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So, for those of you that are into more extreme riding downhill, free riding, dirt jumping,
all that sort of stuff -- I'm going to walk you through some simple steps, just some good
visual guidelines that you can see to properly setup a chain guide. In this specific instance,
it's going to be a chain guide made by a company called E-13, called the LG1. So, first step
when installing a chain guide: remove the cranks that you have on your bike if you have
a double or a triple ring setup. So, I've already done that for you, because no one
wants to watch me do that and I have put on a single chain ring. In this case, it's a
38-tooth chain ring. You can see for the LG1 setup you use washers and where the large
chain ring used to be, double chain ring bolts, and then the single chain ring on this side.
Very flush, nothing comes out from the back. If you're going to use an E-13 SRS setup,
it would instead be your chain ring goes in the middle chain ring position, and the supercharger
bash guard goes in the big ring position. And both of these are equally effective keeping
your chain on. The LG1, a little bit better in the mud and significantly lighter. So,
after you've removed your crank arms using your crank puller and everything like that
from your bike, or if it's a two-piece crank setup by undoing it properly and tapping it
out, the next step is going to be removing your bottom bracket, so you can sandwich in
the guide plate with your bottom bracket shell. Unless you have special flanges on your bike
-- if your bike was designed for extreme use it might have flanges that are on the
bike that bolt up.