Brim Brothers wearable power meter coming in May, via a successful Kickstarter campaign

Interesting to see how the power meter thing is playing out. Cleat-based metering seems like a great idea if you have multiple bikes and only one pair of shoes. It's a little less clear when you get into multiple shoe/multiple bike teritory but I'm inclined to think that pedal-based solutions seem the most convenient overall in these situations.

Warren, we received your email on 14th February and I replied within a few hours addressing all your questions directly and fully. It seems that email went astray somewhere, so I have resent it. Please contact me directly on barry at brimbrothers.com if you don’t receive it or if you have any further questions.

Anyone who has questions or comments is also invited to email me directly at that address.

To answer specific topics raised here:

• We gave everyone on the pre-order list 2 days advance notice of the upcoming opportunity.
• In the first 24 hours after the Kickstarter campaign was launched we only sent the information to those on the pre-order list, to give them priority.
• The same discount deal that was offered to the first backer on Kickstarter is still available now, just with a later delivery date.
• The number of countries we can ship to at the start is limited due to the separate product certification required for each country.

Barry Redmond
CEO, Brim Brothers

If you were on the waiting list, then you got advance notification of the Kickstarter campaign. They've added another kickstarter production run, and there's still units available, so you are able to place an order at the discounted Kickstarter price. If you wish.

Kickstarter route comes with fewer protections than a normal consumer sale though, of course.

Although to be fair it has been a day or two since it was posted. Stick it on when Ray's next post appears

http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2016/02/reviewfebruary-14th-2016.html

So their only benefit is you can wear them?  They're not especially cheap, particularly when you factor in having to buy new pedals.  The benefit of wearing them is so you can use various bikes...as long as you have Speedplays on them all.  Not for me, I'm afraid.

Good luck to them, though, as the more choice on the market, the cheaper they will become eventually.

Very annoyed and fed up with Brim Brothers. Signed up over a year ago to purchase their power meter. They kept saying it was coming and that we would be supplied in order of our reservation number. Then last week they decided to turn against all of us that had waited and supported them ; they exclusively put it on Kickstarter.  By the time I read the e-mail all the May stock had gone, then I spotted they don't deliver on Kickstarter to Japan where I currently live. So my chance of getting it in the next 10 months is zero.

I even wrote to them to ask if they could help. Not a single reply. So if they can't even be bothered to reply to an email asking to buy the item, you can only imagine how bad their customer service is going to be if something goes wrong.....