Arriving at road.cc in 2017 via 220 Triathlon Magazine, Jack dipped his toe in most jobs on the site and over at eBikeTips before being named the new editor of road.cc in 2020, much to his surprise. His cycling life began during his students days, when he cobbled together a few hundred quid off the back of a hard winter selling hats (long story) and bought his first road bike - a Trek 1.1 that was quickly relegated to winter steed, before it was sadly pinched a few years later. Creatively replacing it with a Trek 1.2, Jack mostly rides this bike around local cycle paths nowadays, but when he wants to get the racer out and be competitive his preferred events are time trials, sportives, triathlons and pogo sticking - the latter being another long story.
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Got mine today, and.. if you use one of the Elemnts, the pairing process is actually not quite as straight forward as suggested here. The pedals uses both ANT+ and Bluetooth -which the Elemnt does too. So when searching for sensors it actually picks up 3 signals. Two are bluetooth signals for each pedal individually and one is an ANT+ signal for both as a pair.
On the Elemnt you should only add the ANT+ signal, which is coming from the left pedal. The bluetooth signals are for bluetooth-only units it seems, on which both pedals should be added according to the manual. But if you add one or both of them on the Elemnt, the calibration will not result in 0 and give wrong readings as a result.. Unfortunately for me, it takes quite a while for my Elemnt Bolt to find the ANT+ signal, so I ended up adding the bluetooth left signal at first...
I got a pair of these 3 weeks back, just the single sided though. super happy with them so far. easy to fit. transmit data to Garmin reliably. light! Cant test their accuracy but results look in the right ballpark.
Q factor is the same as my ultegra pedals.
the usb connection is a proprietary magnetic one. battery lasts ages.
they send data via ant+ and bluetooth so i guess you can use a phone. havent tried.
i have only used the favero ones in the box. The red ones have float, the black ones do not.
I can forgive the donkey cancer name if they work.
How much, if at all, does this increase the stance width or Q factor? Is the USB connection micro, magnetic or another? Can a smartphone be used as the head unit? Can the cleats be replaced with Favero's own, if that is superior? Do they have float? Are they available in a variety of options?
I'm interested, but perhaps not £800 interested!
They don't increase Q factor. I have the original (BePro) and have been very happy with my purchase for the last 2 years. The cleats are Look keo 9° float.