Patrick that looks great.
Nice coupling of the two arcs of the toothless outer ring/guard and the fd
cage.
Did you really have to hack off the stop, as in, backing out or removing
altogether the limit screw wasn't enough? I believe you regardless.
I'm slowly grasping a few things:
1. the fd has to clear the toothless outer ring, which probably places it a
little high with respect to the outermost ring that has teeth
1.a. when people say "mount the FD high" is it high with respect to
that ring (middle in the triple) or high wrt the toothless outer (aka
really high for the middle ring)?
2. I bet that guard/toothless-ring also works great as a chain stop. pretty
hard to throw the chain off your biggest ring when you have one of those,
no?
But if the chain never comes off I don't get to do my current favorite bike
trick: put the chain back on just using the fd (and pedalling, of course)
- Matthew
"I passed on the bash guard triple but am liking them more" and
"i can always throw it off the inner ring for fun" and
"but I can barely get the chain there in the first place right now" and
"would like to see this ugly-functional fd" and
"doesn't yet comprehend long (road?) vs. short (mtb?) fd's"
P
in San Diego / Kumeyaay Land
On Monday, April 5, 2021 at 1:54:22 PM UTC-7 Joe Bernard wrote:
> Yes, or as Patrick mentioned you can use any old (and cheap) Shimano mtb
> triple. The 24-38 Silver cranks are a triple with the big ring replaced by
> a smaller pant guard; if you mount the derailer in its normal position the
> cage contours will hit the middle and granny rings in the right spot. The
> only "problem" is the big gap over the pant guard looks a little funky.
>
> Joe "funky is good" Bernard
>
> On Monday, April 5, 2021 at 9:01:43 AM UTC-7 Tom Wyland wrote:
>
>> I had the same question about the front derailleur and the silver
>> low-high 38-24 crank. It's my first build with a FD. The gist is to get a
>> road double and mess around until it works? I have no intention of
>> spending $80 if a cheap one will work.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>>
>>
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