{"id":428,"date":"2008-10-28T14:39:39","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T20:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=428"},"modified":"2008-10-28T14:39:39","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T20:39:39","slug":"yeah-i-caved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, I caved&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally gave in and bought a power meter :) Competitive cyclist had a sweet deal on a wired SRAM SRM, so I went for it. Pretty soon, I&#8217;ll be bragging about the massive wattages I&#8217;ll generate on a daily basis (eyeroll)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway&#8230; I just finished installing it. It was pretty simple, though running the wires was a giant PITA. However, I do appreciate the relability of a wired system, so I&#8217;m not going to complain too much.<\/p>\n<p>Photos:<\/p>\n<p>The box (they apparently recycle the box of the crank that gets butchered to add strain gauges to the spider)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/box.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-430\" title=\"box\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/box-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/box-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/box.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t need no instructions to know how to rock!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/instructions.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-435\" title=\"instructions\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/instructions-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/instructions-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/instructions.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The crank<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/crank.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-431\" title=\"crank\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/crank-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/crank-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/crank.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comparison of non-drive &amp; drive side crank arms to the Red cranks I took off<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/non-drive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-429\" title=\"non-drive\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/non-drive-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/non-drive-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/non-drive.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/drive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-432\" title=\"drive\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/drive-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/drive-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/drive.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Installed Crank<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/installed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-434\" title=\"installed\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/installed-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/installed-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/installed.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The whole thing<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/finished.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-433\" title=\"finished\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/finished-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/finished-300x160.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/finished.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/matrix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-436\" title=\"matrix\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/matrix-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/matrix-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/matrix.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thus ends the simple days of using the most basic of wired computers and a heart rate monitor :D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally gave in and bought a power meter :) Competitive cyclist had a sweet deal on a wired SRAM SRM, so I went for it. Pretty soon, I&#8217;ll be bragging about the massive wattages I&#8217;ll generate on a daily basis (eyeroll) Anyway&#8230; I just finished installing it. It was pretty simple, though running the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Uq-6U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}