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Re: Thinkrider PP5 power meter I dont see anything wrong with buying this one as a temp for most casual riders. I've been riding it and see no difference vs my 3x Quarq, 1x 4iiii and 1x Xcadey. But again, I'm just a casual rider who has more bikes than they should.
February 23, 2026, 12:32:13 PM 		1
Re: Thinkrider PP5 power meter
Quote from: rene2879 on February 22, 2026, 04:30:30 AM
I did another test, 1h open ride on MyWhoosh, recording ThinkRider pp5 (I have the set with 165mm Carbon crank), Speedplay Pedals and ZwiftTrainer with 3 different devices. At the beginning I saw that the fine adjustment from last time installation (110%) needed to be tuned (to 105%, u can do this with the ThinkRider app on the fly). SelfAdjustment for pp5 was ON. Overall avg power during the ride was 195W (Trainer) vs 194W (pp5) vs 197 (Speedplay). Of course, I'm not riding 400+Watts, and I've tried to stop pedalling at decent (as I do usually outside as well)...

Make your own reading at https://compare-the-watts.com with the 3 fit files attached.

The 60m power curve shows an offset of 0.4%, and a max diff of 2.4%...

At this price point and with my age grouper ambitions, it's acceptable.
Any different readings?

Thanks for this. I'm a guy with similar age grouper ambitions, so it goes in my shopping basket as well (for 160€ with the carbon crank directly from Taobao)
February 25, 2026, 02:45:06 AM 		1
Re: Thinkrider PP5 power meter I compared the kicker core and the PP5.
After an 800W sprint, there was a slight offset change, but it wasn't significant on mine. It was around 2W, and it didn't seem to accumulate.

At around 14 minutes, I set the kicker core's rolling resistance to maximum and pedaled with my body weight. The cadence was so low that the wattage wasn't displayed, but a significant torque load was applied. However, there was no significant offset change after that. In fact, the two graphs became almost identical.

At around 17 minutes, I set the kicker core's resistance to 5% and manually rotated it at 130 RPM in the innermost gear. If there was any residual stress within the PP5 (meaning the sensor compresses when pedaling and then recovers slowly), I should have consistently seen +20~30W(for example). Since it consistently showed less than 10W, I don't think the phenomenon of overpowering higher than the kicker core occurs often. (This kind of empty pedaling can be used occasionally during a ride when you're suspicious that your power meter is displaying inflated power.)

It's true that Chinese products have poor quality control, but mine seems quite well-made.
I bought the aluminum crank arms and power meter spider for $80.
I plan to move to Assioma after achieving FTP 4.0 on PP5!!

I used a machine translation, so my speech sounds unnatural. Sorry ^^
February 25, 2026, 11:33:22 PM 		1
Re: VeloBuild VB-TT-023
Quote from: rene2879 on April 06, 2026, 11:18:03 AM
Btw… where to put the garmin mount? Any recommendations?

Hello,

I designed a small 3D printed part that can be used with a standard mount and won't twist.
April 07, 2026, 03:51:03 AM 		1
Re: VeloBuild VB-TT-023 Finally, I was able to properly test the bike outdoors during a long ride.
Using a borrowed disc rear wheel from a friend.
I am also still looking for a rear wheel.

During the outdoor ride, I tested the bike quite well with a short interval block of 10 minutes at 325 watts at 64kg with an average speed of 49.5 km/h.
The bike is truly amazing; I look forward to future time trials.

All in all, the bike is 10/10.
Service Velobuild ( Chris ) 10/10 big shout out to Chris for fast response !
Price-quality ratio 10/10

My next bike frame will definitely be a Velobuild again.
May 02, 2026, 03:29:11 AM 		1
Re: VeloBuild VB-TT-023 Does anybody have any recommendations for BTA setup on the stock basebar and risers? Trying to brainstorm how to mount in that single hole in the middle of the plate.
June 29, 2026, 11:28:18 AM 		1