The rubber chainstay protector on my XL has been damaged and is starting to come off after only 130km. Measuring the width of the chainstays approx. 300mm (size 12 shoe) behind the pedal axle, they are around 190mm wide. By comparison, my XL Reign E+ is around 150mm, and my wifes large Polygon N8xe is around 165mm. Neither suffer from shoe rub.
They taper in quite quckly as you get closer to the crank axel - so a size 10 or 8 shoe probably wont experience this. Wonder if the rumoured longer chainstays might be better jn this respect?
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