I am not sure about the newer version, but older
X-lows have no mounts for idlers to route the chain
over the wheel. They intended it as a race bike, so
down is where its at.

Also, as Sjef has pointed out, there can be slight
fork interference. Mine had a bit of this with the
granny ring on a triple crankset. I solved that
problem by installing a non-katana monoblade from a
Challenge Taifun.

I am not sure about the present situation, but at the
time that I got my frameset, wait times for an X-low
were pretty long. I think mine took almost nine
months. They just weren't making many of them and you
had to wait for them to do a run.

Dave




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