It's a temporary solution to a larger problem. I do have narrow wide chainring up front, but without clutch derailleur I'm getting a lot of chain slap which leads to drops. My other issue is chain line..... I dumped the front group set and mounted a single ring on the existing BB (crappy shimano octalink thats not compatible with anything) so now there's a gap between the crank and the frame. In the perfect world I would replace the BB, crankset, and rear derailleur and be fine...but for now I need a quick fix.
Maybe? What would that attach to, though?
that works with an external BB
Whats the cost difference between a new clutch RD and this chain guide? $20?
The end goal was to dump all of the shimano components for SRAM, but that means I need to do brakes at the same time unless I want to deal with mount adapters for the shifter, which is why I was just looking for a temporary fix. You're right though, just saw shimano XT with clutch on amazon for $50.... Probably going to give that a try.
It’s dropping in every direction. I may throw one of these hacks together but the only real fix will be to dump the octalink for a real BB and throw some legit components on there. Would rather pawn it off on some other poor soul and go max my credit on something completely unnecessary at this point.
I’ll go halfsies on the spearfish if I get it on race day.
Excellent close up.It's not awesome, but I've done it before with a Octalink BB and a BB mounted MRP 1x. I rode it for at least a year before it exploded:
