Originally Posted by
thegunner
so, i set up everything on my bike, and everything is wonderful... except for the FD. it takes a god awful amount of force to shift up and down, and i have no clue what i'm doing wrong here.
half a twist on the barrel adjuster after slacking it all the way and tightening the FD... anyone else run into this issue and resolved it?
Have you ridden SRAM force before?
It DOES take a considerable amount of force to actuate the front derailleur, compared with the standard campy/shimano brifters. This is even more aggravated if you don't have a zero-loss front shifter. Shifting from the big-> small ring should be relatively effortless though -
The other thing is that SRAM road shifters take a 1.1mm cable - not the 1.2mm that is spec'ed with shimano cable kits.