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Blackspire
Spire Ring God
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Submitted by
Marcel C
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from hamilton, ON, Canada
Date Reviewed: July 3, 2005 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$30.00 | | Strengths: | everything | | Weaknesses: | nothing | | Similar Products Used: | truvativ bashguard, e13 superchanger | | Bottom Line: | metal bash gaurd, better than truvativ and cheaper than e13 KUDOS | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
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Warren From Tahoe
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from North Shore (Tahoe)
Date Reviewed: April 22, 2004 | | Favorite Trail: | Northstar, Tyrolian DH | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$35.00 | | Purchased At: | Universal Cycles | | Strengths: | Easy to install, bomber, looks excellent, adds more clearance for going over rocks, logs, etc. | | Weaknesses: | None, unless you are a weight weeny. | | Similar Products Used: | NONE | | Bike Setup: | 2000 SC Bullit- | | Bottom Line: | This is a good product- it looks nice, functions and adds clearance and protection from objects. This is one of the smartest upgrades I have made to my Freeride/DH bike. I highly recommend this product. It works, no complaints. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Tim
a Downhiller
from BETHESDA MD USA
Date Reviewed: April 8, 2003 | | Favorite Trail: | NORTH SHORE | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Purchased At: | AWESOME FRIEND | | Strengths: | BEEFY KEEPS THE CHAIN ON KEEPS ME FROM TOTALLY RUINING MY COGS | | Weaknesses: | NONE SO FAR | | Similar Products Used: | TRU VIATIV HUSSAFELT CHAIN TENSIONER WITH MRP ROLERS | | Bike Setup: | 2000 SPEC P3 AVID DISCS CHRIS KING HEADSET AMOEBA STEM RACEFACE AIR ALLOY BAR OURY GRIPS MARZOCCHI Z3QR20 ALEX RIMS TRU VIATIV HUSSAFELT CRANKS XT DRIVETRAIN TIOGA WHITE TIGER TIRES. | | Bottom Line: | SWEET BASHRING I HAD A REALLY COOL FRIEND WHO HAD ONE AND HE GAVE IT TO ME FOR A CHIPOTLE BURRITO AND A HAYES DISC ROTOR THAT I COULDN'T USE
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Submitted by
Tom
a Weekend Warrior
from colorado
Date Reviewed: July 19, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | west mag | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$30.00 | | Purchased At: | full cycle | | Strengths: | looks awsome and keeps my pants out of the chain rings | | Weaknesses: | none | | Similar Products Used: | none | | Bike Setup: | bike | | Bottom Line: | Really good bashring so go get one. 5 flamin' chilis for this thing | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Brian Lee-Bowens
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from Boston/Mass/USA
Date Reviewed: June 18, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | Adatash down hill | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$30.00 | | Purchased At: | Cycle Loft. Inc. | | Strengths: | Hard as hell takes on rock tree and saves on the bite marks on your legs | | Weaknesses: | there are 0 | | Similar Products Used: | nothing like it | | Bike Setup: | 2002 Trek 820 /rockshox DukeC/Icon Onyx crank/Matrix 550rims/BKspire 94mm/ | | Bottom Line: | If your down hilling your dum not to get it your saving money and a long walk down the hill! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
jack
a Downhiller
from nh
Date Reviewed: May 2, 2002 | | Favorite Trail: | your mother | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$15.00 | | Strengths: | Its really strong. It comes in different sizes to allow use up to a 38t ring. Helps keep the chain on, Adds clearence. | | Weaknesses: | None yet. | | Similar Products Used: | none, a freind of mind ground the teeth of his 42, and used that for a while untill it folded over on it'self. | | Bike Setup: | sixxer. flats. | | Bottom Line: | when i got this thing into my dorm room, my freinds and i immedialty wanted to test its strength. We slammed it up against steel bed frames, desks and chairs. It was easy to install. It works great. I have had for about six weeks, and there are nicks, but no dents.The ring is still true, and it think it will stay that way. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Joel Rose
a Downhiller
from sydney , newsouthwales , australia
Date Reviewed: October 25, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | red hill / morgan road | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$80.00 | | Purchased At: | belrose bikes | | Strengths: | Impossible to break , mad looking , stops my pants from ripping. | | Weaknesses: | loose the big ring! | | Similar Products Used: | big ring! | | Bike Setup: | apollo LDH2.4 with tioga bear trap pedals | | Bottom Line: | This is it , if u wanna save your chainrings this is the one!!! indestructable and mad looking aswell. the price paid above is in Australian dollars | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Pete
a Weekend Warrior
from Seattle, WA
Date Reviewed: September 4, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Tapeworm | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$30.00 | | Purchased At: | The Downhill Zone | | Strengths: | This thing is so strong its just not right. I have smashed this thing into concrete boxes many many times all it does is scrathches. Looks extremely cool (laser etched graphics). My pants don't get stuck in the chainrings anymore. | | Weaknesses: | Absolutely none | | Similar Products Used: | Other Blackspire Ring Gods | | Bike Setup: | 2000 Kona CinderCone, Marzocchi Z3 coil, Sun Rhyno Lite XL rims on LX Hubs, XT-XTR shifting. | | Bottom Line: | Wonderful product, one that stands up to the abuse that it advertises. The guys at Blackspire are dudes who are dedicated to making a product with honesty, durability, and care. If you have 30 dollars go buy a Ring God, they are worth every penny and you will be pleased.-------Ride your bike places it saves gas--------- | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Simon North
a Downhiller
from Delta BC
Date Reviewed: February 25, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Severed dick | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$22.00 | | Purchased At: | Cove Bikes | | Strengths: | Bloody solid protection for a small price. I hit a rock the other day so hard I chipped a tooth(IN MY MOUTH) but no
damage to the teeth that really mattered. | | Weaknesses: | Be nice to get one in a color that matches my cranks | | Similar Products Used: | None. First time user. Probably the last one I will ever need.
| | Bike Setup: | Rocky Mountain Element | | Bottom Line: | This is a way good product. I would recc' to my friends, but they already have them, so I guess they already knew the
score. Another good thing was the price. I think it was the best $35.00 I ever spent.Another Canadian product. Good Stuff | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Pascal C
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from Alberta, Canada
Date Reviewed: February 21, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | urban trials | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$35.00 | | Strengths: | Super strong, nearly unbreakable. KEEPS YOUR PANTS OUT OF THE CHAIN!!!!! | | Weaknesses: | Eventually becomes nicked when frequently smashed into concrete! | | Similar Products Used: | Race Face | | Bike Setup: | GT Backwoods - Judy SL - Black Spire cranks - Deore XT derailers - rino lite rims | | Bottom Line: | This is the strongest bash ring I have evewr tried. It beats the Race Face one which has to be the only poor product that they make. Black Spire has to be my favorite bike company because everything they make rules. Their cranks are awesom along with their ass-kickin chain rings.
Another wicked thing about bash rings is that they SAVE your pants. You can ride with bell bottoms ant the seams will not get torn on your chain rings.
This is the greatest investment I have ever made in my bike. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Alex
a Weekend Warrior
from Alberta, Canada
Date Reviewed: November 26, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | anywhere in K-country | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$30.00 | | Purchased At: | Bowcycle | | Strengths: | Beefy, laser etched graphics, tuff | | Weaknesses: | can't be rotated, so one side gets clobered
had to special order | | Similar Products Used: | home made | | Bike Setup: | sworks m2, SID-SL, xtr rear-de, xt brakes, easton bar, North shore RaceFace cranks | | Bottom Line: | designed by the bad boys in the North Shore! It's gotta b good and it is!
whoever sed its too bendable, um.. i dont think so, u've gotta b like that fat guy off of wwf,,, um... rikish to be able to bend this band ass ring!
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Submitted by
bob
a Cross Country Rider
from ns, canada
Date Reviewed: November 3, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | wrandees | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Purchased At: | cyclesmith | | Strengths: | great graphics, ground clearance, didn't need that big ring anyway! tough | | Weaknesses: | none | | Similar Products Used: | girvin rock ring-not the same | | Bike Setup: | c-dale jekyll w/ lefty. discs, huge tioga tires, 646's, thompson post, titec bar, hugi rear hub | | Bottom Line: | this is one great canadian product. good price. you never really know what your hitting until you take off that big ring! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Xman
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from New Zealand
Date Reviewed: May 24, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | Fat as! very strong, leap tall park benches & logs in a single bound. | | Weaknesses: | none found so far. | | Similar Products Used: | Vuelta ring protector | | Bike Setup: | 99 XCR 4000, Maguras, Hutchinson Jumbos, Fizik Atlas, Alex double wall DH rims, Kore Strictly D bars. | | Bottom Line: | If you ride any distance on the road or are wanting to race anywhere really this ain't for you. If what you're after is a way of increasing ground clearance and chainring survivability while Freeriding / streetriding/ trials then you can't go past this bit of kit for practicality. (and it looks knarly too. Great graphics).
I guess its really a bit like GTs description for the Zaskar X - "If you don't get it, we don't want to explain it" | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
BRANDON JOHNSON
a Weekend Warrior
from HESPERIA SO.CAL.
Date Reviewed: April 18, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | TopSecret | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | Thicker than a beefeater!!
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The ground clearance of a monster truck!! | | Weaknesses: | It could probably use some liposuction, or maybe a few drill-holes to lighten it up. Oh, nevermind I'm from Cali. | | Similar Products Used: | 44 tooth big-ring, just wouldn't slide over stuff as well. | | Bike Setup: | 19" COVE Stiffee, 99 Z2BAM, King, RaceFace, KookaRachas, XTR,SDG, Tioga2.3, AtomLab Trailpimp platform-peds!! | | Bottom Line: | This chunk of aluminum forces you to stay in "PLAY-MODE". After removing the big-ring, I realized how much energy was wasted cranking on all those teeth. Now I have more energy on reserve to climb and PLAY!!
Playing is my reason to ride.
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Submitted by
Tom Fitz
a Cross Country Rider
from Seattle
Date Reviewed: February 3, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Fidalgo Island | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | price; graphics; does what it says it will do | | Weaknesses: | can't flip, can only be put on one way; noticably heavier than the big ring it replaced | | Similar Products Used: | smooth skid plate on my '73 Bultaco Sherpa T! | | Bike Setup: | Proflex 755; Noleen elt front, ODS rear; Richey max tire front, Conti comp pro 1 rear; xt 8sp (11-30), 20-32 front. | | Bottom Line: | Excellent for old slow duffers like me who never use big ring on trails, as well as trials hotshots; still learning to take on big logs and rocks, but in one ride I could see big difference in ease of hopping 12" logs. Probably not much use in the southwest, but perfect around here. Those BC freaks rule! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Chris Childs
a Cross-Country Rider
from Seattle Washington
Date Reviewed: December 29, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
less than 1 month | | Strengths: |
Very sturdy. Great Graphics. Priced right. | | Weaknesses: |
None | | Similar Products Used: |
None | | Bike Setup: |
Cannondale | | Bottom Line: | I needed somehing to protect my inner ring
when trials riding, and this ring does the job. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jon Mutiger
a Downhiller
from Oshawa, Ontario
Date Reviewed: August 27, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
Boomerang, Bromont | | Duration Product Used: |
6 months | | Strengths: |
Strong, looks good, laser etched graphic. Way stronger than competitors products. | | Weaknesses: |
Not being able to flip But, the added beef is worth it. | | Similar Products Used: |
Rock ring | | Bike Setup: |
1997 Rocky Mountain Speed, 5.5 rear travel, freeride bike. DH, Trials, trails,k everything | | Bottom Line: | I love my ring god. My fear of wrecking bike components has decreased alot since installing it. The only problem, is I still think landing full impact on concrete can't be good for your bike. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Sherman
a Weekend Warrior
from British Columbia, Canada
Date Reviewed: July 25, 1999 | | Duration Product Used: |
1 Year | | Strengths: |
Strong, nice looks, long wear, easy to install | | Weaknesses: |
Cannot be flipped or rotated. | | Bike Setup: |
Trials bike | | Bottom Line: | This is a good product. If you ride trials and want to keep the middle ring for getting places then this is great. This ring is beefy and lasts a long time. It is also great for technical trails with a lot of drop offs or logs. It slides right over logs. The downside like I said, is the fact that it cannot be flipped or rotated. Usually one edge of the ring is worn out more because of the way people place their feet. Therefore one side of the ring will look almost brand new while the other side is wrecked. Gotta knock off one star for this flaw. | Overall Rating: |
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