good quite turbo trainer budget 180 quid plz help ty

hi any of ya know of a good quite ish turbo trainer out there at the moment up to 200 quid to spend will i need a seprate computer for back wheel to see how far and fast going ir do they come with it cheers guys and girl
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'09 Enigma Eclipse with SRAM.
'10 Tifosi CK7 Audax Classic with assorted bits for the wet weather
'08 Boardman Hybrid Comp for the very wet weather.
Summer Bike: Specialized Tarmac Pro SL
5 seconds on google by the way...
Can't find anyone online doing them for 250 though...
I bought it from http://www.birminghamcitycycles.co.uk/ but they dont seem to have any trainers anymore. Only bought it yesterday morning so maybe out of stock or have removed them at that price?
Summer Bike: Specialized Tarmac Pro SL
I have to say I didn't think it was particularly "extensive" - they had a couple (few?) at the £1k mark which can't possibly be mainstream can it?
So they had the cycle-ops one at £995 - which I am sure is great - but cycle-ops do a full range of trainers and I think they should have featured the 'posh' one as well as a lower model - Probably in this price range.
I have a cycle-ops fluid2 (which I bought from wiggle last year at £112 - they are a fair bit more this year!) which is nice - it is very quite and easy to use. The build quality was excellent although there have been some reports of leaking fluid units. The downside is that it has no resistance settings on it - it relies on you using your gears and the resistance goes up proportional to the rear wheel speed. It does feel quite realistic and with a rear wheel speedo / computer connected the effort required to maintain 20mph (say) does feel like the real effort to maintain 20mph on the road. the downside is that you can't do "hill intervals" as easy bu jamming up the resistance for a period of time.
Try Bike24.net £230 quid delivered.
I purchased mine there a few years back and have just got a few more RLV. - Take advantage of the EU.
north west of england.
Why is it "miles" better? What is better about it? I'm interested as I am hoping to purchase a turbo trainer soon.
Wow !!!
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*If anyone else is thinking along similar lines, I still needed a solid axle (non allen key) rear track wheel and Tacx track nuts.
Singlecross(FCN7)
Cervelo
Roberts(stored)
Mercian(stored)
Good points are:
Quiet
Easy to set up.
Fluid resistance means you increase resistance by pedalling faster/changing gear, so no cable operated adjustment
Increase in resistance feels quite smooth.
Negatives:
Althought sturdy, the arms which hold the flywheel are composite not metal, so it doesn't feel as solid as my old Tacx Swing
I use a powermeter and have noticed that the turbo 'drifts' over the course of a workout. That is, if I start off at 80rpm in a certain gear I'll be producing say 200 watts. Once the turbo is warmed up, the same rpm and gear will require 220watts. Not sure if this is unique to the Elite or if it affects all turbos.
The skewer is a bit 'industrial'
Overall though, it's a decent trainer. I wouldn't rate it as highly as C+, but wuld give it 8/10
That's interesting. I just bought an Elite Chrono wireless trainer and used it for the first time last night doing 2 x 20 min intervals. Warmed up for 10 mins and did my first 20 min interval at 85 rpm, HR settled at about 83% HRmax. I found it pretty tough. Then for the second interval, in the same gear on my bike, same cadence and same power (displayed on the trainer's head unit) my HR settled at about 6 bpm less and after 5 mins I realised that I wasn't finding it anywhere near as hard. I had to up my cadence by around 5 rpm to get the same HR and perceived effort. Power dispalyed went up by 20 - 30 Watts.
I'm a little disappointed actually - I figured the resistance would change as it warmed up, but I didn't think it'd take 20 - 30 minutes to warm up. My guess is that all fluid turbo trainers must be affected in the same way, but I wonder if the resistance change is quite as dramatic.