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Description:CNC cut from 6061-T6 aluminum
Available in 6 bolt patterns
Mount in place of the large outer ring to cover middle and granny
Color : Anodized Black
Bolt Circle : 94 | 104 | 110 | 112 |
sugino : 94 | 104
Weight : 190g | 170g | 220g | 155g |
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Submitted by
Chase
a Downhiller
from Pagosa Springs CO, USA
Date Reviewed: March 28, 2007 | | Favoriate Trail: | Log Chutes | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | Came On bike | | Strengths: | Beefy, super strong. Paint holds up to the abuse. Worry free, bolt it on and thrash it! | | Weaknesses: | None, maybe a bit heavy, but you won't notice it when your big ring is still alive. | | Similar Products Used: | none | | Bike Setup: | 03' Bullit, 05' Boxxer Race, Progressive 5th Element, Blackspire Bash Guard, Goodrich Brake lines | | Bottom Line: | Amazing bash guard. Anyone who says they bent it first day out is a douche bag and needs to learn how to ride. Buy this if you don't want to worry about hitting stuff. This WILL save your big ring, end of story. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
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chris
a Downhiller
from oakland, ca
Date Reviewed: January 18, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Purchased At: | came with bike | | Strengths: | EXTREMELEY durable | | Weaknesses: | none | | Bike Setup: | super 8, super t | | Bottom Line: | This chain guide has gotten beaten up relentlessely by me over the years, and shows only minor cosmetic damage, no bends or snything of that nature. I will definately get this for my next rig | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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chris lee
a Weekend Warrior
from bby,bc,canada
Date Reviewed: July 21, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$20.00 | | Strengths: | NONE!!! | | Weaknesses: | BROKE IN ONE DAY | | Similar Products Used: | My BIG RING | | Bike Setup: | 2003 NORCO BIGFOOT | | Bottom Line: | DONT GET THIS RING IF U ARE A HARD CORE RIDER THIS WONT DO ANYTHING I BROKE IT GOING OVER A LOG AND IT TOTALLY BENT USED LESS | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
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Zak
a Downhiller
from Boulder CO
Date Reviewed: April 3, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$30.00 | | Purchased At: | The Fix | | Strengths: | Works just like it's suposed too | | Weaknesses: | mabye a little heavy if your really conserned about that wieght | | Similar Products Used: | my big ring | | Bike Setup: | Schwinn hardtail with mostly azonic and raceface parts | | Bottom Line: | I love this thing I don't ever have to think smashing my big ring, I am on my seconed one (becasue I changed my crank bolt spacing) because I love my first one | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Buster
a
from Austin
Date Reviewed: October 27, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$35.00 | | Purchased At: | WebCyclery | | Strengths: | Strong... simple... fits... does it's job. | | Weaknesses: | None. | | Bike Setup: | Stuff n Puff | | Bottom Line: | This thing is built like a BMX street chainring. It's tough and simple. No frilly stuff of fancy machining that might undermine it's strength. It's built from thick aluminum and fits both my RF Prodigy cranks and Shimano XT cranks without problem.
I ride mostly XC stuff, but the trails in the area are rocky with lots of uphill ledges. Stuff that'll chew up the big ring fast. Since I don't use a big ring, I slapped this on and have been impressed with it's durability. There are many chips and scrapes, but nothing that will cause breakage or failure. And, of course, my chain and rings all stay in good shape too. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
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BRAD
a Weekend Warrior
from Stettler
Date Reviewed: October 7, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | Anywhere | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$25.00 | | Purchased At: | Bow Cycle | | Strengths: | Great Product, it does what it is supposed to... i used to qiver and turn away from big rocks and logs to save the rings but now i just go over em. | | Weaknesses: | not rotatable so one spot gets bashed up | | Bike Setup: | Psylo Sl, XTR deraileurs, brakes shifters, Rhyno Lite Rims | | Bottom Line: | Good Product, buy one now! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Elton Chiang
a Downhiller
from Calgary, AB
Date Reviewed: September 7, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | PowderFace Link | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$20.00 | | Purchased At: | MEC | | Strengths: | Very Strong and does what it's suppose too. | | Weaknesses: | no teeth so a little difficult over logs. | | Similar Products Used: | Bent my chainring | | Bike Setup: | Klein Mantra, XTR gruppie, JR T Pro, | | Bottom Line: | This product is cheap and does its job. Had a few bangs on rocks and logs, without it I would be toothless. Excellent and would recommend to have. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Greg
a Weekend Warrior
from Dundas, ON
Date Reviewed: August 8, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Purchased At: | Freewheel Cycle | | Strengths: | Does what is supposed to do. Easy to put on. Looks pretty cool too | | Weaknesses: | might be nice if it had some grip on it to help bring you over logs, but no biggy...that would probably jack up the price anyways. if you are worried about the weight, you probably wouldn't use this thing anyways, so that is not an issue | | Similar Products Used: | my poor race face chainring | | Bike Setup: | does it matter? | | Bottom Line: | what can i say, this thing does it's job extremely well. I used to cringe at big rocks or walk my bike over them to spare my expensive chainring the damage. no more of that!!! the extra clearance you get is sweet and i don't have to live in fear of seeing teeth go flying. super easy to install. buy it, its cheap and does the job. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Martin
a Cross Country Rider
from Kitchener
Date Reviewed: May 1, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | my secret | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$20.00 | | Purchased At: | MEC | | Strengths: | Does what it should do. Relatively inexpensive. | | Weaknesses: | none so far | | Similar Products Used: | I've busted teeth on chainrings if that counts! | | Bike Setup: | some parts n' stuff | | Bottom Line: | It works. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Mike
a Weekend Warrior
from Vancouver
Date Reviewed: August 27, 2001 | | Favoriate Trail: | Downtown Vancouver | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$30.00 | | Purchased At: | Westpoint Cycles | | Strengths: | The Product is strong. I can take large chunks out of concrete walls and not notice it. It's amazing what a 7mm(?) thick block of aluminim can do to would be problems. | | Weaknesses: | None. And if you wine that it has a mass greater than that of a normal ring, and you find this a problem you do not deserve to be riding one. | | Similar Products Used: | none. And rightly so! | | Bike Setup: | Small RM Oxygen Race, Hacked seatpost, Welgo Alien Flats, DH bars and the all important rigid fork | | Bottom Line: | If you think you have what it takes Get this NOW!!!!
A MUST for Urban Trials | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Sal Mellander
a Weekend Warrior
from Dayton, Ohio
Date Reviewed: October 17, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$28.00 | | Purchased At: | LBS special order | | Strengths: | Extra ground clearance for going over... everything! Protects the rings you really use. Beefy, it must help keep the spider from flexing! | | Weaknesses: | Weight, if you're watching the lbs. But not really that bad if you're considering this type of product. | | Similar Products Used: | My bent big ring with 1/4 of the teeth half gone provided this function previously. | | Bike Setup: | Gary Fisher X-Caliber, XT crank, Blackspire "chuck" granny, Thudbuster post, everything else still stock. | | Bottom Line: | This product really works well at it's intended function. Word of warning... the 4 arm 104mm ring god does not fit on a Bontrager crank, only Shimano. All in all this component is a good addition if you are riding technical single track. I don't miss my big ring at all. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Alex
a Weekend Warrior
from Calgary, Canada
Date Reviewed: October 14, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | anywhere in K-country | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$20.00 | | Purchased At: | Bow Cycle | | Strengths: | North Shore proven
clearance -- takes place of big ring (which i don't use much anyway!)
Laser-etched graphics and kewl stickers
easy installation, just remove bolts on ur spider, attach, then screw eveyrthin back in
Price -- only bout 32 in cdn dollars (i hav no clu what that is in american) | | Weaknesses: | non-rotatable, so only one side will end up gettin mashed
kinda heavy | | Similar Products Used: | homemade bash ring, girvin rock ring | | Bike Setup: | sworks m2 frame, w/ XTR rear-d, XT brakes, SID-SL, mavic sup 517, easton stem, monkeybar, XT hubs, IRC tires | | Bottom Line: | The big ring is pretty useless and it get banged up at times too, so i don't miss it that much! protects, provides clearance, loox cool, north shore proven, pretty good for balancing!
Ask your local bike shop fer a deal, cuz the price most places sell if for is a tad expensiv... get it fer at least no GST (sales tax), or about 10 bux off!... depending on how well u kno ur bike shop buds!
GO BUY IT NOW, ITS DA SHAT!!!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
tim bugbee
a Weekend Warrior
from north andover
Date Reviewed: June 7, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | dutch creek, durango | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | - clearance. the number one reason to get one. allows you to float over logs and rocks that fellow riders will be scraping over and slamming into.
- strength. this ring (meant to replace the big ring, unlike the rock ring) is machined out of thick aluminum. bending it is probably not an option, your spider will likely bend before this does.
- protection. missing chainring teeth will be a thing of the past.
- sizes. the rings come in many difference sizes and bolt patterns, so you can likely find one that will fit whatever crank you happen to use.
- misc. the laser-etched graphics and sticker rock!
- ease of installation. the cutout for the crank arm is very wide. i've had a couple of other bash rings where i had to cut out/file down material so that the ring could fit on the cranks. not so w/ this one. also, the chainring bolt holes are beveled, ensuring a snug fit when tightened.
- cost. about the same as a big ring, will last a lot longer. | | Weaknesses: | - the cutout means that you can only mount this in one direction, and rotating the ring is not possible. | | Similar Products Used: | threshold design bash ring
robin coope custom ring | | Bike Setup: | xc ride:
spooky pit boss w/ z1, hope disks and hubs, race face everything else (uses two chainrings).
trials bike:
schwinn homegrown, maguras, c-dale rigid al fork, flats, rhyno/lx wheels, single 22T chainring w/ ring god bash ring. | | Bottom Line: | i'll never use a big ring again. unless you race, do a lot of fire road riding, or are super fit, how often do you really use the big ring? the advantages of using a bash ring far outweigh using a big ring, esp if you ride a lot of technical trails and aren't afraid of a little extra weight. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
charlie
a Cross Country Rider
from kinnelon, nj, usa
Date Reviewed: June 7, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | watchung | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | well, its, errr, strength | | Weaknesses: | it's a wee bit heavier than my old big ring, actually it is probably a wee bit heavier than a few of my old big rings | | Similar Products Used: | girvin rock ring, blackspire xc ring guard(you get to keep all 3 with this one) | | Bike Setup: | trials/xc | | Bottom Line: | the blackspire ring god is fantastic for lots of reasons. i got mine in north van as partially a souvenier, partially a component. it increases your cround clearance by a few centimetres or so and you will never have trouble tuning your front derailleur again, as going between two chainrings is a fairly easy lifestyle for it. the rockring that i had used to be a little wobbly when i was balanced on it, but no more with the ring god. its thickness alone can attest to its strength. on the downside, i had to file off the opening a little bit to get it onto my cranks, but it was very minor and took little more than a minute.if you can find one, go for it. all the better if you can get it with a blackspire sticker(they are rather rockin themselves). if you just ride regular old xc, i would not go for one, either a rock ring or the xc ring from blackspire will do nicely, but if you are playing around with trials seriously at all, then it is a good idea to go for at least a ring god(although total trials guards where you onle get to keep the small ring are probably a better bet than the ring god as most of them have 'teeth' that will bite into logs and the sort). it is a great product from a great company, 5 flamin chillis from the jersey boy!
(and if you can get the canadian/us exchange rate by getting it in canada, it's mighty inexpensive too!) | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
PUFF
a Weekend Warrior
from Vancouver BC ( North shore)
Date Reviewed: April 3, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | Yup All of them | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | Save the sweet raceface ring | | Weaknesses: | nope none does what its supposed to | | Similar Products Used: | none | | Bike Setup: | Stock Y2Kona Roast | | Bottom Line: | This ring protector is the bomb I got the one that protects the big ring. I like to go fast as well as hop ring killer logs and this baby rock's those logs and saves my teeth ...
you can buy one the replaces your big ring or one that protects it ..choice is yers
GET ON THEY WORK | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
The Commish
a Racer
from Nanaimo
Date Reviewed: July 21, 1999 | | Favoriate Trail: |
The Abyss | | Duration Product Used: |
6 months | | Strengths: |
Saves your big ring from being trashed on logs and rocks, and looks cool while doing it. | | Weaknesses: |
Loss of big ring, but if you need this product you probably don't use it that much anyways. | | Bike Setup: |
giant fram with white industries crancs, bmx flats, azonic shorty stem, maitou fork and xt components. | | Bottom Line: | This simple product (a round peice of aluminum which replaces your big ring) has saved me a lot of money in big ring replacements. If you have problems grinding the teeth off your rings I would recomend this product to you. Its a cool product which gives the user much more confidence clearing logs and rocks. | | Overall Rating: |
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