RaceFace Ride XC Single Speed Crank and MRP Chain Guide installed!

I just got my RaceFace Ride XC Singlespeed crankset and MRP Chain Guide in the mail a couple days ago and finally got the time to install it! Woot! I went with the RaceFace XC crankset because I'm going to go 1x10 on Jen's bike and also because it looks great! :) For the chain guide I was torn between the MRP, Origin-8, and e.18 guides, but I think the MRP one looks the best so I went with that. The installation was very straight-forward, the only concern I have is that since I went with the bottom bracket mounted chain guide, I hope I got the angle right on the guide, otherwise I *may* need to pull the crank, and loosen the BB in order to change the angle which would be a hude pain in the rear...that said I do think I got it right. I also removed the raceface backguard that came on the crank so I could use the MRP guide, but that was a sacrifice I knew I would make anyways, if I really wanted a bashguard I would have went with the MRP g2 mini. Look great to me!

Well....I got the stem!

So I ordered a RaceFace ride stem from Jenson mostly because it was a killer deal, and if it didn't fit on Jen's bike I figured I would put it on mine, and let her have the one from my bike if she needs a longer stem (I've been thinking about shortening my stem to quicken up the steering, but that's a different post :))

This was the RaceFace Ride 70mm stem with +6/-6 degree angle.

I also ordered a Salsa Cromoto 26" canti/disc rigid fork from Jenson, but unfortunately it got backordered and finally they sent me an email saying they were having problems getting one so I was able to cancel that order.   To my surprise I found a *killer deal* for a 2012 X-fusion enix 26"/650b (black) fork on eBay, so I'm very happy the way this fell out :)