A well-respected friend linked me to well done steel
All-City Space Horse build. Clicking through shows a Paul dogtooth installed. I mention the look of dogtooth being an eyesore and he tells me of the latest trend of narrow/wide chainrings being used, mainly, on CX bikes. I am then given a barrage of links showing examples of these chainrings.
Example 1,
Example 2 and
Example 3.
My buddy runs one on a CX frame and another on a commuter. I am told,
"so far, no dropped chains."
So, my questions are:
1) is this the latest trend or does this idea have staying power? Has it been done before?
2) Is anyone out there running a 1x setup with a narrow/wide chainring?
3) If narrow/wide works as it seems it may, I could see this benefiting our ilk. I'm curious if there any options for the vintage crowd? The examples above are painfully modern and likely wouldn't work well for our vintage frames.