I have the opportunity to spend a few pennies on something for the bike and I was wondering about buying a left crank only power meter. I have the power meter in my Elite Direto but frankly as the sun starts shining training indoors is depressing. Is it worth it or should I just wait and save for th…

Knowing L/R balance is only useful to me as a strange edge case. I have Powertap P1s on my TT and a Stages on my road bike (I have a special snowflake reason for this which I won’t bore you with), so I know my balance is left heavy and that it gets worse as I get fatigued and/or at higher watts. Whe…

Single sided is fine. The only thing you’ll get with double sided is more numbers to over-think. (TFIC)

Hi BaronGreenBack, (Full disclosure, I work for Avio, we make PowerSense left crank power meter) Left crank only power meters are certainly the most affordable way to get power data and the power data you get is excellent and will give you all the same numbers as SRM, Powertap, Vectors etc. As yo…

Didn’t Chriss Froome won TdF using leff only stages power meter… ?:thinking:

Thanks for all the info. I have the sensor with the Direto so I can work out if I have any imbalance before I set up the power meter. Only issue now is crank clearance. It’s showing as just a little too tight close to the bottom bracket.

He won his first two Tours on left only. First testing of the dual sided Stages was in 2016 but Froome didn’t use it that year. [image] Dual Sided Power from the Single Side Evangelists - Peloton Magazine Stages Cycling just launched Stages Power LR, a dual sided power meter. What? Dual…

Interestingly the article I linked suggests that Sky requested dual sided because they thought they might be missing out. Turns out it didn’t made any difference to what they were doing. Mike

I am having the exact same thoughts. Stages has a deal on L-only power meter for 105 groupsets, and I’m tempted to pull the trigger so that I can do power-based workouts outdoors. I want to train for some challenging gran fondos, and the thought of training indoors in the summer isn’t so tempting. E…

My honest opinion on Stages: if you get one, go find a known good power meter to verify it against, whether that is a friends set of power pedals or a good steady state smart trainer like a Neo or Hammer. If your numbers line up, keep it. If not, warranty it immediately.

I have a Gen 2 Stages and recently purchased (just turned up this morning) one of the Gen 3 105 meters on the deal you referenced. I’ll be interested to see if it’s consistent with the other Stages. I can’t see any benefit to L/R for us mere mortals, what are you going to do with it, try to train yo…

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themagicspanner February 22, 2019, 10:32pm 19

He won his first two Tours on left only. First testing of the dual sided Stages was in 2016 but Froome didn’t use it that year.

Mike

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