cranksets dilemma
joe boy
Posts: 53
hello all,
Need some help on making my mind up, have had my eyes on xt crankset and know that they are V-good. I have now just seen that merlin have truvativ stylo 3.3 team for £69.
Which way should i go?
Need some help on making my mind up, have had my eyes on xt crankset and know that they are V-good. I have now just seen that merlin have truvativ stylo 3.3 team for £69.
Which way should i go?
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XT or LX. But get the frame faced first.0
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the xt is a lot lighter, and I think it feels a bit stiffer, but that was probably frame rather than crank related.0
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so both you guys think it's worth the extra £ to go for the xt?0
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Over the Stylo yes! Probably worth it over the LX - its about 70g lighter, but some of that is down to alloy chainrings, rather than the steel inner of LX.0
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The axle on the LX is about 3 times as thick (still hollow) and al lot of weight goes there, seemingly unnecessarily, other than to increase the weight!0
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I honestly think, as LX and XT are so close, that Shimano has to purposely downgrade LX to differentiate it!0
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looks like i'm waiting till pay day and going shimano.
Cheers guys. J0 -
that's what it looks like! I wonder if you could get an engineer to bore an lx one out a bit to make it lighter...0
