I concur that the skeleton key front derailer turns out to be a "high Q factor" or "large front chain line" model. When used on a skinny tire road bike, with a narrower Q factor crankset, it doesn't reach.
Still, I really liked the cage size and shape, so I went ahead and made my own eccentric spacer to pull it inboard, and now it shifts my narrow-Q-factor triple just fine. Here's the plastic raw material I used: https://www.flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/52444537055/ Here's what the finished spacer looks like: https://www.flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/52444371359 Here's what it looks like with the FD clamped around it: https://www.flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/52445653361 Here's a link to the entire album, which has some more shots of my setup on my small lathe: https://www.flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/albums/72177720303067081/with/52445653361/ Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Sunday, November 27, 2022 at 2:50:52 PM UTC-8 chrisd wrote: > Decided to switch to a 42 big ring from a 44 on a Ritchey Logic triple CS > (44/34/26) on my Rambouillet and tried a Skeleton Key FD but can't shift to > the granny. My old shimano FD tail barely cleared the chainstay with the 44 > so any older derailers won't work. Riv says the Skeleton works on triples > but it's probably something to do with geo on the current models.Need a > short cage FD. Thought of a mountain FD. My brifters are old Campy so > don't have to worry about indexing. Any suggestions? > -- 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/339edf27-369b-4a1a-962b-972a8dc8ed86n%40googlegroups.com.
