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Rumors: new Garmin power meter

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Category: Garmin

Published on Wednesday, 20 July 2011 18:45

Written by Luca Salvatelli

Garmin, barring unforeseen circumstances the last hour, at Eurobike 2011 will present a new power meter. Already its GPS (705 and 805) are compatible with the main power meters on the market, but now Garmin is ready to be marketed his own personal power meter. After the acquisition of the Metric Gear, owner and developer of its own system of measuring power, it would now get to the real debut of the new Garmin power meter. This will be very similar but not identical to what was done by Polar and Look with their Power Pedal (introduced last year but not yet in production). The detection system of power should be inserted into the pedal and then, via a special transmitter, sent to Garmin GPS. The performances are lined up to compete with an accuracy between 1 and 2%. The system's ease of installation and transferred from one bike to another his strength increased, as well as excellent precision.