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Stages Cycling has revealed carbon crankarm versions of its single-sided power meter at Eurobike, along with a new smaller housing, which will be phased in across the whole range.
Stages introduces carbon crankarm power meters
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With its cracking of the carbon conundrum, Stages has added compatibility for Campagnolo Super Record, Record and Chorus as well as FSA SL-K Light and SRAM – the latter via Stages' first own-brand crankarm.
Up until now, Stages' power meter technology has been exclusively available to riders running alloy crankarms. Stages says the company has been working on a carbon version for years, but has had to overcome several hurdles before bringing the finished meter to market. Issues stymieing the quick production of a carbon Stages meter included difficulty in bonding to a composite material, temperature compensation and different fatigue characteristics.
Sam Morrison, Stages Cycling engineer and carbon product manager, said: "We could have made a carbon power meter a long time ago, but it would have had the functionality of a meter from the pre-Stages era.
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