Vendetta size issues and power meter

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youngokk

New Member
I recently tried out the Cruzbike Quest and Silvio. I got the FWD thing pretty quickly and loved it. I would like to get the top of the line Vendetta but have a few questions. I am 5'11" 205 lbs with long arms and legs (45 inch xseam, 36 inch inseam). I was wondering a few things

1. Does anyone with with a 45+ inch xseam have a Vendetta and how is the fit
2. Do you have difficulty seeing over your knees when reclined in the Vendetta
3. Do you feel saftey issues due to drivers not seeing you in moderate to heavy traffic on city roads

Lastly, and unrelated to size, does anyone know if Stages Power Meter (http://www.stagescycling.com/stagespower) will work with this bike. It is a power meter glued to a crankarm and replaces the non drive side crank arm of your current set. It measures the strain of the left pedal and doubles that to calculate power.
 
Charles.Plager

Charles.Plager

Recumbent Quant
Hi,
You don't mention whether

Hi,

You don't mention whether or not you ride recumbents (which isn't terribly relevant, except:)

I find that when riding my Sofrider (as with any (SWB) recumbent), the bike is out of the ordinary enough that I get noticed by a lot more people then when I ride my hybrid bicycle. In the case of the Vendetta, yes, you are at a lower level, but you are riding a weird bright yellow bicycle. In general, I expect that you will get noticed more often.

That being said, I wear a bright orange jacket, have a red flasher on my bike, another on my helmet, and run a white flasher in the front (I find that cars are much less likely to pull out in front of me during the day with the flasher than without).

Cheers,
Charles

p.s. I had trouble making a left turn on Sunday because the oncoming car that was making a right turn onto the same street was way too busy looking at me and wouldn't get out of my way...
 
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youngokk

New Member
Stages Review

Thanks for the link. I actually decided not to go for that power meter because of the inherent inaccuracies. The main problem is that both legs don't share power 50/50 and can in fact deviate significantly. Not only that, but the power balance isn't even constant across power gradiants. For example while at low power the left leg may account for 60% of the power output but change erratically and wind up only making 40% of the power at high wattages. This power meter won't be able to tell the difference and will be reporting the power output at 80 - 120% of the actual value. This type of power meter is not suitable for any type of training or progress monitoring, especially at the $700 price level.
 
John Tolhurst

John Tolhurst

Zen MBB Master
True, only one leg is

True, only one leg is measured, but with other meters, you can't tell the difference from one leg to the other either. All you get is the challenge to make the meter climb.
 
Eric Winn

Eric Winn

Zen MBB Master
Stages Power Meter is still on my short list

I am still keeping the Stages on my short list but I've also just reserved a Wahoo Fitness KICKR which also includes a power meter.

As my budget recovers from the KICKR, there should be time for a few more firmware tweaks from Stages to hopefully resolve the pulsing that Ray was complaingin about in his review.

I've also chatted with Jim about what he and Maria are using. Jim picked up an iBike Newton power meter recently to try but has not had time to work with it yet. I'm interested in hearing his impression when he has time to try it out.

-Eric
 
John Tolhurst

John Tolhurst

Zen MBB Master
The Stages could correct for

The Stages could correct for uneven leg power if it could sense the difference in speed of one leg push to the other, averaged over a large number of revolutions. Even course measurements could get to significance in many thousands of revolutions.
 
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