Is there any information about this torque analysis? I've only seen people(?) getting really excited about it, without any detail whatsoever.

This is an interesting timeline to observe. I really hope they've resolved the PP5 issues with the PP6. I won't believe it until I see it myself.

I have one from China Cycle.... but it no longer updates, so I guess it's older hardware? I've had to shelve it.

I love the enthusiasm.

It's already for sale on AliExpress. Cart before the horse again?

RIsky.

They supplied a new GEN II spider and firmware 1.09 for testing. This was tested on June 24th with very much the same results as the first GEN II unit they sent. Sprints dropping due to cadence sensing failures. Accuracy issues due to offset drift/issues. They've removed the realtime offset display within their app - which was extremely useful in diagnosing issues.

I've given them all the data from this test (along with comparative data from the reference meter). XCadey have asked for more details/video footage/etc. I haven't replied. They have all the detail they need already. I've given them way too many hours/days of my time. This is their issue to resolve, not mine.

Looks a lot like a ThinkRider/PowerFun trainer (or at least something from the same design).

At US$439 (on their website) and with no cassette included it really needs to offer more than the basic ANT+/Bluetooth smart-trainer feature set. At this price, I'd expect Wi-Fi, automatic calibration and sensor bridging, along with either Zwift virtual-shifting support or its own platform-independent virtual-shifting implementation. ThinkRider and Geoid already offer direct virtual shifting on similarly priced (and even cheaper) trainers.

The smart-trainer market has shifted considerably in recent years, and it appears to have caught a number of manufacturers and resellers off guard. Fully featured, proven and reliable trainers are now available for around US$399-499.

Based on the specifications alone, the COOSPO T10 feels four or five years late to market at this price. Even if it meets every one of its claimed specifications (which remains to be tested) it still appears well behind the current competition. It would need to be positioned at around US$299, or possibly lower, to gain meaningful traction.

I'd happily put one through the Lama Lab Test if I can get hold of one.

Interesting insight into their manufacturing. Their field testing/validation is also important. Those power meters are designed for bicycles, and that's where their meters are failing.

I assume the top is rechargeable and the bottom is using a CR2032 coin cell battery.

I was about to order one to test/review, but that pricing has me concerned and I'm not confident that store (which isn't XCadey) will deliver the updated version of this spider.

It's not listed anywhere on the XCadey website.

My hand is up for being overly triggered by the recent post. The company's history on this very forum and on Reddit has contributed significantly to my scepticism. Spending hours, days, and more riding and testing these products, only to reach the same conclusions repeatedly, has also worn me down.

Just to reiterate what I want to see on the market: quality, trustworthy, accessible components that allow people to have a better time on their bikes. That's why I spend time trawling forums for new products, ordering whatever pops up on AliExpress, and sending emails asking for early access, whether it's power meters, bike computers, radars, or anything else.

It's also self-serving. As a cyclist, I want the latest, greatest, lightest, cheapest, and so on. The whole review thing is a side quest. I'd be doing this even if YouTube and other social platforms didn't exist. I'd also still be sending companies support tickets nonstop, asking them to fix problems.

Over the past four or five years, we've seen a massive shift in the smart-trainer category from $1,000 trainers to quality $399–$499 trainers with even more features. That has been a huge win for consumers.

In the power-meter category, we've also seen a massive drop in price, which is excellent, but it has been accompanied by a massive drop in quality, reliability, and accuracy. The average user, however, wouldn't know. The claimed technical specifications are often the same for a $100 meter as they are for a $500 meter. That's extremely deceptive and potentially illegal in many markets. It needs to change.

Happy to be wrong. Now buy your girlfriend a better power meter

I'll call it straight: I don't believe you.

You acknowledge the issues but construct a narrative in which the known failures appear irrelevant. My concern is that I've seen more effort put into sidestepping this product's failures than the company has put into resolving their root cause.

This post reads like a standard play used by so many companies promoting budget bike tech through guerrilla marketing. The giveaway? The "girlfriend" line. It's always the girlfriend. Never the wife, never the sister, and almost always a woman. Why? Because, to support the narrative you're spinning, she'll put out less power, right? Therefore, the issues acknowledged by the manufacturer supposedly don't apply.

Company employees or associates repeatedly use this tactic to plant comments while posing as ordinary users. It completely erodes trust in the brand and its marketing. It also makes forums like this less useful.

I could be completely wrong about this, but I've been online and active on enough forums for long enough to recognise the pattern.

Either way, it doesn't change the underlying issue. The day the PP5 meets an acceptable standard, which simply means meeting its own published technical specifications - people won't need to explain away its failures. And they won't have to risk a breakup by buying known-crappy gifts for their "girlfriends."

I'm getting good results with firmware 1.08. There's a difference with the alerting compared to most other radars. It'll switch an orange alert to red for almost every detection when the threat is within 30m or so - making it very chirpy.

Can anyone confirm their SRMini has an update from 1.05 -> 1.08?

Does anyone know when this firmware was released?