FSA Gossamer SRM's

amcgill69

Does anyone have any experience of the FSA Gossamer SRM's? At just under £2k this looks like a very good deal for what is essentially the Dura Ace powermeter.

Cheers

ajmitchell

no but I am also wondering about this. They are as little as £1500 on some sites.

bigpikle

Not quite sure how a FSA Gossamer chainset is 'essentially' a Dura Ace?

Its an entry level chainset and is much heavier than a DA chainset and the BB's have a poor reputation. I have a Gossamer chainset sat here that came off an old bike and its a long way from DA.

The SRM's have a good rep but do have the issue of having a battery you cant change yourself. Once your battery runs down you have to send the entire unit off to have it changed, meaning you need a spare chainset or cant ride. Even at £1500 its still more £££ than a Quarq, although it does seem that SRM have a generally better rep amongst power users for staying in calibration etc.

Somtething I've been looking at for a while now trying to decide which solution to replace my PT with....

sungod

as above, the srm bit is essentially the same, but i wouldn't rate the fsa cranks/etc. with dura ace

if you are competent with a soldering iron you can replace the battery in an srm, there are a few online guides showing how to do it - of course it voids warranty, but for older units that's no issue

the early quarqs seemed to have some reliability issues, i think water resistance wasn't so good, but it seems to have settled down now

i think you still have to send quarqs back for calibration, whereas you can do an srm yourself if you have some suitable weights, so neither is ideal for self maintenance

fwiw i got an srm as a special deal a few years back, only regret is that i wish i could have got a compact for more flexibility (110bcd has more options for changing chainrings), but it wasn't available at the time, certainly if i was buying today i'd go for the compact version

the various pedal-based/cleat-based systems that are coming to market (slowly, with many delays) look interesting, they may become the best option, if the brim brothers' one works out it'll be really tempting as it needs nothing on the bike

used srm/quarq do come up on ebay quite often