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My Gravel bike (Fugio) came with a 42t Apex chainset. I would like to drop it down to 38t.
My google research tells me that Sram made the apex so that no other chainring will fit. Nice one.
I am now struglling to find an altenative 1x chainset that comes with a 38t option. Any ideas?
The sram MTB ones do IIRC. Or any crank that takes a direct mount chainring
Basically any sram chainset with a 5 atm 110bcd spider - so all of them except for that daft proprietary 4 arm apex one. Rival/force/red, the “normal” road double and 1x versions are the same. Best thing is probably to get a cheap or second hand road one (often less than the 1x version for no reason) and then flog the chainrings & buy a 1x 38t ring.
Eg:
https://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/CSRRIXYZNOBB/sram-rival-11-chainset-(no-bb)
Or just ditch sram and get a shimano road crankset and an aftermarket 1x ring.
Rival/force/red, the “normal” road double and 1x versions are the same
Hadn't realised that, good to know! 1x position = inside position on the double I assume?
OP, I've got the same Apex cranks, so feel your pain! (Have you seen the price of replacement rings for them?!??) I was able to change the cassette to something with a larger big sprocket, but I assume you'll already have a big cassette on the go
@mashr not sure about non-sram chainrings but their own x-sync ones are offset so you mount them where the big ring would be and the chainline sorts itself
but I assume you’ll already have a big cassette on the go
10 or 11 (cant remember as I don't think ive ever used it) 42.