New powermeter rumours
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Quarq is the best option for under a $1000 for dual sided imo.
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Except Quarq isn't dual-sided. It measures full power, but spider-based PMs can only estimate dual-sided power based on phases.mergeforthekill wrote: ↑Wed Mar 14, 2018 9:06 pmQuarq is the best option for under a $1000 for dual sided imo.
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Spider based power meters do measure both sides they just aren't able to separate into pure left and right sided without a sensor on both sides. But then can you believe the data the way the Shimano seems to be performing. Or in the case of the Rotor2in there's the spider and one in the axle I believe. It's only meters like stages that measures only off the left crank and doubles it. SRM reliability is no better than many others. Power2max is right up there but with more features and a way better price. You can buy 2 Campagnolo 4 arm type S for the price of 1 SRM right now. If budget is no limit then buy SRM and certainly I could afford SRM but there's nothing about that power meter that I see does anything better than Power2max. But each to their own and I'm not going to criticise anyone's purchase. But measuring and having dual sided power displayed is really a waste of time and perhaps another marketing gimmick to make people think that's what they need to get us all to buy yet more power meters. Buy the one that's in your budget, whichever one that is, test yourself to get some base figures and use that to get fitter.
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If a power meter can only estimate L/R balance it is not a dual-sided power meter. A spider only measures the torque applied to the whole...it has no real knowledge of which side that torque is coming from. It would be like saying a PowerTap hub is a dual-sided power meter since it could measure changes in torque from biomechanics. All you would need to do is add a magnet to one crank and the hub could approximate L/R balance to an extent, but if you do single-leg pedaling, you would easily see that none of these solutions really distinguish between L/R.
L/R estimation is even more useless than true L/R measurement unless you have a wild imbalance from a poor fit, leg length, range of motion issues, prior injury...
L/R estimation is even more useless than true L/R measurement unless you have a wild imbalance from a poor fit, leg length, range of motion issues, prior injury...
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not accurate enough for who??? I've been using Stages power meters for almost 4 years, training and racing... last year, I won my State's TT Cup in the Non-TT class (Eddy). Its plenty accurate enough for me.
What I understood is that the balance L/R is different depending on the effort that is done. And that doesn‘t give an accurate total power as it multiplies the left leg.
But if you use the same only left only powermeter on all your bikes it is of course better.
But if you use the same only left only powermeter on all your bikes it is of course better.
Details on new Specialized/4iiii power meter
https://www.bikerumor.com/2018/03/14/sp ... ment-tech/
"Claimed weight is 440g (without chainrings, 172.5mm arms)"
https://www.bikerumor.com/2018/03/14/sp ... ment-tech/
"Claimed weight is 440g (without chainrings, 172.5mm arms)"
I disagree.
The only thing that matters to each individual is that whatever they're using gives a repeatable, reliable record.
As has been said above, if you've identified an imbalance, then what do you do? It;s knowledge that can't really be used for much material change.
So, a left-only meter might not give quite as accurate a reading for a given ride, does that matter if you're only using a left-only meter all the time. I'd argue that it doesn't.
I certainly don't believe that there's a consensus for them to be avoided, and, IMHO, they're certainly superior to training based on HR/zones if budget will only stretch to a left-only. Indeed, for most people, getting one of these and using them in a structured way is likely to reap greater rewards than dropping £4k on a pair of Lightweights.
It wouldn't matter between rides if your balance was always exactly the same. If it does vary from ride to ride, it increases variance by factor 2.
E.g., 3 rides, all at 200w
Ride 1: 48/52 true balance
Ride 2: 50/50
Ride 3: 52/48
Stages would read:
196
200
204
That's +-2% on top of the variance in measurement.
Based on the last years of power data, I would say that I see changes in balance of up to 3-4% between rides (based on estimated, imperfect p2m estimation). Which would put a stages into the range of 4+% variance.
That's too much IMHO, especially for someone who has ridden a while and isn't making enormous jumps in performance anymore.
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That's still basing it on 'if's' and ' estimated, imperfect p2m estimation' but I take your point.
I still don't agree that there's any consensus that single-sided meters are a waste of time though. Far from it.
I still don't agree that there's any consensus that single-sided meters are a waste of time though. Far from it.
AFAIK it's not always accurate that teams get paid to use products. Depends on the relative supply and demand situation:
- In some areas brands have to pay big bucks, e.g., bike brands to supply frames, as they are all falling over each other to sponsor World Tour teams and there are so many brands out there.
- In some areas (e.g., bike computers, components for second tier teams, to some extent power meters) there are not that many choices that 18 teams can play all suppliers off each other. At least not a few years ago. The picture changes quickly, of course. For example, I don't believe Garmin pays all teams to use their computers. Too dominant in the market, too few alternatives.
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