At 11:25 AM 7/5/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Larry Osborn wrote:
>>
>> What do people use with the old TAs?
>
>OK, it ain't sexy but it works (if you can find one)... SunTour MounTech
>Touring FD... fairly narrow cage and the cross-piece at the back of the
>cage is shaped to not interfere with above-the-BB RD cable routing.
>
>Lee Berg
>Palo Alto, Calif.
>
Lee The Mountech front I tried DID interfere with the Campy NR crankarm though. Cage is wider at the rear than at the front. Oh well. I guess I could shorten the spacer so the cageplates are parallel, but then I'd have....... wouldn't be much different from the Campy R/NR. Might have a little bit of a profile on that inner cageplate.
Chris Beyer wrote:
>The SunTour ARX works with a TA, as does the original-design Cyclone. On
my Phil >Brown, I use a Simplex; since they didn't find it necessary to
put a model number on it, I >can't help with that particular piece of
information. Makes it doubly challenging if you like >the outer two
chainrings to be 7-8t difference; in that case, the inner cage plate won't
clear >the middle range without a liberal application of the ol' Dremel (or
if you live in W.Va., and >don't have electricity, a rasp would probably do).
Again, even with surgery by Dr. Dremel, you're pretty much back to flat, parallel cage plates. Ain't his fun?
Chris Gonzalez wrote
> I have also set up a bike with Alpine type gears but simply did not use
any front derailleur >and would shift with the "greasy finger tips" method
when necessity required a "bailout" >gear. Any others out there who have
done a similar set up?
Maybe if I hadn't already lost the 6th finger on my right hand in a senseless Dremel tool accident...... Yikes.
Larry "electrified and psychodelicized" Osborn Morgantown WV