Re: [RBW] Re: Stubby Front Derailleur with a triple crank?

A lot of hand wringing and worry over a simple front derailleur - don't over think it. Front derailleurs with flat cage plates are extremely versatile. An ancient Campagnolo Nuovo Record "racing" double derailleur from the seventies (pretty much the same design as in the sixties) will shift

Re: [RBW] Re: Stubby Front Derailleur with a triple crank?

Thanks, Bill. Friction it is. And reasonable ambitions for how the pie is to be sliced. rod On Wed, Jun 1, 2022, 5:42 PM Bill Lindsay wrote: > Rod > > If I wanted to make the skeleton key FD work with a triple, I'd run a > 44/34/24 crankset, and a friction shifter. I'm pretty confident that

[RBW] Re: Stubby Front Derailleur with a triple crank?

Ron & others The RBW Skeleton Key looks very much like a MicroShift MarvoFD, see MicroShift link Marvo Front Derailleur 2x9 | microSHIFT same funky 48.8mm front chain line & 14T capacity. The RBW picture even shows the word 'Microshift' on the

[RBW] Re: Stubby Front Derailleur with a triple crank?

Rod If I wanted to make the skeleton key FD work with a triple, I'd run a 44/34/24 crankset, and a friction shifter. I'm pretty confident that would work. Whatever delta there is between your largest chainring and your smallest chainring, the bigger that delta, the less likely it will work

[RBW] Re: Stubby Front Derailleur with a triple crank?

They wouldn't call it a "Skeleton Key" if it didn't work with what they sell. Though the specs say it's for 2x https://www.microshift.com/models/fd-m462/ , that doesn't mean it can't shift a 3x as those specs are hard limitations, they are "suggestions" based on what type of crank they

[RBW] Re: Stubby Front Derailleur with a triple crank?

The product photos show it on a triple, but I have no first-hand experience with it. -W On Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 12:19:54 PM UTC-7 Rod Holland wrote: > I'm wondering if the Stubby Skeleton Key front derailleur offered by Riv > will work with triple cranks and shifters? 3x9, hopefully.