SRAM Reduces Pricing for All Quarq Power Meters

Well that was quick.

Hmm, I think you should be thanking the good people at Stages. Powertap, SRM and Quarq had been out together at the same time for nearly 4 years with no other players on the market. Ever since stages has come out, everything (but SRM) has been falling. Companies are finding that for the most part people want good enough for power, not some research grade $2000 equipment.

For my money, I’d never buy anything but a Quarq. Anytime I’ve ever had an issue, their customer support is the best I’ve ever seen in any industry, ever. Once I had an out-of-warranty, 2.5 year old power meter start acting up, in that it was draining batteries every three weeks or so. I called Quarq, and not only did they send me a pre-paid overnight label to ship it to them, they shipped a brand new power meter back to me, again with overnight shipping. All at ZERO cost. I’m not saying everyone’s situation will fit that, but they clearly continue service after the sale, something that is well worth the premium over some other meters (not to mention the great accuracy and reliability – that’s the only power meter of theirs I’ve ever had an issue with and I own 4 of them).

Thanks for all the good fun Durianrider. Stages is by far the less reliable powermeter on the market. Our shop sells a few of each brand and model a week and Stages are nothing but a joke – firmware issues, update issues, don’t like water etc etc …

Quarq are not perfect neither especially with their crappy magnets and the use of poor quality crankset from Sram.

If the SRM’s pricetag was not what it is, who will use Stages? The sky team stayed next door to my grandmother’s house last year. Guess what? Some bikes got the Stages on the non drive side and the SRM. And they used nothing but a SRM computer haha

Just to say they cannot MEASURE both legs there is only one measuring device and it’s on the drive side. They can make certain assumptions about that single measurement and divide the result attributing a value to each side. For accurate bilateral measurement you need a measuring device on both sides, like Rotor, Pioneer, Infocrank, Factor.

hope we see some quick adjustment in the second hand market!

SRM Scientific is definitely a gold standard, but the power meter world has caught up to SRM when considering the other SRM models. There’s little substantive difference between Power2Max, Quarq, and PowerTap. Assuming that Pioneer (already in use in the ProTour) is just as good, the field of equal competitors gets more crowded. I think you’ll likely see a continuing decrease in SRM’s ProTour market share.