Renthal Unleash the 1XR Chainring

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They’ve been working on this for 18 long months, but finally Renthal is ready to announce the 1XR narrow/wide chainring.

Renthal 1XR
Look at the teeth on that…

It’s been designed to work specifically in muddy (ie British) conditions – the ‘wide’ parts have been machines to allow more mud to clear, and increase chain life; it’s hard anodised and is supposed to keep that chain firmly on those teeth.image001 We’ve got one in to test, so keep ’em peeled for a review in the near future!

Here are the features they’re claiming for it:

  •          Alternating 1.8 / 3.5mm width teeth
  •          CNC machined 7075 T6 Aluminum
  •          Hard anodized surface finish
  •          Mud grooves in the tooth bed
  •          Ultra stiff I-Beam cross section
  •          Mud clearance and wear-proof profiling
  •          104mm BCD, 32, 34, 36 and 38t

More details here. Price from $59.90; UK price TBC

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Comments (9)

    MSPMSP April 8, 2015 at 3:29 pm

    Shame they are only doing a 104bcd version, absolute black, works components etc are offering a variety of fitting options.

    ChippsChipps April 8, 2015 at 4:11 pm

    Knowing Renthal, they probably have all sorts of other chainring drillings in the works. For example, they only list 32-38T and we’ve had a 30T in for test (but no photos) for a while. There’s a lot going on behind the scenes, so expect SRAM, XTR etc at some point I’d think.

    stupeggstupegg April 8, 2015 at 4:28 pm

    You’d expect them to do the most common BCD first though right?

    They look sweet. Just need some gold/green cranks to match.

    jobrojobro April 8, 2015 at 6:43 pm

    I would so like a 32T ring for my Sram XX crankset but I’m not even sure its possible!

    vinnyehvinnyeh April 8, 2015 at 8:04 pm

    Why is the USD pricing out, but the UK cost isn’t available yet?
    Just curious.

    neilneil April 8, 2015 at 9:38 pm

    What’s taken 18 months? It looks the same as all other n/w rings.

    craig5craig5 April 8, 2015 at 10:43 pm

    The renthal logo looks like a cheap plastic sticker which will just fall off. Why have they done that?

    orange-crushorange-crush April 9, 2015 at 7:36 pm

    Well there won’t have been any development costs – it’s basically how they’ve been doing their off-road motorcycle sprockets for years.

    pb2pb2 April 11, 2015 at 9:48 pm

    CRAIG 5 I assume because its pre production and the one Chipps has is a “press” sample where they want the name to standout in photos

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