My AHH runs a 24-41-44 chainset with an old SunTour Cyclone fd. Shifting is perfectly adequate in upshifts over the 17 tooth change.
My older Raleigh Competion sports a 26-49-52 chainset with a ancient Heuret Jubilee fd, perhaps the lightest and most delicate of front ders. With gentle shifting there is no problem over the 23-tooth change. Note that both fd's are "racing" designs for double chainsets, not touring triple designs, as necessitated by the half-step + granny setup. The major limitation is that I cannot use the smaller third of the rear cogs as the chain then rides on the bottom "tail" of the fd. This is really not a problem, however, as these should not be used anyway due to cross-chaining and those being duplicates of gears available on the two larger chainrings. As many others have commented, you should have no problem with a double. If you go to a triple, however, a more racing style fd may be needed so the inner cage plate doesn't interfere with the middle ring as you try to shift to the outer ring. Cheers. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
