coolest chain giude eva
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the website looks kinda old.
these are cool, fork guards. im going to find out about some for my avy
these are cool, fork guards. im going to find out about some for my avy
the fork guards looks nice !
Carbon Fiber. 
mrp has a carbon boomerang and bashguard now too. i saw it at beyond bikes in the shop
not sure ill ask next time i call em
the carbon mrp is like 250 or so
how come nothing on the www.mhdsa.com site seems to have been updated since 2002.......?
Evils are $130. IMO, the coolest guide is the Gamut. (www.gamutusa.com) Just plain aluminum (except for their cool new plastic one), and half the weight of an MRP.
what the hell, another chainguide maker that doesnt actually show an assembled or mounted product. Anyone know what a decent website is supposed to look like?black noise said:
what, you can totally see it in action here dude.....zedro said:
The SRS formula MSRP was $250, and used a totally custom all pre-preg carbon composite back plate and special thinner bashguard. We sold quite a few, and they were very successful in 4X racing, Thomas Allier and a couple other riders raced them for 2004. In the end, we decided that the thinner bashguard just wasn't up to our standards for DH use. For 2006 you can bet we have some new tricks.
I get a kick out of people calling a .125 inch thick piece of aluminum a "bashguard". Seems more like a liability to fold into your chainring with any impact. The new crop of polycarbonate bashrings out there are pretty comical also. It takes a lot more than just buying some lexan from your local plastic supplier and then blindly attacking it with a mill to make a usable product. Time will tell all though!
Dave
I get a kick out of people calling a .125 inch thick piece of aluminum a "bashguard". Seems more like a liability to fold into your chainring with any impact. The new crop of polycarbonate bashrings out there are pretty comical also. It takes a lot more than just buying some lexan from your local plastic supplier and then blindly attacking it with a mill to make a usable product. Time will tell all though!
Dave
I got scabs that are thicker than that!dw said:
I agree!! It's much more fun to blindly attack the real deal.dw said:
How well would a carbon chain gaurd work? I mean, if you smoke it hard enough wont it shatter?
I'll stick with my plastic ones thanks muchly, i'm not that much of a weight weenie
P.S. They do look pimp tho
I'll stick with my plastic ones thanks muchly, i'm not that much of a weight weenie
P.S. They do look pimp tho
The problem is the fact that the wording is abused and mis-used all the time. There are chainguides and bashguards. Two separate pieces most of the time. Some chainguides have no plates at all. Some plates are simply for guiding the chain, not protecting the whole system. Some companies, live Evil/E13 combine a chainguide with a bashguard into one integral system, while most others do not. So, watch your wording and make dw happy!MrPrime said:
I'm customizing my own Evil guide (not E13 guide). I've got a super thin 3mm aluminum "bashguard" (
that was for dw) with the original O.G. Evil tophat guide, with some liberal machining of the boomerang. Will be damn light, though surely not as tough. I don't hit rocks and logs at 30mph.
Your questions are answered here in an independent review here:MrPrime said:How well would a carbon chain gaurd work? I mean, if you smoke it hard enough wont it shatter?
I'll stick with my plastic ones thanks muchly, i'm not that much of a weight weenie
P.S. They do look pimp tho
http://www.dropmachine.biz/reviews/site/livid.php
i took mine, mounted it on my FSA spider and mounted that on the spindle of my bench grinder. Wind it up to a couple thousand RPM, stick a file in there and let the plastic fly!spookydave said:I agree!! It's much more fun to blindly attack the real deal.
yes this is very true. but protecting or not it is inevitable that you are going to nail something with the system whether it be a stray log that wasnt there before or some randomly placed rock that you didnt ever see. personally i would like to know that my guide or bashguard is going to withstand the accidental along with the intentanal. so my rule of thumb is stay away from carbon fiber on a dh bike. i know alot of people are going to disagree im just stating an opinion.
and bulldog thanks for clearing that up for us.
I was under the impression that polycarbonates like being machined as slower speeds... otherwise, I'd think there'd be melting issues from heat build up...
dw, zedro? comments?
p6
dw, zedro? comments?
p6
thats what i'm guessing, unfortunatly my grinder doent have any speed control. It was harder to cut down than my 1/8" aluminum platesprophet6 said:
I turned that bashguard in the lathe fairly slow compared to 6061. But I'd think if you were really getting after it in a production mode you would turn up the wick a bit and use flood coolent.prophet6 said:
Am I thinkin right DW?
Waterjet or a laser woud kick ass on polycarbonate.
the hatecake looks like a cool system for more trialsy stuff, more of a gaurd than a guide however...
prophet6 said:
Holy ****, Tim Calvin lives! How the hell are ya?
I'm going to disagree with this one.
The coolest chainguide ever would have to be - E13 SRS with Custom Red Supercharger milled to 3/4 thickness, with the rare 104/4 bolt FSA spider and 38 tooth E13 ring. A nearly unbreakable setup guaranteed to turn heads in the pits and win races across the nation. I would trust carbon chain retention devices as much as I'd trust my girlfriend with the newly single and available Brad Pitt.
The coolest chainguide ever would have to be - E13 SRS with Custom Red Supercharger milled to 3/4 thickness, with the rare 104/4 bolt FSA spider and 38 tooth E13 ring. A nearly unbreakable setup guaranteed to turn heads in the pits and win races across the nation. I would trust carbon chain retention devices as much as I'd trust my girlfriend with the newly single and available Brad Pitt.
I have the coolest most cleanest chainguide system out there 
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And mine has a sexy back side.zedro said:I have the coolest most cleanest chainguide system out there
oh ya? well so does mine....well sorta in a getto way. Cant see the countersinkingspookydave said:And mine has a sexy back side.
btw what bike is that? love the machining
