Originally Posted by
Anti404
Interesting. I've heard that the incorporation of Red's tech. into the Rival shifters was supposed to make it shift more easily/smoothly.
Have you ridden any SRAM aside from Rival?
I tried a Red front derailleur and had a similar experience. The LBS didn't have a Force derailleur to try. (Incidentally, if you do a search, the Bike Forum conventional wisdom says to replace both Red and Rival front derailleurs with Force. I haven't tried it, but would like to.)