Originally Posted by
CountryBiking
Thank you Golden Boy. Mine does not have the cable guide that yours has. My FD is probably fine, it just does not seem to be a very good design. It seems that they should have provided a bit of strain relief as it goes through the actuation motion.
One thing that is weird about the Le Tech is that as you actuate the control from the "rest" position it moves from the large chainring to the smaller chainrings. All other FDs that I have used, "rest" at the smallest chainring. This took some getting used to when I got this bike.
So this is a "top normal" derailleur?
Cool!
Keep in mind the LeTech was a top of the line derailleur- It was Suntour's most expensive ATB FD. It may be (I haven't used it) that it's designed to run the cable a little differently (remember the Superbe Tech RD of the same time- it was designed to not have a cable housing from the stop to the RD).
If you could, post a couple of pix of the whole unit and the cable routing (man, posting pix is now a pain without photobucket).