Yes, I know have a go and find out is the only way . But I have found the hard way, like you say, buying stuff too much without thought can result in stuff not working and ending up with too many variable to work out easily why. I could afford that last year, now I need to be more careful !yello said:Hmmm, that's odd. I felt sure I added a final line to my post... something along the lines of
as always, my advice in such situations is 'suck it and see'....
There are a number of different design parameters for a front mech (span, chainwheel size(s), frame angles, curvature, etc etc etc) that make it quite difficult for the uninitiated (like myself!) to know whether you're not setting it up correctly OR it's the wrong mech design and it will never work!
Well the BB on the runabout is offering up a fair bit of resistance, the BB was 2nd hand off eBay and has not lasted long. Rather than messing about with more false economies thinking just to buy a new chainset and go to 48/36/26 which seems more suitable gearing for the use it's getting.peanut said:what are you trying to achieve Bod ?
Bodhbh said:Well the BB on the runabout is offering up a fair bit of resistance, the BB was 2nd hand off eBay and has not lasted long. Rather than messing about with more false economies thinking just to buy a new chainset and go to 48/36/26 which seems more suitable gearing for the use it's getting.