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Of the people I train with, most use a power meter of some description. Three use stages and all three has problems with battery consumption. One has problems while doing shorts efforts that the latency is so slow he'll be 5 seconds into a 200m sprint before it registers a change in power. Two have had problems with water ingress. Finally one has completely unusable data, we'll be steady climbing at 300-320w and his power meter will be reading 280, yet on the same ride he will be sat in the wheel on the flat and it will read 330w. Now I can't vouch for anyones pedalling style of how smoothly they apply their power, but this is enough first hand problems from people I actually know to put me off spending my money on them. So despite what anyone may say on the internet about sky using them I wouldn't until they're on their 2nd or 3rd generation until it has actually been proved to be reliable for some length of time.