Originally Posted by
bamboobike4
Shimano made a triple FD with a 50T max limit. It works great on compact triples. They used it on the hybrid 10-speed triples in the early 2000’s. I think it’s an FD-730. Identical to the 7703 but the cage is for a smaller diameter set of rings.
Are you thinking of the CX70? That's the unit that gets used and talked about for road-ish triples.
If anyone wants to pore through my attempts when I built my Trek 720- you can see where I went back and forth using different derailleurs, getting another chainring, TRYING to go back to the DA triple derailleur, failing- going to another derailleur- but *REALLY* wanting a DA derailleur on there... then finding the double 7700 works perfectly...
The Golden Boy's Trek 720 Re-Re-Re-Rebuild