Where did these Sram steel chainrings go?

[nick_the_wheelbuilder]

7 minutes ago, Croglet said:

Wait, what?? 
You're not talking about a road bike are you?

I thought I was doing quite well 😕 I'm currently on about 10500km and I doubt my cassette will take a new chain after this one. Almost at the point of recycling chains and riding the whole thing into oblivion until it implodes.  
I'm on my 7th atm, careful about swapping them out at 0.5%. Chains and Cassette are GX and I started with the steel chainring in the OP, 9000km later I'm onto an aluminium one. 

Mountain bikes.

The rotate through 3 or 4 chains thing is a game changer.

The only con is you need to start with new chainrings, cassette and the 3 or 4 chains all at the same time.

[Robbie Stewart]

5 hours ago, nick_the_wheelbuilder said:

Mountain bikes.

The rotate through 3 or 4 chains thing is a game changer.

The only con is you need to start with new chainrings, cassette and the 3 or 4 chains all at the same time.

I'm about to redo the drivetrain on my older bike. Thanks for this advice. I was also looking at steel chain rings today and see that race face one has the steel ring up to 32T. I want to go to 34T but then I saw its alu and R500 more. Seems like a manufacturer collusion to me. 

I have a 11 speed cassette, derailleur and shifter that came off the bike, it was 2x11, but now has Eagle NX on. I'm thinking I don't need the NX anymore. That 11 SPD cassette looks brand new by comparison. Would this chain swapping idea work or should I get a new cassette? So far so I need is a new chain ring, chain and BB. The crank is raceface aeffect.