Sastre no longer using Quarq?
05-13-09, 11:30 PM
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Sastre no longer using Quarq?
It looks like Sastre's new giro bike has no quarq on it. Anyone know the story behind this? Does he never use power meters in races or was there an issue?
https://www.cyclingnews.com/tech.php?...o_Sastre_crank
https://www.cyclingnews.com/tech.php?...o_Sastre_crank
05-13-09, 11:37 PM
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I assumed the new rotor cranks use a different spider that they haven't produced a CinQo for yet, but that is only speculation on my part.
05-13-09, 11:48 PM
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05-14-09, 12:29 AM
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Hmmmm, how did you get the jpg off their site? 
Via 'view > source'?
More interesting is that a few more pros are persisting with odd-shaped chainrings (if they were totally crap, I suspect they might've fizzed out by now, despite sponsorship deals), and the Fuji team are using 26mm bars.
Via 'view > source'?
More interesting is that a few more pros are persisting with odd-shaped chainrings (if they were totally crap, I suspect they might've fizzed out by now, despite sponsorship deals), and the Fuji team are using 26mm bars.
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Why didn't rotor work with Quarq to make them work together? I thought the point of the Cervelo Test Team was specifically to enable all these companies to work together to produce better products?
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sounds like they are. rotor has a new prototype crank, and if the team likes them, then quarq will make a spider for them.
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05-14-09, 12:43 PM
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05-14-09, 12:48 PM
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That's right. We don't want to make a bunch of CinQos until we know that the protytpe cranks are going to be used for the rest of the year. It takes too much time and money to just keep making new CinQos for the team everytime there is a new prototype crank. Once we know what cranks they are going to run with for the rest of the year, we'll make CinQos to fit them.
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I'm sure the guys at Quarq have a better understanding of what's good for their business than you, donr.
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05-14-09, 12:56 PM
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That's why I'm asking. I'm trying to understand how allowing them to not use your product in a grand tour outweighs the cost of building a prototype to work with the new rotor.
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to oversimplify, maybe the consideration works out to:
|(Cost of developing new prototype)| > |(Projected revenue loss from Sastre not riding Quarq in Giro)|
|(Cost of developing new prototype)| > |(Projected revenue loss from Sastre not riding Quarq in Giro)|
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