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Originally Posted by gonesh9
I've heard of people using a front deraileur mounted on without any cables, and cut shorter to act as a chain guard.

cross crusade forum topic on single ring setup

I did this for years and it works great. Just drop the deraillure down real low. I also flared it out a bit to allow for the 1'st and 8th speed chain line.



Originally Posted by worker4youth
Why not keep the 46T as is, and manually shift the front chainrings. For instance, if the course is relatively flat, and you're looking for more speed, you can manually put the chain on the 46T. All other times, you can leave in on the 42T.

This is really not a bad idea.

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The third eyes or dog fangs will fail on you I garuntee it. The chain squeezes between the plastic and the chain ring and drops to the BB and then you need a tool to loosen the dog fang to retrieve your chain. It sucks. It happened to me once and it was enough for me to never use one again.
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