Shimano front derailleur compatibility?

AFAIK the flat bar version is the one which allows the use of a road chainset with a big ring around
the 52T mark, with MTB-stylee shifters such as twist-grip jobbies and Rabidfires. drop bar ones are
designed to work with STI shifters, which pull a different amount of cable IIRC.

Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/
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I have a Tiagra front derailer that worked fine with both SRAM 9.0 twist shifter and Shimano Rapid
Fire shifters. I think all thier front derailers use the same cable pull the difference is how the
shifter is configured. Rear derailers are a different story.

Ken Kobayashi <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:<[email protected]>...
> Hi,
>
> I'm confused about front derailleur compatibility. The Shimano catalog lists two categories of
> road derailleurs, "drop bar" (normal road bikes?) and "flat handlebar" (hybrid bike?) derailleurs.
> Are the two incompatible? If so, which one is compatible with Shimano MTB shifters and SRAM
> "Shimano compatible" shifters?
>
> Ken Kobayashi [email protected] http://solarwww.mtk.nao.ac.jp/kobayashi/personal/

You might want to check out Sheldon Brown's site:

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/derailers.html#front

Rick Moll

Ken Kobayashi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm confused about front derailleur compatibility. The Shimano catalog lists two categories of
> road derailleurs, "drop bar" (normal road bikes?) and "flat handlebar" (hybrid bike?) derailleurs.
> Are the two incompatible? If so, which one is compatible with Shimano MTB shifters and SRAM
> "Shimano compatible" shifters?
>
> Ken Kobayashi [email protected] http://solarwww.mtk.nao.ac.jp/kobayashi/personal/