Originally Posted by
alan s
Including the crank? If so, it gets a little expensive.
Not if you buy cheap cranksets on sale. I think I paid $15 for the crankset that's hanging new in the box in the garage right now. Normally $50 I think.
But no, I normally do not replace the crankset, just the chain and cassette.
On some cranksets it might be possible to flip the chainring and get double the life out of them. Not always though, depends on whether the chainring is offset from the crank.
I could replace just the chainring with the most wear, but given the price of entire cranksets that I buy (I got one on clearance from Nashbar for $8 once, for a triple), it's actually cheaper to just replace the whole thing.