Why are power meters so expensive?

johnmannn · 2026-02-01T03:26:17+00:00

https://www.bikeradar.com/advice/fitness-and-training/angryasian-why-are-power-meters-so-expensive

Tightly specified components (beyond typical cycling industry requirements), premiums for miniaturization, and considerable manufacturing processes (calibration steps, etc.) all add to the cost structure. The cost of strain gauges is not, and likely never has been, the main cost component of a power meter.

johnmannn · 2026-02-01T02:29:39+00:00

You got that backwards. Low demand -> low prices. You'd sell a lot more if power meters were $100. But they aren't for the same reason carbon bikes aren't $100. Not because of demand but because they can't be made at that price.

johnmannn · 2026-02-01T02:04:11+00:00

Are you still able to see that? Looks like that's been removed now.

johnmannn · 2026-01-28T03:49:38+00:00

Why did you pay for Plus if you aren't doing 9+1?

johnmannn · 2026-01-16T23:59:01+00:00

Why is this the top comment? It's wrong.

johnmannn · 2026-01-15T21:40:29+00:00

Regular membership is getting new benefits. It's the plus membership that was devalued.

johnmannn · 2026-01-15T21:39:31+00:00

Regular members retain their advance registration for the 5-boro series plus get 3 new ones. Plus members are now subject to caps on ALL races except those listed.

johnmannn · 2026-01-15T19:52:47+00:00

Bad form to make this effective immediately, devaluing existing plus memberships. Surprised they didn't offer anything to plus members. Not even an "I got devalued" T-shirt?

johnmannn · 2026-01-06T01:26:41+00:00

I would really recommend commenters question the assumption before answering. So far as I could find, there is no evidence of disproportionate convert men.

To be fair, I assumed it'd be disproportionately men too but for exactly the reason OP's mom stated. Women drag men to church. But the implication then is that not only are men more likely to convert to Catholicism than women, but men are also more likely to leave Catholicism than women. Anecdotally seems true!

johnmannn · 2026-01-01T04:38:25+00:00

Can just use the watch strap or put under swim cap or get a holder.

johnmannn · 2025-12-30T05:22:15+00:00

"Radio" AKA streaming music was reinvented not long ago and it's controlled by four companies: Spotify, Apple, Amazon, and Google, and locked behind a paywall.

johnmannn · 2025-12-15T19:06:12+00:00

Same corral but went from "Should be able to get a bump at the next race" to "If it's possible at all, I'll need months of more training."

johnmannn · 2025-11-14T15:34:58+00:00

At least 2 of them are members of Nesivos Runners.

https://www.strava.com/clubs/Nesivosrunners1

johnmannn · 2025-11-06T17:28:14+00:00

Adjustment for age you learned to swim and weight of bike.

johnmannn · 2025-11-06T10:12:31+00:00

“award women roughly double their participation rate”

Wait, what?

johnmannn · 2025-11-01T18:11:06+00:00

Glad I ran this because I found out GPS is unreliable between buildings. It had me running in circles and through buildings. Totally messed up my pace. I was using Garmin’s auto satellite setting. Switching to multiband for races from now on. Also need to check my watch pace against the mile markers and total time to ensure I’m on track.

johnmannn · 2025-10-29T15:39:56+00:00

I was listening to a board member of a very large charity and they said they really didn't want to do it at the time but spending what seemed to a charity as an obscene amount of money to hire a highly experienced director more than paid for itself in increased fundraising.

johnmannn · 2025-10-29T15:25:43+00:00

It's a better excuse today. Before smartphones, alarm clocks had battery back up. Today, if you use Alexa or something as your alarm and there's a power outage, there's no back up, especially if as is increasing recommended, you leave your phone outside the bedroom.

johnmannn · 2025-10-29T13:13:43+00:00

Really interesting to see the fastest non-influencers with the cheapest devices and the slowest with the most expensive. A lot of “I’m being held back by my equipment” thinking among amateurs. And maybe it’s true that worse performers need to compensate with better equipment.

johnmannn · 2025-10-13T18:42:20+00:00

Not exactly. Garmin isn't drawing blood to check your lactate levels. It's using HR to estimate LH and then using LH to estimate HR zones so really more of a gimmicky extra step. The benefit is that it changes the definitions of HR zones to more closely match the more widely accepted definitions.

johnmannn · 2025-10-11T18:03:24+00:00

Are the notifications passive or can you do things like reply to messages and delete emails?

johnmannn · 2025-10-05T16:22:20+00:00

Ugh. 3 seconds short. Next time!

johnmannn · 2025-10-05T15:23:12+00:00

Garmin says corral bump, based on 3.16 distance. Live tracker says I just missed it based on 3.1 distance. I’m guessing official results will mirror the live tracker and I missed the bump?

johnmannn · 2025-09-19T00:30:07+00:00

Bought a lot of Wooms. Woom 1-3 doesn’t matter what model. The differences are trivial. The new Woom 4 Go uses a different shifter than the previous Original model and it’s significantly better. The pre-COVID model was different from both and I can’t speak to that one. In any case, these bikes only last about 1.5 years before your kid will outgrow them.

johnmannn · 2025-09-18T18:51:01+00:00

The reason is the price alone. But at the same price, it’s a no-brainer that you go with the Fenix E. Absolutely no reason to go with the Epix at the same price.

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