Old 06-02-09 | 09:39 PM
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tatfiend
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Originally Posted by Bekologist
running as a double or a single? if you run just a single ring, buy a bigger chainring and pop the teeth off, then file and polish, run the toothed ring on the inside of the spider and the chainguard on the outside.
I did that on one 130mm BCD crankset to end up with a guard. The chainring on the inner mount also improved the chainline on the bike which is a IGH conversion of a originally FG frame.

Based on my searches disc type chainguards top out at 44 teeth as another poster noted.
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