Originally Posted by
chorlton
I guess we will have to agree to disagree which basically means you can have an opinion but you are wrong. The original, small-small, in conjunction with the chain length was outside of the working range. Slack chain and small-small it was running against the upper jockey wheel.
I've ridden many triples set up so that was the case. Hardly an issue unless for you it is an issue. It it works, and I usually find that it does, for me it is simply not an issue. I just tune out the noise. If I hear it then, good. Reminder that I am in the small-small and I don't want to spend a lot of time there. I really don't like tight big-big combos and will take a loose small-small instead any day. (The big-big can make rear derailleurs old very fast. Never killed one on the small-small.)
Ben