This is what’s in the favero website….its about the assioma, but I assume the MX2 would be very similar.
“ The battery of Assioma has been designed for professional long lasting applications: after 500 complete recharges (i.e. from completely discharged to fully charged) its capacity is reduced by only 20%. Note that 500 recharges are more than 25,000 hours of use!
A reduction of 20% of its capacity means that the battery will last 40 hours instead of 50, but only after hundreds of complete recharges!”
When you figure we charge our phones every day, and the battery usually lasts a couple of years pretty easily with modest battery losses, that lines up with the 500 charges listed above. If a person charged their pedals twice a month (I don’t think I do it that often averaged over a year) that’s 24 charges a year, so that would be 20 years based on charge cycles. Not sure if there is an age element to battery longevity independent of charges and use, but it look like a person should get a decade or 2 out of them fairly easily.
Thanks for looking that up for me! I am thinking based on the average hours I ride, I would also average 2 charges a month. So I shouldn’t even think about the battery dying for a long while.
I thought the battery life is possibly a little less on the MX2 than the Assioma? But regardless, I have been using my Assiomas for 6 years and the batteries still last fine. I probably charge them more through feeling like I should rather than religiously checking the remaining battery through the app.
Just playing with mine now. Anyone have side to side play with the axle body on the spindle? I’ve got about .5mm on one and maybe .25mm on the other. I dont have the tools to measure this properly. I can pull the pedal that far off the plastic red band part that covers the pedal /spindle interface. I haven’t tried tightening anything yet.
ASSIOMA PRO MX uses needle roller bearings, which offer
a much higher load carrying capacity compared to the
standard ball bearings.
Some cyclists more sensitive to the feeling with their bike
may, however, note a small play in their pedals, which is to
be considered as completely normal with the use of such
bearings.
well the first ride was pretty great. zero pedal strikes on rocks, which is pretty awesome. i remember with the rallys i had 5 or 6 on that first ride. stack height does matter after all…
i had some trouble initially as it wasn’t transmitting any data. pulled out the manual on the app (pretty thorough app btw) and was reminded you need a “few dozen” pedal strokes for the pedals to self calibrate. mine seemed to take at least that, but afterwards it magically started transmitting.
i was also reminded that eggbeater cleat engagement is VERY different than SPD cleat engagement. that’s going to take some getting used to. hard to describe but with eb you just kind of slide in whereas with SPD you stomp on them? really threw me off and that PCO data i think was impacted as a result. i looked back at my rally days and my PCO offset was +4/+6 generally with those (also SPD) and with the assiomas it was +9/+15 (!). of course there’s also the possibility that i installed the cleats too far outward, but i don’t think so from looking at them as i used the imprint left from the eb cleats. idk. again, i have to relearn engagement best practices but at least disengaging was no issue
data was fantastic to look at. a full 24hrs later and i’m still sorting through it all. so far, very impressed and i’m looking forward to many years of use out of these things
My first ride went well, I had to tighten the cleat thingabobs 2 notches. I have no complaints except looking at L/R balance, it looks like my right pedal dropped out more than a few times. I’m not sure if there’s a better app to investigate this but this is what my Garmin analytics are showing.
There is, its called calendar aging. But even that seems to be fairly minimal in the first generation Assiomas and it seems it will be in the MX as well
53/47 L/R balance is not unusual. If you want to investigate more you can use the DCRainmaker Analyzer. You could see dropouts there. You can also see this on Garmin Connect. The only odd data I see (which I reported to Favero) is in the two MTB rides I have done it shows that I am standing more than 1/2 the ride. Which I certainly wasn’t. I’ll see what they say. Everything else L/R balance, power stroke, etc was similar to my Rally XC200s.
Something to look forward to when I eventually get mine, I guess. I miss it on my road pedals. On my Rally I usually read -2 to 2 or so, and rightly or not I take that to mean I am in pretty good shape with saddle height and cleat position.
funny you mention the seated vs standing stuff. 2hr ride yesterday and it said i was standing for roughly 30 minutes, which for me is VERY unusual. in a 2hr ride for me this would ordinarily be something like 1-2 minutes of standing. however, in my zeal to test any and all metrics these pedals offer, i made a point of standing as much as possible to see how it would record, so i guess it was possible.
there’s an option in garmin (sensor–>cycling dynamics–>rider pos. trans. time) that lets you adjust the standing recognition time. i want to say it’s 5 seconds (?) by default so i purposely stood while riding and counted to 5 or more before sitting again. they (favero? garmin?) don’t really tell you if it’s 5 seconds and THEN the standing is counted as 1 second, 2 seconds etc or at the 5 second mark you get credit for 5 seconds, 6 seconds etc. if it’s the latter i could see all of the countless little standing bursts adding up over time
also, i have no idea what constitutes “standing” in these cycling dynamics. fully standing for sure, but what about kind of standing with the saddle nose tucked in your tailbone on sketchy downhills? like if i weigh 200lbs do the pedals need to register 200lbs of pressure to be “standing” or is there some offset at play and 150lbs or up is “standing”? i’ll have to test all of this next ride. luckily the garmin data has the position plotted over time horizontally so i can just pick a time and go crazy standing/sitting. btw i have no idea what the vertical column data is supposed to be. 421 to 10104? no clue…
How is “standing” defined? Does it include when you’ve got the pedals a 9 and 3 with your butt hovering over the saddle? If so, I can see that “bumping those numbers up” depending on trail conditions.
The standing time reported by my original favero pedals has gone a bit strange - i think they must have altered the method of detecting it - i assume it looks for differences in the power phase?
Mine is also shower far more standing time than i actually did.
I still don’t know what this means, all the purple dots saying I was pushing power 100% left pedal only…
I understand the Imbalance but I’ll compare with a ride using garmin Rally xc200
