ShredMate Rates Your Ride: Speed, Intensity - and Air Time
ShredMate is a small computer that, when mounted to the lowers of your fork, registers speed and G-force. Using ShredMate's free, downloadable software, the sender pairs with your smart phone to provide a color display of the trail, with red, yellow and green segments indicating your speeds, while flags along the course indicate jumps and report time in the air. G-forces are also recorded along the route to show where you "dead sailored" and which corners you hit hardest. ShreadMate can even discern how rough or technical the trails are. Armed with Shred Mate, every ride can be a "Speed and Style" competition.
ShredMate was designed by Chris Irlam in the UK, who wanted a cycling computer that addressed the needs and riding styles of mountain bike riders, instead of the made-for-roadie-boy items that proliferate the market today. Compared with Strava, which can only tell you who won and how fast you went, ShredMate shows where you made up or lost time and, more importantly, it records exactly how brilliant you were on course, Presently, Iriam is launching ShredMate on Kick Starter at a discounted rate of £60
What ShredMate Says About ShredMate
Tracks and measures your jumps: ShredMate locates, tracks and measures your jump air time – and landing g force. By training to reduce your landing g force, ShredMate bike computer makes you a smoother rider.
Tracks G-Force: ShredMate detects peak g forces – tight corners, g-outs (and even the odd crash!). ShredMate displays these g-forces on the map.
Detects Rough Trails: ShredMate automatically detects when you’re riding a rough trail. ShredMate lets you view each trail separately so that you can easily view detailed telemetry for the sections of your ride that matters the most.
Easily see how fast you ride – Just look at the map: ShredMate shows your route as a trace that changes color depending on how fast you go. Red for Fast, Green for Slow.
Easy to Use: Simply cable-tie the sensor to your forks and attach the wheel magnet – we supply everything you need for your new bike computer. The ShredMate app is a free download and compatible with Android and iOS. After installing the app on your phone and a simple setup, you are good to ride.
Over six months battery life: Through careful optimisation of our electronics and software, ShredMate runs off of a coin cell for over six months. When the battery runs out, simply pop in a new battery at home.
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Kickstarter definitely has its pros and cons... fingers crossed for the success of this project though, I can see it being a right laugh between mates/ increasing trips to A&E haha
Collecting data on jumps, berms, drops, how rough the track is, combined with gradients and length would give a perfect way to compare trails and grade them accordingly, on an international scale. Averaging, range checking etc the data collected to allow for variables obv, the more data the more accurate the results, the more accuarate the grading. It would also be useful for grading off road climbs- as there is absolutly no way of comparing one against another.
Give these things out for free, collect the data, grade the trails, free/paid app/web for personal users, sell data results to service providers for marketing purposes....and so on.
"Compared with Strava, which can only tell you who won and how fast you went, ShredMate shows where you made up or lost time."
Strava can show you where you made up or lost time and compare those splits against others, even with the free version.
If it does this would be an exellent tool for measuring the forces put on a bike that IMO can not be replicated with torture testing in labs.