The Ultimate Guide To Power Meters | Which Is Best For You?

Buying a Power Meter often represents the step from taking your hobby into something more serious. However, knowing which one is best for you is important especially when it's one of the bigger purchasing decisions we as cyclists make. We run you though the different types available, such as crank based, pedal based and even hub based and all their pros and cons which will allow you to decide which will be best for you.

00:00 - Intro
00:11 - What is a power meter?
00:46 - What types of power meters are there?
01:43 - Are pedal based power meters good?
02:57 - Hub power meters
03:32 - Which is the best power meter?
04:17 - Outro

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[Dustii]

I was really interested in these, then I saw the price and was just 😫

All my hobbies seem to be so expensive😂

[Armadilla]

surprised you didn't spend any time on spider-based power meters, which are generally considered the most accurate as far as I've read

[zicomanu]

Any chance you'll be doing a review of the Magene PES 505 power meters anytime soon? By far they seem like thee most value for money power meters available on the market today.

[montymelville]

First, love your content keep it going!

[knightwish]

I have a Shimano XT 48-36-26 crank set, could I use any crank arm based powermeter ??

[Sutlore]

How is spider based power meter comparing to crank based power meter ? I am not sure how the power measurement of the spider based one, when the manufacturer said that it has a left-right balanced output? Is it doubling the power data, similar to one crank arm power meter?

[CJ-jncb]

Do you need speed and cadence sensors for your Wahoo if paired with a Power Meter?🤔

[debbiescott]

Is it possible to assemble it ourselves Does it come with a manual Also, does the cycle come with all the tools required to assemble it

[lidarman]

I put Favero power pedals on an Ebike so there! ')

[NVYOUTUBE]

what is a GATT Error ??? the power meter is detected on the app but cannot connect when trying to connect to the bluetooth of the app ...

[zechariahsmith]

I have a Harley Davidson serial one rush city speed with flat pedals and a garmin FR 255. Any recommendations for a power meter for my set up?

[jonzylka]

Its not necessarily the cost of the specific power meter that gets people, its the Garmin computer one needs to then buy to be able to actually utilize the data… 😕. Any cost effective recommendations?? I can easily find some good single sided Shimano crank meters for a few hundred bucks, but like I said, you then need to spend 1k on a freaking computer…

[charlespackwood]

Get a spider like power2max, srm, or quarq

[Marianst.]

If you get Wahoo kickr Snap or Core, do you still need a power meter?

[conisalgado]

Can I use a hub power meter on a hybrid bike ?

[mickchaganis]

What about the velocomp powerpod? They claim to be as accurate as any other power meter and can hold separate data for I think up to 4 bikes so you can swap between them easily. I've got the V4, got frowned on at my local TT, was told they couldn't possibly be accurate.

[jovilai]

Finding a power meter for Shimano sora is really killing me, any recommendations?

[jerneilbautista]

Anyways its not impossiblento do a artificial powermeter just by a triangular equations... . Cadence meter, gradient and speed sensor... the only need is too hack or reformat the bike computer or update the bike computer (or even hacking the system for good like surgeries on circuit board of the device, tapping wire and inserting it to a computer as the formater.).. .

As a mathematecian and with tons of IT EXPERTS(firend)... THE JOB IS GUARANTEED POSSIBLE..

It is good if bike computer brand could build a cheaper bike computer with a artificial Intelligence computing other mechanics... like power meter, calories blahblahblah-depends on weigth of the rider(statistics of cyclist ect). A bike with auto calculations in computer... . A cheaper and accurate also...

[danielgentili]

C'mon, really. Paid for advertising. Favero? Verve?

[Chimy]

I do weekends rides, spinning, grand fondos and occasionally a few crits. Because I not gonna ride in the World Tour or any other pro team, why waste money on a power meter. I don't understand the obsession of having a power meter if you are not a pro rider...period.