Just a nice pic of the cranks/arms and Ring please.
A description of components would be nice too.
Love the concept of the 1x10 but struggling with the aesthetics.
Only a little pic as I can't do Flickr at work:
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M985 arms, custom 36t ti chainring, Superstar XCR guide with home made seat tube mount
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E13 XCX ST & 34 tooth Guide ring on XT cranks. 9 speed.
How come your ring is behind your arms ?
My plastic chain device close-up.
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Hope that helps.
It's in the middle chainring position.
How come your ring is behind your arms ?
Gives a better chainline on the inner cassette sprocket
yet another 1x thread full of fail!
Roadies 🙄
Ah, i see.. so Njee's is an outer... Hmmmm... his looks a lot more aesthetically pleasing....
GW - Member
yet another 1x thread full of fail!Roadies
I'm a Morzine DH god.... i'm no roadie 😛
his looks a lot more aesthetically pleasing....
Form over function 😉
Njee is a smidgen better/faster than me... he's also about half my weight.
Middleburn RS7, Homebrewedcomponents Uno ring, Pauls Chainkeeper.
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XT 11-36 cassette, Chromag 34t ring, MRP Lopes guide, XTR crank, med cage Shadow plus.
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Ah, i see.. so Njee's is an outer... Hmmmm... his looks a lot more aesthetically pleasing....
Mine's a double crank - so it's in the outer ring position of 2 (ie same chainline as middle on a triple).
It's a ball ache because 88mm BCD rings are hard to come by.
yet another 1x thread full of fail!Roadies
What a strange comment. I've never seen a top level roadie with a single ring, nor have I see a WC DH bike with anything more than 1...
Nukeproof Mega.
Blackspire DSX C4, 32T
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Superstar Plasma, 36T
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e thirteen bash, ta specialites 38t ring.
its so flat where i live.. I don't need anything else
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Is nobody using one of those Bionicon guides that hang off the chainstay? Are they viable as the only chainguide for a 1x** XC bike?
No, you need a guide on the top.
Why are those chainguides so huge and plasticky?
Would it work with an outer bashring and something like one of those roadie chainsavers on the inside?
Yep. Plenty of people running an n-gear jumpstop and a bash.
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Middleburn RS7, Homebrewedcomponents Uno ring, [b]Pauls Chainkeeper[/b].
doesnt work
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SLX 9 speed crank, double version.
32T dynasis 10 speed chainring
Blackspire Ring God Bash
Superstar plasma guide
How noisy are the Blackspires ? I like silence when i'm out riding...
Do you mean the guide?
Yeah. Once upon a time i had the E-13 SRS and it was a bit noisy actually.
Hence why i've now gone for the simple top guide which looks like it should be silent.
I used a stinger before and it wasn't totally silent, quieter than the superstar one I have now but still not silent.
Clutch derailleur and upper guide would be the quietest solution I reckon. ?
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Not a great photo, but setup is an old M760 XT crank, a 32T Gusset chainring, MRP Lopes SL chainguide, 11-36 XT cassette and XT medium cage mech.
Works fine for me, and I can get up pretty much any climb on it still with the 32T ring. I tried a 36 but it was a bit tall for me, tempted to try a 33 or 34 for a tiny bit more speed but to be fair, it's not often I spin out 32/11 unless I'm onroad going downhill.
No, you need a guide on the top.
So how are these clutch rear mechs going to solve this problem (as I read)? Still need a top guide as well?
How noisy are the Blackspires ? I like silence when i'm out riding...
My DSX is virtually silent. I couldn't seem to set up a Plasma quiet enough so bought the DSX. Its been great so far except the bashring bolt area finally cracking. Filled it with epoxy.
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Yep. Plenty of people running an n-gear jumpstop and a bash.
And it works very well, based on my experience. Haven't lost a chain yet, running 1x9 and 1x10, with a ramped Deore 32t when 1x9 and Hope SS 32t for 1x10. Cranks are some Truvativ ones (from my old Boardman), Truvativ bash (Delft chinaware stylee), SLX 11-36 cassette and X9 mech.
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Straitline Silent Guide, 36t E13 guide ring, 2012 XT cranks, chain, rear mech and 11-36t cassette.
what a pimp twohats.
do any of you running just the top use a f/s bike and if so how do u not drop chains?
alawys though i needed a bottom roller as well.
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1 x 9 Never lost the chain yet and I run my chain a few links longer than most...and I don't pootle either.
Got a Saint rear mech which may help though.Two alu bashguards from http://www.bbgbashguard.com/
Yep, mine's FS with top only. Never had issues dropping the chain, don't pedal backwards is a good start I guess. Dunno otherwise, are you inherently more likely to lose the chain on a FS?
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Yep, mine's FS with top only. Never had issues dropping the chain, don't pedal backwards is a good start I guess. Dunno otherwise, are you inherently more likely to lose the chain on a FS?
i thought with the suspension adjusting the chain lenght as it goes through the travel would make the chain flap about more, i guess not.
i seem to prefer a guide with a bottom peice though, but as so many get away with this i may try it.
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Worked very well until I snapped the rear mech off at Mayhem, now running a long cage XT as a temp.
Yep. Plenty of people running an n-gear jumpstop and a bash.
i tried that for a bit (sorry no decent close ups) but i found i couldn't get the jumpstop in the right place on my frame....
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I'm not convinced aesthetically. So going to stick with 2x10 for now until i can get some more information on quiet full systems to mount on mine that are silent.
