Buying chainrings

[661-Pete]

I need to buy a new pair of chainrings - my existing ones are rather worn down now. Fair enough. There is nothing wrong with the cranks, so I had intended to keep them.

I discovered that the cost of a complete new double chainset is less than the cost of two chainrings, of the type I need. This appears to be the case at several different mail-order companies.

How is this? And how do we reconcile this with the principle of efficient bike maintenance?

 

[fossyant]

Have a look at Ribble - they do Stronglight Chainrings in two different flavours - one using 6 series alloy (dural) = cheaper and one using the better 7 series (Zircal) - the cheaper stuff is good enough though.

 

[661-Pete]

Thanks for the heads-up. I was looking at Campag or Campag-compatible, hadn't considered Stronglight and didn't check out Ribble (they weren't on my 'favourites'). If the Stronglight ones are compatible I could have just about saved a couple of notes with those, compared to the entire chainset.

But ah well - I've ordered the chainset. At least that gives me a spare pair of cranks to put aside, in case of breakage...