Originally Posted by
mechBgon
A Shimano FD-R443 should do it.
Good choice
Originally Posted by
Seb71
Isn't that a road FD? It is supposed to be used with SL-R440 shifters (which are road shifters for flat handlebars).
The SL-R440 shifters have the same EXACT identical pull as Shimano mountain bike shifters. As a matter of fact, a friend of mine compared his SL-R440 shiftes to a set of 9 speed Deore mountain bike shifters and the shfiter sets were identical in every way except for color. Shimano makes the 400 series of components to use mountain bike shifters of any type with road bike size gearing (48 and up) but the shifters are just color changed but otherwise the same as common mountain bike shifters.
There really aren't any mountain bike shifters that will properly move a front road derailleur correctly and have a cage that is sized for a 52t ring for example hence the need for the 400 series.