While staring at this with after a game of poker and a good night's sleep and a fresh cup of coffee (which usually fixes everything) I thought of another option. I have quite a bit of frame clearance from the chainring. I'm talking 10mm plus easily. Is there a method of adding spacers with longer chainring bolts to move the chainring inwards? Has anyone here ever done that?
Edit: I just found chainring spacers and longer chainring bolts intended for double and triple road bike chainrings. Gonna give that a whirl. Will post back results. Time to order some more parts.