“he mulled his big ring on Hagg farm descent (Ladybower) if the majority of your riding in the peaks/rocky stuff they are worth it,”
How the **** did he manage that? Theres nothing on hagg farm descent to get close to a outer ring?
Are you seroius about the second comment? What/where in the ‘majority’ of the (Dark?) peak is a bash guard worth it?
Maybe if you’re running a chain device as well, I can see the benefit there, or if you don’t want to fork out for a big ring (though if you’re not using it, then you don’t need to replace it
For those few times I do scrape the big ring, I’ve not had a problem. The big ring is very useful on a few road sections (even on the big bike), not only as 32-11T (middle-little) is too small, but you can put the power down much better (also negating the chain angle its put at in 32-11)