Originally Posted by
grubetown
This unfortunately is probably a design flaw on the bike.
Is it the stock derailleur?
Can you run the cable around the bottom of the clamp bolt from the other side to reduce the angle?
From what l gather, clamping the cable in a CCW direction doesn't make that much difference in the angle were it leaves the cable stop on the frame. It is a donor frame, and you can see where the OE FD was mounted substantially nearer to the BB. Obviously, it was a significantly different design than what he has presently installed. My MTB is from 1985 so I am absolutely no help with this kind of stuff. I'm sure that with all the different suspension frames that have come out in the last dozen or more years, that some components had to be designed more specific to a particular frame for fit and function.