{"id":486,"date":"2010-07-29T01:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/29\/review-spot-brand-chain-guard\/"},"modified":"2010-07-29T01:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T01:21:00","slug":"review-spot-brand-chain-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/29\/review-spot-brand-chain-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Spot Brand Chain Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll let you in on a secret, I suck at jumping logs. Well that&#8217;s not true. I suck at jumping anything. I also realize I never use my big ring. I added a Spot Brand Chain Guard to my XT cranks on my mountain bike.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/TFDVn56_YWI\/AAAAAAAAC14\/A3KpFXr1SQs\/s1600\/IMG_0955.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/TFDVn56_YWI\/AAAAAAAAC14\/A3KpFXr1SQs\/s400\/IMG_0955.JPG\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I like it because it allows a little more clearance, and when it does make contact it just slides and does not bend. Also it is lighter than a big ring.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/TFDV3S5YA-I\/AAAAAAAAC2A\/6Yeoft2X3bQ\/s1600\/IMG_0952.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/TFDV3S5YA-I\/AAAAAAAAC2A\/6Yeoft2X3bQ\/s400\/IMG_0952.JPG\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It is about 3mm thick and after more than a few encounters with logs and rocks it hasn&#8217;t bent at all. It is similar to the old school rock ring from the 90s, but its not incredibly heavy and big.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a shot from the other side to get an idea of the size on a 34T chain ring.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/TFDXTmDLc1I\/AAAAAAAAC2I\/epcZLzLwAmg\/s1600\/IMG_0953.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/TFDXTmDLc1I\/AAAAAAAAC2I\/epcZLzLwAmg\/s400\/IMG_0953.JPG\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll let you in on a secret, I suck at jumping logs. Well that&#8217;s not true. I suck at jumping anything. I also realize&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,189,190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike","category-chain-guard","category-spot-brand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}