Deda Dog Fang

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Yes. I have it on my cross bike. Since I don't have a front der, I use = the fang and a Spot
chainring guard mounted on the big ring to keep my = chain on the smaller ring. No drops yet.

I also have one on my wife's bike. She has a triple, and the drop to = the inner 30 ring is dodgy,
at best. The fang keeps the chain from = getting down between crankset and the BB.

There is the fang, which is specific sized to the seattube, like a der = clamp. There is also
another one that uses what looks like a hose = clamp, and will fit on any size seattube. The Deda
fang looks better, =
IMO.John Rees

Francesco Devittori said:

Is anyone using this? Is it useful?

I have one on all my bikes.

Greets, Derk

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Francesco

Dear Francesco,

I use one of these plastic front-chain-falling-off-stoppers, but I like this company's dog-fang name
(it does look a bit like a dog-fang when viewed from above).

You clamp it low on the seat-post tube, down next to the smallest chain-ring and swivel it outward
until the curved plastic is just below the chain sitting on the gear teeth, leaving a gap too small
for the chain to fall through.

When I overshift the front derailleur or shift too fast or the chain just bounces off for no
apparent reason, the plastic guard catches the chain and keeps it up where I can shift back with my
down-tube friction lever (the kind that Lance often uses, not that I'm boasting), instead of
stopping, grabbing my filthy chain, and pulling it back up onto the smallest chain ring.

So it may save your paint job from nicks (mine is protected by a thick layer of grime), it doesn't
weigh much, and it helps if you're as clumsy, unlucky, or badly-adjusted as I am (derailleur and
otherwise).

On the other hand, the girls may laugh at you, everyone will give you good advice about how to
adjust your front derailleur, and it may not let you shift a fallen-off chain back onto the small
chain-ring from a modern indexed brifter.

Think of it as the bicycle nerd's equivalent of a plastic shirt-pocket pen-protector. You may look
silly wearing it, but you look even sillier with ink stains on your shirt or oil-stains on your hand
from stopping to wrestle the chain back into place.

I think that you can get them from all sorts of mail-order places by browsing under chain or gear
accessories.

Carl Fogel

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Francesco

I use the Third Eye product of the same type on all of my bikes. After I dropped my chain at the
start of the big hill at the state championship road race a few years ago, I haven't raced without
this fantastic little device. The Deda product is a cleaner looking device than the Third Eye and
only about a dollar more. Go for it.

Vol(never drop your chain again)taire

Thanks guys, I learned something! Now I know what will be my next purchase!
=)

Francesco

Voltaire said:

I use the Third Eye product of the same type on all of my bikes. After I dropped my chain at the
start of the big hill at the state championship road race a few years ago, I haven't raced without
this fantastic little device. The Deda product is a cleaner looking device than the Third Eye and
only about a dollar more. Go for it.

Be sure to check out the N-GEAR "Jump Stop":

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The N-GEAR "Jump Stop" serves the same function- to prevent the chain from dropping on the bottom
bracket shell. It is professional in form and function, and the attachement hardware is superbe.

Nicholas Grieco

Carl Fogel said:

Think of it as the bicycle nerd's equivalent of a plastic shirt-pocket pen-protector. You may look
silly wearing it,

Many pro riders have one installed on their bikes......

Greets, Derk