good quite turbo trainer budget 180 quid plz help ty

which mag is that? i too am looking for a turbo trainer at around this budget so would appreciate the advice as well

It's this months cycling plus that has an extensive review of turbo trainers.

I have just bought a Tacx Flow for £250 new from an online shop. Should arrive tomorrow hopefully.

Chain Reaction do them for 300 and J E James do them for 285.
5 seconds on google by the way...

Can't find anyone online doing them for 250 though...

I had a Tacx Sirius and upgraded to a Satori. The Satori is miles better.

Honoured enough to use some punctuation in your next post?

Sorry if you're offended. It was a friendly little dig. Hence the wink.

pickled wrote:

It's this months cycling plus that has an extensive review of turbo trainers.

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.

mad4itinnit wrote:

dude like i give a fxxx if ya got nothing to say on question i asked why try and be funny shame there are alot of people on this site that like to waste time on ripping into people that make mistakes or are not so clued up on road biking

wow take a overdose of chill pills.... do yourself a favour... calm down

mad4itinnit wrote:

dude like i give a fxxx if ya got nothing to say on question i asked why try and be funny shame there are alot of people on this site that like to waste time on ripping into people that make mistakes or are not so clued up on road biking

Wow !!!

I almost got the Satori until I read it doesn't take track bike rear end width. I wanted to use my Genesis Flyer as a fixed spin bike*. So I got the Sirius instead. I can't compare but the C+ mag review suggests it is one of the quieter ones, and rates it as good value. The assembly instructions aren't good. But common sense, intuition, and referring to photos should prevail.

*If anyone else is thinking along similar lines, I still needed a solid axle (non allen key) rear track wheel and Tacx track nuts.

APIII wrote:

Off the back of the C+ reviews I got an Elite Chrono Power Fluid Elastogel (snappy name eh?).
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.