Hey Patrick. Interesting one here as I have had to grapple with this (in process) and glad to hear it works great, but I still hate it aesthetically and at this point will shelf a bike and sort before I run a big gap. lol.
Very familiar with this as the FD pictured is one of my favorites for compact setups and run a lot of MD XC Pros as well. Those old XT FDs are just so good and I will often limit myself to just a 12 tooth gap between rings on a compact or sub-compact double to ensure I can use that model. Only setup I have where it leaves a gap like this is one of my Rosco Bubbe bikes that got stuck in my build queue with a WI 28/42 setup. Since some of the IRD and cx70 FDs that are supposed to work well for these setups seem hard to find these days, I bit the bullet and decided to give that odd little skeleton FD a try. Hoping for solid shifting and a better cage match but will see how it goes when I get back to finishing this spring. Again, good to hear these gap setups work well, but I am always interested in seeing what models people dig up to mitigate said gap. -Justus Mpls, MN On Sunday, March 9, 2025 at 7:55:19 PM UTC-5 Patrick Moore wrote: > Bike Snob’s Roaduno setup. There was a similar gap between the outer cage > of my LX fd and the 38 t outer when I converted my Fargo from 46/36/24 to > 38/24 — I changed nothing except the outer throw limit. As for Bike Snob, > it worked fine despite the gap. > > [image: image.png] > > -- > > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, letters, and other writing > services > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > *When thou didst not, savage, k**now thine own meaning,* > > *But wouldst gabble like a** thing most brutish,* > > *I endowed thy purposes w**ith words that made them known.* > -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/33c2892d-712f-46ef-a6c9-f68cbc7d6c12n%40googlegroups.com.
