Race Face Single Narrow Wide Chainring

Comments about Race Face Single Narrow Wide Chainring:

Setup is a 1x9 raceface drivetrain. I was dropping chains frequently before upgrading to the wide/narrow chainring It seems to work really well even without a clutch rear deraileur.

Comments about Race Face Single Narrow Wide Chainring:

This ring made up part of my conversion to 1x10 along with a 42t cog on my cassette. It is important to assess your terrain and fitness when selecting the size of ring to go with.

Make sure you keep your chain clean, or you'll really feel the drag due to the tight fit of the teeth into the chain.

Comments about Race Face Single Narrow Wide Chainring:

Running a 1x10 xt drivetrain with shadow derailleur. if you ride hard, this is not the ring for you. noticed no difference between this ring and my renthal ring as far as dropping chains.....they both drop chains.

Comments about Race Face Single Narrow Wide Chainring:

I used this chain ring to convert from 2x10 to 1x10 with the HOPE components 40t T-REX. Have ridden this combo with no chain-guides and have not had any dropped chains.

Rode recently at SnowShoe bike park through knarly rock gardens and did not have any issues with dropped chains for the week. Will continue to buy this product.

Awesome works as advertised!

Comments about Race Face Single Narrow Wide Chainring:

1x10 Shimano XT Shadow with Wolftooth 42 cog in rear; all the dropped chains resulted in the chain getting wedged in between the lower pulley wheel and the cage on the rear derailleur until the cage broke. All you need to do is look at the narrow wide ring on a SRAM drivetrain, and then look at this "narrow wide" tooth pattern. Not even close to being the same. Don't waste your time.

Comments about Race Face Single Narrow Wide Chainring:

Silent, smooth, and no chain drops! I use this with a XT shadow plus med cage and a XT 11-36 cassette with a 1up 42 tooth cog on a Blur LTc. No chain retainer needed for trail ridding.

Comments about Race Face Single Narrow Wide Chainring:

I put one of these to try to tame the chain on my Blur LT. Works far better than my "bashwich" setup, costs less, weighs less than a dedicated chain guide and it's quiet.
The 30 tooth mated with 11-34 cassette gives me the gearing I need for the mountains. I'm so impressed with this product I put one on my Chameleon too.

Comments about Race Face Single Narrow Wide Chainring:

Follow-up review to original. I'm running a standard 1x9 setup using an older XT non-clutch derailleur. At first I experienced almost no chain drops, lately however, I have been getting some drops.

I assume a derailleur with clutch would help, as would a chain-guide. Not sure if the chain-ring has worn enough (15-20 rides so far) to reduce tolerance and thus chain retention or what.

Regardless, still a good enough chain-ring if a bit over-priced but I do believe you will need some sort of additional retention via guide or clutch in order to keep the chain on depending on how you ride.

Comments about Race Face Single Narrow Wide Chainring:

The product works. It holds the chain neatly. I've been running it for over 40 miles of singletrack so far and haven't dropped once. The one thing you need to consider is to install or remove spacers from your bottom bracket as to maintain a proper chainline on the biggest cogs, which is what you will be using a lot of times. I ride a hardtail with a long cage no clutch SLX rear derailleur and 11-34 rear cassette, I was expecting to have some trouble with this setup, nonetheless haven't found any. Will give it a try on the full suspension rig.

Comments about Race Face Single Narrow Wide Chainring:

Used the 32 tooth NW chainring along with a big 42 tooth cog on the cassette to do a 1x10 conversion on my Intense Carbine. I'm using it with an X9 medium cage rear derailleur. Works perfectly and hasn't dropped the chain at all after about 150 miles so far on some pretty rough trails. No problems at all, I'm very happy with it.