I have been absolutely blown away by this stuff (and the customer service from Absolute Black. I finally decided to order some Absolute Black GRAPHENlube, and after just 3 rides I know for a fact that I've found a winner. I was never satisfied or overly impressed with any of them. I've tried Silca Super Secret, I've tried Ceramic Speed UFO Drip (version 1 and 2), I've tried Molten Speed Wax with the Race powder, along with trying probably a dozen other drip wax lubes. I have tried pretty much every big name wax "coating" type chain lubes out there. Congratulations on producing such a wonderful product. I am a convert and will not ride any other chainring on any of my bikes other than Absoluteblack. I've found that during higher efforts on the bike that fatigue utilizing the AB arrives much later and the following days leg soreness is significantly less. Comparing Rotor QRings to AB oval chainrings I've found the AB version to be superior in everyway. Having ridden the AB oval ring now for approx 12 months I am very pleased and have just ordered a set (52/36) of premium oval chainrings to fit to my other road bike. However after seeing a video on Youtube about Absoluteblack (AB) curiosity got the better of me and I ordered a 50 tooth gravel chainring from AB and fitted it to my 1 x crit bike for testing. I've ridden Rotor QRings now for several years and have been relatively happy. However after sustaining numerous dropped chains I progressed from Osymetric to Rotor Qrings. I started my oval ring journey with Osymetric rings after seeing Chris Froome riding them in the pro peloton. I have been a long time oval ring user on both road & CX bikes (9+ yrs). :) Oh and the red ring looks sooo sweeet on my bike!!!
While the feel is different, I can't say that there was any adjusting necessary. Caveat: I'm in the 50+ crowd, most climbs are tough. I now feel like I'm using the 3-4 low gears effectively on a tough climb instead of just the last two. That feeling justified the change right away. In addition to simply having more low gears by going 32T=>30T which made the climbing a bit easier the obvious change was that I never lost my cadence all day and felt like I was driving the bike up the hill instead of just surviving the climb. I usually ride challenging climbs with some techie sections and find I tend to lose my cadence and get into grind mode (spinning squares) in the granny gear (50T) with no place to go from there. I made the change for two reasons, an arthritic knee, which I think helped but will hold judgement for a longer day, and to make the Pivot a bit more climby.
I've only had one ride on it so far, but the difference is obvious. I just put a 30T OVAL (replaced a 32T SRAM Eagle) on my Pivot T429.
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