• seem fairly decent for the price (the cranks that is)

    are they much heavy? and can you simply remove the smaller chainring without any trouble and use it as a single chainring with the same bolts?

    they're not too heavy, can't see much difference (other than the name!) with higher end stuff (though obviously there are some benefits of £££!). You can't just remove the inner ring for two reasons:
    1) the outer ring is pinned and ramped (and tin) so I would not want to use it for single speed let alone fixed
    2) the chainring bolts will be too long when you have removed a ring - you need single ring specific one (around a fiver a set new)

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