I thought i had give up on going double and bash at the front and have just popped onto chain reaction to price up an outer ring for my xt chainset and its priced at £65 for foooooks sake!!!!!

do any others fit a xt chainset then as im not paying to be raped!!

I've got a lightly used xt outer if you're interested…

how much mate!!

£64.99??? !! ;o)

Like buying a Porsche and not being able to afford the service bill. Best stick with Deore

as of tomorrow i will also have a very lightly used outer m770 xt chain ring i'd be willing to part with. e-mail in profile 🙂

i use TA chinook rings on my XT cranks, they come in black and silver, i like the silver.

starbike.com do them and are half the price of XT at least, dont last any longer than XT but i like em

edit they arnt as cheap as they were when i bought them but are still cheaper than XT

prices here http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/fs-lots-of-chainrings-m770-m760-m530

I checked woolyhatshop, who I normally use for this sort of thing, and their current XT outer chainring was £75!!!!!

FYI you can get RaceFace or Middleburn at CRC for £27-35

I reckon you can blame that price on whoever is responsible for making the £ compete with the Zimbabwean dollar 🙂

I think Shimano use a different exchange rate…

you could fit an slx one instead

or TA chainring look at wiggle or somewhere

I think it's £145 for an XTR middle ring…

EDIT: That's bollocks, sorry. It's only £110. Crackers.

Blackspire Super Pro are very good & reasonably priced

On a more positive note, this has to be good for the chaps at Middleburn 🙂

It was good for my mate selling his truvative one as he went bash. Loads fit, have a shop about.

It seems to me with the crazy price of the rings that it's looking like it'd make sense to buy a whole new chainset (c£125) and then sell the unused BB and arms on here (maybe £45 & £25 as it's brand new) meaning you'll get all 3 rings for about £55 instead of one for £70?

That will be the cheap one, try looking for XTR, even the older M960…

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=15020

But I've replaced all mine with Middleburn, currently lasted twice as long, and half the price:

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=7096

Another vote here for middleburn, great chainrings!