Ben, Your comment about spindle length is interesting. My LBS went with the 113 specified by Sugino and I have no problem shifting to the smaller ring. It does sometimes take me 2 tries to get into the big one though. My understanding is that going up is just a harder shift, but now I wonder if BB length isn't part of it too.
Jay On Friday, June 21, 2013 11:40:02 PM UTC+3, BenG wrote: > > Couple years ago i pulled the outer ring off my XD2 triple and put on a > guard, leaving the 36-24 middle and inner rings as-is. The 36 was plenty > high for me with 11 cog on 8spd cassette, and I could get to all the > combos. New Hillborne runs guarded 40-26 with 12-34 8spd, and that's > great, too (I do like the 40-26/12-34 better, though). I learned that a > slightly longer bottom bracket can improve reliability of front shifts to > low gear by moving it farther from the innermost spring travel position of > the front derailer. With no third ring hanging out there to be concerned > about reaching with the derailer, you can afford it now. > Ben > > -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
