What Patrick said because this is a common weirdness encountered with that chainring setup. The original plan when Grant said goodbye to the big ring on a triple was to run 24-38 without a derailer, you would put a stick down there to move the chain or kick it or hop off and make the "shift". Well the pantguard is roughly the same size as the formerly-middle ring, and what happens when you introduce a derailer on what is nominally still a triple crankset is it wants to sit at the height of the now missing big ring. Raise that derailer, son!
On Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 9:26:47 PM UTC-7 Erik wrote: > I'm working on putting together my shiny new gold Sam H that I picked up > from the Rivendell shop today. Everything was coming together beautifully, > until I went to install the front derailleur. It's a Shimano 105-5700 for a > 2x set up. I'm running a Silver Wide/Low double with a 38 / 24. The cage > on the derailed is too long to set it up with the correct spacing between > the large chainring / guard and the cage. It ends up hitting the chain > stay when I shift. > > Does anyone else on here have a similar set up with a wide / low double? > If so, what front derailleur do you use? For the life of me, I can't > figure out a suitable replacement for the 105 and am dreading trying to > find one for sale anywhere. > > Any thoughts or advice? > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/4bfcef76-6642-4741-b8c8-12fc971d5b4an%40googlegroups.com.
