, I specifically built it up 10 speed (SRAM Red shifters, Force derailleurs) because not only were the components significantly less expensive, but because there was far more compatibility for a 10 speed drivetrain with other equipment (such as wheels) than vice versa. For example, I wanted to be able to run whatever wheels I had and not worry if the rear hub was able to accommodate the cassette.
Plus, I wanted to show solidarity with base 10 numerics
But isn’t the 11th speed accomplished just by the use of narrower spacers and a shifter with 11 positions (and obviously an 11th sproket)? Or does the ratio of cable pull by chain travel actually change? In other words, is there really such a thing as a 11 speed rear derailleur (with a different pull/travel ratio)? Or are they both the same? Can I get all the 11-speed shifter/derailleur/cassette and take one sproket off and “downgrade” it to 10? I’m under the impression chain and chainring don’t need to be changed. I also thought the hub didn’t change because the 11-speed cassette and the 10-speed cassette are about the same width? Is that not correct?