Creativity needed: Want to run Time pedals with Ekar groupset and still have Power Meter

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Yoln
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by Yoln

Question is in the title.

Any ways to run Ekar groupset with Time pedals system and still have power data?
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Surely there will be a Time Quarq pedal soon? Why else would Sram buy them?
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Yoln
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I can see "soon" being a year, maybe even a year before announcement, and an other 6 month before availability though...
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According to another member, the Wolf Tooth Drop Stop B ring is close and only needed a few teeth lightly filed. I should have info for the BOR rings next week once I have the bike together. My plan is to run a crank based power meter with modified rings.

If you're fine with 38T, Ratio is already selling one for 110 bcd cranks.

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by jwest

Yoln wrote:
Wed Oct 13, 2021 7:08 pm
Question is in the title.

Any ways to run Ekar groupset with Time pedals system and still have power data?
You say "groupset" but if you would be fine with a different crank, then it should be an easy solution. I am using a Rotor 2InPower mid compact on my road bike for racing in a Campagnolo 12s SR group and it's totally fine. I even am temporarily using a 34/50 Shimano Ultegra 2 side power crank in a Chorus 12 group on my old cross bike and that's also just fine. I was using it on that same bike with Record 10 for a couple years and it was flawless shifting.

In all of these everything is groupset matched except the crank and its rings of course.

So, on the road bikes I have my preferred Speedplay ti pedals and on the cross bike my, Preferred for dirt, Time Atac.

Another possibly weird, or possibly cool option would be a Race Face Next SL crank with the Easton or Race Face power spindle. I have that on 2 mtn bikes but during searches had come across non-mtb-boost widths too such as should be appropriate for a bike designed around 142 rear end, assuming the BB shell usually gets wider along with the rear end.

Rotor however is much better supported right now than the Easton/RF branded spindles and more appropriate ring sizes as well as their ovals.

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by Yoln

jwest wrote:
Tue Oct 19, 2021 9:23 am
Yoln wrote:
Wed Oct 13, 2021 7:08 pm
Question is in the title.

Any ways to run Ekar groupset with Time pedals system and still have power data?
You say "groupset" but if you would be fine with a different crank, then it should be an easy solution. I am using a Rotor 2InPower mid compact on my road bike for racing in a Campagnolo 12s SR group and it's totally fine. I even am temporarily using a 34/50 Shimano Ultegra 2 side power crank in a Chorus 12 group on my old cross bike and that's also just fine. I was using it on that same bike with Record 10 for a couple years and it was flawless shifting.

In all of these everything is groupset matched except the crank and its rings of course.

So, on the road bikes I have my preferred Speedplay ti pedals and on the cross bike my, Preferred for dirt, Time Atac.

Another possibly weird, or possibly cool option would be a Race Face Next SL crank with the Easton or Race Face power spindle. I have that on 2 mtn bikes but during searches had come across non-mtb-boost widths too such as should be appropriate for a bike designed around 142 rear end, assuming the BB shell usually gets wider along with the rear end.

Rotor however is much better supported right now than the Easton/RF branded spindles and more appropriate ring sizes as well as their ovals.
Thanks! I think at the moment the biggest issue is that all of the chairings fitting the options you mentioned are wider than 1.8mm, which makes them non compatible with the extra-narrow 13s chain of the Ekar
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by jwest

Yoln wrote:
Fri Oct 22, 2021 12:43 am


Thanks! I think at the moment the biggest issue is that all of the chairings fitting the options you mentioned are wider than 1.8mm, which makes them non compatible with the extra-narrow 13s chain of the Ekar
Oh, right, of course! Rotor is now doing a 13s group of their own so maybe the rings for that would be narrow enough to work. I don't know how good or not the mechanisms are but the cranks and rings are made well so maybe it's still an option. The new Adhu? crank can use a "power spider" so you'd have to research what the 13s crank has to offer or how it would mix with their power meter options. I think it's pretty cool though a company has more than 1 type of metering design, spider and spindle with several different combinations.

I had very good customer service recently about swapping a mtb direct mount ring that was mixed up in my order of several at once.

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jwest wrote:
Sun Oct 24, 2021 8:51 am

Oh, right, of course! Rotor is now doing a 13s group of their own so maybe the rings for that would be narrow enough to work. I don't know how good or not the mechanisms are but the cranks and rings are made well so maybe it's still an option. The new Adhu? crank can use a "power spider" so you'd have to research what the 13s crank has to offer or how it would mix with their power meter options. I think it's pretty cool though a company has more than 1 type of metering design, spider and spindle with several different combinations.

I had very good customer service recently about swapping a mtb direct mount ring that was mixed up in my order of several at once.

Rotor Uno achieves 13 speeds by cantilevering the extra cog over a proprietary hug. They use regular 12spd chains.

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