look at their blog & twitter & see how they are holding up. the used to put up 2-3 blog entries per month, and even more tweets on their twitter page. now look at them, the last few tweets are from Aug 20, June 18th, May 31st, and May 4th, and the last blog is from June 18th. chances are, they are running low on seed money

i think someone in the 33 has actually calibrated his quarq using an elaborate but not too difficult procedure. check the PM debate that went on in late May & you might find the instructions.

as for cost, i have seen quarqs go on sale on ebay for $1300. not common, but they do happen

You can calibrate the quarq using quarqd. It's not just very user friendly at the moment.

My view is totally skewed by confirmation bias, but the number of cyclists I know with power meters almost wholly overlaps with the number of people I know that would see the d at the end of quarq and immediately start thinking ./configure; make; make install

Yeah- I had high hoped for Metrigear as well. I think they are probably trying to sell the technology to another Company, as they need more time and money to get these power meters working. I have a feeling the Eurobike show was more an attempt to entice investors, versus trying to entice consumers at that point.

I hope this is not true. I would love more competition in the power meter market. I feel like they charge such high prices because they know that customers have little alternatives.

I guess for now I will have to keep saving for a Quarq.

i hear you. i really want metrigear to succeed as well, but looks like they are going through a rough period. a ptap really aint that bad. our resident wheelbuilder can get you a kinlin 30 laced to ptap pro+ hub at a very attractive price, and this hub is only 40g heavier than the top of the line ptap hub. and besides, if a ptap is good enough for Cuddles, i think it'll be good enough for the rest of us

I hate to admit it, but Pcad was right. Metrigear is vaporware at this point.

It always was vaporware. Good grief you guys can be awfully dense.

Whatever. I imagine you'll next try and tell me that my pre-order of duke nukem forever is vaporware too?!

I don't even know what the eff duke nukem is, and happily, I could give a fark.

P.S. Any product, announced by any company, is friggin utter, complete total VAPORWARE until it is in your hot little idiot hands. Get a grip on this basic fact, or suffer the consequences in the future. Your move poindexter.

Good job failing to realize I was agreeing with you.

Duke Nukem Forever is a game that has been "under development" for 13 years or so. It was ranked #1 in Wired's yearly vaporware awards some 5 or 6 times.

Mr. Pcad sir, um, with respect to Duke Nukem (perhaps gamers' poster child of vaporware), I think you meant that you couldn't give a you know what.

I was going to make a joke comment about running a server on your bike, but then found out that quarkd is actually built from source code. So, the ./configure ; make ; make install probably is correct.

from http://opensource.quarq.us/quarqd/

Even better for me. This is the kind of work I do, embedded Linux, Symbian, Meego.

Yeah, the weight penalty *might* only be 140 grams (if you're using Keo's cheapest pedal), and in reality the weight penalty will probably be more than a Ptap hub and it's three times the cost.

I had high hopes for metrigear, but I'm glad I got my Quarq.

Must not be much work then ;)

Oblivion is my speciality.

Ever since they announced that it wasn't going to be speedplay based, it appeared they were doomed. I think the speedplay folks determined Metrigear wasn't commercially viable.

I think its likely Metrigear already sold, or licensed, anything they had in the way of trade secrets or patentable ideas to Look Polar, and they're done.

Look/Polar would actually have a decent, if expensive, product if they had stuck with ANT+. Unless Polar has a brand new and very nice head unit, it's DOA

Agree with overpriced, and way under-compatible. Not having ANT+ is ridiculous, but of course Look wouldn't need Polar at all if they went ANT+.

I have a hard time understanding how they could make these things this heavy though. I guess they may be using depleted uranium to protect against pedal strikes in corners. That stuff is pretty dense.

Regarding pedal strikes: I hit my pedals 4 times in the crits this weekend. No crashes (never have from a strike). My pedals have always been machined by the road to a flat surface that's coincident with my lean angle.

Pole-vaulting off my power meter once/crit is somewhat unattractive to me... and that goes for crank-based as well, but to a lesser extent.

I can only assume that they located the actual measury bits as far inboard as possible; if you look at a Look pedal, there's not much room in the actual body.

"DNF" has been the news a lot recently -- apparently it is supposed to be available next year? I'm not a gamer, but I expect it won't live up to the hype.

Being developed by Gearbox for release in 2011.

At the end of that article it says neither Metrigear or Brim Brothers are listed as Exhibitors at Interbike. I think that pretty much tells you both of them are done, or at least circling the drain.

Power2max would be nice at $890.