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Surprising answers from the forum powermeter hoarders ;)

I agree in principle though. I will ride the bike loads more with a meter on there. Just needed to know if it was worth the creditcard debt.

Cheers guys.

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Surprising answers from the forum powermeter hoarders ;)

I agree in principle though. I will ride the bike loads more with a meter on there. Just needed to know if it was worth the creditcard debt.

Cheers guys.

I've sold two this month!

This just in: Man with 17 power meters says "Buy the powermeter"

17 powermeters? I wish I had 17 bikes to put them on.
I'd have a tourer, tandem, dualie, Brompton to start, maybe a HPV, new fixie skidder.. right time for a new house.

I have 5 bikes and only 1 powermeter.

I may be a middle aged pretender, with no excuse to put a powermeter on an aggressive trail bike. But I would ride it loads more with a meter. Thats just the honest truth.

I figure I'd have a nice roadbike with powermeter, and a trail bike with a powermeter.

Thats how I'm going to justify it anyway. Works for me.

My balloonbike doesn't have a powermeter.

I'm going to put a DA SRM on it.

Bollocks.

The frame I'm hoping to buy has a rear post Mount for a 180mm brake rotor.
The PowerTap comes With a special 160mm rotor.

Inverse shim time? or has anyone any leaders on a 180mm rotor?

The rotor itself is just a flat disc of steel - you could get a 180mm one cut on a laser table, then rivet it onto the carrier. Might want to get a few cut, thinking about it.

Aggressive trail bike with a PM?

You mad bruv etc

It's an aggressive XC bike officially. 120mm of travel, low BB, etc.

But spec'd with all the AM trimmings. Which I thought was cool untill I read the pm size.

This sounds expensive and difficult.

How do you set about unriveting the 160mm?
How does one rivet?

Un-rivet= drill
Rivet= rivet gun

You could replace the rivets with bolts, I'm just unsure how they'd cope with the repeated heatcycles that the rotor would expose them to - I imagine they used rivets for a reason, although that reason could be "lets make them buy the whole assembly when the rotor wears out", that said.

Would a hand rivet gun do it?

That's not so pricey.

Why do all my builds end up with me having to drill shit?

Would a hand rivet gun do it?

Definitely not.

Could you flip an adapter around to go from 180 to 160?

Even if you had to make such an adapter, it would still be cheaper than cutting a new disc and getting it riveted to the Powertap carrier.

The frame I'm hoping to buy has a rear post Mount for a 180mm brake rotor.

It's an aggressive XC bike officially. 120mm of travel, low BB, etc.

The frame designers were drunk, yah?

Hmmmmmm.

I assume the caliper has to straddle the adaptor to a degree.

Defo better than a custom rotor.

Left the ICG tabs too.

I can return the hub.
Just liked the idea of a power meter. It'd get me onto the trail more (sad but true, as Metallica would say).

Get a frame that isn't stupid

Fair point.

But...
I was looking at AM frames because they appeal to me as a rider.
All the local riders (fecking fast bastards too) reommend a full sus XC ri, as it fits the local terrain. Plus it'll be a better training tool.

So I'm torn.

The Meta SL ticked both boxes, Although most say it'd be a bad chioce to race XC on. Which I intend to do. But dont intend to win. So meh.

Plus its an amazing price. powermeter aside. I'm on a tight Budget.

I'm going to stop derailing this thread and move my moaning to the disc brake thread.

The Meta Sl weighs about ten tonnes - it's very AM

It would be awful as an xc race bike, part from the bits where the course goes vertical and drives you in to a 7" gap jump

I know. I know. Heart ruling head.

They manage to make mtb races up here super handbagy too. If I was serious I d just use a cx bike.

I've knicked a local XC strava segment on my fixed gear with 22mm veloce tyres.

They also ride down mental unprep'd hills on DH bikes.

There's like no middle ground.

SRAM Etap - is there a Power2max friendly crank that matches that group?

Force 22? Other than that, nothing specific to the SRAM Etap group.