Chinese cycling tech brand Magene has quietly launched a set of power meter pedals at an eye-catching price point, coming in at £399 for dual-sided power measurement claimed to be accurate to +/-1%. That’s the same price as Favero’s Assioma UNO pedals that only measure power from one side, and Magene’s P715 will also come ready to go for Look Keo or Shimano SPD-SL cleats out the box.
Magene already makes a power meter crankset – as well as lights, computers and an e-bike system – and this is its first attempt at power meter pedals. There is no single-sided option, the P715 (Look Keo-compatible) and P715 S (Shimano SPD-SL) both priced at £399, and you can have them in black or silver colourways.
Magene boasts that the pedals will “lead you to the ridge of cycling”; we’re guessing that’s a translation fail, or perhaps Magene are reiterating that the pedals will appeal to the budget-conscious average chopper, not aiming for the top or the edge, just the ridge. I digress…
Those pods in between the thread and the pedal body may look familiar to you, and that’s because they are very reminiscent of the current Favero Assioma DUO, UNO and DUO-Shi road pedals (Favero managed to house the electronics inside the spindle on the newer PRO-MX-2 SPD model). Placing the power ‘pod’ externally allows for a rechargeable design, rather than the coin cell solution used by Garmin for its Rally pedals, and clearly Magene considers the former a more user-friendly option.
Like Favero’s pedals, the end of the charger that attaches to the pods is magnetic, but Magene’s has been given a USB-C upgrade on the other end. The rechargeable design is something that Favero itself is yet to change on its road pedals since the launch of the first Keo-compatible Assiomas back in 2017, and if anything my opinion of them is even higher now than when I reviewed them for road.cc eight years ago. They’ve taken a battering over those years, and still work just fine.
On paper, Magene’s pedals appear to have all the tech specs of leading power meter pedals from other brands, with no real compromises: the power is said to be accurate to +/-1%, the power algorithm adjusts to account for extreme high or low temperatures, and an embedded gyroscope is said to measure the angular velocity of your pedal stroke to calculate your power more accurately, however dodgy your technique is.
The pedals support Bluetooth and ANT+, and we’re promised advanced training functions to better understand your riding. Left/right balance, power phase, riding position and ‘torque effectiveness’ can all be analysed, but only on compatible bike computers. Magene admits that even its own computers don’t currently support the pedals’ advanced power analysis, but that these updates will happen soon.
Q-Factor (the distance between the pedals) is 55mm, and the weight for each pedal is 157g on the Keo-compatible model, and 159g for the SPD-SL. Magene says they can be installed in around one minute “like any standard road bike pedal”, which means an 8mm hex wrench according to the pics on Magene’s website.
Unfortunately you’ll have to wait a little longer to buy the pedals in most territories, as currently both the Magene UK and US sites ask you to enter your email address to be notified when they’re available to purchase – although someone replying to an Instagram post of ours said they’ve already received a pair, presumably meaning some were available in limited numbers. We’ve asked Magene a couple of times when more might go on sale, but no reply at the time of writing.
Magene says any order over £99 will include shipping, duty and taxes, so the price you see is the price you pay. Of course, we’ve also asked for a pair to review for ourselves, and will report back when we’ve got our hands on them. Check out Magene’s website for more details.
Tempted? Let us know what you think in the comments.
Since we first published this article, a few of you have asked about warranty, replacement parts and serviceability of these pedals. We’ve asked all those questions, and will update when we hear back. Magene offers a two-year warranty on all its power meter products if you buy direct via the Magene website.
9 thoughts on “Will these cut-price power meter pedals make pricier rivals obsolete? Magene launches P715 dual-sided pedals with +/-1% claimed accuracy”
This is quite interesting.
This is quite interesting. Magene are a huuuuge manufacturer whose products often get rebranded in the west, like decathlon’s smart trainers are rebranded magenes. They’re probably the only chinese brand I’d trust to make a reliable pedal power meter. Now whether they’ll be selling them themselves to the west or if we’ll soon see a van rysel pedal power meter pop up that looks suspicously similiar remains to be seen.
I saw these at Taipei and
I saw these at Taipei and they look very clean and well made like most of the Magene products.
I think if they can get a UK distributor/someone trustworthy in the UK they will be on a flyer, especially with their spider based chainrings also
It’d be interesting to know
It’d be interesting to know about servicing options. Pedals usually need recalibrating when bearings are replaced.
Given how little time my
Given how little time my Magene heart rate monitor lasted, I am not sure I would risk £399 of my cash on their power meters…
Commerically available power
Commercially available power meters have been around for nearly 25 years now. We are a long way from the SRM meters that cost well over a grand. Lets be honest, the tech is hardly cutting edge anymore. I even think that prices over £500 for a crank based meter are excessive. Granted the cost of the crank is involved too. For pedal versions, the cost of a dual sided meter at around £399 is still quite high for what the technology actually is. So this should help make the bigger more established brands thing about their pricing. so long as its accurate and consistent then thats all you can ask for.
The hardware isn’t the
The hardware isn’t the expensive part. The expensive part is the work that needs to be done to make the readings accurate and precise, and that’s not easy. Just ask Shimano. Ask Look and SRM how easy it worked out on their first power pedals. Morover, there’s more than the cost of the parts that goes into pricing. Anyone that thinks that it’s all about the cost of the hardware is really clueless about pricing and building PMs.
Well spoken, and not to
Well spoken, and not to forget the cost of running high-quality customer service like Assioma does
Come on road.cc, do some
Come on road.cc, do some journalism – Magene makes no mention of the bearing setup, nevermind if they can be replaced. Or even if they will sell a pedal body seperate to the electronics.
If journalists don’t hold companies to account over longevity and maintenance: these things won’t improve.
Perhaps one day we’ll be able to get the multi bearing setup of DuraAce pedals without any fancy materials so they are £ rather than £££.
I wonder when compared to
I wonder when compared to Favero Duo how aligned they will be with measurements? I have had Favero’s for 4 years now or better and love them. Never once a issue.