MRP SXg Chain Guide Review

MRP SXg Chain Guide Reviews

Review score: 8.9/10 – Updated November, 2024

Latest Price: £129.99 – Save 24% (RRP: £169.99)

Take a look now to discover what makes MRP SXg Chain Guide worthy of a review score of 8.9 out of 10.

MRP SXg Chain Guide Review


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MRP SXg Chain Guide features

MRP SXg Chain Guide specs

MRP SXg Chain Guide
Spec 1

Colour: Black

Other Chain Guides found with this Spec: 6387

Spec 2

Size: 30-34t, 34-38t

Other Chain Guides found with this Spec: 2

Spec 3

Option: ISCG 05

Other Chain Guides found with this Spec: 7

Feature 1

Suited to Downhill, Enduro and Trail riding

Other Chain Guides found with this feature: 1

Feature 2

Passive Retention ensures the guide does not make contact with the chain unless needed

Other Chain Guides found with this feature: 1

Feature 3

Full-size, nylon HD upper guide with co-molding

Other Chain Guides found with this feature: 1

Feature 4

All install and adjustment operations are possible with just a single 4mm HEX wrench

Other Chain Guides found with this feature: 1

Feature 5

Whippersnapper™ lower guide

Other Chain Guides found with this feature: 1

Feature 6

ISCG-05 only

Other Chain Guides found with this feature: 1

Feature 7

Compatible with a 49mm chainline and wider (is also Boost 148 compatible)

Other Chain Guides found with this feature: 1

Feature 8

Integrated SX skid provides safeguard to the chainring and glides over rocks and obstacles

Other Chain Guides found with this feature: 1

Price

£129.99

Number of Reviews

5

Review Score

3.8 / 5

Average score in category: 4.2/5

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Quality

Quality is without doubt one of the most important factors that we consider when buying bikes, parts, accessories or clothing. As you’d imagine it’s especially important when buying Chain Guides. Let’s take at a look at the sort of things you can look at when trying to ascertain the quality of MRP SXg Chain Guide.

The first thing is material. Looking at what MRP SXg Chain Guide is made of will give you a really good idea of the quality overall. Take a look at the specs above and you should be able to see the material. It’s then up to you to decide if it meets your expectation.

Similarly you’ll also want to spend some time looking at the features too. Again the table above, listing the features will give you a really good overview. However you should think about the sort of features that you’d expect when buying new Chain Guides. It’s worth writing a list of the “must-have” features so that you don’t end up compromising and missing some important features, or alternatively end up buying an unnecessarily high specced product.

There’s also a lot of merit in checking out the brand of the product and looking at the various brands that are selling Chain Guides. Brands like MRP are of courses extremely well respected in the cycling community so you know you’re getting a fantastic product with them. But if you’re undecided on your product you should write up a list of brands that you’d be happy to buy. It’s a great way of filtering and narrowing down the number of products when you’re searching.

Next up you’ll want to think about the price and use that as a guide to set your expectations of the quality. If you’re buying the cheapest of the options in the Chain Guides category you should probably expect it to not be of as good quality as the most expensive. It sounds obvious of course. But this is where you can get a bit clever and use your combination of features, specs, materials and other factors to work together to get a really good quality product at the best price. We often draw up a list of “must-haves” and use these as filters when shopping online so that you’re only seeing products that meet your criteria. You can then sort by Price>Low to get the best deals.


Comparing Prices

Price, as you would imagine, is the most popular reason for someone buying one product over another. It is the single most important factor in choosing the majority of products we buy. The same goes for Chain Guides.

It’s at this stage of the buying process, when you’re looking at different options, that you should set a budget. Do some research to understand how much roughly you can expect to pay for the sort of level of product that you’re looking for. Then match that to your own personal circumstance and how much you can afford to spend. This will really help you in narrowing down the right product for you.

Price of MRP SXg Chain Guide

So the first aspect of price that we’re going to look at is the price of MRP SXg Chain Guide.

We run regular scans across the web to find the best prices for the products that we review, from a range of cycling retailers. The best price we managed to find MRP SXg Chain Guide was over at Chain Reaction Cycles where the price was £129.99 in our latest search.

Based on this price we’ve scored it 9.6 out of 10 for price.

Average price of Chain Guides

Next we wanted to look at how much you can expect to pay, on average, for Chain Guides.

We found 58 in the Chain Guides category over at Chain Reaction Cycles. We looked at the average price of the products within this category and found the average is £50.35, making it above average at £129.99.

It’s sometimes helpful to look at how much the prices can vary. Especially when setting yourself a budget, or when trying to understand just how much you could spend on Chain Guides. We found that the most expensive product currently available was £279.99, whilst the cheapest we managed to find was £3.00.

With 58 products available we worked out that 5 cost more than MRP SXg Chain Guide and 52 were cheaper.

Cost of MRP products

At Chain Reaction Cycles we found 26 products from MRP, of which 22 were in the Chain Guides category.

For now though we’re looking at MRP branded products in all categories. The average price of these products was £143.39 making this product below average.

You’ll also be interested to know that the cheapest MRP product we found was £8.99 and the highest price we could find from them was £709.99.

Of the 26 from MRP, 8 were more expensive than MRP SXg Chain Guide and 17 were cheaper.

How much are MRP Chain Guides?

We then wanted to get a bit more specific and only look at MRP products that are listed in the Chain Guides category.

The average price of the 22 products that match this search was £67.19, with the cheapest coming in at £8.99 and highest price was £199.99. With the average being £67.19, MRP SXg Chain Guide comes in above average.

4 products that meet this search were more expensive than MRP SXg Chain Guide and 17 were cheaper.


MRP SXg Chain Guide Reviews

Reading reviews is an amazing way of getting a good feel for a product without actually being able to try it or see it first.

There are two different types of reviews, and we also recommend reading both.

1. Expert reviews – In the cycle industry there are loads of really reliable trusted resources for expert reviews. For example if you’re looking to buy a new bike, BikeRadar Bike Reviews are great.

2. Customer reviews – these are probably your best resource for information. There’s no finances or influence involved, they’re purely just honest reviews from customers that have bought and used the product. The reason we love customer reviews so much is because no matter if their view is good or bad, there’s a very good chance that it will be honest and unbiased.

Our best advice is to head over to Chain Reaction Cycles and read the MRP SXg Chain Guide reviews there.

Based on what we’ve seen in terms of reviews for MRP SXg Chain Guide, it really does look like a great buy. So for the review score, we’ve scored it 8.6 out of 10. The average review score for all products in the Chain Guides category at Chain Reaction Cycles is 4.2 out of 5.

Owner reviews, as we say, are one of the most important pieces of research that we can do before we buy. So, with that in mind, if you do go on to buy MRP SXg Chain Guide or another similar product, like MRP SXg Lower Skid Plate reviews or MRP XCG V2 Chain Guide reviews we’d love you to leave a review in the comments below. It will really help future buyers just like you, when they’re looking to buy Chain Guides.


Brand

As we said in the pricing part of the review, brand is a really important consideration, but especially so when looking to buy Chain Guides. But as you’re probably already aware, you’re on to a great choice if you do go with MRP, as they’re a fantastic brand, making amazing products.


YouTube Video of MRP SXg Chain Guide

Below we’ve embedded a video from YouTube where we’ve searched for MRP SXg Chain Guide reviews.


Summary

Overall, we’ve been hugely impressed by the quality, price, reviews and features of MRP SXg Chain Guide. We’d say that as long as it fits your budget and meets your expectations in terms of features/spec…it’s a really strong contender. That’s why we’ve scored it a massive 8.9/10 overall.


Further product details

  • Product ID 1: 25010907455
  • Product ID 2: 528450UK
  • Brand: MRP
  • Model number: CHMRSXM5K
  • RRP: £169.99
  • EAN: 702430166034
  • Description: MRP SXg Chain Guide – AlloyThe SXg is a low profile chainguide, which is unlikely to come into contact with objects that you ride over. Should this happen to be the case, the SXg has a lower bash guard that will protect your chainring if contact with trail objects were to occur.Features:Suited to Downhill, Enduro and Trail ridingPassive Retention ensures the guide does not make contact with the chain unless neededFull-size, nylon HD upper guide with co-moldingAll install and adjustment operations are possible with just a single 4mm HEX wrenchWhippersnapper lower guideISCG-05 onlyCompatible with a 49mm chainline and wider (is also Boost 148 compatible)Integrated¬†SX¬†skid provides safeguard to the chainring and glides over rocks and obstaclesBuy¬†MRP Components¬†from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
  • Full Category: Components > Chain Guides
  • Savings percentage from RRP: 24%
  • Size: 30-34t
  • Unisex
  • 40
  • Adult

Other options for Chain Guides

As you’d imagine there are so many options out there when buying Chain Guides. 58 in fact.

A few of our other favourites that we spotted when researching MRP SXg Chain Guide included,
MRP SXg Skid Plate Hardware reviews, MRP TR Upper Guide reviews, or we really liked the look of MRP V2 Lower Skid Plate reviews as another alternative.

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