Ribble Gran Fondo frame - braze or band-on front derailleur?

pinkbikini

As title really - what type of front derailleur for the Ribble Gran Fondo frame? Band-on (size?) or braze-on?
I tried calling RIbble today but couldn't get through. Want to place a parts order tonight - frame and fork being picked up from delivery depot this weekend.
Google doesn't throw up any definitive answers.
Any current owners out there can help out?
Thanks...

rolf_f

Ribble themselves, at least for the Campag fitted bikes like mine, use a braze on mech with an adaptor. So, in otherwords, you might as well use a band-on (though the braze on does allow a neat chaincatcher installation).

I'll just measure the tube!

Edit - 35mm diameter

lucasf09

Hi,
I don't have this bike, but if you have pictures of the frame you can easily tell, brake on will already have a attachment on the seatpost for the deraileur (looks like a plate inserted into the seat tube), if the tube is smooth (ie: no attachments, apart from maybe the bottle cage bolts), then it is a band on

acidstrato

well mine is band but I have the original version, so I dont know for sure aout the current design frameset

pinkbikini

Thanks - I needed a band-on (34.9).