Regarding the Shimano road triples being on the tall side, you do know that you can put together an IRD 13 - 34 in the rear? Mine's a 10 speed though.
--- On Thu, 4/8/10, Aaron Thomas <aaron.a.tho...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Aaron Thomas <aaron.a.tho...@gmail.com> Subject: [RBW] Re: Brifter-friendly triples? To: "RBW Owners Bunch" <rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 4:05 PM In the past I've used Campy ergo levers with a triple and it worked flawlessly. I don't recall whether the rings were even ramped/pinned. You just need to get the appropriate Jtek Shiftmate rollamajig thing for your derailleur/cassette match-up: http://jtekengineering.com/shiftmate.htm On Apr 8, 11:35 am, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 10:05 -0700, M. Chandler wrote: > > Shimano's road triples are too tall for my needs, so I'm wondering if > > there are brifter-friendly cranks in the 26/36/46 range out there. > > I've got a Sugino XD triple that's 24/36/48, but the big ring isn't > > ramped (and I suspect the rings are spaced for an 8-speed chain). > > Current derailleurs are XT (rear) and Deore (front), so I'd probably > > need to swap out the Deore for something with the correct cable pull. > > Cassette is 9-speed, so that probably limits my brifter choice to NOS/ > > used stuff. > > So get a ramped, pinned chain ring for it. TA makes them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
