Sea Otter 2012: Shimano Saint Chain Guide

Shimano’s Saint was launched to the world at the Sea Otter this year (see our story here) so we assumed that’s all there was to see. However, on looking over one of the Saint exhibition bikes, there seemed to be an unfamiliar chain device…

This device has a top chain guide and a lower (non-roller) sled. But there’s also a half-bash which can be swapped depending on which footed you are. And the Shimano rep there wouldn’t confirm that this wasn’t a Shimano product that we might see this year too.

More surprises tomorrow…

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.)