United Components: New UK-based CNC component company launches

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Unite Components is a new young business born in Wales close to the Shropshire border. It’s a rider-owned company, “fueled by passion and obsession to create some of the highest quality products the bike industry has seen; all available at a reasonable price”. All of its products are made in the UK too.

Currently the company is producing narrow/wide ‘Grip Rings’ and ISCG and direct mount chain guides. The company is trying to ensure good distribution through bike shops in the UK (as seen on its dealer page) or you’ll be able to order direct if there’s no dealer near you.

Grip Rings
Grip Rings are CNC machined from 7075 aluminum, then hard-anodised to create an even tougher, more durable finish. As Unite says: “A large amount of wear occurs on the front face of chainrings, due to the extreme chain-line caused by 1x set ups, our extra wide alternating tooth profile improves both durability and retention for a longer period. As chains begin to stretch they start to bind in certain places, damaging the chain and ring; Grip Rings have specially machined recesses, which help to prevent this damage, increasing the longevity of the chainring and chain. The rear face carries very little of the wear from the chainring and so has been heavily recessed to clear mud in some of the worst conditions. Grip Rings utilise a stiff and light design that is efficient and offers excellent protection from rock strikes.”

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A 36T ring in XT flavour for the big-legged of you
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A more knee-friendly 32T ring in 94/96BCD

Weight – from 40g
Available sizes: 30T, 32T, 34T, 36T
Fitments available: 104 bcd, 94/96 bcd (SRAM), XTM8000, XTRM9000 (replaces stock tabs with specially manufactured chainring bolts).
RRP – from £40

Compact Guide
Here’s what it has to say about its new chain guide: “The Compact Guide is a light, simple chain-guide, that offers excellent chain security and mud clearance with silent retention. The slider has been designed to offer the perfect balance between weight, chain retention and durability, the open design offers excellent mud clearance and is also suitable for oval chainrings. The slider is CNC machined from a high-tech engineering plastic, which is not only incredibly strong, but also offers excellent chemical resistance from bike cleaners/polishes and chain lubes.

“The back plate is CNC machined from 6082 aluminum, the use of two fitment points not only saves weight but also makes it possible to fit the chain-guide without removing the cranks. Because of the large array of different chain lines, we have designed our e-mount guide to include the use of spacers, so that perfect alignment with the chain can be obtained. Stainless hardware and spacers are included as standard with both ISCG-05 and E-mount versions available.

“The Compact Guide comes with specially made one piece shims that make spacing out the back plate a breeze, no more fiddling around with washers.

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ISCG 05 chain guide from Unite
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In the real world on a Bronson

Technical details:
Back plate precision CNC machined from 6082 Aluminum
Slider CNC machined from engineering plastic with hard wearing, low friction properties and good resistance against chemical attack.
Light and simple design
Suitable for oval chainrings
No need to remove cranks for installation
Includes stainless steel hardware
One piece shims to space out the back plate
Compatible with 30T to 36T chainrings
Weight – E-mount: 42g ISCG-05: 50g
RRP – £50

So there we are. We’re hoping to see some of these new products in Fresh Goods soon and we’ll let you know how we get on with them. In the meantime, you can head over to www.unitecomponents.com for more

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 22 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

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Comments (2)

    Pedant alert – that’s a Nomad, not a Bronson.

    That chainguide is basically just the same old ISCG chainguide that has been made for years. I have an MrP one that’s pretty much identical other than the fact it’s a BB mount not ISCG. Do people really believe the stuff marketing people write any more? Do they even believe it? 🙂

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