The Power Meter Buyers Guide–2018 Edition
www.dcrainmaker.com/2018/11/power-meter-buyers-2018.htmlStages really exploded this category with their left-only power meter, and other vendors followed suit including Garmin (Vector S variants), Rotor (Rotor LT, ROTOR inPOWER), 4iiii (some models), LIMITS, and Polar (Keo Power Essential) and many more. … Once again, it’s time for the annual power meter buyer’s guide! It’s where I round-up every cycling power meter on the market, and talk through what’s happened in the last year.
The Power Meters Buyer’s Guide–2017 Edition
www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/11/power-meters-annual-buyers-guide-2017-edition.htmlStages really exploded this category with their left-only power meter, and other vendors followed suit including Garmin (Vector S variants), Rotor (Rotor LT, ROTOR inPOWER), 4iiii (some models), LIMITS, and Polar (Keo Power Essential) and many more. … Once again, it’s time for the annual power meter buyer’s guide! It’s where I round-up every cycling power meter on the market, and talk through what’s happened in the last year.
Stages Power Meter In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/01/stages-power-meter-in-depth-review.html[Please Note: As of June 18th, 2013 I have published an in-depth update for the Stages Power, based on new firmware. … Since its announcement at Interbike this past year, no power meter has caused as much Internet discussion and debate than the Stages power meter.
The Power Meters Buyer’s Guide–2016 Edition
www.dcrainmaker.com/2016/09/power-meters-buyers-guide2016-edition.htmlStages really exploded this category with their left-only power meter, and other vendors followed suit including Garmin (Vector S), Rotor (Rotor LT, ROTOR inPOWER), 4iiii (some models), LIMITS, and Polar (Keo Power Essential). … Once again, it’s time for the annual power meter buyer’s guide.
Stages LR (Dual-Sided) Power Meter In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2018/02/stages-lr-dual-sided-power-meter-in-depth-review.htmlWhat you see above is basically par for the course on cranksets, since it’s largely taking an existing Shimano Ultegra crankset and rebranding the box, plopping on the Stages power meter pieces, and then calling it macaroni. … For Stages, the development path of Stages LR has been over three years till it started shipping last month, with most of it in the public eye in the most watched bike on earth: Chris Froome’s.
The Power Meters Buyer’s Guide–2015 Edition
www.dcrainmaker.com/2015/10/buyers-guide2015-edition.htmlRight now there’s three units actively on the market with Bluetooth Smart support: Stages, PowerTap, 4iii, and Polar/Look. … Once again, it’s time for the annual power meter buyer's guide.
Stages Power Meter In-Depth Review Update
www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/06/stages-review-update.htmlIt’s been a touch over four months since I first published the Stages Power Meter In-Depth Review. … As a result of that review, Stages made a number of updates to their power meter firmware since then, including addressing specific items that were raised as concerns during the review.
The Power Meters Buyer’s Guide–2014 Edition
www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/09/buyers-guide2014-edition.htmlThe crank-arms themselves include Stages, Pioneer, and Rotor. … How quickly a year has gone by since my last power meter buyers guide.
Stages Bike (SB20) In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/07/stages-bike-sb20-smart-bike-in-depth-review.htmlThe ones on each crank arm are basically like those from a Stages power meter that you’d install on your bike. … The Stages Bike becomes what I’d argue is the ‘final’ competitor to land in the indoor smart bike space for probably some time.
Stages Dash L50 & M50 GPS Bike Computer In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/03/stages-dash-l50-m50-bike-gps-computer-review.htmlIt’s been nearly a year since the Stages Dash L50 & M50 started shipping, back in June 2019, which was almost a year after they were announced at Eurobike 2018. … Nonetheless, once you get the mount and bike computer mounted, you’ll power it on via the side buttons.
Specialized Power Cranks Power Meter In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2018/03/specialized-power-cranks-power-meter-review.htmlIt’s cheaper than the Shimano Dura-Ace power meter, and $150 cheaper than Stage’s new Stages LR unit. … Today Specialized has finally announced their new power meter crankset, aptly called Power Cranks.
Stages Power announces carbon crank options, talks a bit about dual leg power
www.dcrainmaker.com/2015/08/stages-announces-options.htmlToday at Eurobike, Stages announced their first foray into offering carbon crank arm options with their power meters pre-installed. … Finally, I chatted with them a bit about left/right power and what that means to Stages and their product plans, especially given some of the sightings of dual Stages units out in the wild (primarily on Team Sky).
The Power Meter Buyer’s Guide – 2013 Edition
www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/09/power-buyers-edition.htmlAs it stands today for example you can’t pick up a Stages Power Meter outside of North America and the UK. … The crank-arms themselves include Stages, Pioneer, and Rotor.
How to: Troubleshooting Power Meter and Trainer Accuracy Issues
www.dcrainmaker.com/2018/12/how-to-troubleshooting-power-meter-and-trainer-accuracy-issues.htmlThis is especially notable if you have an older Stages power meter, where they’ve increased transmission power in firmware updates over the last year or two. … Again, like Stages, these weren’t specifically accuracy-driven, but contributed to ensuring the data was at a quality bar that was acceptable.
Hands-on: Stages LR Dual Left/Right Power Meter
www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/08/hands-on-stages-lr-dual-leftright-power-meter.htmlFrom a communications standpoint the unit follows past Stages power meters and dual transmits on ANT+ & Bluetooth Smart (they were the first to do so). … Today Stages (finally) announced their long seen but never sold dual left/right power meter, the Stages LR.
ROTOR introduces new ROTOR Power LT power meter
www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/07/rotor-introduces-power.htmlThis makes it identical in functionality to that of the Stages Power Meter that was announced just under 2 years ago. … Where the full system differs from that of this new LT system is that they’ve removed the right side (drive side) of the equation, effectively becoming a single-sided power meter just like Stages.
Garmin Rally Power Meter In-Depth Review (SPD/SPD-SL/LOOK KEO)
www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/03/garmin-rally-power-meter-review-spd-spd-sl-look-keo.htmlIn this case, this was some 3-minute intervals on a Tacx NEO 2 and Stages LR crankset. … Garmin has launched three new power meters today, all under the new ‘Garmin Rally’ brand, which supersedes the Garmin Vector power meter lineup.
Stages, Wahoo sponsor Team Sky, CycleOps sponsors Trek Pro team, and Team Lampre on ROTOR Power, Movistar on Power2Max
www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/01/2014-pro-team-powermeters.htmlWahoo’s announcement this morning that they’re sponsoring Team Sky, makes Sky the epicenter of connected sports technology sponsorships: Stages power meters, Wahoo KICKR’s, and Training Peaks to round it up. … Of course, much of the attention over the last seven days has been on the Stages relationship with Team Sky.
Shimano Dura-Ace R9100P Power Meter In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2018/04/shimano-dura-ace-r9100p-power-meter-in-depth-review.htmlNot appreciably different than how countless others measure strain on their power meters (Stages, 4iiii, Pioneer, Specialized, and a bunch of lesser-known brands). … It’s been almost two years since Shimano first announced their intentions to sell a power meter developed in-house, launched in the lead-up to the Tour de France in June 2016.
Polar announces new Keo Power systems, and V800/V650 power meter update plans, and more!
www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/08/announces-v800v650-update.htmlThis is inline with how Stages Power Meter works, as well as the Rotor LT, and now Garmin Vector S. … Today at Eurobike Polar announced and showed off a slew of power meter specific features and products – all of which are scheduled to hit the market in the next 60 days.
Stages Further Lowers Power Meter Pricing to $299
www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/01/stages-further-lowers-power-meter-pricing-to-299.htmlNo matter how you feel about single-sided power meters, there’s zero denying that Stages and their timing of the decade deal with then Team Sky, dramatically increased power meter consumption. … In the rising tide lifts all boats department, they took with them not just (at the time) the budget end of the power meter spectrum, but also the mid and high end too.
4iiii Precision 3+ Pro Power Meter In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/02/4iiii-precision-3plus-pro-power-review.htmlShimano’s own power meters offering is, of course, notoriously inaccurate (even with the most recent updates), and that’s largely left you with Stages and 4iiii offerings. … 4iiii has just released its latest power meter, the 4iiii Precision 3+ Pro dual-sided power meter.
SRAM Apex AXS & Power Meter In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2023/06/sram-apex-axs-power-meter-review.htmlThat’s about as low as you’re gonna get in the power meter world, and only slightly cheaper than most other left-side-only crank arm add-on options (e.g., those from Stages or 4iiii). … Alongside that, SRAM Apex also brings 12-speed to the groupset while concurrently gaining a power meter option.
The Massive Eurobike Power Meter News Roundup: Quarq, Stages, SRM, PowerBeat, Ciclo, Verve Infocrank, Xpedo
www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/08/eurobike-powerbeat-infocrank.htmlMoving over to what I suspect at this point is the largest seller of power meters in the market (by moving volume today), we’ve got a few minor announcements from Stages. … For some power meter companies here at Eurobike I put together full posts if they had a number of new major products, or if they had some sort of significant news.
Stages Dash L10 Bike Computer In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/06/stages-dash-bike-computer-review.htmlUpdate Nov 2020: Note that Stages effectively renamed the original Stages Dash to the Stages Dash L10, when they announced the new L50 and M50 models. … Realistically, at this price point there's no GPS bike computer as powerful as the Stages L10.
