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Will I get away with a standard chainring 1x with a clutch mech?
Depends where you ride and how happy you are to get off and put the chain back on occasionally. FWIW, my X-SYNC™ ring has been flawless on the MTB even without a clutch, whereas I was constantly dropping the chain when I had a conventional single speed ring on it.
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I did whilst racing cross the first year I ran 1X - this was before narrow wide came in 110/30 BCD flavour. I used X9 and a Thorn single chainring.
It was fine but once the chain had a season on it it would start drop occasionally.
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I have a 1x10 SRAM Rival set up with a 12-34 clutchless rear and a single speed chainring on the outside.
It grumbles a bit in the biggest two cogs but hasn’t dropped a chain in 2000km on the road including some mountains.
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My Zee derailleur/chainring has been ok so far, all on road though.
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Will I get away with a standard chainring 1x with a clutch mech? Or is N/W still necessary.