Turbo Trainer -c£120?

[Toshiba Boy]

Ladies and Gents, a colleague of mine at work has got into cycling over past couple of years, along with his two teenage boys.

As the resident "cycling nut" in the office, I've been asked for Turbo Trainer recommendations in the £120 range. As I haven't bought one for c8 years, could you let me know your recommendations for the current range out there?

Many thanks.

 

[vickster]

This one scored highly as budget TT in Cycling+

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/minoura-b60-r-trainer/rp-prod88114

 

[HLaB]

IIRC there was a loy in that range when I bought mine, FWIW I bought a Taxc Speedmatic.

 

[LSAF2011]

I purchased this package before xmas, the mat is not up to much but everything was good

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/..._productId_974171_langId_-1_categoryId_229901

 

[Old Plodder]

Elite or Tacx will likely do for them, they are the makers I have bought from.
If they can get one in the 'sales' (Chain Reaction Cycles / Wiggle), they could save themselves some money.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Many thanks guys.

 

[screenman]

If that was closer I would be round like a shot to pick it up, just so the we could add it to the other one's we have in the family.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cateye-CS...K_SportGoods_CyclAcces_RL&hash=item2ecdd80e5d

 

[VamP]

I think as 'resident cycle-nut' you owe it to them to recommend upping their budget to the cheapest fluid based turbo they can find. The magnetic resistance ones are sucky...

 

[Bollo]

+0.5 for the fluid trainers as they give a much better, more realistic and progressive resistance, but I'm not sure the price hike is justified unless your friend is a power monster. Also, a non-adjustable resistance turbo (ie no resistance control cables) is fine as long as the resistance is sufficient for his needs and he's riding a geared bike.

 

[VamP]

And the noise, don't forget the noise...

 

[Bollo]

And the noise, don't forget the noise...

I struggle to make a noise from any form of turbo!

More seriously, I think the newer mag turbos have improved on the noise front. I've an old cyclops fluid pro, and it's no quieter than my friend's mag tacx.

 

[VamP]

You may be right, I haven't seen a newer mag recently.

 

[Dusty Bin]

I struggle to make a noise from any form of turbo!

More seriously, I think the newer mag turbos have improved on the noise front. I've an old cyclops fluid pro, and it's no quieter than my friend's mag tacx.

Mag turbos are not noisy - I think you may be confusing them with fan-resistance units - which are noisy...

 

[Bollo]

Mag turbos are not noisy - I think you may be confusing them with fan-resistance units - which are noisy...

Fans are fairly niche these days I would have thought. Apart from the headwind thingy for Kreitler rollers (yum!) and some off-brand crap on amazon , I don't think I've even seen one for sale recently.