I don’t know those shifters well enough, but I’d be inclined to go with shifters that are meant for their job, and as I recall those weren’t.
The front derailler (or at least most) should be in the little ring position naturally. Meaning you have to pull the cable to get it to leave that position, and if you were to release the cable, it would snap back to that position. I think because of this, a too long cable would only impact pulling to the larger chainrings, not staying in the littlest. I have had a couple older bikes where the FD gets kinda stuck in the outer position. I assume from years or decades of it never being shifted, but I doubt that’s the case here. I’d check limit screws to make sure it’s not adjusted to push the derailler out a bit too much. And also maybe check that when you down shift, the cable isn’t getting hung up somewhere, creating some slack in the line that isn’t allowing the derailler to pull itself back downward. I’m sure an actual bike mechanic would’ve understood all this way better than I do. That’s kind of the puzzling part. -- 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/922368fb-383e-4482-a993-c46e77aa2868%40googlegroups.com.
