I have been following the rumor too, but I have not seen anything new recently. My take is that Italy is still getting kicked in the teeth by Coronavirus, and Assioma has barely been able to maintain inventory of their current products. My hunch is we will not see a new product until their country settles down and their supply chain stabilizes.

My personal axiom regarding bike products, is when I need something, buy something that's for sale. Even absent COVID, waiting for rumored or unannounced products is a bit of a rabbit hole.

For power meters this is bolstered by the Chung rule: don't buy low serial number power meters.

Twice I’ve ignored this rule a only to regret it

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Matt

Yea I could see that. They did lower their price though which I thought might be a way of clearly old stock before releasing the new pedals but obviously nothing has come from that.

Yea, me wanting to buy a new electronic product is very new to me. I don't think I've ever bought a new generation of anything (because I never need the latest/greatest and also because I'd rather the company get the bugs out of the product) but I was going to make an exception here since people seems to have such good luck with their pedals and it's pretty much exactly what I wanted. I probably need to let my rational head prevail here and get the current version.

Where did you see the price lowered? I almost bought a second set from Clever Training, but they raised their price a few months ago and have not come back down yet.

Favero website has them for $690. They were like 720 or so a few months back. The price definitely jumped up sometime last year but then dropped. Prices on other sites don't seem to have moved since the increase

Their prices are very dynamic for whatever reason, they change almost weekly

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Strava

I got mine for $650 from Clever Training in 2019. I love them so much that I want a 2nd set just to have the convenience between my two bikes and the backup. Psychologically, $650 for a gratuitous 2nd set is a easy click for me. But the current price of $720 is too much for a non-essential point of view-- even though they are still a ludicrous value at this price.

From what I saw, it looked like it was going to be replacement spindles for existing SPD-SL pedals, not complete pedals:

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