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What is the most durable chainring? Titanium, steel, aluminum?
My 5 year old Surly frame (gearless/rigid) broke at the weld on the rear dropout and trying to put the toughest components on new build. Thanks.
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glader60 said:
Stainless steel, super durable. View attachment 2136854
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I do believe I got the last one of these a couple of years back after talking to Wolftooth and they said the same thing, the cost of materials was too high, managed to find one on the internet. I now have two of them, been running one for 3 years now, shows very little wear. I am thinking it would be a good time to get the 2nd Camo spider before they stop making them to. I'd rather pay twice the price for a stainless that lasts for 3+ years and over 5000 miles of riding over others offerings.
 
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I had a cheap sram stamped ring and it wore fast. Their high end aluminum rings lasted much longer for me.
 
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eri said:
I had a cheap sram stamped ring and it wore fast. Their high end aluminum rings lasted much longer for me.
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My experience is exactly the opposite. On my previous bike the stock steel SRAM chainring got used for more than 12.000km and I replaced it as a precaution at some point. I noticed no difference with the replacement ring.

Current bike was built with the GX crank which comes with an alu chainring. This lasted a season. I replaced it with the steel NX version and noticed no significant wear in the 2 years I've been using it.

Same with cassettes. Sram GX 11sp 1150 lasted forever.
 
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justwan naride said:
My experience is exactly the opposite. On my previous bike the stock steel SRAM chainring got used for more than 12.000km and I replaced it as a precaution at some point. I noticed no difference with the replacement ring.

Current bike was built with the GX crank which comes with an alu chainring. This lasted a season. I replaced it with the steel NX version and noticed no significant wear in the 2 years I've been using it.

Same with cassettes. Sram GX 11sp 1150 lasted forever.
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Yes. I Agree the cheap sram aluminum rings are even worse than the cheap steel ones.

But the machined xx1 rings lasted me about 2x longer than the steel. I ride a lot in gritty wet and the worst rings lasted about 4000km before they started to grab the chain. The tooth bed on the $20 steel sram rings are really thin and the steel isn’t strong.

That said I would buy a $20 steel ring before I paid the absurd $125 full price for a high end aluminum chainring, the high end ring isn’t 6x more durable than the sram steel one.
 
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