I'm thinking of doing away with me big ring & replacing it with 26 36 ratios..
& a bash guard (this is due to me mangling my outer ring) anyone want to inspire me?!
22, 32 & bash - Prophet, Marin HT, Scott FS and every other bike but a commuter.
22 36 bash is my prefered set up
pointless, i can only think of one step where i ever grazed my big ring on the hardtail, full sussers nee them, hardtails dont.
if you actualy clouted a bash guard hard enough to make it worthwhile having you'd probably mangle most XC cranks spiders (thats what hapened to mine).
RF now replaced by Gamut.
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lol @ spoon ..... pointless - not where i ride.
xtr spider seems tough as my RF atlas too ๐
not pointless, I've bounced mine off logs, rocks, ramblers, roots and step ups.
shit happens, comes in handy if you ask me.
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Tracey
Fully rigid rather than a hard tail, but this is the very lovely SLX double with bash ring (but SS'd on this bike)
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ere cheesyfeet, thats a lovely bike!
where do you ride?
the step in question was a "creative" line off stanage edge (the to big rock slabs at the top, i attempted to "change lines" and ended up hopig the bke straight onto the big ring.
The rest of the time hoping/weeliing/maualing keeps them off the ground.
bashed mine yesterday messing about on ledges, benches and steps round town. admittedly didn't bash it on the steps.....
also means i can ride about in a pair of jeans without worrying about the trouser leg getting caught or dirtied by the outer ring.
yay! bash guard! i want some sort of device on the fixie/ss for the same reason of not cutting up my jeans. don't want to resort to weaering my sister's jeans......
Thanks MrNutt ๐
I do really like it, as evidenced by the amount of cleaning it gets!!














