Fixing a friends bike with trashed drivetrain, needs 170mm 9 speed chainset, chain & cassette but looks like they have just sold out of the 40 euro FC m542 chainsets on one of those German internet sites 🙁

Rosebike.co.uk, I found the chainring worth looking into, they actually cheaper than buying a whole crankset – unlike from mail order companies over here 😀

£23 for a set of 530(?) deore rings, just remember to add £6 delivery

Its a faf but in the end I think I got all 3 bits from different places

I think it was chain ebay
Alivio cranks CRC
cassette and rear mech merlin

Thats probably not much help, sorry

alivio cranksets on rosebikes are extremely cheap too (£18 iirc)

Thanks – just ordered a bargain m590 chainset & chain from Rosebikes