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few pics of the new string pot design. It ate up 1000rpm in testing and even ran at 1500 briefly. Unlike the last time however, this time the failure was friction at the string support (thanks @Primoz, worked great) causing the connecting string to break. The pot itself survived intact and tracked the theoretical path well until the failure. That's it for bench testing. We'll see how it performs in the wild.

Agreed that's an odd choice to do the built in chain guide. My personal preference is to use a bash guard only, but one that mounts to all 3 tabs for extra strength. I haven't had a dropped chain from the chainring in like 5+ years, so for me they are more trouble than they are worth. Dunno if you have ridden the new bronson, but that's a comparison i'm most interested in.