The Woes of a 2x Power Meter Cutthroat
I'm so frustrated. Here's the design constraints on my current bike project - a crankset upgrade w/ power meter. Mountain bike standard spacing 42/28 gearing (or wider/taller, if possible?) 165mm crank arms < 30mm BB spindle This is going on my 2016 Salsa Cutthroat, which has a 42/28 chainring setup stock on SRAM crankset. The cranks are a big chunker of weight, and they're too long for my legs, and I want a power meter on the bike. Turns out, satisfying these requirements is a huge pain in the ass. I settled on the power2max NGeco spider power meter. Coupling this with either a SRAM GXP or Shimano 24mm spindle works. SRAM and Race Face cranks can work here, but they're a bit more annoying to install than I like, so I settled on the Shimano XT FC-8100 cranks in 165mm. They're pretty and the shorter crank arm length is perfect. power2max makes a 2x mountain-standard adapter for their spider, which has 104/64 BCD spacing. It's really easy to find rings for a...