Originally Posted by
smashndash
Do you think you could do some Google-fu and find out the exact model of the FD? It's either 4500, 4600 or 4700 I would say. I believe there was a change in pull ratio for 4700 so unless you have 4700 I would go for something older/lower like sora.
The issue is road & mountain shifters pull a different amount of cable.
Road shifter has been replaced with mountain shifter which is incompatible with factory FDER.
Shimano has a FDER that matches them up.
Something like an FD-R453?
https://www.treefortbikes.com/Shiman...lleur-for-Flat