Sea Otter 2015: MRP rings and guides

MRP showed its clever ‘one-by ring without going thick/thin’ a couple of years ago. Instead of going thick/thin, the teeth were offset from side to side in a left/middle/right/middle/left style which was a different way of doing the chain gripping thing. After a lot of testing, MRP reckoned that it wouldn’t quite work out with 10 and 11 speed chains, so it has now changed to a left and right tooth wave that works well with 10 and 11 speed chains. There’s a direct mount SRAM ring as well as SRAM and Shimano bolt circle versions too from 28 to 38T.

Very tall teeth also help grip the chain

Black is the new black. No funny colours here.

Left and right sided teeth grip the chain from the inside

Moving on to chain guides, a rolling change to all of the MRP chain guides is this new TPU lining that helps keep any chain rub noise down.

There’s still room for chain guides, right?

Versions for all bolt on kind of thingies

The MRP AMG is now the AMG2! It’s been completely redone with a lighter ISCG (05 and 03) mount in carbon or alloy. There’s a new skid plate (with lightening grooves on the back of the plate, rather than the mud-collecting front (thanks to suggestions from Ison Distribution, MRP’s UK distributor)

The AMG2 will come in a 26-32 and a 32-38 version, in both carbon and aluminium. Weights are 95g and 111g respectively.

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 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.)