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Given Big H's viewpoint on Powermeters, thought this was appropriate.......(Courtesy of LvdW).

 

 

 

SCOTT'S

SPIN:  Fight the Power

 

 

 

According to legend -- okay, my brother -- in the early days of mobile

telephones, somebody marketed a cardboard phone you could hold to your ear

while driving so people would think you were a rich big shot.

 

 

 

Pure genius, if you ask me. Which nobody has, given my invention track record.

Although I still say my magnetic pedals and cycling shoes would've

revolutionized the bike industry if it weren't for that unfortunate sewer-grate

incident.

 

 

 

Regardless, I remain undaunted. Allow me to introduce my latest cycling

product: the fake power meter.

 

 

 

Sure, you could spend hundreds, even thousands of dollars on a real power

meter. Not to mention countless hours reading instructions, analyzing graphs,

crunching numbers and learning how to use "kilojoule" in a sentence.

 

 

 

Yup, that's why I got into cycling.

 

 

 

And for what? To confirm that you just ain't that good a rider. 'Cause if you

were, by now some directeur sportif would've discovered you, signed you

to a fat contract and given you a power meter. And some nerdy guy would

be crunching your numbers while a cute massage therapist rubs your sculpted,

tanned legs on the veranda of the Italian villa you inhabit during race

season. 

 

 

 

Not that a power meter isn't useful for riders of all levels. It's a great tool

for establishing your crucial watts-to-kilogram ratio, precisely calibrating

lactate-threshold output during . . . z-z-z-z.

 

 

 

Please! The only reason you need a power meter is to intimidate your riding

partners:

 

 

 

"That dude must be good -- he spent $3,000 on a gizmo that makes his bike

heavier." Or: "No ride for me today, guys. I did 10 repeats of

Thrombosis Hill yesterday and could only average 14,000 watts."

 

 

 

That's why you need a Scott's Wattsometer. The effect: devastating. The cost:

For you, just $49.95. Act now.

 

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