No, your screens haven’t gone wonky. Those SRAM X-Sync chainrings are oval! With a direct mount, spiderless design, these are pretty swish looking beasties, all curvy teeth and oval wonk.
The 32T chainringFeeling peppy? How about a 34T?
They’ll be £107 each and will come in 32, 34, 36 and 38T from your regular SRAM chainring supplier.
(And if you’re a weedy rider who likes your 28T, you’ll have to toughen up! Or get 10-50T Eagle 12 speed…)
Bigger now. The 36T big enough? The three bolt setup will ensure you can’t get the orientation wrong.One ring to rule them all! The 38T. Have you ever seen such a monster in the real world?
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.)
Works components ones are £30…..FML Sram.