I'm not sure I get your point of meant to work with road integrated shifters. Below is a picture of my subcompact crank with the original 105 front derailleur.



Point being from the photo is that the derailleur is up too high and far away from small chain rings. If I'd purchased a White Industries VBC Crankset with the same chain rings then I'd have the same problem. So if you are pointing to the mountain bike crank as the problem then I don't understand your point. Now, maybe I could have found a smaller road derailleur and not purchased a mountain bike derailleur and the Jtek Shiftmate adapter? If you know of a compatible derailleur then I'm willing to try. I