What's the question? You have to ride the Q-rings for atleast a month, do yourself a favor and ride only the Q-rings and really follow the notes on 'brain training'. Training on Q-rings, and racing on standard rings, because they look better? Oh lord, save your money, lad...

I don't think the aero rings are the same shape as the normal non-aero Q's? Could be wrong on that one though...

Situation:

I have 2 bikes:
- Training bike with DA7800 10 speed
- Racing bike with DA7900 Di2

I want to give Q Rings a shot to see if it gives me any improvement. So i want to use it during racing in the end at my Racing Bike.

What's the question? You have to ride the Q-rings for atleast a month, do yourself a favor and ride only the Q-rings and really follow the notes on 'brain training'. Training on Q-rings, and racing on standard rings, because they look better? Oh lord, save your money, lad...

I don't think the aero rings are the same shape as the normal non-aero Q's? Could be wrong on that one though...

I gotta say that I hade some serious soreness in some new musclegroups the first couple of weeks. And that's perfectly normal as you do start using some other muscles more than earlier, and these need some time to develop, so it's not just a mental aspect, it's a physical one aswell. And this takes way more than 10 minutes.

There is no way ou are even close to getting the full advantage before you let these "new" muscles develop and grow a bit stronger.

No you don't. The Rotor shit is nonsense. Studies have shown that Q-Rings do not positively influence static and dynamic loading aka they do nothing positive for the pedal stroke. Essentially Rotor just wants you to get used to them enough so you can rotate them to your liking, but it doesn't matter since the shape is non-optimal. A link to the study: http://www.noncircularchainring.be/pdf/ ... se%202.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Note: "The Q-Ring is a brilliant example of excellent manufacturing
workmanship but is first and foremost a compromise solution due to
technical compatibilities and marketing reasons: ovality 1.10, slightly
modified ellipse and crank at 74°. But as with all compromises, this oval
is sacrificing most of its potential advantages. The problem of the Q-Ring
is firstly its lack of ovality and secondly, the crank orientation. Even with
the crank oriented in the optimal position the Q-Ring performances are
disappointing and remain very weak. The mathematical model does not
confirm the performance figures published by Rotor, neither in the crank
orientation as advised by Rotor, nor in any other crank angle orientation."