KICKR Power Trainer

I saw this as a article from DC Rainmaker a couple weeks ago and it sent my Covet Meter into the red zone. [IMG]/img/vbsmilies/smilies/smile.gif[/IMG]

I doubt I could get wife approval since she let me get the e-Motion rollers over a year ago, but I really like what I read about this trainer. Not only the ability to use with other applications and ANT+ / Bluetooth, but there are some other attributes like it is supposedly is very quiet compared other like devices and a whole lot quieter than the Lemond version. Some are saying that this could be the cheaper alternative to the Computrainer.

Here is the article from DCR as he got a look at the product. He is supposed to do a test at some point and he normally does a pretty thorough review of equipment and electronics.

dcrainmaker.comfirst look at wahoo fitness kickr.htmlOpen ↗

How do you like the e-Motion rollers? I keep thinking about getting them, but it's a lot of money.

I really like using these rollers, but must admit my experience is limited to only the comparison to the KK fluid trainer. The turning point was trying to find something that I could tolerate for a longer duration training inside and I have done up to 2 hours on the rollers.

I have a lot of growing room as far as resistance. I am on setting 1 out of 3 training at L4 and still have about 3 more gears available if my FT improves. But mainly I can simply tolerate training inside so much better and because of that my fitness is improving. It was hard to put the money down because it is expensive, but there were so many positive comments out on the web that I took the plunge. Glad I did.

.....meanwhile the poor KK trainer only use in 9 months has been a bike stand between training sessions. Part of that is because I have one PT wheel now and don't want to wear out a good tire on the trainer. Another reason that this Wahoo Kickr seems interesting because there would be no tire wear.