Originally Posted by
|3iker
I run a pair of Sora brifters on my drop bar MTB. I used a road FD. Solve the problem. Seems to shift nicely with 48/38/28 rings.
Using a road derailleur is more complicated if your cables are routed along the top tube like they commonly are on MTBs. All shimano front road derailleurs are bottom pull. You can mount a pulley on the seat tube to get around that problem but it created some clearance issues for me.
Last edited by tjspiel; 11-18-10 at 11:24 PM.