Originally Posted by
shovelhd
If you could go 100% for 17 minutes and ride another 60 miles, you didn't go 100%. Probably not even 90%. If you have never raced, your RPE meter isn't calibrated for racing, where going 100% is mandatory but has to be managed.
Good way of putting it.
Originally Posted by
furiousferret
Seems like a good product, and I'm tempted to get one. His criticism with the Vectors match mine. (not that its a bad pm per se, but has flaws). Regardless its looking more like the future of PM's is going to go pedal based.
On road, perhaps. I was out in the woods on my cross bike the other day and I hit my pedals on so many rocks. So. Many. Rocks. Maybe that's something that can be compensated for, but squeezing a power meter into a mountain pedal still seems like a tough task when I see how chunky the current pedal-based power meters are. The limited compatibility is a sticking point, too.