It’s much more inexpensive than sourcing your own spokes, rim and getting someone to build it up for you. To save the hassle, I’ve always purchased my Powertaps along with the wheel. The hub comes in multiple spoke hole counts (20, 24, 28 or 32) so there are many options if you want to customise it to your own wheel specification. Of course you could increase the price dramatically by getting it built with a Zipp 404 if you so desire.
#Using garmin 310xt with goldencheetah pro
PRO The Powertap needs a wheel built up around it, but in the end it’s still cheaper than the Quarq if it’s built with a decent training wheel. In my experience there are pros and cons to both systems. The powertap is a hub based powermeter which uses the same basic strain gage technology to measure torque, however it is measured at the hub instead of at the crank. Strain gages are used to measure the flex that the pedal forces produce and can calculate the applied torque. The spider calculates power by measuring the torque (pedal force) and the angular velocity (cadence). The measurement instrumented is called the crank “spider” that mounts to the crank and chainrings. I personally find their branding a little confusing, but it’s commonly just referred to on the street as “the Quarq”. The CinQo (made by Quarq sold with SRAM Red Chainrings and crank arms in Australia) is a crank based powermeter. I’ve ridden on both of these powermeters for tens of thousands of kilometers and will tell you my personal experiences with them and what I think. There’s a lot of information and I could ramble on forever about this topic, but I’ll try to keep it brief and to the point. I’ll refrain from doing a side by side spec comparison. The Powertap and the CinQo Quark are the two leading brands in the powermeter industry (barring SRM) and I’m glad I’m in a position to have used both of them. I am under no obligation to write this article however. I’m by no means an expert, but I have some pretty solid experience with two of the major brands and feel pretty comfortable comparing them – the Quarq CinQo and the CycleOps Powertap.įull disclosure: Every powertap hub I’ve ever owned has been purchased with my own money and I’ve never been sponsored by them. SRAM is a sponsor of my O2 Racing team and supplies us with Quarq CinQo powercranks. Quite often the first thing I do when I get home from a ride is upload all my data to see how my form is tracking. This isn’t to say that you need a powermeter, however I personally get a lot of enjoyment and insight by having one. I’ve been a bit of a powermeter freak for about 7 years now and have a hard time imagining training without one.
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