That’s good to hear. Certainly it’d be nice to use same PM for all bikes
My Faveros get swapped between my road bike and the TT bike. Its a pretty easy swap, but I typically only do it a handful of times a year. For me, I’d be buying a 2nd power meter if I was doing it anymore frequently than ~weekly.
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My Assiomas (Look Keo cleats) get pretty difficult to unclip when I ride gravel, even if I’m not unclipping and walking. After my last 60 mile gravel race between my exhaustion and the extra friction in the cleat, I couldn’t get unclipped after crossing the finish line. Ended up having to find a post to lean against and really shift off the bike to get unclipped.
I only do a couple of gravel races a year though and almost never ride gravel outside of that, so I’ve never bothered buying a 2nd PM for gravel.
Assioma MX on the gravel bike and Sigeyi on the mtb, very happy with this setup. I’m still not comfortable running a pedal based PM for mountain biking.
For me, at most it’d be weekly
Have you compared power reading of the Sigeyi against the Assiomas?
Not by recording concurrently but output seems correct on both based on RPE. On the mtb I only use power to pace some long climbs and for training load. I’m usually not paying too much attention to it while riding.
Yeah for MTB I’m not in need of looking at power during ride. Just a nice to have to feed into TR so no need to be perfectly aligned. But for gravel and road I’d like things aligned as I definitely pace some outdoor efforts off power
I have Assioma PRO RS-2 DUO and use it on my road bike since i had a 4iiii from when i bought the bike but i sold it becouse i think it was poor quality.
On my gravel wich i ride the most i have a Rival power meter on the left crank. Sometimes i use my Assiomas on the gravel to adjust the slope on my gravel power meter. Its good to know that i have like 53/47 balance. Better readings on my rival now.
Personally, from a load management perspective, I’ve found HR to be pretty spot on during my long endurance rides so don’t really miss the power data there as I regulate based on HR regardless. Really, I only want power on intensity rides (hard group rides, races, interval sessions) so don’t feel the need to move them over most of the time.
You may also need to consider that XTR and Dura-ace pedals do have a lower stack height (Assiomas as well) for those who are sensitive to minor bike fit changes.
Lastly, most of us don’t have a torque meter on our pedal wrenches so I do worry about the constant torquing and untorquing of our pedals and potential for stripping and/or under-torquing.
Lots to consider, but I decided I’d rather have two left-side PMs vs. one dual-sided PM. You ought to be able to get $100 for your existing pedals on Marketplace - reducing the sting a bit.
For me, outside rides and races I am certainly going by RPE a majority of the time. I may glance at power to keep me under a certain power especially in races or just to confirm that my RPE matches the power zone. For the most part, I don’t get too analytical about it.
Inside of course I’m using my kicker bike for workouts so that power is handled.
As much as I like data, for me, there is a fine line between analyzing my workouts and overdoing it and no longer enjoying riding
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Yeah. For most outdoor rides, especially mtb, I only look at power after the fact to keep track of training metrics like IF, TSS, ATL… On a long steady segment I might look at my 30 second power just to see what I’m doing, but I go by RPE not power.
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Why aren’t you comfortable running a pedal based PM for mountain biking?
Concern about pedal strikes/durability. I’ll find out if that concern is real soon since I bought a new bike with Sram transmission and my only PM option at the moment is to run the assiomas 
I’ve had my Assioma MX2 for over a year, probably 100+ pedal strikes, and no problems to speak of.
I know nothing about building power meters and figured their engineers do and would design them in a way so that the sensors are protected 
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If you have flight attendant best to stay in the SRAM ecosystem but I have Garmin power pedals and have been solid, even with the occasional pedal strike.
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Same, been running garmins for 2 years and no issues.
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Ohh, good point! I’m switching to 165 on my new (third) bike, so that could get cumbersome. I’m not currently swapping them. Both my current bikes have assiomos, but I can’t afford another set!! I wonder if it’s possible to set up profiles for different bikes on Garmin 530/540.
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