Originally Posted by B10Cycle
My Specialized Allez roadie came with a Sora triple and Sora triple STI shifters. I neither want nor use the little ring. I'm going to upgrade to Ultegra double just as soon as I get the cash, but in the meantime I'm having a devil of a time keeping the front derailleur in line. It likes to leap frog from the big to little ring and it's terribly annoying, I have to be constantly adjusting.
If I were to remove the inner chainring making it a double:
A) would my current shifters and derailleur still work, with adjustment of course?
B) would doing this perhaps temporarily (until I can upgrade) solve some of my derailleur issues, as in making it shift more reliably? Someone else has suggested this to me and I just wanted to double check it here.
You simply have an adjustment issue, and
www.parktool.com has the drill in the repair section.Could be nothing more than too much cable tension.Could be something else. If you don't wan to deal with it. It's a simple matter to just readjust the low limit screw so the derailer only shifts to the middle ring. Not the ideal situation, but it works and you don't even have to mess with removing the granny ring.