Tacx Flow or i magic?

AGuppy
AGuppy Posts: 44
edited December 2008 in Workshop
Looking at getting a better turbo trainer....anyone any thoughts on either of these?
Cheers Guppy :shock:

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  • andrewgturnbull
    andrewgturnbull Posts: 3,861
    AGuppy wrote:
    Looking at getting a better turbo trainer....anyone any thoughts on either of these?
    Cheers Guppy :shock:

    Hi there.

    Are you the kind of rider who needs external motivation, or do you prefer to make up your own intervals?

    Cheers, Andy
    http://www.andyturnbull.co.uk
    http://www.stirlingtri.co.uk
  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    The Flow has all the features you need to put together a detailed, structured programme - but it only has a small LCD screen and doesn't provide much stimulus. The i-magic allows you to run VR simulations of actual courses.
    Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..
  • Brian1
    Brian1 Posts: 595
    Recently bought a fortius for the RLV of ventoux as I hope to climb it next year.IInitially it appears to be quite good and reasonably accurate in terms of effort according to posts on this and other forums .I spent 2hrs 15 mins on it last night - something I had never done previously so hope it will do some good.Would be interested to hear what others think.If you are running vista the software for the I-Magic can be a pain in the ar$e to set up.You also need quite a high spec PC to run RLV's
  • juggler
    juggler Posts: 262
    Brian1 wrote:
    Recently bought a fortius for the RLV of ventoux as I hope to climb it next year.IInitially it appears to be quite good and reasonably accurate in terms of effort according to posts on this and other forums .I spent 2hrs 15 mins on it last night - something I had never done previously so hope it will do some good.Would be interested to hear what others think.If you are running vista the software for the I-Magic can be a pain in the ar$e to set up.You also need quite a high spec PC to run RLV's

    My i Magic runs quite happily on a 5 yr old laptop. 1gb Ram, 128mg radeon video card, pentium 4 (i think processor)... Not sure ht ehigh spec is needed for RLV, rather for the virtual world type rides with the 3d graphics. Have recently upgraded my laptop to a new one with Vista... initially a pain to get the drivers installed correctly, the laptop would not recognise the device (i Magic).... simple when i realised whihc drivers to download... not the ones that TACX seem to direct you to from the website.. all working perfectly now.
  • AGuppy
    AGuppy Posts: 44
    Cheers for the advice.
    Bought a Flow from Decathlon for £199 last nite, seened like a bargin....could up grade it later I suppose.
    Guppy :D
  • nom de plum
    nom de plum Posts: 182
    AGuppy wrote:
    Cheers for the advice.
    Bought a Flow from Decathlon for £199 last nite, seened like a bargin....could up grade it later I suppose.
    Guppy :D

    Yes you can...I did the same thing
    eg
    http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/Cycle/7/Tacx_ ... 360006549/
    some bikes and sheep and stuff:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/16682367@N00/

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