Favero ASSIOMA PRO MX-2, new SPD power meter pedals

Squeak…squeak…squeak…
“Sorry, what did you ask?”
Chirp, chirp, chirp
“Can’t hear you, I’m too busy losing my mind with every pedal stroke”
Squeak, squeak, chirp…

I’ve tried everything I could find online. Lube, shims, even bought a new pair of shoes. Nothing solved it.

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I didn’t think about that, but you are probably right! :smile: However 6w feel like a bit too much (chain only used inside, okeyish lubed, maybe needs some cleaning). I thought it would be the margin of error (1%?), that would explain around 2-3W.

It can be much more than that with a bad chain, pretty sure Zero Friction Cycling shows 20- 30w or more in certain bad scenarios .

I see a couple watts to around 10, average of 5-7 comparing my quarq spider to my Neo. Depends on how hard I’m going. And that’s with a pretty good waxed chain.

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Meanwhile, my Rallys read 10-20 W lower than my Kickr and (name redacted) crankset PM (which are within 1 W of each other).

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My Garmin vector 2 read about 5-10 watts lower than my kicks.

Honestly after the battery debacle I experienced for which it made me give up trying to solve it as for most moving away from other PMs and trusting Garmin again on this is quite a task

lol pretty sure @GPLama’s comment was tongue in cheek

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I was genuinely interested. I’ve had mixed experiences with Vector3/Rally pedals so I was keen to know why people were keen to move on from them.

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FWIW, my rallys (when I had them) were consistent with my Neo 2T, maybe a little higher.

The huge stack that sucks for off-road. Generally not as enjoyable as XTR pedals for me. Also, if you’re in the middle of nowhere, good luck finding the batteries.

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am in USA so not sure they will sell once they find out but following through till they say ‘no’

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This is very pleasing. I’ve been in need of a dual sided set up for my gravel bike ever since I got the assioma duo for my road bike and discovered i have a pretty nasty imbalance (left leg fatiguing first also a clear sign). I’m a big fan of rechargeable set ups and that eliminated the garmin pedals from the running pretty much immediately, not to mention they use a weird battery. I’m pretty sold on a rotor 2inPower SL for my purposes as it’s a good crank with accurate, rechargeable power measurement. But if Favero sells these for around the same price as their road pedals then these are seriously worth considering. Sure I can use whatever pedals I want with crank based but for a few hundred bucks less, reliability and great customer service as well as staying within a familiar app I might have to wait for the North American release before I decide on my dual sided upgrade.

They will only allow you to ship to Italy (if you have not figured this out yet).

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  1. One mechanical body replacement equal to at most XT level costs more than a pair of Shimano XTR analog pedals.

Garmin XC duel side in Almost $1200usd… Favero Assioma Pro MX-2 (Also duel side) is under $600usd…

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Good friend of mine just got the GARMIN Rally duo pedals for gravel. They are consistently reading 10 - 20 watts low as compared to a trainer and also a stages left crank pm. He is trying to warranty them.

I’ve just ordered a stages xtr left only. Do I wait for these assioma pedals and send the stages back?
The pedals look great and I’m a long time assioma road pedal user so I’d get these mtb pedals in a heart beat. Only issue with road pedals are the crap bearings

Also, be aware that running a stages off road will result in many 2 sec power spikes when descending.

Did he calibrate them correctly? I feel like they are more sensitive to torque and maybe temperature(?). At least they more between calibrations.

@BillyWaldman why is this?