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OneUp Components Switch quick swap 1x mountain bike chainrings installation and actual weights

We covered the launch details of the new OneUp Components Switch chainring system as soon as it came out. But we’ve also had our hands on a set for a couple days, and it’s pretty slick. Here we’ll show the install notes and actual weights of a few variants, and next week provide first ride impressions.

I received spiders for SRAM, Race Face and Hope, along with three different size and shape chainrings. The short of it is this: It installs incredibly easy, and chainring swaps are exactly as fast and easy as they claim…

It’s almost this fast.

Even without practice, it was under 90 seconds to pull a chainring off and put it back on…and that’s because I wasn’t sure how many rotations of the allen wrench to make (about 2.5 full rotations works). My second attempt was quicker. It’s easy to see using a smaller gear on the way up the mountain then switching to something a little larger for the descents if you’re racing enduro and really want to pull out all the stops. And as an earlier commenter mentioned, this would indeed be perfect for cyclocross if they make a bigger version.

OneUp Components Switch quick swap 1x mountain bike chainrings installation and actual weights

The chainring and carrier are machined to nest around the bolts, which are threaded in from the back of the carrier.

OneUp Components Switch quick swap 1x mountain bike chainrings installation and actual weights

The bolts are hollow, so you can loosen them from the outside, but it means the rotation is reversed – righty loosey, lefty tighty. The chainrings are clearly marked with their tooth counts.

OneUp Components Switch quick swap 1x mountain bike chainrings installation and actual weights

To install a chainring, simply loosen the bolt, position the ring so you can rotate it and slide it onto the carrier, then tighten the bolts. Reverse the process to remove it. Literally, a minute’s worth of work once you’ve done it a couple times.

OneUp Components Switch quick swap 1x mountain bike chainrings installation and actual weights

A view from the backside.

OneUp Components Switch quick swap 1x mountain bike chainrings installation and actual weights

Carriers come in at 32g (Race Face Cinch, Boost), 35g (Hope, non-Boost) and 31g (SRAM, Boost). Yes, that’s with five bolts being weighed and, yes, you only need four, so subtract one gram for catching that. They come with four back bolts and one green one. Go stealth or fly the OneUp colors, your call.

OneUp Components Switch quick swap 1x mountain bike chainrings installation and actual weights

My test chainrings weighed in at 56g (34t round), 48g (32t oval) and eeg (28t oval). Stay tuned for the ride report late next week.

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Pong
Pong
7 years ago

Looks nice and all but Is it really that hard to take out four bolts? Say you save five minutes with this chainring, I usually am not in a hurry when I’m wrenching. I worry more that it’s going to break one of these days I get out of the saddle and stomp on the pedals.

antoine191
7 years ago
Reply to  Pong

It’s interesting for racer. Usually i’m using 28 on my 29er for my XX1, but let’s say a race track has a quite long straight which start after a gathering speed in a downhill part. I would need the 30. And usually there not that much time for a week end racer between checking the track and racing, so being able to swap quickly chainring is cool.

Tim
Tim
7 years ago
Reply to  antoine191

How is this any different than your XX1? Bolt retention?

SB
SB
7 years ago

I’m a professional mechanic, and I HATE chainring bolts. No, they’re not hard to use. But they’re annoying, and necessary to get right. I hate them enough that I’m usually excited to install a direct mount ring, or a chainring with threaded standoffs.

I still don’t see the utility in this. I doesn’t seem that different from the first iteration of XX1, which died a natural death because no one really used it. Because no one really needs it, because no one really changes chainrings that often…especially not so often that it becomes hard to pull a modern crank with a self-extracting cap.

The exception would be for steel rings, like Wolftooth’s deal. There’s a fair amount of weight to be saved in a steel ring that isn’t direct mount. And this matters to me because I sort of figure that steel (or titanium?!) is the future of 1x chainrings……..hello?

Todd
Todd
7 years ago

Direct mount FTW. Keep it simple, stupid.

Micah
7 years ago

“It’s easy to see using a smaller gear on the way up the mountain then switching to something a little larger for the descents”

Here we go, the “Boost” of 2018 will be this new invention called front derailleurs…

Jelle
Jelle
7 years ago

Wouldn’t chain lenght limit tooth count varriation for Sram 1x systems?

Dockboy
Dockboy
7 years ago
Reply to  Jelle

Yes, to a range of 4 teeth, 2 in either direction from ideal.

Ivan
Ivan
7 years ago

“It’s easy to see using a smaller gear on the way up the mountain then switching to something a little larger for the descents if you’re racing enduro and really want to pull out all the stops”

If your going to carry a second chainring on a ride and change at the top of the hill, why not just use a double? Am I missing something?

i
i
7 years ago
Reply to  Ivan

If you think a double is a viable solution for a mountain bike with 150+mm of travel, then yes, you are missing something.

elvis
elvis
7 years ago
Reply to  i

Enlighten us please…

Derek
Derek
7 years ago
Reply to  elvis

Front derailleurs limit how short your chainstays can be or how wide of a tire you can run. There are a lot of 1x only frames out right now and this would be an option for those frames.

ROBS
ROBS
7 years ago

Next they will be inventing a chainset with 2 chainrings with some kind automatic device to change rings while you ride!

Oscar
Oscar
7 years ago
satisFACTORYrider
satisFACTORYrider
7 years ago

where’s the adjustable length crank?

Andrew
Andrew
7 years ago

OneUp now really needs to come up with a product called “Bait”.

stephen
stephen
7 years ago

^ The one after that should be “Switch.”

the biz
the biz
7 years ago

bike industry companies and consumers will love any attempts to make bikes more like motor racing with this quick change stuff no matter how nonessential it actually is

ELEVEN_g
7 years ago
Reply to  the biz

Isn’t it more of a case of the bike industry coming up with stuff, to come up with stuff, so they can keep on selling said stuff, even though they all know, and they do, that said stuff is, for the most part, pointless?

the biz
the biz
7 years ago
Reply to  ELEVEN_g

absolutely, I’m just pointing out the specific justification 🙂

Alan
Alan
7 years ago

Is it just me who only changes their chainring when it wears out?

WannaBeSTi
WannaBeSTi
7 years ago

As a 1x CX racer, I would like something like this. A lot of the courses I’ve done I’ve been “ok” with my existing 38. However, if I had a 40t sitting around, I would have switched for a few courses.

Lev
Lev
7 years ago

I’ve just come back from a holiday in Spain, where we were shuttling some days and pedaling up others. This would have been good to have. I have, but didn’t take my different size chainrings with me because I flew. It would also mean taking all the needed tools for cinch DM. This is a good concept . I don’t why people complain about having options! (deleted)

Tomi
Tomi
7 years ago

So there are 4 bolts to “release” which is pretty much equal to SRAM direct mount (one for the crank, 3 for the direct mount ring). If I’m correct raceface cinch system is also very quick to swap.

Not sure I see the need for that only slightly faster, but unproven solution.

NefariousD
NefariousD
7 years ago

FWIW, Yes the Raceface one is quick to swap as long as you have a free hub tool (and preferably a sturdy vice) and a feel like taking the off the DS crank on the side of the trail. A lot of people will find no use for this; however, living where I do and considering some of the places I ride, I see this as legit, being able to make a 4 mile 4000 foot ascent with some spots being 18-20% with a 28 and then switching to a 32 for the ride down the hill or for use in other riding areas. I’m a fat and plus bike rider and change gearing to suit the place where I’ll be riding pretty often so being able to switch rings in a couple minutes without removing the crank or the pedal makes this worth a try for me. Additionally the fact that the chain rings are $40 instead of the $65 I normally spend isn’t really a bad deal either

Neal
Neal
6 years ago

For me it’s about saving money replacing rings as they wear out. I go through a few a year and the rings by themselves are fairly cheap vs buying a whole new direct mount ring.

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