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mailer 02-24-08 10:00 PM
was that the kink lexan guard?

j0e_bik3 02-25-08 01:17 AM
I'm sure you guys have heard of:
taking a road double crank/chainring, and using a router to shave off the big outer rings teeth, leaving you with the small inner chainring, and now the outer ring is a bash/pants guard.

ghetto unless you make a clean cut, as I have seen some that looked like they tried it with a sawzall.

frankstoneline 02-25-08 01:35 AM
Seems like a waste, how often do you ruin chainrings? I rode BMX and mtn bikes for a long time and never fouled a chain ring, seems like it would be mighty improbable on a fixed gear. Save the cash and if you do happen to damage a chainring, you can buy 2 more and still have beer money left over afterwards instead of buying that thing and still having to occasionally replace a work out chainring.

kyle! 02-25-08 01:41 AM
overpriced and silly.

guerillaidiom 02-25-08 12:43 PM
Originally Posted by mailer (Post 6225134)
was that the kink lexan guard?
chaCHING

yo, is this brian?

NitroPye 02-25-08 12:45 PM
Seriously a MTB one is like $15

Cyclist0383 02-25-08 12:57 PM
But it's limited edition and numbered!

Originally Posted by Louis Vuitton Of Bikes Site
Milwaukee Bicycle Design & CNC'd here in Wisconsin
60 pc. Limited Edition Design Run
Each Guard will be Laser Etched with Edition Number (i.e. 23 of 60) - *see title for # availability

* Designed specifically around the Sugino 75 crankarm & 44t Sugino 75 chainring.
* With 44t Chainring - the circular windows in the guard face align with chain pins.
* It also offers protection with 45 and 46t chainrings (chain pins will not be aligned with circle cut-outs as 44t).
* Guard interlocks with chainring bolt counter-sink making chainring & guard act like one for greater strength.
* 6.5mm Thick.
* Tough 2024 T6 Aluminum.
* Hard anodized finish (Each piece will vary slightly in color, giving each guard a truly individual look).
* 144 BCD.
It pains me when bikes become status symbols.....

frankstoneline 02-25-08 02:24 PM
Originally Posted by Ziemas (Post 6228257)
But it's limited edition and numbered!



It pains me when bikes become status symbols.....
why? everything else is a status symbol. The clothes you wear, where you eat food, the car you drive (if you do), where you get your education, where you live...

deathhare 02-25-08 02:27 PM
From the look of this thead, Ben's Cycle was WAY off the mark when they designed and produced this ridiculous POS part.
I wonder how many theyve sold. Zero?

Re-Cycle 02-25-08 02:34 PM
ya jebus, a 144bcd bash guard? I picture a bash guard being good on a bike with a freewheel. On a fixed gear I think you've got bigger problems like a crank arm coming around and whacking the curb.

gargiulo.mike 02-25-08 02:39 PM
this kinda **** is why i sold my track bike and picked up a crossbike! **** yeah!

wild style 02-25-08 02:42 PM
Originally Posted by deathhare (Post 6228903)
From the look of this thead, Ben's Cycle was WAY off the mark when they designed and produced this ridiculous POS part.
I wonder how many theyve sold. Zero?
They've sold 7, actually. Not too hard to figure out.

Cyclist0383 02-25-08 02:50 PM
Originally Posted by frankstoneline (Post 6228881)
why? everything else is a status symbol. The clothes you wear, where you eat food, the car you drive (if you do), where you get your education, where you live...
Um, no. I don't spend fantastic sums of money on clothing or cars, or where I live for that matter, with the intention of drawing attention to myself to impress others. It's like the difference between a woman with a simple yet elegant handbag and one with a Louis Vuitton handbag. Have you ever seen a LV handbag that didn't have the LV name plastered all over it?

fender1 02-25-08 03:20 PM
$10 Bashguard
$4 Shipping

http://www.bbgbashguard.com/Cyclocross.html

Cyclist0383 02-25-08 03:22 PM
Originally Posted by fender1 (Post 6229251)
That guy makes some nice looking bashguards. Too bad there is no use for them on a fixed gear bike.....

Peedtm 02-25-08 03:26 PM
Originally Posted by Ziemas (Post 6229267)
That guy makes some nice looking bashguards. Too bad there is no use for them on a fixed gear bike.....
Or that they don't offer the same product. Only 110/130 BCD

Cyclist0383 02-25-08 03:30 PM
Originally Posted by Peedtm (Post 6229290)
Or that they don't offer the same product. Only 110/130 BCD
They make custom ones; I'm sure it wouldn't be a problem to drill one 144.

Cynikal 02-25-08 05:13 PM
Originally Posted by deathhare (Post 6228903)
From the look of this thead, Ben's Cycle was WAY off the mark when they designed and produced this ridiculous POS part.
I wonder how many theyve sold. Zero?
I wonder how off the mark they are. They could be way ahead. With all the BMX infusion into the street trackbike world I can kind of understand what they were thinking. That being said, They are overpriced and moronic for my riding style, but next week we could all be watching some youtube of some guy doing grinds on his new 75's.

mihlbach 02-25-08 06:00 PM
Maybe I'm just clueless, but I don't understand why anyone would make a track-crank specific bashgard. The whole things seems so obviously moronic to me that I'm half tempted to personally never buy anything from Ben's again. What the hell are they thinking?

NitroPye 02-25-08 06:05 PM
If you build it they will come

Obviously Shoeless Joe Jackson was a book way ahead of its time and was referring to the hipster crowd of 2008.

slopvehicle 02-25-08 06:12 PM
Originally Posted by sfcrossrider (Post 6224515)
Bash guards are used on mountain bikes in rocky, or wooded areas so your chainring doesn't get "bashed" on rocks, or at log crossings. If you're in those areas on a bike with 700c tires... you're either stupid, or John Tomac.
please, think of the 29ers (and so-called "monster cross" bikes). they have 700c tires. and maybe bashguards.

sfcrossrider 02-25-08 08:36 PM
Originally Posted by gargiulo.mike (Post 6228986)
this kinda **** is why i sold my track bike and picked up a crossbike! **** yeah!
Good choice. Now build yourself a nice ss/fg cross bike if you haven't already. The further you distance yourself from your shameful past the better.

marqueemoon 02-25-08 08:57 PM
I'll wait for the jewel-encrusted one to come out.


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