The pedals have a built-in cadence sensor, as cadence is needed to convert force/torque into power. The user may have recorded a other cadence source however, I did not look at the Strava post and I don’t know if it would be visible anyway.
Honestly, I still gain nothing from that strava post. There is no way to verify that it even is an IQ2 pedal, or its accuracy, or why there is a power dropout but no cadence dropout. If anything, this development causes more questions than answers.
As mentioned, nothing they do, short of fulfilling all promised orders, will gain back customer goodwill.
I’m not sure that even fulfilling all the commitments would restore customer goodwill after all if the missteps. The pedals will almost inevitably have some issues as a first release and that will just add more bad into the pile. I’m don’t think IQ2 will ever outgrow it. I look at another company, Aventon, who had issues with bad alloy forks on their fixies that they handled poorly. It happened 5 or more years ago and it still comes up regularly when anyone asks about the brand. I think this will hang over their heads for a very long time.
There’s a new update on Indiegogo. Aparently, some single sided PM were delivered to local backers in the past few days and about 250 more will be delivered this month.
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I wonder how many people are waiting in total.
Somewhere in the neighbourhood of 3500 backers + web orders. I think they should just market them as handmade bespoke artisan power meters and everyone would be OK with it.
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Same update I got in my email this morning (I backed via kickstarter). Its been a month since their last update, with a short email to say they’re ramping up to 250 units in the next month, after telling us “we expect to deliver to all of you over the third quarter of 2020.”
I’m going to start blocking their email updates, it only brings sadness.
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New update on Indigogo. They basically stopped making handmade powermeters because “it is too time consuming”. Now they will set up their automated process which is at an “advanced stage”. To me, it is hard to expect anything on 2020.
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One of there best non-update updates to date. Their big selling point was they were veteran operations engineers and most of the savings would be their ability to dial in the production and years on, they haven’t set up their automated production line???
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Translation: materials + labor > selling price.
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What is quite depressing is that it feels like we’re back at the very starting point of their IGG campaign, which was just about that: setting up the production line…
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The full update:
“We’re busy setting up the production automation and have stopped manual production in the meantime. Manual production was a temporary solution to get the process under control but is now too time-consuming. Although some automation tools still needed tweaking, the automation process is at an advanced stage. We will update you once the automated production process is fully running.”
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I may have misunderstood, but I thought the version @dcrainmaker reviewed was from the automated production line? My misunderstanding or were we misguided by IQ2?
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I don’t recall any claim along those lines, but could be wrong. They may have been declared as ‘production units’ (i.e. the final design, no longer ‘pre-production’) but I don’t think there was any claim/detail on the manufacturing method.
Either way, it’s yet another somewhat vague update from them. At least they haven’t offered any absurdly optimistic arbitrary timelines this time around.
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That might be what it was, “production units” that made me think that.
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It’s not really a “production unit” if it wasn’t how it’s going to be produced! Disappointed, as I really wanted this to work, even as someone who didn’t back it.
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“I’m confident it’s from their production line.”. That’s what they led Ray and everyone else to believe back in May.
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Well, I guess it was from a production line, just not the production line.
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I’m running out of 
following this thread.
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What they are about to figure out is the whole reason dual Assioma pedals sit at the $600 + price point…
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