Patrick, guess I got lucky with my Cyclotouriste. Never had a hitch with it, with a Shimano 600EX FD. I did have to change my bottom bracket to get the chainline (to get the escape gear to clear the chainstay), and I used the SK 126mm. Everything dialed right in on the first try, and never had an adjustment squirm.
8.5mm sounds really really tight, because even the largest 9-speed chain is 6.8mm - add the cage thickness, and that only gives you about 2mm adjustment freedom in the FD. OK, I started measuring gaps. - my cyclotouriste has 10mm. Even my Campy "10-speed" Centaur crank has a 12mm gap there. And here's the kicker. My Nuovo Record crank would have 8.5 mm, but I have recent TA chainrings on it,and it has a 10mm gap between the chainring and the crankarm. On Monday, June 3, 2013 5:06:21 PM UTC-5, Patrick Moore wrote: > > The test case for such a narrow gap is the old TA Pro 5 Vis -- I hear that > the new ones have a wider gap. I have an old one on the Ram and use an old > 7400 Dura Ace FD, which works fine. The downside, such as it is, is that, > at least with the small gap on the TA, it requires great precision in fd > adjustment to ensure, together, proper angle, proper height, and proper > throw, and, at least for me, I reached this precision only through much > experiment. Installing an old early '90s XT drivetrain, or an old > Stronglight 99 with any '80s or '90s road derailleur, on the contrary, was > always perfectly easy by comparison. > > -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
