E13 S guide oin Tracer VP

You're not going to find a guide that you can rotate enough to hit that bottom pulley. It should work ok. the problem is going to be the first time you go over a log and bash that pulley on it... say bey bey to it. I talked back and forth with intense and they recommended talking to MRP, but would not give me a specific model that would work properly... mainly because there isn't one. MRP told me to go with the G2 mini with the ibis mojo boomerang due to its bigger angle, but even it just barely hits the chain at the bottom pulley, and I've already broken the bottom pulley due to it being lower than the bash guard. my next option once this one is totally crap will be the MRP 1.X guide .

I know you are using a front derraileur, and from what I've learned, there are no options for it due to the lower linkage

You can Dremmel a wedge in the roller slot of a Black Spire Stinger and use a flush mount tapered bolt to hold the roller inplace. It's not ideal, but was the closest thing I got to work with any sort of tension on the chain when in the granny gears or even the middle ring with the chain in the smallest cogs.
Even with that set up there was a hair width of room between the back of the Stinger and the lower linkage which meant the chain would rub in the granny gear as there was zero space to bend the Stinger back away from the chainrings.

Considering a Stinger retails for around $25 and a tapered bolt costs .25cents at a hardware store AND you can use your fancy new Turbo Charger bashguard it's not super expensive...assuming you own or know of someone who owns the means to grind a wedge in the Stinger bolt slot.

But don't feel bad. I have yet to see a new Intense anything with a correctly positioned chainguide. They're all canted back too far due to the placement of the chainstay-DH bikes included.

slcrockymountainrider said:

But don't feel bad. I have yet to see a new Intense anything with a correctly positioned chainguide. They're all canted back too far due to the placement of the chainstay-DH bikes included.

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We havn't had any luck getting a guide to fit 100% (other than the XCX or FreeChucker) as far as rotation goes. The VPP (and even more with the VPP2) design require such a dropped chainstay that most guides will not fit. The DRS has a bit of a larger profile than say our new Heim2, and I feel that the Heim2 would be a slightly better fitting dual ring system for any VPP2 bike.

With the design of the chainstay and lower VPP linkage, there simply isn't enough room to fit any sort of guide properly rotated so that it is out of harm's way. Most guides are designed so that the Bashguard hits the ground first under full compression, but as shown above with the DRS the roller would hit the ground first.

If anyone wants to talk VPP2 on a specific frame, feel free to shoot me an email!

Cheers,
philip @ e*thirteen/theHive