I would like to hear opinions from people who have went from a ‘dumb’ trainer to a smart trainer: -Was it worth upgrading? -What smart trainer did you buy? -What was the deciding factor in which trainer you bought? Price, Noise level, ease of use? -What do you think is the holy grail setup? Waho…

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I went from Bottom of the barrel dumb trainer, to Kickr snap, to kickr v2. Each upgrade was worth it. The step up to a smart trainer 100% and the step up in quality from wheel on to direct drive was huge. I was able to recoup a lot of the cost of the snap by selling 2nd hand. I knew I wanted somet…

I went from a blackburn fluid trainer to a kicker v2. For me it was a completely different experience. The fluid trainer felt like riding through mud all the time, whereas the kicker has much better ‘road feel’ - aka inertial from a flywheel. I think half of the improvement was the feel, the othe…

I had a seriously “dumb” trainer, the magnetic adjustment meat you had that awful hard and soft pedal action as the magnets passed each other at higher resistances. I decided it was time to upgrade and went all in a purchased a Tacx Neo and should have done it sooner. There were several reasons for …

I just moved from a Road Machine to a Kickr Core. I’ve been riding “dumb” trainers of one sort or another since 1984 and this was a bigger leap than going from a wind trainer to a mag trainer or then to a fluid trainer. It has only been a few rides but it is clear to me the step up was worth it. …

The only indoor riding I do is TR workouts in ERG mode and I want to do them exactly as prescribed. I don’t Zwift or simulate outdoor rides so no need for the CLIMB or HEADWIND units. Started with a dumb trainer and moved to a CycleOps Powerbeam Pro around 2014. It was fine, but would slip on hard…

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mcneese.chad October 12, 2018, 6:50pm 2

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