That front derailleur does have an exalted height above the big ring but I gather that it shifts fine. I've left an LX fd in place when I removed the out 46 t ring and replaced the middle 36 with a 38; the inner 24 remained. It must have sat as high over the (now) outer 38 as yours above your outer ring. I just adjusted the travel limit screw. It shifted as well between the 38 and 24 as it did before between the 36 and the 24.
My current DA 7402 (I think it's "...02") sits high enough to just clear a bash guard sized to hide a 46 t ring -- ie about the size of a 48 or so -- so the cage sits high indeed over the 42 t big ring. It still shifts wholly unexceptionally. On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 10:12 AM Justus G <cjust...@gmail.com> wrote: > While lots of setups work just fine with minor compromises, I have found > there is an optimal FD setup for 42/44 (even 46) big ring compact gearing > if we are talking 8/9 speed triple compatible or similar as a baseline. > > HyperDriveC compatible old Shimano FDs in the form of XT M737 and LX M563 > (or similar) are short cage FDs so they clear the chain stays and also > allows you to generally get your FD at the right height above the big ring. > > All threads benefit from pics so here is one of my Riv's with a hand > sanded silver (not by me) NOS LX M563 FD on my 24/34/46t triple: > -- 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/CALuTfgs-vLPXhDH%2B%2Brie8D5F%3D%2Bf4FG-rZyg%3Dvrm2OH0KDWQohQ%40mail.gmail.com.
