All of the great customer support in the world doesn’t do you much good if you make poor product development decisions…
Can’t argue with that.
I’d go with the Look Polar for it’s versatility. If you’ve got many bikes, it’ll be easier to move from bike to bike, regardless of what gruppo you’re using on the bikes. It’s not the cheapest, but saves you a lot of hassle.
Powertap is also great. Its the cheapest here, however you wouldn’t have as much freedom to use it on other bikes with a different gruppo.
SRM is definitely the best, with nearly ALL pros using it in Grand Tours. The downside to that is the very high price. Furthermore, If you have two or more bikes, it’ll cost you a bomb to get a SRM
specifically installed on all bikes. Otherwise you could also manually switch the cranks, but that’s definitely time-consuming.
Just my $0.02 worth.
Thanks!!
Powertap is also great. Its the cheapest here, however you wouldn’t have as much freedom to use it on other bikes with a different gruppo.
Not necessarily true…my PT wheel is Shimano and I ride Campag 10 speed. No issues whatsoever (especially with bar end shifters).
All the books will tell you it won’t work…but it does.
Tom A. Has a video that disagrees with your statement on crank switching being time consuming.
That may be true, but many many companies have signed on to the ant+ consortium, including quarq, SRM, and Saris as they all offer ant+ computers and components. Everyone benefits if a standard is adopted and one clearly has been established. Just ask Sony about the betamax battle, and clearly this isn’t a new phenomena. They threw in the towel on beta and business boomed. Look at the iphone, people were forced to stomach crappy service to get a product they wanted. Yeah, they made money, but the consumer was unhappy and many bailed until they opened up to other carriers, and look at the cash they make now. Sound slike polar is coming late to the game in a field with a communication standard. Not only are they forcing folks who like Look to stomach a proprietary signal and computer, they could have a fantastic computer that shuts you out from buying it and using it on your current system. Either way unhappy customer…unless you are drinking the kool-aid.
I DO, but thanks for checking 
point being that other competitors, such as medical companies/hospitals, airlines etc. often collaborate to fill gaps in their products and/or services. In many cases this is a win win and both sell more because of it. Now if Garmin wanted an unreasonable fee to license the technology or Polar feels they have a superior tech advantage that is going to overtake Ant+ I get it… Not to unreasonable to assume given vector is around the corner.
Personally, having a device that is NOT ANT+ compatible is not the end of the world either.
It’s also like $1000 more than the Garmin Vector.
The fact that the Look/Polar pedals show left vs right foot/leg peddling is huge! Strengthening the weaker side of the body to have a much smoother pedal stroke while maintaining certain wattage will increasingly make you a stronger cyclist.
What measures would you take to rectify a L-R disparity, specifically?
I am curious how folks would use this information.
The fact that the Look/Polar pedals show left vs right foot/leg peddling is huge! Strengthening the weaker side of the body to have a much smoother pedal stroke while maintaining certain wattage will increasingly make you a stronger cyclist.
What measures would you take to rectify a L-R disparity, specifically?
I am curious how folks would use this information.
In practice even those with a real intent to use the information gained would give up in frustration. Correcting (if indeed anything needs correcting at all) a L/R imbalance isn’t a simple matter of pushing harder on the side showing lower power output. But suppose you were successful at balancing L/R power, would the newly corrected L/R power curves even look the same? Would those curves be optimal? What’s optimal?
From November through May I bike on a computrainer twice a week. (sometimes 3 times) It’s called PBC.(Power Based Class) During some of the classes we use only the Spin Scan screen to see where our strengths and weaknesses are on our pedal strokes. For years, I was left foot/leg dominate. After taking these classes for the past two years and smoothing out my pedal stroke, I was able to strengthen (along with Yoga and TRX) my right leg/foot. I can see the improvements on the Spin Scan. Plus, muscle memory has allowed me to feel if I am working harder on one side or the other. I would like to use this outside as well because to be honest, I get lazy and need to go to the local computrainer studio and ensure myself that I am using both legs the same. The Look Power Pedals will do that. How? No clue! Just think it’s an added advantage over other power devices.
I am leaning towards the SRM power meeter with the 3D+ Rotor Road Crank. Possibly the Garmin 500 for the computer.
If Look comes out with positive feedback and results on their pedals before Spring…then I just may get a pair to test. Unless the Garmin Pedals are out sooner.
That shouldn’t have happened with ANT+. They would have had to have the same DeviceID, which is one in 64,000. The only way I see this happening is if he paired his display unit next to his buddies power meter.