For years now, I’ve been looking for a replacement set of chainrings and bolts for the 1994 XTR crankset on my second mountain bike. The rings are worn, and doing the rings would have meant also doing the chain and cassette, since they wore out together. The chain and cassette were easy but I couldn’t just find chain rings, I didn’t want to replace the crank because Shimano no longer uses a tapered bottom bracket spindle and it would have meant replacing the BB too. Replacing a very nice XTR crank with something else in order to get new rings on the bike just seemed …. silly.

Anyway. I found the rings. Actually, a nice set of Sugino Pro rings with the 110/74mm bolt pattern that actually give me a bigger top end (48T instead of 44T), so awesome. Shift ramps, too. Woo!