I grind on my right side, and I'm a bitch about hurting my bike if preventable so I've got hub guards, I finally built a LHD wheel and got that all setup, and am now thinking the only thing missing is a guard sprocket. It looked like the only way for me to guard the *inside* of my sprocket was to get odyssey's MDS and the separate attachment guard (almost $100 altogether), but then I found people who ride guard sprockets with the guard facing inward, and have gotten anecdotal information from two others that *their* frames take a 28t guard sprocket facing inward (a la guardia on an atf frame, and an mds on a soundwave frame), but I have no way to be sure without actually fitting them so am here hoping for some advice! I currently ride 28t, but wanted to switch down to 27t (I may consider 26t, if it was the only way to get a guard sprocket installed facing inward), but right now my 28t sprocket is ~4mm away from my chainstays (on my 2012 united SU2 supreme) so I just can't imagine that a guarded 28t mds or la guardia would fit.... I *may* be able to bribe a local rider to let me take his off to fit to mine, see if his 28t mds fits inward on my frame, then obviously my ideal 27t la guardia would, but failing that I'm hoping maybe someone here has seen these sprockets enough IRL to be able to tell me which have larger or smaller guards, relative to the sprocket? I'm guessing this will end with me buying whatever I find to be the thinnest, 27t guard sprocket (bolt drive) available, and just hoping for the best - if I have to install it with the guard facing outward, it defeats much of the point of having paid extra for the guard, guess they still look cool (and, in the case of something being just a hair too tight, I'd probably use the grinder to put a tiny notch in the chianstay if needed, I'm a light rider lol I don't think that'll be much of a problem!
Thank you, this sprocket is half of my remaining upgrades to be 'complete'!! Am going to be asking for help on the other, on my recently-built wheel's lhd driver issues, just gotta tinker a bit before I'm sure I've done all I know to do so I'm sure it's not something obvious!!