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Five ways to get faster off-road using a power meter

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Aaron Borrill

Aaron is the editor of off-road.cc. Born and raised in South Africa he completed his BA honours at the University of Cape Town before embarking on a career in journalism. As the former tech editor of Cyclingnews and Bike Perfect, digital editor of Bicycling magazine and associate editor of TopCar, he's travelled the world writing about bikes and anything with wheels for 19 years. A competitive racer and Stravaholic, he’s twice ridden the Cape Epic, raced nearly every mountain bike stage race in South Africa and completed the Haute Route Alps. He's also a national-level time triallist and eSports racer, too – having captained South Africa at the 2022, 2023 and 2024 UCI Cycling eSports World Championships. 

2 comments

1 month 17 hours ago

Also plain wrong on the device.  You can get 2 crank arm based PM's for 1 set of Pedal based ones - on Shimano.  SRam a bit trickier.

 

1 month 17 hours ago

"Accurate power meters are a non-negotiable. Not all power meters are created equal but, from my experience, the most accurate systems are spider-based or pedal-based power meters."

 

This is plain wrong.   Power meters need to be reliable - return the same result for a given power every time and condition - not accurate.  Your PM can underread everyday and it only becomes an issue if you want to compare across power platforms.  Otherwise if its reading reliably a 15w  increase is still a 15w increase.