[Closed] Dual ring chain device/bashguard and chainring suggestions?

Chainrings are easy since you're on XT... I use deore 36Ts personally, but you could go lighter of course. The weight difference isn't huge though and steel rings last forever so for me it's worth it.

Bashring, just depends how strong, heavy or expensive you want to go.

For devices, I just use Blackspire Stingers, reasonably inexpensive and they work.

Big jump that, 22-36.
How often do you really need 22t ? 24 might be better.

24t/ 32t is best for xc/trail. 24t/ 36t for freeride/dh.

if you dont hit your bash when you ride just go for a light weight alumunium bash. i use raceface light bash with a stinger. i also have a blackspire super lite on my fr bike.
i you do catch your bash,go for e13 turbocharger. do not buy the supercharger, its heavier than a brick!!

I love my HammerSchmidt 🙂

I saw a lovely little Gamut yesterday that seemed to work well. My experience and from friends going this way is that 22-36 is simply too big a jump, and hence they are tending to go 22-34. I guess 24-36 would work as well but we have big techy climbs so the 22 with 11-34 (9spd) is a must. Perhaps 11-36 10spd and a 24-36 would be ideal???

Thanks. I'll investigate the stinger and re-think the chainring setup.

22-36 suits me perfectly, got that on 2 bikes. I could go up to 24 I think though. I don't find the gap too wide, I'm in the "middle" ring most of the time with the 22T there for crawling.

mrbump - Member

"24t/ 32t is best for xc/trail"

Tried 32T for a while but that's a pretty big loss of high gearing. But, Nonsense, the thing about 32T and 22T rings is that you already have them 😉 So, try with what you have now, but get a bashring that'll go up to 36T, then you can start to figure out something that suits you. Not everyone'll want the same.

Turbocharger is very nice, light but strong, got that on the Hemlock. Gamut's P30 is also lovely, less strong but one of the lightest bashguards out there with any strength- but very expensive, and the chainguide's no more effective than a Stinger, just lighter. Or you can go superlight with a... wait for it... BBG Superlight, but if you bash it, it'll bend like it's made of soggy cardboard. Or loads of other options o'course.

+1 for the blackspire stinger. Simple, cheap and effective.

Oh... Downside of the stinger, if you care, is that the backplate's kind of excessive which makes it heavier than it has to be. But the flipside of that is that if you've got a bike with little swingarm/bb clearance, like my hemlock, fitting a chainguide is always going to be trickier but with a stinger, you can break out the angle grinder and cut away about 70% of the backplate and it's still strong enough Can't do that with a Gamut 😉