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Q-factor is personal. Some people are more comfortable on with narrower cranks. You can also add width (through adapters that fit between the cranks and pedals), but you can't remove it. The Sugino XD cranks are too wide for me to ride them comfortably for long distances, but they work well for lots of other people.

The Rohloff requires a pretty wide chainline (54mm I think), so using the middle position and moving to the outside if you get a Rohloff makes sense. My Rohloff bike has a Sugino chainring guard and it is mounted on the outside of the crank spider along with the chainring.

Looks like this:


On my Bike Friday I'm using their stock chainring guard (they used to make them by cutting off teeth, now they seem to buy them ready made) also on the outside of the crank. I went with a very short BB in this bike to get lower Q-factor with the moderately wide Shimano 105 cranks. No photo of that setup, but it works well.

alex

I'm confused

Are we talking about somthing like this?

or this?

alex can you come on down to tacoma and help me with my Q-factor?