  All known five dimensional, asymptotically flat, static black rings possess
conical singularities. However, there is no fundamental obstruction forbidding
the existence of balanced configurations, and we show that the
Einstein--Klein-Gordon equations admit (numerical) solutions describing static
asymptotically flat black rings, which are regular on and outside the event
horizon. The scalar field is 'phantom', which creates the self-repulsion
necessary to balance the black rings. Similar solutions are likely to exist in
other spacetime dimensions, the basic properties of a line element describing a
four dimensional, asymptotically flat black ring geometry being discussed.
