Originally Posted by
wanders
Neat. I had to reread the OP to notice you did mention your tricross has a standard crank. I was wondering about the chain lengths.
I used a KMC X10SL without removing any links on my cross bike, but still the chain is too short. Big/Big would probably rip off the RD. I moved the chain over to the Tarmac along with the RD and cassette. The chainstays are shorter, so the chain is not too short on it.
Also, I meant to mention, that in addition to the direct cable routing, the RD also uses a single size of torx head for everything instead of the mix of various hex sizes and flat/phillips heads on the road RDs.