{"title":"SRM","description":"\u003cp\u003eSRM has measured cyclists' power since 1986. With the X-Power Direct, the German brand turns to position: a pedal that brings the foot closer to the axle, on a shoe drilled for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eThe inventor of the power meter\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eSRM stands for Schoberer Rad Messtechnik. Ulrich Schoberer, a medical engineer by training, founded the brand in 1986 with an idea the sport was missing: measuring a cyclist's power in watts, on the road and during real effort, instead of inferring it from a lab session on an ergometer. That year he filed the patent for the first power meter housed in the crankset spider, granted in 1987, and the first head unit able to record the data followed in 1988.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eValidated by the peloton\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe German national team trained with SRM from 1991, Greg LeMond was one of the first professionals to see the point, and Bjarne Riis won the 1997 Amstel Gold Race after preparing the course with one. Cipollini, Zabel, Greipel, Sagan, Cavendish and Pogačar have since ridden with SRM power meters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eHand-assembled, calibrated one by one\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngineering stays at the headquarters in Jülich, Germany, and the power meters are assembled by hand in Jülich, Lucca and Colorado Springs. Each strain gauge is placed and aligned by hand, then every power meter goes through a calibration at -10 °C and a mechanical calibration against a known mass.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWhy MAAKE sells the X-Power Direct\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause a brand that has measured power since 1986 knows what it is talking about when it changes stack height. The \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/srm-x-power-direct-road-pedals\"\u003eX-Power Direct Road\u003c\/a\u003e, born from an exchange between Ulrich Schoberer and Luigi Bergamo, founder of \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/q36-5\"\u003eQ36.5\u003c\/a\u003e, brings the foot 6 mm closer to the axle. It only fits a shoe drilled for its cleat, like the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/q36-5-unique-pro-4-0-road-shoes\"\u003eUnique Pro 4.0\u003c\/a\u003e. Those 6 mm are taken back at the saddle, which Q36.5 recommends lowering by the same amount: otherwise, the leg overextends at the bottom of the stroke. The other pedals are in our \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/pedals\"\u003epedals\u003c\/a\u003e collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"srm-x-power-direct-road-pedales-route","title":"SRM X-POWER DIRECT ROAD road pedals","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe SRM X-Power Direct Road only fits a shoe drilled for its cleat.\u003c\/strong\u003e The cleat bolts on at two points in line with the foot, 47 mm apart. A three-hole sole does not have this drilling: without a compatible shoe, the pedal is of no use.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSRM lists three compatible shoes, in their 2026 versions: the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/q36-5-unique-pro-4-0-road-shoes\"\u003eQ36.5 Unique Pro 4.0\u003c\/a\u003e, the Giant Surge Pro and the Liv Macha Pro, with more announced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe drilling has a reason. Above the axle, the cleat measures only 1 mm, and the whole stack drops to 9.7 mm: 6 mm less than a standard road pedal, according to SRM. Q36.5 advises lowering the saddle by the same amount. Shortening the cranks from 172.5 to 165 mm raises the foot by 7.5 mm at the bottom of the stroke: this pedal takes back 6 of them, so the saddle still has to go up by 1.5 mm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe X-Power Direct was born from an exchange between Ulrich Schoberer, founder of SRM and inventor of the power meter, and Luigi Bergamo, founder of Q36.5. MAAKE offers it to riders who have the right shoe and are chasing the last millimetres of their position.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SRM","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59955532464453,"sku":"CPT-SRM-XPWR-ONE","price":550.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1062\/4181\/8949\/files\/q365-srm-x-power-direct-road-gris-clair-studio-01.webp?v=1793201787"}],"url":"https:\/\/maake.cc\/en\/collections\/srm.oembed","provider":"MAAKE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}