Originally Posted by
racersdad
Hi, I'm new here, relatively new to track racing and would appreciate any help. I'm building up a Felt TK FRD for my junior son who will be focusing on pursuit events. He started racing track in April, raced a borrowed bike at Junior Worlds a couple weeks ago and now this is to be his bike for the coming seasons. I'm trying to find a crankset/powermeter combination that will work well and ideally be aero. I've come up with 3 options. The Felt is BSA threaded.
1. Rotor 3D24 Crankset, with SRM or Power2Max power meter. Issues: SRM is very $$$ and Power2Max has no availability until their new model comes in - which has no ETA
2. Vision Track Crankset. I believe (to be confirmed) that I can fit a Stages FSA386EVO crankarm power meter to the Vision crankset. But I haven't found anyone with knowledge of this crankset in use. This crankset is 386EVO, there are numerous BB options to mate to the BSA threads.
3. Dura Ace with Stages (or SRM for that matter)
I would greatly appreciate any advice or thoughts on the relative merits of these options. Anyone used the Vision Crankset?
thanks!
The conclusions I've drawn from talking about this with others on this forum and elsewhere are:
* That power on the track bike is a nice luxury, but not a necessity.
* Time, speed and cadence can provide almost all the metrics one needs to improve.
* If one is going to go with power, they should go ahead and go with one of the SRM options.