Originally Posted by
chelboed
It's a single pivot rear tri with the pivot right above the BB shell. The FD is attached to the rear tri as D said, but the crankset is attached to the front tri.
I wanted to revisit this for a moment, because I thought Ed was wrong - - but he is not. I made the false assumption that since the der. was on the rear triangle that it was a URT. Ed's right, though - -the pivot is so close that the FD can be there and still rotate around the crank. I found a very good pic to illustrate:
Originally Posted by
C Law
sorry, that was more of a rhetorical question than anything. I just didn't know people still bought those.
It was rhetorical; but it's still fun to drive it into the ground, given enough running room
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