Hi
Am in the process of getting the bits together for a single speed and it looks like I'll be using XTR 970 cranks.
What are my options for fitting a single chainring?
Guessing it'll be about a 32
Cheers
Steve
I haven't tried them but Wolftooth rings seem popular. M970 has an outer/middle BCD of 104.
Unless you meant 960?
970 takes any old chainrings (On One ringmaster, hope, surly stainless, and e-13 at various points in time on mine).
Definitely 970
Wasn't sure if I needed special rings
Cheers
Steve
Nah you don't, that's one of the reasons they're ace. I used a renthal on mine
Yep, same here- got works and absoluteblack on mine, perfect. Great cranks, the removal is a bit of a faff mind but they're strong and light-ish and pretty cheap.
(if you decide not to do 1x10, they take normal double and triple rings too- the only oddity is the inner chainring is offset, but it's the same bolt spacing so you just need to add spacers to standard inner rings to make it work)
The granny ring is special on M970 (It needs extra spacing, about 1.5mm I think) but the spider is just a normal 104 PCD, so any old standard narrow wide or ovoid or even *shudder* a normal round chainring will work just fine.
Great cranks.