I’m looking for a recommendation for a clamp on 9-speed triple front derailleur for a Toyo built Atlantis. I’m currently running an old 9-speed LX front derailleur that shifts beautifully. I recently purchased some VO fenders and got them installed pretty easily. The only issue that I’m having is that while shifting, the long/tall arm of the front derailleur wants to move into the front fender as I shift into the small ring.
To help remedy the situation, I swapped out the stock derailleur cable clamp bolt and washer for low profile Panhead screw, which got me a little real estate (image #1). In conjunction with the clamp bolt, I shimmed out the bottom of the fender at the chain stay bridge with an 11mm alloy spacer and a leather washer on either side to help push it away from the derailleur arm (image #3). This set up works in the stand, and the fender line is pretty good. With that said, my main concern at this point is that I’ve now pushed the bottom of the fender closer to the rear wheel. At the chain stay bridge, I used a stainless M5 bolt, but want to replace this with a low profile Panhead bolt as well, as there isn’t much space between the bolt head and the tire. “Not much space” translates to about 3-4mm or so, which it too close for my taste. So, if I were to install a Panhead bolt at the chain stay bridge I could probably call it good. So yeah, this setup will work as is, but I feel like I can get the rear set up pretty close to perfect if I were to just swap out the derailleur. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/413b5130-b85d-4c71-8739-577bfbf7b45fn%40googlegroups.com.
