Planning to buy a new pair of Assioma power pedals

[Oldhippy]

At the risk of sounding a bit dumb, what is a power pedal? A road bike thing? In my defence, I ride a tourer.

 

[Elybazza61]

At the risk of sounding a bit dumb, what is a power pedal? A road bike thing? In my defence, I ride a tourer.

Just measures your power output, they are mostly used by 'roadies' and racers but can be also good for pacing on long steady rides with a heart rate monitor (that's mostly how I use mine).

Also most indoor trainers now have them built in so you can work out your power to heart rate in a controlled manner.

 

[Dan Lotus]

At the risk of sounding a bit dumb, what is a power pedal? A road bike thing? In my defence, I ride a tourer.

Already replied to in detail I can see, but what I would add is that it is probably the easiest power meter you can travel with, and shift between bikes quickly and easily, also if you go dual sided, you benefit from the even more accurate power measurement on both sides.

For me personally, I find it most useful for measuring my effort on a 1-4 hour ride, as I know what kind of power I can maintain, and know what I need to average to be able to finish strongly, which is my preference.
Also, quite a boon, to me anyway, if you want to go and tackle some big climbs in Europe, and or hill climb events over here.
You can set up your display with current watts, average watts, 3 second or 10 second power etc etc.

Probably the biggest thing for me is that it helps me not over do it early on in a ride, where as previously I would often be feeling good, and go out too hard, too early, and then suffer in the latter part of the ride.

 

[Dan Lotus]

50 euros for cleats! I understand it is out of their control, but I think with things like this there is little point even offering them for UK shipping as who would realistically even pay 40 euros extra for a £10 pair of cleats?

No you are probably right, but I guess it's simpler for them, after we made it way more difficult, just to leave things as they are, and we choose what to do.
If I had it sent to Spain it would be effectively half the cost - 25 euros less.
My initial thought was to order those black rings, perhaps a few sets of cleats, and maybe a spare charging cable, but I'll probably just leave it.

The flat fee for customs adds on a lot percentage wise, so the more you spend/order, the less impactful that becomes.

 

[Oldhippy]

Thank you for answering, I'd have no use for them but wondered what they did.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

No you are probably right, but I guess it's simpler for them, after we made it way more difficult, just to leave things as they are, and we choose what to do.
If I had it sent to Spain it would be effectively half the cost - 25 euros less.
My initial thought was to order those black rings, perhaps a few sets of cleats, and maybe a spare charging cable, but I'll probably just leave it.

The flat fee for customs adds on a lot percentage wise, so the more you spend/order, the less impactful that becomes.

Certainly makes sense if you are ordering multiple items to reduce the additional fees as you would do Dan. Just for a single item though it does seem like too big a hit to take.