If so – any issues so far with chain dropping or is it solid (i.e. no need for a top guide)

Raceface 34t + zee short cage mech + 11-36 cassette on my five works great.

I was before I went with a General Lee adaptor so had to get a longer cage mech.

Worked brilliantly, not a single chain drop and virtual silence, good combo

About three months running these.
No problems at all. Haven’t dropped the chain once.
But I do live in Surrey, so not the roughest of trails.

Not with Zee but X0. Chain is still where it should be

I’m using XT rather than Zee… Otherwise, perfect.

rob jackson – Member

i don’t have one or need one as i do not suffer, unlike a lot on here, with delusions of grandeur

Taken from a thread about thick/thin chainrings. 🙂

Mrs Stu is using a Zee mech with Wolftooth thick/thin and hasn’t dropped a chain yet.

lol stu – knew you would drag that up!! Got it for £20 so kind of changes and justifies it

I knew I’d not have to wait long. 8)

Not the Zee, but I’m running the Works with an X9 Type 2 on both my hard tail and AM full sus. No guide.

Neither have dropped at all and not a single hint of dropping.

uselesshippy – Member
But I do live in Surrey, so not the roughest of trails.

Plenty of rough you can find. Just chuck it down ‘I Should Coco’ in the Surrey Hills at full pelt. Have done and not dropped. Tried to find as much gnarly as possible for both bikes.

Have also run the full sus with this set up down the new stuff at Bike Park Wales including rocky as hell stuff like Rim Dinger (okay have yet to try the black runs), again no drop and barely even clattering.

These are amazing devices and so stupidly simple.

Oh and someone I know ran the same chainring in Morzine, and again no drops.