Originally Posted by
twocicle
My Garmin Edge gripes may be:
- lack of a calculated power reading like some other cycling computers have. I see no reason they could not provide this in the current units. Garmin is coming out with their own power sensor pedals so you may assume some marketing tact on that, but I believe providing the calculated power would promote interest in that area and stimulate pedal sales rather than the opposite.
I think there's one other vendor, iBike, who offers derived power. I can't speak to it personally, but think there's enough slop in the sensor readings necessary that it'd be "loose" at best. Garmin might be coming out with power pedals "soon", so you may think there's a marketing angle, but there are other products on the market to sense power too. Interestingly, some of the iBike models will read from a crank-based or wheel-based power sensor, and use it to derive wind resistance and frontal area or something like that.