Power meter news

On Tuesday, January 7, 2020 at 12:19:09 PM UTC-8, jbeattie wrote:
On Tuesday, January 7, 2020 at 11:06:33 AM UTC-8, wrote:
On Monday, January 6, 2020 at 11:28:48 AM UTC-8, wrote:

Doesn't matter what product your company made. As long as you have competitors you have to come up with something different and market it to stand out from the product of the competition and the potential customer has to believe that.

Lou

I do not believe that you have to come up with something different. If your competition has a perfect product making yours different for the sake of making it different isn't really smart. The idea is to have a good product at a competitive price.

The idea is to avoid their patents and hopefully come up with a better product, at least arguably. Power meters can be implemented in so many different ways that I don't think it is too hard to avoid existing patents. With gear shifting systems, people have had to get exotic. https://www.velonews.com/2016/06/bik...hifting_410124 You need hydraulic shifting. Really.

-- Jay Beattie.

I don't know - what do you think - is it more important how much power you're making at the cranks for how much is at the rear hub? A rear hub would be pretty easy to make into a power meter.

On Tuesday, January 7, 2020 at 2:41:39 PM UTC-8, wrote:
On Tuesday, January 7, 2020 at 12:19:09 PM UTC-8, jbeattie wrote:
On Tuesday, January 7, 2020 at 11:06:33 AM UTC-8, wrote:
On Monday, January 6, 2020 at 11:28:48 AM UTC-8, wrote:

Doesn't matter what product your company made. As long as you have competitors you have to come up with something different and market it to stand out from the product of the competition and the potential customer has to believe that.

Lou

I do not believe that you have to come up with something different. If your competition has a perfect product making yours different for the sake of making it different isn't really smart. The idea is to have a good product at a competitive price.

The idea is to avoid their patents and hopefully come up with a better product, at least arguably. Power meters can be implemented in so many different ways that I don't think it is too hard to avoid existing patents. With gear shifting systems, people have had to get exotic. https://www.velonews.com/2016/06/bik...hifting_410124 You need hydraulic shifting. Really.

-- Jay Beattie.

I don't know - what do you think - is it more important how much power you're making at the cranks for how much is at the rear hub? A rear hub would be pretty easy to make into a power meter.

What this would show is what gears you should be using.