the nice thing about the cross FD is how nicely the cage conforms to the size of the big ring - it's made for a 46T rather than 52+ That said, I use an old Shimano 600 Arabesque double FD on a cyclotouriste triple with 47/42/26T and it works great.
On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 10:20:15 AM UTC-5, Johan Larsson wrote: > > I have used several different old standard road front shifters with my > 48/28 and 52/32 setups on old TA and Stronglight cranks without problems. > The shifting itself has never been an issue, but with those cranks you must > have a shifter with a flat outer cage as the space between the outer chain > ring and the crank arm is very very narrow. If you don't have that problem, > anything that fits works, from my experience. > > Johan Larsson, > Sweden > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
