Interbike Tech: New Quarq power, Storck aero, Minux helmet cam and TRP Parabox

I rode the latest SRAM Red Quarq power meter to the first day of the Interbike Outdoor Demo on Moday. Note the ANT+ ID number on the outside; key this into your Garmin to avoid interference with other ANT+ devices. The battery is now a standard CR2032 found on many bike computers and heart rate monitors. The new Quarq features left-right balance of power output. The unit came up with very interesting numbers, particularly for a four-minute section up Railroad Pass that Quarq analyzed for Watts per kilogram. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com

The Zipp 202 Firecrest wheel I rode to the Outdoor Demo was incredibly smooth. It’s plenty stiff for sprinting, it’s very light (sub-1350 grams for the pair) for a clincher, and SRAM claims it to be very aerodynamic, thanks to the bulging Firecrest shape. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com

Why not a 202 Firecrest tubular? Zipp’s brake track on the 202 is 24.5mm wide and gets wider yet below that. Yet with so little depth, the extra unsupported width inside of the large cavity would allow it to “beer-can” under the tension of the spokes. The clincher version, with the rim bed supporting it across the center of the cavity, will not allow beer-canning. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com

For his 12th wedding anniversary, Markus Storck had this top cap made for his wife’s bike with 300 black and white diamonds set into it. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com

For 2013, Storck has lightened and stiffened the Power Arms. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com

On the Storck Aernario aero road bike, every tube has an aero cross section when cut along the horizontal plane. Despite claiming to be quite aerodynamic, this bike is very stiff laterally and vertically compliant. The fork weighs 300 grams, and the frame weighs 890 grams. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com

Lightweight designed these Obermayer wheels for the Aernario and they carry the Storck name in understated graphics. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com

Even the hub flanges on the Lightweight Obermayer wheels are aerodynamic; not the bulged shaping. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com

Storck’s new 115-gram forged stem. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com

Storck's new lightweight stem is mated to the new Storck 178-gram handlebar. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com

Storck’s seat cluster on the Aernario has a superlight, hidden binder clamp that locks down harder on the seatpost with the rider’s weight on it. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com

A hex key up through this hole tightens the binder wedge in its little pocket and against the seatpost on the Storck Aernario. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com

Storck is the exclusive agent to the bicycle industry for Minux’s superlight helmet-mounted video camera. It weighs only 128 grams. That’s more than 20-percent less than a GoPro, and considerably more streamlined than the GoPro. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com

“You don’t need any instructions with this camera,” said Markus Storck, “because it’s so simple. Simply open the back as shown to pull out the memory card. Flip the switch on top to turn it on and off. That’s it!" Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com

The new TRP Parabox-R road hydraulic disc brake system’s master cylinder now only takes up 5mm of headset stack height; the original (Parabox) took up 14mm of spacers. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com

The rear TRP Parabox-R road caliper hose now runs straight to it to increase heel clearance over the old version, which entered on the side with a banjo fitting. The standard rear rotor is 160mm and this 140mm rotor is optional. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com

The superlight front caliper of the TRP Parabox-R road hydraulic disc brakes clamps down on a 160mm rotor, the smallest size TRP offers for the front end. “Anyone using a 140mm front rotor on a road bike has not tested it under hard conditions," said TRP’s U.S. manager Lance Larrabee. Photo: Lennard Zinn | VeloNews.com