Flicking through mbr I came across a bit about fitting a chain guide and bashring.

I never use my big ring or the bottom few gears on the granny, so what are your thoughts on going to a dual ring setup and possibly getting slightly larger granny and middle rings?

Has any one done this? sucsessfully or not.

Thanks

i only rin two rings now, and im in the process of removing the large ring for a 32tooth bach guard. I dont miss the big ring as i dont do much road/fire road riding, and the extra bit of clearance will help whilst ridign over large obstacles.

alex, if you commute on your bike, DON'T DO IT!

if you do tough stuff, give it a go, but keep your ring, it doesn't take long to change if you want to go xc or summit for a day

I run a 26/36 plus bash guard set up on one of my bikes and really like it.
It gives a very versitile spread of gears.

I dont commute and dont use the bg ring so I will go dual ring when I can afford it.

Thanks, everyone

I'm going Dual ring, when I can afford 2 bash guards on my bikes.

The Extre Gearing from the big ring is only worth 3mph on the top speed, only useable on flat dry ground pretty much.

I don't peddle going down, unless I'm racing a mate and want a boost

I've seen green e.thirteen bash rings, but I have a feeling they are oem only, can anyone shead any light on that?

I'm wondering if a few washers will enable fitting the middle ring without needing a bash guard.

Lighter and Cheaper :)

Won't look as good

:)

Another reason to do it, anti bike snob me.

Bikes are for riding, not for looking at!!!!

"Bikes are for riding, not for looking at!!!!"


Exactly, who is going to see your bling bike when it's covered in mud, nobody thats who ......ha ha!!!

:-)

See through e.thirteen Superchargers are best, then you can admire your expensive RaceFace chainrings through them.
Bikes are for riding AND looking at.

I am running a 22/36 with an 11-34 at the rear with the e-thirteen DRS and bashring. I have had it on the bike for a few months now, and it is excelent.

The reason I went for it in the end was that I was sick of dropping the chain on the nasty stuff, even with a short chain and a short cage rear mech. The DRS is a wonder and I have never lost a chain since - even backpedalling. It's also super quiet, so you hardly notice its there. However, I was concerned about losing the top end, which is why I went to a 36 from a 32. This makes a lot of difference. Now I am only missing the top two (from memory) gears effectively that I used to have with the 44/12 (which I never used unless on the road).

This is a super setup for general riding and perfect for DH thrashing, but you have to get used to your new gear combos.....its amazing how you take forgranted which gear combo you should be in (i.e. mid ring/largest at the rear) when you see a gradient, only to find that your new gear combo is miles higher/lower than it was before!! Takes some time to get used to, mainly downshifting from the 36 to the 22 (requires you to shift up a bit at the back to avoid a huge downshift).

For me - well worth it to keep the chain on at full tilt, but for others it will depend if you find this is a problem. Clearance wise, the 36T supercharger is the same size as my old 44 ring was, so you are gaining nothing there. Grounding out will be less expensive rather than less frequent.

Hope this helps.

36 would make sense, less of a gear over lap, how come the same size ?? has it got a chain ring similar size to a 44 then ??

I have a bash ring, in fact I have removed all the gears and now run a SS (2:1 - 32:16) was going to leave the middle ring alone, but then thought that a bash ring would look nice (bikes for looking at and riding, and then smothering with love!!!!!)

Might get some pics up today actually...

I'm going to run a bashring once I've got my bike built up.

Has anyone had any experience with the truvative hussefelt crankset?

Got a husslefelt on the GT for 2years+ other than ISIS BB's being shite, it's fine but how would it not be ?

( originally had a bash ring, shop replaced before I bought it )