Oval Mountain Bike Chainrings

Oval chainring theory supposed that your pedal stroke is at its weakest point with the pedals at a 12 to 6 position placing one leg at full extension and the other in peak contraction.

Oval mountain bike chainrings. Generally the gears on a bike are round but is that the best shape. Rrp 66 00 save up to 39 select option please select an option. Oval shape chainrings offer advantages for road and mountain bikers. When the absolute black oval chainring actually showed up in the mail i knew i was going to have to try it out but i sure as hell didn t expect to keep it on my bike.

Although the designs are very different they both serve their purpose. I mean everyone knows that oval chainrings suck and that the industry already tried it with the infamous biopace rings that shimano tried to pass off on us. Absoluteblack encourages modern mountain bikers to ride anywhere with its advanced oval chainring concept that improves rider efficiency. Home components chainrings.

Oval chainrings are effective in climbing and going over technical stuff that requires pedaling. Blackspire snaggletooth narwide oval chainring sram. Chainrings mountain gravel cx road powertrac elliptical camo stainless steel chainring bolts. The most prominent chainrings with an oval design are produced by wolf tooth components and absoluteblack with sram quickly coming up.

Designed with both xc and aggressive trail riders in mind. It will somewhat remove the learning curve of proper pedal strokes which is actually the reason why an oval chainring is not effective for every type of rider. Our long term belief in oval and development of our design has led absoluteblack to become the most commercially successful oval chainring product in the world. Wolf tooth components makes precision cycling components and accessories that make your bike faster lighter and more versatile.

Wolftooth s powertrac elliptical pte chainrings are slightly less ovalized 10 with less aggressive timing 112 than their competitors. For riders with smoother pedal strokes oval chainring may not be effective at all. Jgbike elite round oval chainring 104mm bcd 30t 32t 34t 36t 38t narrow wide single chainring for 8 9 10 11 12 speed mtb xc trail e bike fat bike mountain bike bicycle.