I mean, sure. We also had a universal brake mounting standard in IS and a universal headset standard in EC34|EC34 (1-1/8”).
Direct mount is a reality, and I prefer crank mounted bash guards over ISCG bash tacos, hence embracing the idea of a UBG ring-mount standard.
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Direct Mount opened up a lot of benefits in terms of easily swapping chainlines and ring sizes but 104 was/is rad.
As part of my **[Titan review](https://nsmb.com/articles/banshee-titan-review-part-two/)**, I was running a small BlackSpire bash guard on 104 BCD tabs with a NSBillet 28t narrow-wide ring mounted on the 64 BCD tabs so I could run a smaller cassette block - awesome.
But, just adding a UBG to a direct mount ring would dump a ton of weight, so there’s that too.
July 13, 2023, 6:27 a.m. - Andrew Major
I mean, sure. We also had a universal brake mounting standard in IS and a universal headset standard in EC34|EC34 (1-1/8”). Direct mount is a reality, and I prefer crank mounted bash guards over ISCG bash tacos, hence embracing the idea of a UBG ring-mount standard. ——— Direct Mount opened up a lot of benefits in terms of easily swapping chainlines and ring sizes but 104 was/is rad. As part of my **[Titan review](https://nsmb.com/articles/banshee-titan-review-part-two/)**, I was running a small BlackSpire bash guard on 104 BCD tabs with a NSBillet 28t narrow-wide ring mounted on the 64 BCD tabs so I could run a smaller cassette block - awesome.  But, just adding a UBG to a direct mount ring would dump a ton of weight, so there’s that too.