Measure your chainline. You probably have a roadish chainline, which may explain why your mountain front der can't drop you to the granny. That's problem #1
If you can't pull up to the big ring either, even with the limits all the way out, then that indicates your shifters don't pull enough cable for that front der. That's problem #2 If those are your only two problems, then replacing the front der should solve them both. A road triple front der should work with a roadish chainline. A shorter lever arm where the cable attaches requires less cable pull to make it move. On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 9:56:53 PM UTC-7, Jim Bronson wrote: > > Well Grant would probably not approve of the amount of seat post showing, > but, it seems to work pretty good for me, and I am comfortable riding it. > Maybe would like a tad more elevation to the stem, but in practice riding > it around I don't notice. > > https://www.flickr.com/gp/23646261@N03/8p64BN/ > > The question I have is, is that FD going to work for me? I am thinking > no, because the loop around the post halves the amount of cable pull > available to the front shifter. I can't get it to move nearly as much as I > need. The specs said top pull or bottom pull, but really, I think it would > be better with top pull. Too bad. I bought a used IRD Alpina the other > day, I'm going to use that on the Rivendell and try the FD on the Rivendell > on my Soma GR. > -- > Keep the metal side up and the rubber side down! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
