Purple!

My new, shockingly purple middle ring.

When I first started mountain biking, all the cool expensive parts that I couldn't afford were anodized purple. It was a totally bizarre trend- way more bizarre of a trend than biopace, velocity deep-v's, or those plastic things that snapped on to your spokes and made ding sounds when you rode. Finally, I'm the proud owner of something anodized purple, though in that light on my car seat it looks sort of blue. I hope it matches my neon green bike. A

This chainring doesn't work anymore.

I was forced to purchase the strange purple thing after I lost a black chainring (or it was eaten by a box). I'm pretty upset about that.