Originally Posted by
musterion
bradtx: No it definitely was a clamp on. It was the "stock" FD on the bike.
ryker: How I noticed this problem was when I was fitting the FD with the sticky that comes on it, I noticed that the inner part of the cage would not clear the teeth of the middle gear. Do you have your FD set a bit high on the 52/42/30 so the inner cage clears? How would this affect shifting?
It slows down actuation into each ring, the higher the derailleur is from the optimum low position. That being said, i've seen some ridiciculous amount of gaps before with no loss of front derailleur performance.
YMMV.