pyrahna wrote:
Ok this is some goofey logic if I ever heard it. It is like saying you don't want a P5 because your P3 has been serving you well for 8 yrs. It is the latest toy. It has some interesting benefits and looks, from 24 hrs worth of data, to be a solid offering. The real question is it worth $900 more than a Stages or $700 more than a powertap with an alloy wheelset?
p.s. I realize that I am stretching it a bit with the P5 vs. P3 comparison because Cervelo provided data from the get go that the P5 was aerodynamically faster, but I don't think it is any more of a stretch than your logic.
Yea, I'm not sure "waiting" for it is the right idea. I know I wasn't really at all in the market for a powermeter several years ago, whereas I'm at least considering the possibility of one in the near future. For me, this would actually be my cheapest option because even Stages I would have to buy a whole new crankset for one of my bikes (which do not have the same BB...)
I really do like the simplicity of this, and you can tell me all you want about how easy it is to change wheels and change cranks, and that's true, but I use different cranks/BBs on different bike (and I'm sure I'm not the only one) and use different wheels on different bikes. I don't, however, use different pedals. As it is now, I only have one pair of road pedals that I swap back and forth as needed.
The only thing about this is that Garmin's press release mentioned the Edges and the Forerunner 910, but nothing about the Forerunner 310, even though the 310 is supposed to be PM-compatible. I know it doesn't do left/right balance, but I'd still like to know if this would work with a 310.
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