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Have decided these are/were the best system out there for fuss free durability, has anyone seen an Lx/Xt/XTR octalink chainset in a shop anywhere?
I'm sure some sort of finder's fee could be arranged!
got some ultegra octalink for you ian 😉
Merlin have deore octalink 1 cranks in stock. The arms I think were pretty much the same as LX / XT, but with the latter 2 having better rings.
Cheers Andrew, I've found some LX at ride-on as well (page 20-something of a google search). Was really hoping for the flared arms that the XTs came with, but won't turn down a set of LX either.
had a set of Deore for ages on my Bianchi MTB, took an absolute battering as well, but I changed pedals on them so much the threads eventually fell out 😯
And cheers terry, if you can figure out a way to fit a 22t ring to your ultegras then your on!
Bought a spare XT one from CRC a year ago very very cheap, now in use, and wish I had bought a few! Also agreed very useful long lasting bit of kit. CRC have the Octalink Deore in at £39. The new-ish Deore Splined looks like it might need a different BB, on three sites they use the word splined but not 'octalink' so not sure?
I know, I saw the XT octalink cranksets on CRC, and a local shop had one for £50! Gutted I didn't buy it at the time.
Deore is now Hollowtech II i think, which is splined, but not octalink.
The octalink XTRs I got free from a mate have almost done three years on one BB, creak free, spinning smoothly. Amazing how ISIS got it so wrong when Octalink just quietly got on with it.
How about [url= http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Shimano-Deore-XT-Octalink-cranks-and-bottom-bracket_W0QQitemZ230402892625QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_sportsleisure_cycling_bikeparts_SR?hash=item35a5152351 ]these (ebay)[/url]
Speaking of which, I've been waiting ages for a set of Octalinks I bought off the bay, if you don't bid on these I might as well myself.
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FSA used to do Octalink as well
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=7607 Probably too heavy for what you want, but they did do a few different types
Alasdair, cheers for that, I'm not an ebayer normally so it only just occurred to have a look.
I've now commissioned my ebaying friend to keep an eye on a couple of auctions for me 😉
Paul, will have a look at FSA, thought they'd only do ISIS though?
they do both, I had some ages ago, had a nice Octalink sticker on the arms, just to confirm 🙂
Woop!
Some very new looking XTs off ebay for £35, hope i wasn't bidding against you Alasdair!
Glad i got my mate to do it for me, Ebay could be pretty addictive...