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Garmin Rally Power Meter Pedals Just Got a Big Price Drop

Written by Jordan Villella
garmin rally mountain bike power meter pedals.
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Power meter pedals are great, especially when you can quickly switch from road to off-road (all in the same power spindle), like the updated Garmin Rally V2. For those who are powermeter curious and weighing the pros/cons of crankset versus pedal power meters, price is the biggest barrier to entry. Both are slightly expensive, but the crankset (or non-drive-side meter) is usually too much mechanical mayhem for some entry-level cyclists to navigate. Most land at the pedal option, but then come more questions: dual- or single-sided power, road and/or off-road, and what about other manufacturers?

Garmin is looking to make some of the decision-making easier by lowering the prices all around on their newest Rally V2 Road and Off-Road power meter pedal

garmin rally power meter pedals stacked in front of cyclists.
(All Photos/Garmin)

Dropping Power

The Garmin road power meter versions (RS/RK) go from $749 / $1199 down to $599 / $899, while the XC versions follow the same trend, from $799 / $1299 down to $599 / $899. That’s a big enough shift to move these from “nice upgrade” territory into something a lot more riders will seriously consider.

garmin rally power meter pedals being adjusted by tool.

Is it a different design? No, and nothing about the system itself has changed.

The Rally pedal is still built around that same swappable platform. Road one day, gravel or XC the next, different bike for race day, etc. We like the system because you don’t need multiple meters on different bikes, AND you can easily travel with the pedals and put power into the rented beach cruiser during vacation (only slightly joking).

If you’re not familiar with the Garmin Rally pedals, check out our news and reviews here – we’re pretty big fans.

garmin cycling app showing travel mode for rally power meter pedals.

Accessory and Maintenance Price Drop

Garmin also trimmed pricing on the supporting pieces, which is honestly just as important. Rebuild kits, replacement bodies, and conversion kits all saw significant drops, with some at nearly 50% off. That makes maintaining the pedals or switching between disciplines much less painful in the long term.

  • RS/RK rebuild kits: $199 → $99.99
  • XC rebuild kits: $299.99 → $129.99
  • Road conversion kits: $249.99 → $149.99
  • XC conversion kits: $399.99 → $249.99

Even the bundle pricing gets a bump, dropping from $1449.99 to $1199.99.

Check out Garmin Rally Pedals at Garmin.com

Jordan Villella
Racing Tech Editor
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Mr Pink
Mr Pink
3 days ago

Probably because of all the issues they’ve had. If there is one company I wouldn’t buy a Powermeter from its Garmin. Not a good track record at all.

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Jordan Villella
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Jordan Villella
3 days ago
Reply to  Mr Pink

My road version of the Rally V2 has been super consistent, but that also sucks to hear about the issues. Is it power spikes and battery like the previous version, or something else?

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Collin S
Collin S
2 days ago
Reply to  Jordan Villella

My issue was related to a pedal strike. When the rally MTB pedals first launched, posted here and on dcrainmaker, in the press release garmin claimed to make a rock strike tester where it would drop a cinderblock on the pedal multiple times and the hype was “After multiple strikes, the result was the pedal broke the cinderblock”. Plus the first batch had a 2 year warranty (not sure if its still like that). So I had the things and they were pretty good, although the stack height was just a tad higher than XT/XTRs and did have more minor pedal strikes but overall numbers seemed inline with all my other PMs. Then I had a pretty big pedal strike which was hard enough to take me down but not hard enough to do any real damage to the body. Despite being injured, the remainder of the lap was like 35% higher than normally I see on a mtb trail. I re-zero the unit and then my numbers always seemed super low.

I eventually do a static weight test on them and found the numbers to be off. I contact garmin and they could tell I did my due diligence with all my efforts. The second I mentioned it happened due to a pedal strike, they says oh, we don’t cover pedal stikes. I tell them about the press release “we broke the test rig” BS and they said they had never heard about it and it would be $200 to fix but if I could find proof of that, they would cover it. Thank God for DCRainmakers reviews as it sure enough had a copy of that press material. I sent that in and the response was “so your screenshot has been the talk of the office”. They did eventually send me a new set which I promptly put right onto ebay, NIB and went with a spider based unit.

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Mike I
Mike I
2 days ago
Reply to  Collin S

It’s a low BB height that causes pedal strikes. I’m noticing it a lot more lately as MTB’s become lower, longer, and slacker.

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Collin S
Collin S
2 days ago
Reply to  Mike I

Yes, I agree, but when you switch from one pedal that you’re constantly having minor pedal strikes and you switch pedals on the same bike and have signicantly less pedal strikes, it turns out those couple millimeters actually make a difference.

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Ismo
Ismo
3 days ago
Reply to  Mr Pink

It was the original Vector pedals that had issues and those issues were fixed years ago.

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Chris White
Chris White
3 days ago
Reply to  Ismo

… and every generation since has had new issues that mean I have multiple clients with all generations of Garmin power pedals that have had failures. Favero models have had almost zero problems IME.

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McDörben
McDörben
3 days ago
Reply to  Mr Pink

Shimano might be even worse

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Mike I
Mike I
2 days ago

For me, Garmin is a company that are over priced for what you get, average reliability at best, and if you don’t pony up for the top model, you get a, “well, I guess it works.” UX.

A radar tail light for $300? Is that a joke?. A sub top-tier bike computer (that never updates), w a B&W screen for $450!… that doesn’t have a touch screen?! My years old mid range Samsung phone did, cost way less, and does WAY more. Oh pardon me, my phone wasn’t IPX rated. Maybe that’s what I’m paying an extra $250 for?

IMO, Garmin know where they are in the market and are coasting. They remind me of the domestic automakers in the 80’s “Yeah, our products have issues, but what are you gonna do? Buy something else?”

Oh, I’m looking, and hard.

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