WatTeam has announced a single-sided version of the Powerbeam for $259 Retail. The aesthetics leave a lot to be desired, but, ignoring, for the moment, the limitations of the single side design, it promises* to be more than accurate enough to be an effective training and race-effort-management tool.
So, for $129, you can get this powermeter which isn't remotely accurate, and, even if somehow future miraculous firmware updates made it accurate, could only be used with a proprietary cycling computer or a single app. Or, for $259 (should be able to get it for closer to $230 with easy-to-find 10% discount codes) , you can get a real direct-force power meter that actually does work, and can communicate with pretty much any popular cycling computer and training app. Not much of a choice, IMHO.
*"Promises" based on actual performance of previously released versions of the product, not just fluff rhetoric put on a website by some marketing flunkie.
"They're made of latex, not nitroglycerin"
So, for $129, you can get this powermeter which isn't remotely accurate, and, even if somehow future miraculous firmware updates made it accurate, could only be used with a proprietary cycling computer or a single app. Or, for $259 (should be able to get it for closer to $230 with easy-to-find 10% discount codes) , you can get a real direct-force power meter that actually does work, and can communicate with pretty much any popular cycling computer and training app. Not much of a choice, IMHO.
*"Promises" based on actual performance of previously released versions of the product, not just fluff rhetoric put on a website by some marketing flunkie.
"They're made of latex, not nitroglycerin"