What does the Tacx Fortius look like?

January 6, 2010

This is just a short YouTube video to show you what a Tacx Fortius looks like when you’ve set it up. Please leave me any comments or questions below.  Thanks. Share and Enjoy:

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Tacx Fortius

December 5, 2009

I’ve had my Tacx Fortius for a few months now and I quite frankly love it.  My trainer before this one was a Tacx Flow and I’ve come to love the build quality of their trainers.  The Tacx Flow is in it’s own right a very capable trainer with a digital control unit that controls [...]

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Tacx Flow

December 3, 2009

This is a magnetic trainer and has a similar build to the Tacx Satori.  This trainer is very solid and stable and has a digital control unit.  This means that the trainer needs to be plugged into a wall socket to get power.  The control unit can be used to vary the resistance manually or [...]

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Tacx Satori

November 18, 2009

This is a magnetic trainer and has a lever that can be used to vary the trainer resistance.  This is an important feature to have when you to need to vary cycling cadence as well as heart rate at the same time. This you will need to do when you do training DVDs such as [...]

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Kinetic Road Machine

November 18, 2009

This is a fluid trainer and also has resistance that varies with your cycling speed.  The trainer also has a slightly larger than normal flywheel which means that coasting lasts a little longer than trainers with smaller flywheels.  Fluid trainers replicate closely real road cycling conditions but are often plagued by leaking fluid chambers.  The [...]

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