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The sram website isn't the most helpful so anyone on here know? They're to go on a commuter so I don't want them to be too spendy but I do want the direct mount as I want to use an absolute black 40t oval ring. This is for mtb cranks.
Its a bit tricky as the SRAM cranks only basically come in 3 flavours just rejigged a million times. I think you'd be best with either a GX 1400 crank, X1 DM cranks, or Descendant DM cranks, all of which I _think_ may be the same arms, different graphics. The spider/ring may vary but you dont care if you're just taking them off anyway. (GX1400 being the cheapest option I believe)
Ok, great, thanks Ben.
I tell a lie, the cheapest option (based on trade price not what you can find it for) is the descendent crank, which is a 1200 DM series crank.
When I went direct mount a couple of years ago X9 was the lowest level that had removable cranks. I suspect since then there might have been some trickle down of components to the lower level, but X5 and X7 cranks definitely did not have removable spiders.
I think you need to go pretty high up the range to get a direct mount chainset from Sram . You normally only need a direct mount chainset if you want to go smaller than 30 teeth on the front which you obviously won't need so just buy a cheap Sram Chainset and get the 40 tooth Absolute Black chainring in the correct BCD .
Raceface Aeffect is a great cheap option for standard BBs if you can get a suitable ring