CLA wrote:
You should be able to do this as long as you can press in the knurled nut that is required to be able to screw in the bolt that goes behind the crank arm. I did this and it was fine, although keep in mind this was with a metal chainring - might not be so straight forward to press the nut in something like a fiberlyte ring.I would echo this as it can be done. I have converted many of my SRAM cranks over to 1x, no issues. All new SRAM specific 1x chainrings come with the kit to complete the conversion. Where you might run into issues is if you convert the SRAM RED crank that already has the tab bolt on the backside of the drive-side crank arm. This would require a spacer of some sort as the inner chainring is somewhat of a spacer in a 2x configuration. Only the SRAM RED Quarq version and SRAM spider cranks do not. Can't recall if they, or someone else like Wolftooth, made a kit to convert 2x into 1x on these specific cranks. Hope this helps.
