Shaped inner plates hate wide chainring choices, they're made for corporate combinations to assure legal counsel of perfect shifting with their derailleurs, shifters cassette combos and other spec. What I found when building up my wide double (46/30) rando with RH cranks was that with all the new FDs to try, my mechanic found the SunTour Superbe from my bag of nearly NOS FD options fit and worked the best. Plus it doesn't try to hide that it is made of metal, it is bright silver.
A couple shots in album form: https://photos.app.goo.gl/eSqnCSt3WxrtfmkCA Tail of the cage not hitting the right chain stay, limiting how close to the 46t ring it could be, chain line when on on the 30t not below the intended interface of an origami inner plate sculpted for a very narrow range of OEM chainring size combinations and a width of parallel cage plates that permits operation across several cogs before trimming is necessary. I'm quite happy with it. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 12:45:08 PM UTC-5 mmille...@gmail.com wrote: > I've been having a heckuva time getting my front derailleur to go from > little to big without hopping over. Eventually, if I talked sweetly to it > and said Hail Mary three times, it would usually settle. Even took it to an > experience mechanic. He also lowered it, then slowly kept raising it up, > and also kept working the limit screw. A fraction of a turn was difference > between not reaching the big ring, or going over! > > It's a White Industries VBC with 46-28. FD is IRD compact triple Aplina. > Friction Microshift thumbie. I think it's bottom pull. > > [image: IMG_2391 Medium.jpeg] > > Any suggestions for different FD? May need different chain rings because > of that big jump, but if I do that, I may be best off buying something else > and selling these. > > Thanks, > Matt > -- 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/526646fd-45fe-4295-ab4d-fe69dbb9853cn%40googlegroups.com.
