Removal of Chain Guard on Trek 7.2 FX

[Bluetree]

Well, I took the darn thing off this afternoon. Meh. No big improvement, as far as looks go. That's not exactly a sexy chainring, is it? In fact, I may end up putting the chain guard back on!

This thread made me laugh, WJ!

Just the other day one of my best friend was over, looking at my bikes (he's a DA guy). I mentioned I wasn't too crazy over the look of my Sram chainrings. They were too solid-looking, like his DA rings, not sexy-minimalist like my other bike's Campy rings or fierce-black like FSA's.

Thus began a long argument over the inherent "sexiness" of all our individual components ...Talk about bike geeks!