Velo Orange Chainguard
Bill sent me this photo of a Velo Orange alloy chainguard and custom protector ring mounted on his Surly Long Haul Trucker. This is one of the most attractive aftermarket chainguard installs I’ve seen; nice work, Bill! Here’s his description:
This is my LHT (Truckaccino) City Bike with the Alfine 8-speed rear hub. I’m using a 38 tooth chainring up front and it looked “lonely” in the large opening of my new VO chain guard. So I took an old 50 tooth chainring – hacksawed off the teeth – and used a hand file to smooth out the circumference – and mounted it on the cranks in the outer position. A perfect fit! Fills the opening of the VO chain guard perfectly. My 38T chainring is not lonely anymore.
9 Responses to “Velo Orange Chainguard”
that is nice work.
Congrats .
I wish I could use a file as good as you .. mine would look like ……..
Thor
I agree. That doesn’t look hacksawed and filed down at all. Real nice work.
That is beautiful and non-human =)
The beauty of a camera lens and the fact that the bike is at an angle to hide all my “hand file” gouges, file scars and mistakes. Not perfect – but “good enough”!
Thanks for your kind comments on my chainring guard.
Nice looking and clean installation. I’ve been contemplating putting a chain guard on my singlespeed roadster and seeing how nice it looks will hopefully inspire me to install one myself. Right now I have a protector ring made out of chainring also, only I used a bench grinder and did the final touchup with a file. It probably took less than an hour to produce something that turned out looking pretty good, if I do say so myself.
Looks great. I made a light bashguard for my SS cross bike this way, but doesn’t look as close as anice as this one. Finally something to do with all those left over chainrings
I’ve also done similarly on my RANS Street w/ Xtracycle. It has a usual 42/32/22 triple up front. Found that I never bothered with the big ring. Took it off, ground down the teeth, smoothed it out, now its a functional guard, keeps my pants from getting greased. For the rest of the chain I have it running through a chaintube, a’la recumbent bike style.
Wow that is a awesome looking “bash guard” very nice. I have been thinking about the VO chainguard for a 1×8 build and I think this shot convinced me. Thanks Bill and Alan
Very tidy indeed! Good work there!