SSCX Only!

Rear hub spacing?

How budget is budget? I've running a DT swiss R24 front wheel which was around £80 and a DT R460 rim(£35) built into a halo track hub(£40ish). Running tubeless

Sounds good. Are they wide rims?

23mm external. I have 40c maxxis refuse on them at the moment tubeless with no issues. The prices for the R24 seem to massively fluctuate between websites. I got mine from my LBS.

Cheers @dry

My nicely built up Pompino is for sell which is set up for SSCXing. Also some effectively new Challenge Limus could be added to the mix if you needed some nice general CX tyres. Apologies for the spam btw :(

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Does anyone have first hand experience of running a SRAM (or any other) narrow wide chainring on a singlespeed set up?

Yes, it works.

I think I did it.

Gonna do just that this season and got it from @c00ps who also ran one on a sscx rig

Cool, thanks everyone. Saves me sourcing a 38 tooth chainring.

New biek for sscx duties.

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Im building up an sscx/flatbar monstercross thing with a Dolan CDX frame I got off fleabay. I had initially planned on running an eccentric bb but it has a BB86 bottom bracket so thats not going to be doable. Whats the general consensus on running a chain with a half link vs running a normal chain with a tensioner?

You might need both to get chain tension right.

I’d go with a tensioner, it reduces the amount of faff and, despite horror stories from other people, I never had any issues with running one in a range of conditions, including full on mud.

Cheers Andy, any recommendations as to which one to go for?

I was using a Surly - which was expensive for what it was and the tension spring needs replacing from time to time.

That might be the key criteria, can you get a replacement tensioning spring should it give up the ghost.

DMR one is pretty good because it's nice and simple. You can also position it pushing the chain up and out of the way of rocks and branches

That’s a good point too, I think you want one that pushes the chain up as it gives you more engaged teeth when you are putting a lot of torque through the pedals.

I've always wanted to try narrow wide cogs: https://absoluteblack.cc/cogs.html

Bit expensive, but with a narrow wide chainring it seems like such a nice solution.

Superstar is cheaper

Interesting, could see that could work nicely, a fully narrow wide drivetrain.

Superstar only do chainrings, these are specific narrow wide singlespeed cogs.