I’m thinking of doing away with me big ring & replacing it with 26 36 ratios..

& a bash guard (this is due to me mangling my outer ring) anyone want to inspire me?!

Dirty:

Cleanish:

Clean:

Here’s a couple of mine, running smaller chainrings than you would be though.

22, 32 & bash – Prophet, Marin HT, Scott FS and every other bike but a commuter.

22 36 bash is my prefered set up

pointless, i can only think of one step where i ever grazed my big ring on the hardtail, full sussers nee them, hardtails dont.

if you actualy clouted a bash guard hard enough to make it worthwhile having you’d probably mangle most XC cranks spiders (thats what hapened to mine).

RF now replaced by Gamut.

I don’t have a need for a big ring 😆 or a little one for that matter, bashgaurd just finishes it off and comes in handy occasionally.

lol @ spoon ….. pointless – not where i ride.
xtr spider seems tough as my RF atlas too 🙂

not pointless, I’ve bounced mine off logs, rocks, ramblers, roots and step ups.

shit happens, comes in handy if you ask me.

Our trio

Tracey

A rare ss with bash guard..

Heres mine

I only run a single ring up front with a chain device. I need to run a bash guard due to the design of the chain device, otherwise the chain would fall off. I dont bash mine very often, but theres a few dents in it where I have bashed it.

Fully rigid rather than a hard tail, but this is the very lovely SLX double with bash ring (but SS’d on this bike)

ere cheesyfeet, thats a lovely bike!

where do you ride?

the step in question was a “creative” line off stanage edge (the to big rock slabs at the top, i attempted to “change lines” and ended up hopig the bke straight onto the big ring.

The rest of the time hoping/weeliing/maualing keeps them off the ground.

bashed mine yesterday messing about on ledges, benches and steps round town. admittedly didn’t bash it on the steps…..

also means i can ride about in a pair of jeans without worrying about the trouser leg getting caught or dirtied by the outer ring.

yay! bash guard! i want some sort of device on the fixie/ss for the same reason of not cutting up my jeans. don’t want to resort to weaering my sister’s jeans……

Thanks MrNutt 😀

I do really like it, as evidenced by the amount of cleaning it gets!!

e13 bash with DRS guide

ss with Hone bashguard:

Big ring served no purpose on this so it had to go.